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Analog horror games on Switch

16 analog horror games on Switch, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Tells its horror through old or found media (VHS, TV broadcasts, tapes, old computers, footage), or the internet horror it grew from (creepypasta, the Backrooms, liminal spaces).

16 games

All analog horror games on switch

Amanda the Adventurer key art: Wooly the Sheep, wide-eyed and frightened, his hands raised, behind VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer

Play your aunt's old cartoon tapes. Do what Amanda says.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amanda the Adventurer 2 key art: a thin, long-limbed figure with mouse-like ears hanging from a tilted bookshelf over VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer 2

The tapes lead to the town library. Amanda knows you are watching.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amanda the Adventurer 3 key art: a screaming opossum with raised claws, Wooly the Sheep and a smiling Amanda around a glowing old TV, with a clawed hand reaching over it

Amanda the Adventurer 3

The last tapes, in the empty building where the show was made.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Blair Witch key art: the silhouette of a man and his dog walking into a forest washed in red, a stick-figure shape formed by the branches above, a wrecked truck and a tent nearby

Blair Witch

Lose yourself in the Black Hills Forest, with only your dog to trust.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Escape the Backrooms screenshot: the empty yellow-wallpapered rooms and fluorescent lights of the first level

Escape the Backrooms

Find the exit from the endless yellow rooms, with three friends and something listening.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Home Safety Hotline screenshot: the responder software on a 1990s computer, a caller named John on the left and the database entry for Mice with a photo of a mouse on the right

Home Safety Hotline

Answer the phones at a 1990s pest hotline. Some pests are not pests.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? key art: a grinning fanged figure in a wide-brimmed hat with glowing yellow eyes above a dark pine forest

Multiple endings

Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

Win his computer game and he lets you go. Lose and you stay.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Killer Frequency screenshot: the 1980s radio booth with an ON AIR sign, microphones, speakers, a mixing desk and a record player

Multiple endings

Killer Frequency

Talk the callers of a 1987 radio show away from a masked killer.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

Platform 8 key art: a man in a pale shirt sits on a red bench seat in a bright Japanese train carriage, looking at his phone

Platform 8

A commuter train that never stops. Watch for what changes.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

POOLS key art: a long rectangular pool of dark water with a metal rail, in a hall of pale tiles stretching into the distance

POOLS

Endless tiled pools, still water and nobody else.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone / PlayStation / Switch / VR

SIMULACRA key art: a dark-haired woman stands before a wall of phone screens showing apps, photos and chats, with pink streaks across them

Multiple endings

SIMULACRA

A missing woman's phone, and something inside it.

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

Slender: The Arrival key art: the faceless Slender Man in a dark suit in front of a forest lit orange by fire

Slender: The Arrival

Find your missing friend while Slender Man walks closer in the dark.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Stories Untold art: a glowing red orb among 1980s computers, a radio, a camcorder and family photos

Stories Untold

Four stories on old machines, and one nightmare between them.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

The Backrooms 1998 key art: a dark, empty tiled pool room with a pink inflatable ring floating in the gloom

The Backrooms 1998

Found footage from the Backrooms, 1998. Don't scream.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

The Exit 8 key art: a yellow 'Exit 8' sign hanging from the ceiling of a white-tiled subway passage

The Exit 8

Walk an endless subway passage and turn back the moment something is wrong.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Urban Myth Dissolution Center key art: Director Ayumu Meguriya pointing at the viewer in front of yellow clouds and a glowing halo, in pixel art

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

Hunt down internet urban myths that turn out to be real.

PC / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android