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Small town horror games on PlayStation

These horror games take place in a small town: a few streets, a diner, a school, a church and neighbours who all know each other. You walk its roads, question the locals and search houses and shops, while something wrong spreads under the quiet surface. The fear comes from the closeness: the town is too small to hide in, the people may be keeping a secret, and help is a long way off.

The top 30 of 43 small town horror games on PlayStation, ranked by player and critic scores

The 30 best on PlayStation

  1. Anthology Of The Killer key art: BB, a small pink-haired girl, stands at the end of a line of grotesque cartoon characters, some covered in blood PsychologicalAnthology Of The KillerBlood Of The Killer is set in a quiet country town where severed heads roll down the street. 99% on Steam (810 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC, Linux, Mac, PlayStation, Switch
  2. OMORI key art: a pencil sketch of the boy OMORI's expressionless face on white paper PsychologicalOMORIThe real-world half is set in Faraway Town, where a reclusive boy has a few days left before his family moves 97% on Steam (89,115 reviews)20 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Switch, Xbox, PlayStation
  3. Sally Face store header: Sal with blue pigtails and his white prosthetic face, between a long-haired teen and a figure in bloody bandages PsychologicalSally FaceThe murders and what lies behind them cast shadows over Sal's small town of Nockfell. 97% on Steam (30,172 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  4. Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit key art: a worn yellow rabbit animatronic with glowing blue eyes rising from a ball pit SurvivalFive Nights at Freddy's: Into the PitOswald lives in a small, dull town and moves between his home, school, library and a mill. 96% on Steam (11,018 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper key art: the hooded kidnapper in a stitched rabbit mask beside the Horror Tale title on a dark purple background EscapeHorror Tale 1: KidnapperSet in Lakewitch, a small 1990s American town of farms, a sawmill and a school. 94% on Google Play (74,000 ratings)about 1 hFree with adsAndroid, iPhone, PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Browser
  6. Days Gone key art: Deacon on his motorbike in silhouette, kicking up dirt over still water ZombiesDays GoneYou search small rural towns and abandoned camps for parts, fuel and supplies 93% on the PlayStation Store (180,338 ratings)38 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation
  7. Killer Frequency key art: a gloved hand holding a bloody knife outside the neon-lit KFAM radio station at night, with a missing person poster on the wall Multiple endingsKiller FrequencySet in Gallows Creek, a small American town where the police chief has just been killed. 93% on Steam (6,286 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, VR
  8. Alan Wake 2 key art: Alan Wake's face looms over a red-lit forest where a small figure stands with a flashlight PsychologicalAlan Wake 2FBI agent Saga Anderson investigates a string of ritualistic murders in the small town of Bright Falls. 92% on the PlayStation Store (68,381 ratings)16 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  9. Little Misfortune key art: a little girl in a red beret and green coat looks back over a golden autumn hillside, with a fox holding a crackling staff and a Missing poster on a tree PsychologicalLittle MisfortuneSet in 1993 on the outskirts of Openfields, a made-up Swedish town. 92% on Steam (14,397 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  10. The Outlast Trials art: three test subjects with night-vision goggles strapped to their faces, one screaming with an arm raised, in a murky olive tint SurvivalThe Outlast TrialsOne trial takes place in a staged mock town at night, with its own police station, a burning car and a cut-out family billboard 92% on Steam (120,983 reviews)13 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  11. 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 whole game takes place in one isolated town on the Gorkhon River, where everyone knows your family and suspects you. 92% on Steam (12,269 reviews)28 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  12. Flesh Made Fear key art: a red-tinted face in a surgical mask beside a rotting skull and monsters SurvivalFlesh Made FearSet in Rotwood, a fictional rural American town overrun in 1992. 93% on Steam (447 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation
  13. Yomawari: Midnight Shadows key art: two small girls with red and blue hair bows hold flashlights on a dark Japanese town street at night SurvivalYomawari: Midnight ShadowsThe girls cross their own hometown, its streets, woods, shrines and buildings, searching for each other 89% on the PlayStation Store (1,151 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Switch
  14. The Mortuary Assistant key art: a pale, rotting face with a bloody open mouth beside a dark tiled embalming room with a corpse on the table PsychologicalThe Mortuary AssistantSet in 1998 in a small town in Connecticut, at the River Fields Mortuary. 92% on Steam (8,832 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  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 HORRORSet in Shiokawa, a seaside town in Japan, where strange things are happening across the town. 90% on Steam (9,883 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch
