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Horror puzzle games on Switch

70 horror puzzle games on Switch, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Solving puzzles is a main way to play and to progress: codes, mechanisms, item combinations or logic, not just finding a key on the floor. A horror game with an occasional lock or lever puzzle between fights does not count.

70 games

All horror puzzle 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

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

Bad Dream: Coma art: crows perch on cracked yellow paper that opens onto ink-drawn glimpses of a hospital bed, a house and a bloodstained floor

Bad Dream: Coma

A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox

Bad Dream: Fever screenshot: a hand-drawn public toilet splashed with dark blue ink, 'Not ready yet' and 'Come back later' scrawled on the walls and stall doors

Bad Dream: Fever

A city drowned in ink, and a fever that changes everyone it touches.

PC / Mac / Switch

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

A lone stone tower on a barren hill with dead trees at dusk, seen in first person

Caput Mortum

Descend an alchemist's abandoned tower, where something still walks the halls.

PC / 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

Close To The Sun key art: a small steam boat in a storm beneath the towering gilded hull of the Helios

Close To The Sun

Board Tesla's quarantined research ship to find your sister.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Conarium key art: a pale man's face with glowing white eyes and a light shining from his forehead

Conarium

Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.

PC / Mac / Linux / 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

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

Multiple endings

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

Crow Country art: low-poly Mara stands by a crow-topped ticket booth between two crow mascot statues

Crow Country

Search an abandoned 1990 theme park for its missing owner.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DARQ screenshot: Lloyd, a pale boy in a striped shirt, crosses a tilted room of pipes and machines as gravity turns

DARQ: Complete Edition

Walk on the walls of a nightmare you cannot wake from, and keep out of sight.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / 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

Fear the Spotlight art: a shadowy long-haired figure with glowing eyes looms over two girls standing in flames

Fear the Spotlight

A séance at school goes wrong, and something with a spotlight walks the halls.

PC / Mac / Linux / 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

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

Gray Dawn: an old 1920s car abandoned among ferns and wildflowers in a misty pine forest

Gray Dawn

A priest blamed for a lost altar boy walks through visions of blood and faith.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Heaven Dust key art: a boy with a handgun in front of a crowd of zombies and a towering mutant, with a dark map of the mansion to the left

Heaven Dust

Escape a zombie-filled mansion that hid a secret research centre.

PC / Switch / Xbox / PlayStation

Heaven Dust 2 key art: Steve with a shotgun and a young woman back to back above a crowd of zombies, helicopters behind

Heaven Dust 2

Wake from a cryogenic pod in a research base full of zombies.

PC / Switch / PlayStation

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice key art: Senua in silhouette stands among wildflowers before a great tree lit by golden sunlight and falling leaves

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Walk into Viking Hell with the voices in your head.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Hello Neighbor key art: the moustached neighbour holding a shovel among autumn trees, with crows watching

Hello Neighbor

Sneak into your neighbour's house and find out what is in the basement.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Hello Neighbor 2 key art: the moustached Neighbor in an argyle vest carrying a shovel over his shoulder in a dark forest

Hello Neighbor 2

Sneak into the houses of Raven Brooks to break the Neighbor's case.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Homicipher key art: a pale, long-haired figure with a wide, bloody grin looms out of the dark

Multiple endings

Homicipher

Learn the words of the monsters before they decide what to do with you.

PC / Mac / Switch

HORROR TALES: The Wine key art: the masked stalker in a wide-brimmed hat and a necklace of bones, against a dark red background

HORROR TALES: The Wine

Search a plague city for one bottle of wine while a stalker hunts you.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream key art: glowing blue circuit-board lines on a black background

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Five prisoners of an insane computer, each sent through a nightmare of their own past.

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

Inscryption key art: a wooden cabin door lit from above by hanging lanterns in a dark log cabin

Inscryption

A card game for your life in a dark cabin, and secrets written on the cards.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

INSIDE key art: the boy hides behind a pillar in a dark factory while a machine sweeps the room with a searchlight

INSIDE

A boy alone, hunted through a grey world toward the centre of a dark project.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

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

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

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

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

Multiple endings

Mad Father

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

PC / Switch

MADiSON screenshot: a bloody hand holds an old instant camera in a cellar full of twisted limbs and caution tape

MADiSON

A cursed instant camera, a possessed house, and a demon's ritual to finish.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

Mundaun key art in pencil greys: a man holding a pitchfork and a lantern stands on a rock with a goat, looking over an Alpine valley with a chalet, a horned figure and a woman watching

Mundaun

A hand-pencilled folk horror tale high in the Alps.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

Two women at an old phone booth, one holding the receiver as a voice warns that the island will become a bloodbath unless she takes the last ferry alone

PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

A summer island, a mermaid legend and seven curses to survive.

PC / Switch / iPhone / Android

Poppy Playtime art: Huggy Wuggy, a blue furry mascot with red lips and rows of sharp teeth, grins in a red-lit factory

Poppy Playtime

Explore an abandoned toy factory where the toys are still awake.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Resident Evil art: the grand hall of the Spencer mansion with a double staircase, columns and balconies in dim light

Resident Evil

Survive the Spencer mansion with scarce ammo, ink ribbons and the dead in the halls.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Resident Evil 0 key art: the empty, blood-stained passenger carriage of a luxury train, light spilling through its far door

Resident Evil 0

The night before the mansion: a zombie train, a rookie medic and a convict.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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