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School horror games on PlayStation

Horror games set in a school: classrooms, locker-lined corridors, libraries and offices after the lessons are over. You search empty rooms for notebooks, keys or a way out while something walks the halls. The fear comes from a place everyone knows turned strange, where the bell has rung and you are still inside.

The top 30 of 34 school horror games on PlayStation, ranked by player and critic scores

The 30 best on PlayStation

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus art: Sayori waving, Yuri with a book, Natsuki with folded arms and Monika with a sheet of paper on a pink background PsychologicalDoki Doki Literature Club!You join the Literature Club of your high school, and the club meets in a classroom after lessons. 96% on Steam (229,279 reviews)about 4 hFreePC, Mac, iPhone, PlayStation, Switch, Xbox
  2. Detention key art: a schoolgirl in a white shirt and necklace holds a picture frame as stools, a chalkboard, papers and a paper plane fly around her PsychologicalDetentionSet in Greenwood High School, a remote mountain school the two students are trapped in. 96% on Steam (11,903 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Switch, iPhone, Android
  3. Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation key art: a dark mansion with lit windows under a full moon behind bare, twisted trees SurvivalSpooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD RenovationSome stretches of rooms are dark classrooms, where a shadowy figure can wait behind the desks 96% on Steam (4,047 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, VR
  4. Fear the Spotlight art: a shadowy long-haired figure with glowing eyes looms over two girls standing in flames Puzzle horrorFear the SpotlightAlmost all of it takes place in Sunnyside High after dark, its corridors, library and tunnels. 97% on Steam (1,336 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters key art: Mina Park in her school uniform against a blood-red sky over the city SurvivalThe Coma 2: Vicious SistersMina wakes at night inside a warped version of her own school, Sehwa High. 95% on Steam (3,554 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  6. Phasmophobia: a dark 1950s-style diner with a glowing orange jukebox and a pie-of-the-day board Co-opPhasmophobiaBrownstone High School is one of the two large maps. 94% on Steam (841,559 reviews)about 20 minPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, VR
  7. Key art of a flooded basement corridor in green and red light, with a lift on floor B2 glowing red and a girl's silhouette in its doorway SurvivalThe Bridge Curse 2: The ExtricationSet at Wen Hua University, where students and a reporter are trapped in the haunted Da Ren building. 94% on Steam (3,375 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  8. CHAOS;CHILD key art: a boy in glasses and school uniform among seven schoolgirls, their figures eaten away by rust-red splatter on white PsychologicalCHAOS;CHILDYou play Takuru, a senior and president of his high school's newspaper club, who works the case with his clubmates 93% on Steam (4,166 reviews)20 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Switch
  9. Nun Massacre key art in the style of a VHS box: the nun with bleeding eyes and a knife, a schoolboy in a green uniform and a corpse in a red chair holding a clown doll Multiple endingsNun MassacreSet in a Catholic boarding school where you have come to fetch your child. 93% on the PlayStation Store (1,600 ratings)about 2.5 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  10. Evil Nun: The Broken Mask key art: Sister Madeline with a red-eyed grin and a giant hammer under a blue spotlight EscapeEvil Nun: The Broken MaskYou are locked inside Eagle Junior High School, a dilapidated Catholic school with classrooms, halls and attics. 95% on Steam (1,162 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  11. 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 3Holly explores the high school the sisters attended, down to a rubble-filled hallway outside the cafeteria. 93% on Steam (661 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch, iPhone, Android, Xbox
  12. Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II key art: a man in glasses and a loose tie between two uniformed schoolgirls before a dark school gate and brick building at night PsychologicalSpirit Hunter: Death Mark IISet at Konoehara Academy, a private school in Tokyo's H City, where students die in the academy garden 97% on Steam (178 reviews)17 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Switch
  13. Eyes - The Horror Game key art: a dark tiled hospital room with two operating tables, the shadow of a long-haired figure on the floor and an eye symbol on the wall SurvivalEyes - The Horror GameOne level is a possessed school with empty, wrecked classrooms. 90% on Google Play (895,000 ratings)Free to playiPhone, Android, PC, Mac, Switch, Xbox, PlayStation
  14. Christmas Massacre key art: a huge Santa Claus mask with empty black eye holes and a white beard against a starry night sky PS1Christmas MassacreThe game opens in Larry's boarding school days, sneaking through it to take a knife from the kitchen. 91% on Steam (1,123 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  15. WORLD OF HORROR key art: a lighthouse shining under a spiral sky above a Japanese seaside town, in 1-bit pixel art Multiple endingsWORLD OF HORRORThe store lists abandoned classrooms among the places you investigate. 90% on Steam (9,883 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch
