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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.
1456 games
All scary games
Puzzle horror
The Shore
Search a forbidden island where Lovecraft's old gods rise from the sea.
PC / PlayStation
Survival
The Sinking City 2
Survive a drowned 1920s Arkham where the dead walk and old gods stir.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Investigate the
The Sinking City Remastered
A detective, a drowning 1920s town and the madness that came with the flood.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Investigate the
The Skin Stapler
Hunt a killer who staples his victims' skin to the walls.
PC
Psychological
The Song of Saya
A love story told through the eyes of a man who sees only flesh.
PC
Psychological
The Sorrowvirus
A man who cannot stay dead walks Purgatory, and you decide his fate.
PC
Psychological
The Stairway 7
The same stairwell, floor after floor, and a cat. Go down if something is wrong.
PC
Psychological
The Stalked
You left your obsessive ex. Someone still knows where you are.
PC
Psychological
the static speaks my name
One man's last night alive, a painting he cannot stop thinking about, and a tank of pet shrimp.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Snowed in at your father's empty hotel, with the ghost of what he did.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Supper
A tavern keeper hears a voice that wants her to cook something special.
PC
Psychological
The Swine
A week alone on a backwoods homestead, watched by an occult group.
PC
Escape
The Tartarus Key
Wake in a locked mansion of puzzles and traps, and get the others out alive.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
2D horror
The Terrible Old Man
Three robbers, one feeble old man, and a house they should not enter.
PC
Co-op
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Sneak out of the Slaughter family's basement before Leatherface finds you.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
PS1
The Thing Beneath
Five teenagers, one abandoned island, one night.
Browser / PC
Sci-fi horror
The Thing: Remastered
Lead a squad through Outpost 31, never sure who is still human.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
2D horror
The Third Shift
Night guard at a museum where the exhibits come looking for you.
PC / Android
Psychological
The Town of Light
Return to the asylum where a sixteen-year-old girl was locked away in 1938.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
FNAF
The TubbyLand Archives - ACT 1
Night security at a reopened TubbyLand. Watch the cameras until six.
PC
Cosmic
The Upturned
A hotel for the dead, monsters on every floor, and a storm that wants you.
PC
Psychological
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
An occult detective relives a family's murders in a beautiful, empty valley.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Body horror
The Visitor
Play the alien parasite and eat your way up the food chain.
Browser
Body horror
The Visitor Returns
The alien death slug is back, with seven new places to feed.
Browser
Survival
The Voidness - Lidar Horror Survival Game
You can only see what your scanner paints, and what lives in the dark can hear you breathe.
PC
Zombies
The Walking Dead
Keep Clementine alive through the zombie apocalypse, one hard choice at a time.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Survival
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
Survive the walkers of a flooded New Orleans in virtual reality.
PC / VR / PlayStation
PS1
THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
Climb down the dry well and find out what is living in it.
PC
Psychological
The Well Speaks to Me
A cabin in the forest, the daily chores, and a well that talks back.
PC
2D horror
the white chamber
Wake in a coffin on a dead space station and find out why.
PC
Psychological
The Windows Are Gone
A house from your dreams is calling, and you have just moved in.
PC
2D horror
The Witch's House MV
Find the way out of a witch's house where almost every room can kill you.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The World the Children Made
Ray Bradbury's The Veldt as a short pixel-art horror story.
Browser / PC
Survival
Them and Us
One survivor of a 1978 bus crash, and a night that keeps getting stranger.
PC
Psychological
Therapy with Dr. Albert Krueger
Book a session of patented Dream Therapy. The doctor will see you now.
PC / Mac / Linux
2D horror
There is Something in the Anderghast Mine
Her father vanished in the mine ten years ago. Someone says they know where he is.
Browser / PC / Mac
2D horror
There's Something in the Corner
A power cut, a dark house, and a sanity meter running down.
Browser / PC
FNAF
Thermomorph
Your crew is dead. Wait for the escape pod, with a sensor and a flamethrower.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux / Android
Psychological
These Heavenly Bodies
Three ancient statues, and bodies preserved inside them.
Browser
Psychological
They Breathe
Swim a frog down into a drowned forest where everything needs air.
PC / Mac
PS1
They Looked Like Us
Lights off, curtains shut, and do not let them see you.
PC
Co-op
This is a Ghost
Identify the entity, learn how it died, then banish it with the right rounds.
PC
FNAF
Those Nights at Fredbear's: New Destiny
Night shifts at Fredbear's, on foot, with a flashlight and Plushtrap.
PC
FNAF
Those Nights at Rachel's
Make sure they don't find you. It's only a game of hide and seek.
PC
Psychological
THRESHOLD
Keep the train on schedule. Don't run. Don't look in the train. The air is thin up here.
PC
Psychological
Through the Woods
A mother goes into the Norwegian forest to find her missing son.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
Time is Solid Here
Step into surreal paintings and help uneasy figures move on.
Browser / PC / Mac
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
Where you play
- 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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- Games Like Poppy Playtime: Mascot and Toy Horror
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