Psychological
Visage
Explore a shifting house haunted by the families who died in it.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
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Psychological
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
A burned-down circus, a reunion in a dark mansion, and a clown losing his mind.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Voices of the Void
Listen to space alone from a mountain lab, and see what answers.
PC
Action horror
Vomitoreum
Shoot your way through a fog-blighted hellscape painted after Beksiński.
PC / Linux
Sci-fi horror
Voyager-19
Search distant stars for a lost expedition from a dying probe.
PC / Mac / Linux
Short
Water Womb World
Sift the sea floor for relics of a drowned Eden.
PC / Mac
Puzzle horror
Waxworks
Your uncle's waxworks, five cursed exhibits, and a twin brother to save.
PC / Mac
Co-op
WE ARE SO DEAD
One of you is already dead, and the Ouija board is the only way to warn the rest.
PC
Co-op
We Escaped a Twisted Game
Two players, one haunted manor, half the clues each.
PC
Multiple endings
Weekend Ritual
A sleepover, a circle in the attic, and a demon with many hands.
Browser / PC
2D horror
Welcome Home Jacob
A dark house, a torch, and something with a rabbit's face.
Browser
2D horror
Welcome to Elderfield
Farm, fish and romance the locals in a town watched by eldritch gods.
PC
Multiple endings
Welcome, Dear Human
Your sleep paralysis demon has been watching you. Now it wants to date.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux / Android
Puzzle horror
Westworld Awakening
A host wakes up in Westworld's labs, and a killer host is hunting her.
PC / VR
Multiple endings
What Grows in the Night
A scarecrow is given life to tend a stranger's garden. The plants grow too well.
PC / Mac / Linux
Investigate the
What happened to the crew?
A dead station, a command line, and the files they left behind.
Browser
Psychological
When the Darkness comes
A Game Without Meaning. A Game Nobody Should Play.
PC
Psychological
Where Winter Crows Go
Snowed in at a stranger's cabin, with a host who does not want you to leave.
PC / Mac / Linux / Android
Escape
Which
A small, silent house in black and white, and a front door chained shut.
PC
Psychological
While We Wait Here
Cook for your last customers while you wait for the end of the world.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
Whisper Mountain Outbreak
Fight your way off a cursed, fog-bound mountain with three friends.
PC
2D horror
Whispering Willows
Leave your body to search a haunted mansion for your father.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Survival
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
Locked in your school at midnight, with a janitor who wants you dead.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
PS1
White Knuckle
Climb out of ten thousand metres of dark concrete before what is below catches up.
PC
Survival
White Night
Light a match, keep to the light, and stay out of the shadows of a 1930s mansion.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / iPhone
Co-op
White Noise 2
Four investigators, eight tapes, and a creature hunting them in the dark.
PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / PlayStation
Psychological
Who's at the door?
Someone is knocking. Decide if they are real before you open.
PC / PlayStation / Switch
Psychological
Who's Lila?
Make the right face, or let them see what you are hiding.
PC
Survival
Wicked Seed
A horror RPG of foggy woods, empty streets and monsters, with survival horror roots.
PC
Psychological
Winion Virus
Raise cute creatures inside your computer, then find what the bug really is.
PC / Mac
Action horror
Witch Hunt
Hunt the evil in the woods around an 18th-century town, gun in hand.
PC
Action horror
Withering Realms
A ghost girl and her doll guardian against the graveyards of Penwyll.
PC
Survival
Withering Rooms
Survive a Victorian mansion that changes every night.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
Within Deep Sorrows
Go three dreams deep to destroy your diary before the demon gets out.
PC / Mac
Psychological
Without a Dawn
A remote cabin, a sleepless night, and a silence that takes shape.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
WORLD OF HORROR
A 1-bit roguelite of cursed mysteries as the Old Gods wake over a Japanese town.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Switch
Co-op
World War Z
Four survivors hold the line against swarms of hundreds of zombies.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Hide, sneak and
Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife
Haunt the mansion where you died, and hide from what haunts it with you.
VR / PC / PlayStation
PS1
Wretched Depths
Fish deeper into a lake where nobody knows what waits at the bottom.
PC
Escape
Wrong Floor
The elevator fell to the basement, and someone down there wants you gone.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Y O U
When you walk, you walk alone. Something walks beside you anyway.
Browser
Psychological
Year Walk
Walk into the winter woods on New Year's Eve to see your future.
PC / Mac / iPhone
Anime
Yoko no Hanashi
Escape an abandoned college from the yandere who trapped you there.
PC
Survival
Yomawari: Lost in the Dark
A cursed girl, a night town full of ghosts, and only a flashlight.
PC / Switch / PlayStation
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
More kinds of horror
- Psychological horror games523
- Short horror games442
- Horror games with multiple endings347
- Horror puzzle games317
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- 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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- Xbox horror games334
- Switch horror games280
- Mobile horror games172
- VR horror games62
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