2D horror
The Little Red Lie
Ten years after the wolf, Red goes back into the forest.
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
Psychological
The Lost Crown
Hunt ghosts with a night-vision camera in a fog-bound English town.
PC
Short
The Man From The Window
It is only a story, Mama says. Then something taps on the window.
PC
Multiple endings
The Mantis
Finish your night chores. Something in a suit is watching.
Browser / PC
Psychological
The Medium
Walk a deserted resort in the real world and the spirit world at once.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox
Hide, sneak and
The Midnight Walk
Carry a living flame through a clay world of endless night and hungry monsters.
PC / VR / PlayStation / Switch
Psychological
The Moon Sliver
An empty island, a story told in fragments, and something hunting you as night falls.
PC
Psychological
The Mortuary Assistant
Embalm the dead alone at night, and find the demon before it finds you.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
THE MUTE HOUSE
A missing sister, a mansion in the woods, and not enough bullets.
PC
Survival
The Night of the Scissors
A scrap run, an abandoned post office, and a man with scissors.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
PS1
The Not-Deer Stew
Follow the recipe, don't die, and hunt the Not-Deer for the pot.
PC
Puzzle horror
The Occultist
A cult's abandoned island, a missing father and a pendulum that sees the dead.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
The Open House
A virtual tour of a showcase home that is not what the brochure says.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Co-op
The Other Side
Identify the ghost, then find what binds it and cleanse the place.
PC
Survival
The Outlast Trials
Survive Murkoff's Cold War experiments alone or with up to three friends.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
The Pale Mimic
Hunt to survive the Alaskan winter while something learns your dog's voice.
PC
Psychological
The Park
Search a closed amusement park at dusk for your missing son.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Past Within
Two players, two times, one strange family secret from Rusty Lake.
PC / Mac / Switch / iPhone / Android
Psychological
The Perfect Woman
Your creator wakes you every morning. He wants you perfect.
PC / Mac / Linux / Android
Visual novels
THE PROTOTYPE
Before you is the Plaything Prototype. He is unlike any other companion.
PC / Mac / Linux
Co-op
The Quarry
Keep nine camp counselors alive through one night in the woods.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Multiple endings
The Radio Tower
Climb a radio tower by a quarantined town while something hunts you from the forest.
PC / Linux
FNAF
The Return to Bloody Nights
1983, Fredbear's Family Diner, and the guard hired after the killings.
PC
FNAF
The Return to Freddy's: Winter Wonderland
Guard Freddy's before it reopens, with a spotlight, a mascot head and failing power.
PC
Slasher
The Scarlet Harvest
A Halloween party at a remote farm, and a slasher waiting in the corn.
PC
Psychological
The Scourge | Tai Ương
Walk the nightmares of a grieving man in 1990s Saigon.
PC
Multiple endings
The Séance of Blake Manor
Find a missing woman before the séance on All Hallows' Eve.
PC / Linux
Psychological
The Shopping List
New town, new apartment, one shopping list. Don't go shopping at night.
PC
Puzzle horror
The Shore
Search a forbidden island where Lovecraft's old gods rise from the sea.
PC / PlayStation
Survival
The Sinking City 2
Survive a drowned 1920s Arkham where the dead walk and old gods stir.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Investigate the
The Sinking City Remastered
A detective, a drowning 1920s town and the madness that came with the flood.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Investigate the
The Skin Stapler
Hunt a killer who staples his victims' skin to the walls.
PC
Psychological
The Song of Saya
A love story told through the eyes of a man who sees only flesh.
PC
Psychological
The Sorrowvirus
A man who cannot stay dead walks Purgatory, and you decide his fate.
PC
Psychological
The Stairway 7
The same stairwell, floor after floor, and a cat. Go down if something is wrong.
PC
Psychological
The Stalked
You left your obsessive ex. Someone still knows where you are.
PC
Psychological
the static speaks my name
One man's last night alive, a painting he cannot stop thinking about, and a tank of pet shrimp.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Snowed in at your father's empty hotel, with the ghost of what he did.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Supper
A tavern keeper hears a voice that wants her to cook something special.
PC
Psychological
The Swine
A week alone on a backwoods homestead, watched by an occult group.
PC
Escape
The Tartarus Key
Wake in a locked mansion of puzzles and traps, and get the others out alive.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
2D horror
The Terrible Old Man
Three robbers, one feeble old man, and a house they should not enter.
PC
Co-op
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Sneak out of the Slaughter family's basement before Leatherface finds you.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
PS1
The Thing Beneath
Five teenagers, one abandoned island, one night.
Browser / PC
Sci-fi horror
The Thing: Remastered
Lead a squad through Outpost 31, never sure who is still human.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
2D horror
The Third Shift
Night guard at a museum where the exhibits come looking for you.
PC / Android
Psychological
The Town of Light
Return to the asylum where a sixteen-year-old girl was locked away in 1938.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
FNAF
The TubbyLand Archives - ACT 1
Night security at a reopened TubbyLand. Watch the cameras until six.
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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