  16. Corpse Party (2021) key art: a crying, bruised student in front of a broken window, with a bloodied blade in the foreground 2D horrorCorpse Party (2021)Set in Heavenly Host Elementary, a decaying school in another dimension. 90% on Steam (1,554 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  17. Tormented Souls 2 key art: Caroline, in an eye patch and leather jacket, holds a yellow nail gun and a lit lighter between a church at night and a candlelit room hung with chains SurvivalTormented Souls 2Steam names an abandoned school as one of the areas, alongside the convent and the mall. 89% on the PlayStation Store (2,833 ratings)13 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  18. Shadow Corridor 2 key art: a carved wooden mask of a laughing old man floating in dark blue haze SurvivalShadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩One stage is an otherworldly school, with dim wooden stairwells you search floor by floor 88% on Steam (952 reviews)PaidPC, Switch, PlayStation
  19. Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes key art: a small hooded child on rubble looks up at a purple vortex with a glowing door among floating stairs, a train and debris Puzzle horrorLittle Nightmares VR: Altered EchoesOne chapter is an altered School of classrooms, vents and a collapsing library, crossed while avoiding the Teacher 92% on the PlayStation Store (293 ratings)about 4 hPaidPC, VR, PlayStation
  20. Home Sweet Home key art: the pale, bloodied face of a long-haired ghost girl beside the game's red scrawled title and the words VR now available StealthHome Sweet HomeOne screenshot shows a dim school corridor with posters and a water cooler, and a figure standing at its end. 87% on Steam (3,792 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, VR
  21. The Coma 3: Bloodlines art: a wide-eyed girl in close-up beside a wall of organic growths, with black spiky shapes between them, in dark blue SurvivalThe Coma 3: BloodlinesConcludes the story of Sehwa Private High School and the foundation hidden behind it 86% on Steam (369 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  22. The Coma: Recut key art: close-up of a girl with long dark hair pressing a bandaged finger to her lips SurvivalThe Coma: RecutSet in Sehwa High, whose three connected buildings you roam at night looking for a way out 84% on Steam (3,117 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  23. Little Nightmares II key art: Mono with a paper bag on his head and Six in her yellow raincoat stand among leaning houses while a huge shadowy man in a long coat looms before the glowing Signal Tower PsychologicalLittle Nightmares IIOne area is a school of porcelain-headed bully children watched over by the Teacher. 93% on Steamabout 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  24. Garten of Banban 7 key art: a dark magenta creature with a tall head and gaping mouth beside the colourful Garten of Banban VII logo Mascot horrorGarten of Banban 7It opens in Banban's Kindergarten, a school for young children with motivational slogans painted on the floors and walls 78% on Google Play (1,760 ratings)about 1.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  25. White Day key art: a frightened schoolgirl with twin ribbons crouching on a wooden floor marked with chalk circles SurvivalWhite Day: A Labyrinth Named SchoolSet inside Yeondu High School at night, with trapped students and the school's own dark past. 81% on Steam (4,583 reviews)about 8.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  26. GYLT key art: Sally, a girl in a red coat with a backpack, holds a younger child as a huge dark toothed monster reaches for them with clawed hands PsychologicalGYLTMuch of the game takes place in Sally's school, Bachman, its halls, cafeteria and grounds 95% on Steamabout 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  27. Garten of Banban 3 key art: a partly cropped orange-brown one-eyed mascot at the right edge of a wide bright green banner Puzzle horrorGarten of Banban 3Set in the floors built under Banban's Kindergarten, with empty canteens under mascot murals 73% on Steam (2,990 reviews)PaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  28. Spirit Hunter: Death Mark key art: a man in a trench coat and glasses beside a doll-like blonde girl in a black dress, under the Death Mark logo PsychologicalSpirit Hunter: Death MarkThe first chapter takes the group into an abandoned elementary school, and a spirit in a bloodied school uniform appears in the screenshots. 83% on Steam11 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Switch
  29. Outlast 2 key art: a cultist in the foreground holds a chained, spiked pickaxe while a man in a hat sits on the lit porch of a shack in green haze PsychologicalOutlast 2The story keeps returning to Blake's childhood Catholic school, shown in screenshots of a dim hallway of blue lockers. 91% on Steamabout 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  30. The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation key art: six students on a stone path by the bridge at night, one seated on a chair among small candles SurvivalThe Bridge Curse: Road to SalvationIt is set on the Tunghu University campus, through classrooms, offices and campus paths. 90% on Steamabout 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch

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