Psychological
The Complex: Expedition
Lost from your team in the Backrooms, with a VHS camera and something behind you.
PC
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1330 scary games on PC, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold.
1330 games
All scary games on pc
2D horror
The Consuming Shadow
Drive, investigate and stay sane while the Ancients break through.
PC
Psychological
The Count Lucanor
Guess the kobold's name, and become the new Count Lucanor.
PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Crooked Man
There was a crooked man, and he moved in before you did.
PC
Psychological
The Cursed Forest
A shortcut through an autumn forest, a crash, and something waiting in the trees.
PC
Co-op
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Soldiers trapped in a buried temple, hunted by what nests beneath it.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Co-op
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
A fog that will not lift, and a witch trial that keeps repeating.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Five people, one ghost ship, and every choice can kill.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
A film crew checks into a copy of a serial killer's murder hotel.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
2D horror
The Dark Rites of Arkham
A sealed-room ritual murder, two Arkham detectives and witches who escaped Salem.
PC
Puzzle horror
The Darkest Woods
Wake up in the woods with an empty bag, one bullet and something watching.
PC / Mac / Linux
Survival
The Deadseat
A night drive, a handheld game, and something trying to get into the back seat.
PC
Puzzle horror
The Designer's Curse
Lost in a manor with the creatures you designed yourself.
PC / Mac
Co-op
The Devourer: Hunted Souls
Five investigators, a cursed forest and the creatures that hunt it.
PC
Survival
The Evil Within
A detective wakes in a nightmare world where every bullet and match counts.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
The Evil Within 2
Go back into a dream world built from minds to save your daughter.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
A Victorian dig on the moors, and something waiting in the soil.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
The Exit 8
Walk an endless subway passage and turn back the moment something is wrong.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Survival
The Fear Business
Chase the story of a satanic cult into the manor where Goat Face waits.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
The Final Pin
A policeman, a serial killer who leaves a crow in blood, and a case that will not let go.
PC
Psychological
The Floor Above
Strapped to a chair in a looping room: blink, and decide whether what you see is real.
PC
Survival
The Forest
Survive a plane crash in a forest ruled by cannibal mutants.
PC / PlayStation / VR
Psychological
The Forest of Drizzling Rain
A dead family's old photo, a village in the rain, and a curator who says leave now.
PC / Mac
Visual novels
The Freak Circus
The Circus of Horrors is in town, and its silent clown has chosen you.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux / Android
Survival
The Glass Staircase
Good girls take their medicine. Good girls do their chores.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
FNAF
The Glitched Attraction
Six FNAF locations rebuilt as escape rooms, with the animatronics inside.
PC
2D horror
The Happyhills Homicide
Play the masked slasher of a small 1980s town.
PC
2D horror
The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood
The Pale Grin is back from the grave, and Happyhills is his playground again.
PC
Escape
The Horror Of Salazar House
A reporter, a vanished author and a mansion that keeps its guests.
PC / Linux
Survival
The Hotel
A forgotten hotel, a few bullets and the old survival horror rules.
PC / Mac
Psychological
The House in Fata Morgana
A cursed mansion, a Maid with jade eyes, and a thousand years of tragedy behind its doors.
PC / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android
Psychological
The House In The Woods
Your friend vanished from the campsite. Now you are lost in the woods too.
PC
Psychological
The Incident at Galley House
Listen in on the night of a 1936 massacre and work out who died, and how.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Treat a dead doctor's patients, and find out which one killed him.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Inn-Sanity
One night in a luxury hotel, and the guests are turning into monsters.
PC
FNAF
The Joy of Creation: Halloween Edition
Fazbear's Fright, one burned Springtrap, and a building to burn.
PC
FNAF
The Joy of Creation: Story Mode
One night, one house, and five levels of burned animatronics.
PC
Escape
The Keeper
Your boat brings you to an island with only a lighthouse on it.
PC / Mac / Linux
Action horror
The Killing Antidote
A Resident Evil-style third-person shooter: a journalist hunts for an antidote through…
PC
PS1
The Knife Sharpener
Sharpen knives for the strangers of an indifferent city, one at a time.
Browser / PC / Linux
Survival
The Lacerator
Escape a masked killer's lair, one limb at a time if you must.
PC
Puzzle horror
The Last Crown: Midnight Horror
One Halloween night to find what haunts the old inn by the harbour.
PC
2D horror
The Last Door
A low-res Victorian nightmare of occult secrets and doors best left shut.
PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone
Psychological
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition
A psychiatrist follows his missing patient past the Veil and toward madness.
PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone
Survival
The Last of Us Part I
Smuggle Ellie across a ruined America full of the Infected.
PC / PlayStation
Survival
The Last of Us Part II Remastered
Ellie's journey of revenge through an Infected, flooded Seattle.
PC / PlayStation
Multiple endings
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
Seven people, one letter, and a curse that has waited centuries.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox / iPhone / Android
Psychological
The Lightkeeper
Keep the light burning on an island where the last keepers died.
PC
More kinds of horror
- Psychological horror games485
- Short horror games388
- Horror games with multiple endings327
- Horror puzzle games290
- Survival horror games238
- 2D horror games226
- PS1 horror games209
- Stealth horror games143
- Horror visual novels125
- Co-op and multiplayer horror games119
- Horror escape games112
- Haunted house games110
- Surreal horror games94
- Mascot horror games92
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