Survival
Yomawari: Lost in the Dark
A cursed girl, a night town full of ghosts, and only a flashlight.
PC / Switch / 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.
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Survival
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows
Two girls, separated after the fireworks, in a town full of spirits.
PC / PlayStation / Switch
2D horror
Yomawari: Night Alone
A little girl, a flashlight and a town full of spirits after dark.
PC / Switch
Short
You Are Grounded
Grounded on Halloween Eve, with an escaped killer clown loose.
PC
Psychological
You Will (Not) Remain
Stay inside. Stay safe. Don't let anyone in.
PC
Survival
You Will Die Here Tonight
A squad split up in a cursed mansion, where every death carries forward.
PC
Multiple endings
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
Someone is following you home. Your phone has 20 seconds left.
Browser
Multiple endings
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
Eleven captives, one vote, and someone has to die.
PC
Psychological
Yume Nikki
Wander the dreams of a girl who will not leave her room.
PC
Psychological
Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
Your first assignment at Sintracorp: kill the Witch.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Short
Yûrei Station
A night train, strange messages, and a village that is not on any map.
PC / Mac / Linux
Hide, sneak and
Zardy's Maze
Chop the giant weeds in a night-time corn maze, if Zardy lets you.
PC / Mac
Psychological
Zeitgeist
A bunker, a phone booth in the fog, and numbers from a dream.
PC
Haunted
Zelle
A girl, a castle at night and demons held off with a rosary.
PC / Mac / iPhone / Android
Multiple endings
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Nine strangers, nine doors, and a masked kidnapper's game of life and death.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Multiple endings
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Nine captives, one hatch, and it opens when six are dead.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Co-op
Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Snipe and fight through Hitler's undead armies with up to three friends.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
Zort
Find the way out of each map with friends while its creatures hunt you.
PC
More kinds of horror
- Psychological horror games435
- Short horror games323
- Horror games with multiple endings286
- Horror puzzle games266
- Survival horror games217
- 2D horror games214
- PS1 horror games166
- Stealth horror games141
- Horror escape games121
- Co-op and multiplayer horror games116
- Haunted house games107
- Horror visual novels96
- Cosmic and Lovecraftian horror games85
- Mascot horror games83
Where you play
- Steam horror games903
- Epic horror games41
- GOG horror games108
- itch.io horror games324
- PC horror games1120
- Mac horror games305
- Linux horror games208
- PlayStation horror games353
- Xbox horror games324
- Switch horror games268
- Mobile horror games140
- VR horror games60
- Browser horror games185
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