  16. Forgotten Hill Disillusion key art: a uniformed officer with a star badge, five pale bald figures in striped shirts and an old woman in a headscarf before a bloody brick wall hung with chains EscapeForgotten Hill DisillusionYou can't leave the town of Forgotten Hill, a place cut off from the world for decades, as TheXboxHub's review explains. 94% on Google Play (414 ratings)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  17. 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 follows a lead to the small town of Willamette, Colorado, and finds it overrun by the dead. 88% on Steam (7,309 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  18. 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 2The story is set around Villa Hess, a remote town in the mountains of southern Chile. 89% on the PlayStation Store (2,833 ratings)13 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  19. Resident Evil 5 key art: Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar back to back with a pistol and a shotgun Co-opResident Evil 5Much of the fighting happens in a dusty African shanty town of tin roofs, wooden platforms and narrow streets. 87% on Steam (68,924 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  20. Yomawari: Lost in the Dark key art: a small pale-haired girl holding a lantern stands on lit stone steps in an overgrown alley under a green night sky SurvivalYomawari: Lost in the DarkYou explore the streets, parks, school and shrines of the girl's own small hillside town by the sea. 90% on the PlayStation Store (471 ratings)12 h or morePaidPC, Switch, PlayStation
  21. Dying Light: The Beast key art: Kyle Crane raises a serrated blade and a flashlight against a huge infected in a flooded forest, hands reaching from the water around him Co-opDying Light: The BeastCastor Woods is a rural tourist destination in the Western Alps; survivors hold out in the Castor Woods Town Hall (Wikipedia, official site). 86% on Steam (73,481 reviews)20 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  22. Puppet House key art: the wooden puppet seen from behind, holding a knife, sitting in a pool of blood at the foot of the mansion's staircase EscapePuppet HouseThe story starts in the peaceful town of Field Town, where locals have begun to vanish. 86% on the PlayStation Store (650 ratings)about 2.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  23. James stands with his back to us in the middle of a fog-filled Silent Hill street, parked cars and shopfronts with awnings fading into grey mist PsychologicalSILENT HILL 2Set in Silent Hill, a fog-covered resort town in Maine whose streets and shops you walk through. 95% on Steam17 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  24. 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 horrorCULTICScreenshots show a moonlit town with a gothic clock-tower building. 97% on Steamabout 4.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  25. Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster key art: Frank West holds a shopping cart full of goods overhead among a guitar, guns, a katana and a chainsaw above a sea of zombie hands on a red background ZombiesDead Rising Deluxe RemasterThe mall sits in Willamette, a small Colorado town sealed off by the U.S. army after the outbreak 87% on the PlayStation Store (4,797 ratings)about 7 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  26. Hollowbody key art: Mica holds a red glowing lantern and a pistol as pale, long-haired figures reach for her through grey smoke beside her crashed hover SurvivalHollowbodyHer hover crashes into what is left of a small British town, overgrown and empty. 85% on Steam (1,625 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  27. Amanda the Adventurer 2 key art: a thin, clawed figure with round ears reaches out beside a toppled, red-lit bookshelf behind purple TV scanlines Puzzle horrorAmanda the Adventurer 2The library and the mystery belong to the small town of Kensdale. 83% on Steam (1,582 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  28. Alan Wake Remastered key art: Alan Wake's silhouette holding a flashlight stands inside the letters of the title against a misty forest PsychologicalAlan Wake RemasteredSet in Bright Falls, a remote mountain town in Washington whose townsfolk turn against the hero. 83% on the PlayStation Store (25,000 ratings)about 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  29. The Evil Within 2 key art: a pale, monochrome Sebastian Castellanos with eyes closed and a pistol under his chin, ghostly hands on his shoulders and faces in white liquid among black tendrils PsychologicalThe Evil Within 2Set in Union, an idyllic American town inside STEM that has fallen apart and is overrun by the Lost. 92% on Steam14 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  30. 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 PsychologicalGYLTSet in Bethelwood, a small mining town in Maine, and a twisted night-time version of it 95% on Steamabout 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch

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  3. Horror games with multiple endings115
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  5. Stealth horror games85
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  7. Short horror games53
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  9. PS1 horror games41
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  1. Steam horror games1009
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  3. GOG horror games270
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  5. PC horror games1337
  6. Mac horror games391
  7. Linux horror games261
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