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Plague horror games

Horror games set during an outbreak: a medieval plague, a fever emptying an island, a contagion moving through a town street by street, or an infection that turns people into something else. You walk through quarantined districts, ration medicine, check the sick and watch the spread. The fear is slow and close: anyone could be next, and there is never enough time or cure for everyone.

The top 22 of 22 plague horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 22 best, 2026

  1. Rusty Lake Paradise art: a man in a mosquito mask with insect wings hovers in a bare grey forest above a white rabbit beside a hole PsychologicalRusty Lake ParadiseThe island is struck by the ten plagues of Egypt, one per chapter: blood, frogs, boils, locusts, darkness and more 96% on Google Play (10,400 ratings)about 3.5 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  2. The Inn-Sanity: a large lit-up hotel at night, wrapped in dark red fog PsychologicalThe Inn-SanityIndie Game World describes an unknown disease that causes nosebleeds, nightmares and mania before turning guests into creatures. 96% on Steam (1,669 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  3. Bloodborne key art: a hunter in a long coat and tricorn hat, seen from behind with a bloody saw cleaver and a pistol, on a foggy cobbled gothic street under the title Body horrorBloodborneThe city is cursed with a blood-borne illness spreading through the streets like wildfire 95% on the PlayStation Store (292,931 ratings)34 h or morePaidPlayStation
  4. Mycopsychosys: Remastered key art: a pale girl with long black hair and a bleeding eye above orange fungal growths, under the red dripping title PsychologicalMycopsychosys: RemasteredThe National Plague Control Department issues the rules you live by, and its web page explains the spores and those who fall ill. 97% on Steam (245 reviews)about 45 minPaidPC, Mac
  5. Three figures in a small rowing boat on a pale, misty river among bare branches: one poles at the stern while a girl holds a small child SurvivalA Plague Tale: InnocenceSet in 1348 as the plague ravages the Kingdom of France, through villages devastated by the disease. 93% on Steam (73,516 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  6. Flicker of Hope key art: the little candle Jean Wick, with a face and a bright flame, on a cracked stone slab by a dark stone wall ShortFlicker of HopeThe cathedral's halls are littered with victims of a mysterious plague, and the priest dies of it at the start. 93% on Steam (1,068 reviews)about 35 minFreePC, Mac
  7. Pathologic 2 key art: two thin dark figures with stitched torsos and blank white masks with small black eyes stand against a blood-red background PsychologicalPathologic 2The Sand Pest spreads through the town district by district, and fighting it with too little medicine is the heart of the game. 92% on Steam (12,269 reviews)28 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  8. A Plague Tale: Requiem key art: Amicia with blood on her face and her little brother Hugo resting his head on her shoulder StealthA Plague Tale: RequiemSet during the black plague, with rats spreading it across 14th-century southern France 91% on the PlayStation Store (29,000 ratings)17 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  9. My Friend is a Raven key art: Lutum, in a top hat, goggles and beaked mask, holds a small bird on a balcony above a foggy sepia town, beside the scratchy white title PsychologicalMy Friend is a RavenLutum is the last man alive after a devastating plague has swept the Earth clean 91% on Steam (1,332 reviews)about 5 minFreePC
  10. Vomitoreum key art: a pale hooded figure in a gas mask with a coiled breathing hose beside dark panels of skeletal figures Body horrorVomitoreumThe land is plagued by an eldritch infection, a plague that returned after it was once driven back. 91% on Steam (899 reviews)about 2.5 hPaidPC, Linux
  11. Dead Rising key art: a man in a leather jacket raises a TV set over his head as zombies crowd the mall around him, with fiery explosions behind Multiple endingsDead RisingFrank has three days to uncover the truth behind a deadly zombie plague before the helicopter comes. 88% on Steam (7,309 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  12. Mycopsychosys key art: a pale girl with long black hair, a bleeding eye and red mushrooms growing over her mouth, under the red dripping title AnimeMycopsychosysThe National Plague Control Department issues the rules you live by and runs a website about the infection. 96% on itch.io (134 ratings)about 30 minPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Android
  13. Pathologic Classic HD key art: tattered scarecrows on wooden poles under a pale sky, red leaves falling around the red title on a black ink splatter PsychologicalPathologic Classic HDAn unknown, always lethal disease spreads through the town, and you must find a cure or an explanation within twelve days 88% on Steam (4,651 reviews)29 h or morePaidPC
  14. Organ Quarter key art: a hooded figure with cracked skin and amber eyes holds a mottled cloth mask over their face before dark ruined buildings SurvivalOrgan QuarterA disease that may or may not have a motive has infected the city's places and its people 90% on Steam (316 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, VR, PlayStation
  15. Omen Exitio: Plague key art: a pale hand with rosary beads holds a glowing Earth while purple tentacles curl around it PsychologicalOmen Exitio: PlagueYou investigate a disease that threatens to exterminate the entire human race and may not be natural. 85% on Steam (496 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch, iPhone
  16. State of Decay 2 Juggernaut Edition key art: a huge red-eyed Juggernaut zombie looms over four survivors walking down a sunlit small-town road Co-opState of Decay 2Plague hearts spread the blood plague, an infection that can turn your own survivors if it is not cured. 83% on Steam (70,372 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Xbox
  17. Observer: System Redux key art: Rutger Hauer's half-cybernetic face beside the Observer System Redux logo on teal PsychologicalObserver: System ReduxThe world of 2084 is still marked by the Nanophage, a digital plague that came before the war. 85% on Steam (3,059 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  18. Bad Dream: Fever key art: the hand-drawn title on stained paper beside a skull-labelled bottle of pills and a syringe, edged with dark blue ink blots PsychologicalBad Dream: FeverAn unknown plague has gathered its cruel harvest and covered the world in a strange ink 82% on Steam (1,349 reviews)about 3 hFreePC, Mac, Switch
  19. Pathologic 3 key art: a young man's face seen through the pieces of a shattered mirror PsychologicalPathologic 3You have twelve days to save a steppe town from a deadly contagion, diagnosing the sick and fighting the spread. 80% on Steam (2,839 reviews)25 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  20. Fern Flower key art: four green monitor portraits of frightened, scratched and glitched characters, with the title written down the side PsychologicalFern FlowerThe cult's village is wasting away from a devastating disease that only the flower is believed to cure. 100% on itch.io (17 ratings)about 45 minPay what you wantBrowser, PC, Mac
  21. HORROR TALES: The Wine key art: the stitched-mouth stalker in a wide-brimmed hat, leather coat and claw necklace, against a dark red background SurvivalHORROR TALES: The WineThe Devil's Fevers pandemic, with fevers, delirium and death, has emptied the whole archipelago 78% on Steam (485 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  22. Security 51 key art: a moustached guard in a peaked cap at his desk beside an old computer showing a green alien, with tentacles curling in around him Night shiftSecurity 51Let the wrong person out and the infection ravages the city, tracked as a fungal zombie outbreak bar 72% on Steam (543 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac

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