Short
The Bellows
A free VR scare built to play like a short horror film.
PC / VR / PlayStation
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Scary games on every platform: free browser games, PC and console horror, and games for your phone. Each has a page on what frightens and where to play it.
1002 games
All scary games
Co-op
The Blackout Club
Sneak out with your friends at night and prove what the town does in its sleep.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
The Body Monstrous
Take care of your body. It lives in the basement.
Browser
Hide, sneak and
The Boiled One: Horror Game
Survive five nights in a house while the Boiled One comes closer.
iPhone / Android
2D horror
The Breach
Board a silent starship alone and find out what killed its crew.
Browser
Survival
The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
A night of filming in a haunted Taiwanese university goes wrong.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation
Six students dare a campus ghost story, and the ghost answers.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Action horror
The Brookhaven Experiment
A gun, a flashlight and waves of monsters coming out of the dark, in VR.
PC / VR / PlayStation
Psychological
The Bunny Graveyard
A cute bunny's garden inside a computer, and something that will not let you leave.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Switch
Psychological
The Cabin Factory
Inspect each cabin on the line and say whether it is haunted.
PC
Co-op
the cabin game
Play the cards to find the way out, and live with what each one does to the cabin.
PC
Survival
The Callisto Protocol
Escape a prison on Jupiter's dead moon as its inmates turn into monsters.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Multiple endings
The Casting of Frank Stone
Make a horror film in Frank Stone's steel mill, and decide who survives it.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
The Cat Lady
A lonely woman on the edge, and five strangers who change everything.
PC
Survival
The Chant
A spiritual retreat's chant opens a dimension of cosmic terror.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Puzzle horror
The Children of Clay
Study an ancient clay figure at your desk until it starts to change.
PC / Linux
Psychological
The Chrono Jotter
Rewind time after every murder at a derelict forest school.
PC
Survival
The Classrooms
A camcorder, a condemned school and halls that never end.
PC
Psychological
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
Two starving siblings, a botched ritual and a very bad idea.
PC
Survival
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
Hide from a demoness with your teacher's face in a shadow version of your school.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
The Coma 3: Bloodlines
The last trip into the Coma: run, hide and end the curse of Sehwa.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
The Coma: Recut
Asleep in your final exam, awake in a school with a killer.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Complex: Expedition
Lost from your team in the Backrooms, with a VHS camera and something behind you.
PC
2D horror
The Consuming Shadow
Drive, investigate and stay sane while the Ancients break through.
PC
Psychological
The Count Lucanor
Guess the kobold's name, and become the new Count Lucanor.
PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Crooked Man
There was a crooked man, and he moved in before you did.
PC
Psychological
The Cursed Forest
A shortcut through an autumn forest, a crash, and something waiting in the trees.
PC
Co-op
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Soldiers trapped in a buried temple, hunted by what nests beneath it.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Co-op
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
A fog that will not lift, and a witch trial that keeps repeating.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Five people, one ghost ship, and every choice can kill.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
A film crew checks into a copy of a serial killer's murder hotel.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Action horror
The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR
Ride the rails through the Dark Pictures, and choose who rides with you.
PlayStation / VR
2D horror
The Dark Rites of Arkham
A sealed-room ritual murder, two Arkham detectives and witches who escaped Salem.
PC
Survival
The Deadseat
A night drive, a handheld game, and something trying to get into the back seat.
PC
Puzzle horror
The Designer's Curse
Lost in a manor with the creatures you designed yourself.
PC / Mac
Survival
The Evil Within
A detective wakes in a nightmare world where every bullet and match counts.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
The Evil Within 2
Go back into a dream world built from minds to save your daughter.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
A Victorian dig on the moors, and something waiting in the soil.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
The Exit 8
Walk an endless subway passage and turn back the moment something is wrong.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Survival
The Forest
Survive a plane crash in a forest ruled by cannibal mutants.
PC / PlayStation / VR
Psychological
The Forest of Drizzling Rain
A dead family's old photo, a village in the rain, and a curator who says leave now.
PC / Mac
Survival
The Glass Staircase
Good girls take their medicine. Good girls do their chores.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
2D horror
The Happyhills Homicide
Play the masked slasher of a small 1980s town.
PC
2D horror
The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood
The Pale Grin is back from the grave, and Happyhills is his playground again.
PC
Multiple endings
The Horror Of Salazar House
A reporter, a vanished author and a mansion that keeps its guests.
PC / Linux
Survival
The Hotel
A forgotten hotel, a few bullets and the old survival horror rules.
PC / Mac
Psychological
The House in Fata Morgana
A cursed mansion, a Maid with jade eyes, and a thousand years of tragedy behind its doors.
PC / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android
Psychological
The Incident at Galley House
Listen in on the night of a 1936 massacre and work out who died, and how.
PC / Mac / Linux
More kinds of horror
- Psychological horror games371
- Horror games with multiple endings224
- Short horror games222
- Horror puzzle games219
- Survival horror games209
- 2D horror games177
- PS1 horror games159
- Stealth horror games129
- Co-op and multiplayer horror games113
- Horror escape games91
- Haunted house games90
- Cosmic and Lovecraftian horror games78
- Horror shooters and action horror games75
- Analog horror games69
Where you play
- Steam horror games859
- Epic horror games38
- GOG horror games101
- itch.io horror games201
- PC horror games952
- Mac horror games235
- Linux horror games156
- PlayStation horror games344
- Xbox horror games315
- Switch horror games259
- Mobile horror games112
- VR horror games52
- Browser horror games76
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