Psychological
The House In The Woods
Your friend vanished from the campsite. Now you are lost in the woods too.
PC
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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
Psychological
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Treat a dead doctor's patients, and find out which one killed him.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Inn-Sanity
One night in a luxury hotel, and the guests are turning into monsters.
PC
FNAF
The Joy of Creation: Halloween Edition
Fazbear's Fright, one burned Springtrap, and a building to burn.
PC
FNAF
The Joy of Creation: Story Mode
One night, one house, and five levels of burned animatronics.
PC
Escape
The Keeper
Your boat brings you to an island with only a lighthouse on it.
PC / Mac / Linux
Action horror
The Killing Antidote
A Resident Evil-style third-person shooter: a journalist hunts for an antidote through…
PC
PS1
The Knife Sharpener
Sharpen knives for the strangers of an indifferent city, one at a time.
Browser / PC / Linux
Survival
The Lacerator
Escape a masked killer's lair, one limb at a time if you must.
PC
Puzzle horror
The Last Crown: Midnight Horror
One Halloween night to find what haunts the old inn by the harbour.
PC
2D horror
The Last Door
A low-res Victorian nightmare of occult secrets and doors best left shut.
PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone
Psychological
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition
A psychiatrist follows his missing patient past the Veil and toward madness.
PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone
Survival
The Last of Us Part I
Smuggle Ellie across a ruined America full of the Infected.
PC / PlayStation
Survival
The Last of Us Part II Remastered
Ellie's journey of revenge through an Infected, flooded Seattle.
PC / PlayStation
Multiple endings
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
Seven people, one letter, and a curse that has waited centuries.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox / iPhone / Android
Psychological
The Lightkeeper
Keep the light burning on an island where the last keepers died.
PC
2D horror
The Little Red Lie
Ten years after the wolf, Red goes back into the forest.
PC
Psychological
The Lost Crown
Hunt ghosts with a night-vision camera in a fog-bound English town.
PC
Short
The Man From The Window
It is only a story, Mama says. Then something taps on the window.
PC
Multiple endings
The Mantis
Finish your night chores. Something in a suit is watching.
Browser / PC
Psychological
The Medium
Walk a deserted resort in the real world and the spirit world at once.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox
2D horror
The Melting Apartment
A missing woman, an old building, and every step feels wrong.
Browser
Hide, sneak and
The Midnight Walk
Carry a living flame through a clay world of endless night and hungry monsters.
PC / VR / PlayStation / Switch
Psychological
The Moon Sliver
An empty island, a story told in fragments, and something hunting you as night falls.
PC
Psychological
The Mortuary Assistant
Embalm the dead alone at night, and find the demon before it finds you.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Mouth Of The Woods
A man missing in the woods, and the dream in his diary.
Browser
Survival
THE MUTE HOUSE
A missing sister, a mansion in the woods, and not enough bullets.
PC
Survival
The Night of the Scissors
A scrap run, an abandoned post office, and a man with scissors.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
PS1
The Not-Deer Stew
Follow the recipe, don't die, and hunt the Not-Deer for the pot.
PC
Puzzle horror
The Occultist
A cult's abandoned island, a missing father and a pendulum that sees the dead.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
The Open House
A virtual tour of a showcase home that is not what the brochure says.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Co-op
The Other Side
Identify the ghost, then find what binds it and cleanse the place.
PC
Body horror
The Ouroborous Incident
Follow a tech giant's robot snakes through a low-bandwidth web.
Browser
Survival
The Outlast Trials
Survive Murkoff's Cold War experiments alone or with up to three friends.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
The Pale Mimic
Hunt to survive the Alaskan winter while something learns your dog's voice.
PC
Psychological
The Park
Search a closed amusement park at dusk for your missing son.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Past Within
Two players, two times, one strange family secret from Rusty Lake.
PC / Mac / Switch / iPhone / Android
Psychological
The Perfect Woman
Your creator wakes you every morning. He wants you perfect.
PC / Mac / Linux / Android
Visual novels
THE PROTOTYPE
Before you is the Plaything Prototype. He is unlike any other companion.
PC / Mac / Linux
Co-op
The Quarry
Keep nine camp counselors alive through one night in the woods.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Multiple endings
The Radio Tower
Climb a radio tower by a quarantined town while something hunts you from the forest.
PC / Linux
Psychological
the relief of impact
Sleep paralysis, drawn with a trackpad, and it keeps going.
Browser
FNAF
The Return to Bloody Nights
1983, Fredbear's Family Diner, and the guard hired after the killings.
PC
FNAF
The Return to Freddy's: Winter Wonderland
Guard Freddy's before it reopens, with a spotlight, a mascot head and failing power.
PC
Slasher
The Scarlet Harvest
A Halloween party at a remote farm, and a slasher waiting in the corn.
PC
Psychological
The Scourge | Tai Ương
Walk the nightmares of a grieving man in 1990s Saigon.
PC
Multiple endings
The Séance of Blake Manor
Find a missing woman before the séance on All Hallows' Eve.
PC / Linux
More kinds of horror
- Psychological horror games523
- Short horror games442
- Horror games with multiple endings347
- Horror puzzle games317
- 2D horror games250
- Survival horror games246
- PS1 horror games215
- Stealth horror games162
- Horror escape games149
- Horror visual novels133
- Co-op and multiplayer horror games122
- Haunted house games122
- Surreal horror games100
- Analog horror games99
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- Steam horror games1004
- Epic horror games46
- GOG horror games257
- itch.io horror games476
- PC horror games1330
- Mac horror games376
- Linux horror games255
- PlayStation horror games365
- Xbox horror games334
- Switch horror games280
- Mobile horror games172
- VR horror games62
- Browser horror games232
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