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Asylum horror games on PlayStation

These games put you inside an asylum or mental hospital, or send you through one on the way. You walk locked wards, cell blocks, offices and cellars, sometimes as a patient trying to get out, sometimes as an outsider who came looking for answers. The fear is in the building itself: long corridors, doors that only open one way, records of what was done there, and residents who may still be inside.

The top 23 of 23 asylum horror games on PlayStation, ranked by player and critic scores

The 23 best on PlayStation

  1. Fran Bow key art: Fran, blood running from one eye, holds her black cat before a red-eyed creature, with a skeleton in a top hat and masked figures on the left PsychologicalFran BowFran wakes in Oswald Asylum, a grim institution for children, and has to escape it to find her cat 97% on Steam (23,250 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Android
  2. Outlast library art: a hulking scarred inmate with a stitched grin and glowing eyes stands in a dark asylum corridor, seen in green night vision SurvivalOutlastSet in Mount Massive Asylum, a long-abandoned home for the mentally ill in the mountains of Colorado. 93% on the PlayStation Store (179,484 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  3. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 key art: title beside a pale cracked-mask figure holding a finger to its lips, in a dark hole in cracked blue ice PsychologicalTrue Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2Holly follows the clues from her family house to the Dark Falls Asylum, which comes alive at night. 92% on Google Play (42,600 ratings)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  4. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3 key art: a pale woman behind a cracked oval mirror, a clawed grey hand raised to hush, in a wall of roots and gold frames PsychologicalTrue Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3The search leads back to the ruined insane asylum of Dark Falls, where the second part left Holly. 93% on Steam (661 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch, iPhone, Android, Xbox
  5. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 Enhanced Edition key art: a pale woman with long black hair over her face holding a finger to her lips, beside the scratched title PsychologicalTrue Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1Letters from Dark Falls Asylum draw Holly there, and the store lists a visit to the abandoned asylum. 88% on Google Play (130,000 ratings)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Switch, iPhone, PlayStation, Xbox, Android
  6. Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness key art: a balding clown in white gloves and a loose tie clutches his face and screams upward, lit teal above and red below in dark smoke PsychologicalVlad Circus: Descend Into MadnessOliver comes to the reunion straight from Pennhurst Asylum, and his diary notes his release and his doctor there. 89% on Steam (205 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  7. Get Out key art: a hooded figure in a straitjacket sits cross-legged in a blue-lit prison cell, a silhouette at the barred window behind SurvivalGet Out ! A "Very Bad Dreams" StoryYou are Dean, a patient locked in a decaying, prison-like mental asylum, and the goal is to get out of it. 83% on the PlayStation Store (176 ratings)about 2.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, VR
  8. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood key art: a giant fanged, bloody clown face and a cracked doll above a rollercoaster track, with the orange marquee title Action horrorUntil Dawn: Rush of BloodA later ride runs through an old sanatorium where you confront the Psycho 85% on the PlayStation Store (18,000 ratings)about 2 hPaidPlayStation, VR
  9. CULTIC key art: a man opens the door of a muscle car outside a barbed-wire compound at dusk, framed by hooded cultists with an axe in red light Action horrorCULTICOne level opens with sniper duels in the grounds of an abandoned asylum. 97% on Steamabout 4.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  10. White Noise 2 key art: a screaming, clawed monster with glowing eyes lunges out of dark green fog above the game's title Co-opWhite Noise 2CyberPowerPC's review describes a map in an abandoned mental ward with bloody gurneys and body bags 80% on Steam (2,857 reviews)about 10 minPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation
  11. A Chair in a Room: Greenwater key art: the title over a dark, misty teal forest of hanging vines, marked Remastered PsychologicalA Chair in a Room: GreenwaterYou wake as patient no. 6079 in the Greenwater Institute, a cell with a hatch where the doctor's medication is handed in 83% on Steam (615 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, VR, PlayStation
  12. The Town of Light key art: painted profile of a young woman with closed eyes, face tilted up, beside a glowing orange asylum building fading into green mist PsychologicalThe Town of LightSet in the Volterra psychiatric hospital in Tuscany, a real asylum rebuilt in detail, whose empty wards you walk 79% on Steam (2,839 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  13. Sherlock Holmes The Awakened key art: a giant tentacled creature with glowing red eyes looms out of green fog and rain MysterySherlock Holmes The AwakenedOne of the places the clues lead is a haunting psych ward in Switzerland. 81% on Steam (1,156 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  14. Manhunt key art: a pale, hooded face broken up by red and blue VHS stripes on black, with a camera timestamp along the bottom edge PS1ManhuntOne of the gangs hunting Cash, the Smileys, is made up of former asylum inmates 71% on Steam (9,808 reviews)16 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  15. Song of Horror key art: a dark robed figure with roots spreading below and two huge ink-smeared eyes above it on a pale wall SurvivalSong of Horror Complete EditionSteam lists an abandoned mental hospital among the locations you explore. 78% on Steam (3,106 reviews)15 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  16. Rise of Insanity key art: a sepia creature whose head is a cluster of screaming faces, a bird skull and animal heads, in a dim vaulted room PsychologicalRise of InsanityIts nightmare places include cracked, tiled asylum rooms and corridors; UploadVR mentions sterile hospital corridors. 79% on Steam (961 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, Linux, VR, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  17. The Evil Within key art: a man's bloodied face wrapped in barbed wire SurvivalThe Evil WithinThe story begins at Beacon Mental Hospital, and the safe haven between chapters is a mental hospital reached through mirrors. 85% on Steam15 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  18. Alone in the Dark key art: Emily Hartwood with a tool over her shoulder and Edward Carnby at his holster, a masked, hatted figure behind them in a swampy wood PsychologicalAlone in the DarkDerceto is an asylum for the troubled in interbellum Louisiana, home to secrets and disturbed residents. 76% on the PlayStation Store (11,278 ratings)about 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  19. GET EVEN key art: a young woman's face half in shadow with tear streaks, beside the glitched title against a smoky red glow PsychologicalGET EVENBlack wakes in an old, decaying asylum and walks its wards between memories, meeting inmates he can free or leave locked up. 77% on the PlayStation Store (1,992 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  20. Neverending Nightmares key art: a frightened man holds a red candle while a pale woman with bleeding red eyes reaches for him, in black and white ink PsychologicalNeverending NightmaresOne of the nightmares is a tiled asylum corridor of riveted cell doors, where a bleeding-eyed patient in a straitjacket stoops by the wall. 76% on Steam (3,051 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Switch, iPhone
  21. Call of Cthulhu key art: a lone man in a coat stands before lit iron gates under twisted bare trees at night PsychologicalCall of CthulhuPart of the investigation takes Pierce inside a mental hospital, where his grip on reality is tested. 79% on Steamabout 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  22. Halloween: The Game key art: Michael Myers' pale mask lit in blue against black, small figures of survivors at his chest Co-opHalloween: The GameThe story begins with Michael's escape from Smith's Grove Sanitarium. 66% on Steam (16,581 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  23. Deceit 2 key art: a frightened woman with a flashlight runs through red fog beside a fence, chased by a leaping clawed monster and a rabbit-masked figure Co-opDeceit 2Millhaven Asylum, a psychiatric hospital left to rot after an occult mass murder, is one of its Ritual Sites 77% on the PlayStation Store (7,415 ratings)Free to playPC, PlayStation, Xbox

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