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2D horror games on Switch

57 2d horror games on Switch, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Played in two dimensions: the player moves through a side-view or top-down world drawn in 2D (pixel art or hand-drawn), as in Darkwood, Ib or Limbo. A 3D game seen from the side (2.5D, like Little Nightmares) does not count, nor does a visual novel whose play is mainly reading text.

57 games

All 2d horror games on switch

An English Haunting art: a medium exhaling smoke beside a pale glowing ghost in front of a dark manor

An English Haunting

Prove the dead can speak in 72 hours, with the help of a fake medium.

PC / Switch

Aooni key art: the Ao Oni's huge grinning purple face emerging from darkness

Aooni

A blue demon lives in the mansion on the edge of town.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / iPhone / Android

Lisa hiding in a bush as a dark, many-eyed monster looms over her in a red-tinged night

Before The Night

Raise your rabbit owner from the dead, and hide when the village turns.

PC / Switch

Buddy Simulator 1984 key art: a dark pattern of grey pixel-art creatures, robots and characters from the game

Buddy Simulator 1984

A 1984 AI best friend that learns from you, and will not let you go.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

Burnhouse Lane key art: a tall wooden house in red mist with a small figure facing a huge skeletal cat-like creature

Burnhouse Lane

A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Bye Sweet Carole art: a frightened girl in a green dress among dark thorny vines, a grinning figure in a top hat with glowing eyes looming behind her

Bye Sweet Carole

A missing friend, an orphanage, and a storybook kingdom that wants Lana gone.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Camp Sunshine key art in pixels: the bear mascot killer's paw grips a bloody knife beside a lake under a blue night sky

Camp Sunshine

A summer camp, a dead-of-night wake-up, and a killer in a mascot suit.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Children of Silentown key art: Lucy among the black silhouettes of village children before a pale moon, with red and teal trees on either side

Children of Silentown

A village in a monster forest, where people keep disappearing.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Clea screenshot: Clea with a lantern runs down a brick hallway with her brother and his teddy bear as a hooded skull-faced figure reaches for them

Clea

Lead your little brother out of a mansion where the monsters hear everything.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

Clea 2 screenshot: Florine with a lantern steps out of a stone archway as a bandaged figure covered in eyes walks away from her

Clea 2

A former maid crosses into the realms beyond, listening for what roams the halls.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

Clock Tower: Rewind key art: Jennifer, a frightened dark-haired girl in a white blouse, in front of a giant pair of open shears, with the mansion's clock tower at night

Clock Tower: Rewind

The 1995 point-and-click classic: run and hide from the Scissorman.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CONSCRIPT key art: a soldier in a gas mask and helmet with red lenses raises a spiked club amid explosions in a trench

CONSCRIPT

Survival horror in the trenches of Verdun, 1916.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Corpse Party (2021) screenshot: the pale blue ghost of a child crouches in a rotting wooden corridor as Yoshiki cries out

Corpse Party (2021)

A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Creepy Tale 3 key art: Ingrid sits on the floor of a dark cell as light from an open door throws a long, horned shadow toward her

Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance

A spoiled girl falls into hell, and a sarcastic demon offers to help.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place key art: Martin in a red coat walks toward a giant skull-like face full of teeth in a dark forest

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place

A quiet fishing trip ends in a dark fairy-tale land.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Darkest Dungeon key art: a crusader with a sword, a plague doctor and a highwayman with a pistol stand in a red-lit crypt of skulls

Darkest Dungeon

Lead broken heroes into the dark beneath your ancestor's estate.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

Darkwood art: a pale, emaciated figure crowned with twisted branches stands open-mouthed in grey darkness

Darkwood

Scavenge a cursed forest by day and survive the nights in your hideout.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Dead Estate art: the playable heroes with guns crowded among skulls, ghouls, a one-eyed creature and a hulking masked brute

Dead Estate

A gory roguelike shooter up the floors of a monster-filled mansion.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Decarnation key art: a woman with dark hair that flows into a mass of flesh, organs and strange creatures

Decarnation

A cabaret dancer's life and nightmares, in surreal pixel art.

PC / Switch

Detention key art: a schoolgirl in a white uniform holds a picture frame as chairs, desks and papers fly around her

Detention

Trapped in a haunted school in 1960s Taiwan under martial law.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

DISTRAINT 2 screenshot: Price stands in a rotting room by a glowing old TV, dark growths hanging from the ceiling and a skull-faced figure in a chair beside him

DISTRAINT 2

A side-scrolling nightmare about a man's guilt and what he sold to get ahead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition key art: Price in a shirt and tie among his bosses, a couple with teacups and an old woman with a rabbit, under a looming red elephant

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

Seize an old woman's home, then pay the price for it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Endoparasitic key art: the grey silhouette of a man with no legs dragging himself across a tiled floor, leaving a trail of red blood

Endoparasitic

One arm, one gun, one bullet at a time, and a parasite heading for your brain.

PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch

FAITH: The Unholy Trinity key art: a priest seen from behind stands before a huge red demon with many clawed arms

FAITH: The Unholy Trinity

A young priest, a crucifix and the Satanic Panic of the 1980s in 8-bit horror.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Firework screenshot: two policemen in a dark green-lit alley beside a brick wall painted with Believe in science, not superstition

Firework

Reopen a village massacre case where the dead may not have been killed by the living.

PC / Switch

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit key art: a worn yellow rabbit animatronic with glowing blue eyes rising from a ball pit

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit

Climb into a ball pit, wake in the past, and hide from the yellow rabbit.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Fran Bow key art: Fran holding her black cat Mr. Midnight in front of a red-eyed monster, with skeletal and masked characters on the left

Fran Bow

A girl escapes an asylum while her pills show her a world of blood and monsters.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Ib screenshot: visitors stand around a large roped-off painting of a fanged deep-sea fish in a white gallery room, with a caption about a world where man can never stand

Ib

Escape an art gallery whose paintings have come alive.

PC / Switch / PlayStation

Just Ignore Them key art: three hooded monsters with pale masks and bleeding eyes crowd around a terrified man holding his head

Just Ignore Them

A boy, the monsters in his house, and choices that decide who lives.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Knock-knock art: a purple night sky with an orange swirl moon, a twisted horn-shaped pipe and a bare tree hung with red berries and a white horn

Knock-knock

Stay awake and sane until dawn in a cabin where something has moved in.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Lakeview Cabin Collection: bloody skeletal remains on stakes in front of a cabin at night, lit by a spotlight

Lakeview Cabin Collection

Four pixel-art horror films where you work out how to survive the killer.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Lamentum key art: Victor with a bloody axe among the other characters and tentacles, a dark mansion on a floating rock

Lamentum

Seek a cure for your wife in a mansion of nightmares.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

LIMBO: the silhouetted boy stands in a bright clearing as the long legs of a giant spider reach down beside him

LIMBO

A boy looks for his sister in a grey forest where everything wants him dead.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Little Goody Two Shoes: Elise in a red dress runs among spiked stone blocks under a yellow moon as a huge skull-headed creature in a cloak looms behind her

Little Goody Two Shoes

A village girl follows a pair of red shoes into the Woods at night.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Little Misfortune key art: a little girl in a red beret and green coat looks back over a golden autumn hillside, with a fox holding a crackling staff and a Missing poster on a tree

Little Misfortune

A sweet little girl, a friendly voice and a very bad day in the woods.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

A pig mascot holding a bloody hatchet stands at the end of a red-lit hotel corridor

Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami

Three streamers, an abandoned hotel and a mascot with a hatchet.

PC / Switch

LOVE ETERNAL key art: a giant red figure with raised arms looms over dark suburban houses and pine trees at night

LOVE ETERNAL

A stolen child, a lonely god, and a castle built of bitter memories.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Lovecraft's Untold Stories key art: pixel-art Great Old Ones, among them a tentacled Cthulhu and a horned goddess, wrapped around the Earth in a starry sky

Lovecraft's Untold Stories

A top-down roguelite through Lovecraft's stories, where knowledge keeps you sane.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox / PlayStation

Mad Father screenshot: Aya in a blood-spattered hall with two stitched, grey-skinned doll women looming over her

Mad Father

A girl explores her father's mansion on the night his experiments get loose.

PC / Switch

Neverending Nightmares key art: a man holding a red candle while a pale woman with bleeding red eyes reaches for him from behind

Neverending Nightmares

Wake from a nightmare into another one, and another, in black and white.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone

OFF key art: a swarm of pale purple ghosts with varied faces pouring over dark purple buildings

OFF

Guide the Batter on a sacred mission to purify a world of specters.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

OMORI key art: a pencil sketch of the boy OMORI's expressionless face

OMORI

A colourful dream-world RPG hiding the memory its hero cannot face.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox / PlayStation

Oxenfree key art: a glowing triangular rift hanging in a dark cave

Oxenfree

A night on an island, a radio, and a rift you should not have opened.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Sally Face screenshot: Sal, seen from behind with long blue hair, sits across from a therapist with a clipboard, his prosthetic face mask on the table

Sally Face

A boy with a prosthetic face investigates murders and talks to the dead.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

A white-haired swordsman among graves and lanterns under a great tree, on blood-red autumn leaves

Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity

A fog-bound manor, mad servants, a cane sword and a hand cannon.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Sunless Sea key art: a lone lit buoy leans out of a flat dark sea under a green-black sky

Sunless Sea

Lose your mind. Eat your crew. Die. Then try again.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

A small skull-headed figure beneath a huge winged idol with a single eye, flanked by grotesque statues in grey pixel art

TAMASHII

A nameless soul in a twisted temple of flesh, idols and puzzles.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

The Bunny Graveyard art: a cemetery gate under a purple sky beside a rabbit-eared statue, seen through a cracked frame with a Find Her poster of a bunny

The Bunny Graveyard

A cute bunny's garden inside a computer, and something that will not let you leave.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Switch

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