Skip to content
Filters3 gamesChange
Where you play
Kind of horror
19 more
Price
Players
Time to finish
Released
Content

Clear all

Your choice stays on as you move around the site, until you clear it. One place to play opens that part of the site; within a group any option will do, except Content, where every one you pick holds. Content goes by each game's content notes.

Clear

Your filters hide some games on this page.

Clear filters

Power outage horror games

In these games the power is a resource you can lose. You ration a generator's fuel, reset tripped breakers by flashlight, or watch a battery meter drain through the night. When the lights fail, doors stop closing, cameras go dark and whatever was kept back gets closer. The fear is in the countdown and in the dark that follows it.

The top 3 of 3 power outage horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 3 best, 2026

  1. Amnesia: The Bunker art: a soldier's hands, one holding a revolver, as a pale clawed creature reaches out of a dark tunnel SurvivalAmnesia: The BunkerA generator powers the bunker's lights and runs on fuel you must find; when it runs dry, the lights go out. 93% on Steam (12,814 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  2. Homebody key art: a killer in a stitched mask and a gloved hand with a knife loom over a blood-spattered Emily and her friends, a house with a lit attic window under a huge moon PsychologicalHomebodyThe power suddenly goes out in the house, and under cover of the dark the killer starts his work. 94% on Steam (747 reviews)about 6.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  3. Static Dread: The Lighthouse key art: a lighthouse at night behind a tentacled creature with glowing green eyes, under the game's logo PsychologicalStatic Dread: The LighthouseBreakers, the generator and the antenna keep failing, and if the lights go out you fall asleep and lose the day. 90% on Steam (1,557 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox

Every game of the kind

More picks

Scores are those players and critics give on the stores and sites named; each game's page says where.

More kinds of horror

  1. Psychological horror games121
  2. Horror puzzle games109
  3. Survival horror games82
  4. Horror games with multiple endings71
  5. 2D horror games58
  6. PS1 horror games45
  7. Stealth horror games45
  8. Cosmic and Lovecraftian horror games42
  9. Mystery and detective horror games38
  10. Surreal horror games31
  11. Short horror games27
  12. Horror shooters and action horror games23
  13. Sci-fi and space horror games23
  14. Haunted house games22
Every genre

Where you play

  1. Steam horror games1009
  2. Epic horror games97
  3. GOG horror games270
  4. itch.io horror games592
  5. PC horror games1337
  6. Mac horror games391
  7. Linux horror games261
  8. PlayStation horror games404
  9. Xbox horror games367
  10. Switch horror games317
  11. Mobile horror games188
  12. VR horror games69
  13. Browser horror games236
  1. Scary games270
  2. Free horror games6
Every game, A to Z