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Psychological horror games on Switch

82 psychological horror games on Switch, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. The fear comes mainly from the mind: dread, unreliable perception, guilt, isolation or a reality that comes apart, rather than from fighting monsters. A game with one such scene in an action game does not count.

82 games

All psychological horror games on switch

The Convenience Store key art: a Japanese convenience store glowing under its white sign on a dark night street

[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件

The night shift at a convenience store pays well. Now you know why.

PC / Switch

Alan Wake Remastered key art: Alan Wake's silhouette with a flashlight and a gun stands inside the letters of the title against a misty forest

Alan Wake Remastered

A writer, a missing wife and a darkness that comes alive at night.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs key art: a painted Victorian engine room of brass pipes, gauges and a ladder beside a red armchair, with a round hatch smeared with blood

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Descend into the infernal machine beneath an industrialist's factory.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: Rebirth key art: Tasi holds up a lit match, a pale clawed creature lurking in the dark beside her

Amnesia: Rebirth

Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent art: a pale green stone hall in Brennenburg Castle with a carved fountain at its centre

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Among the Sleep key art: a toddler in starry pyjamas hugs a teddy bear on a crescent moon that drips into a shadow with glowing eyes

Among the Sleep

Crawl through a nightmare house as a toddler searching for your mother.

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

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

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

Call of Cthulhu screenshot: robed cultists and candles around a tall crystal in a dark cave, with a strange figure in the foreground

Call of Cthulhu

A 1924 investigation on a whaling island, where the truth costs you your mind.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CHAOS;CHILD key art: the main cast in school uniforms against a spray of black and brown shards

CHAOS;CHILD

Shibuya, 2015: the murders that terrified the city six years ago have started again.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH key art: Rimi, a pink-haired schoolgirl holding a large glowing sword, beside Takumi on a cracked grey pavement

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH

Shibuya's serial killings, predicted by an image no one should have sent.

PC / 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

Corpse Party: Blood Drive screenshot: Ayumi holds a light in a gore-smeared school corridor as a shadow with red eyes waits behind her

Corpse Party: Blood Drive

Go back into Heavenly Host for the book that might bring the dead back.

PC / 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

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

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus art: Sayori waving, Yuri with a book, Natsuki with folded arms and Monika with a sheet of paper on a pink background

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Join a cute school poetry club in a dating sim that is not what it seems.

PC / Mac / iPhone / PlayStation / Switch / Xbox

DREDGE key art: a small fishing boat with lit windows beside a red and white lighthouse under a dark sky, with tentacles and strange fish in the green water below

DREDGE

A quiet fishing adventure with a cosmic horror in the deep.

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

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

Forgotten Memories screenshot: a doll in a red dress slumps in the foreground while Rose, in a red jacket, shines a flashlight behind it

Forgotten Memories

Silent Hill-style survival horror, made for phones.

iPhone / Android / 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

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

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

Infliction key art: a man's silhouette in a brightly lit doorway at the end of a dark hall, with a bloodied hand holding a knife in the foreground

Infliction

A family home, a tragedy, and the thing that still walks its halls.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

Iron Lung art: the grainy red surface of an ocean of blood

Iron Lung

Pilot a windowless submarine through an ocean of blood, photographing what you cannot see.

PC / PlayStation / Switch / Android

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

Kholat: a dead forest of bare trees at night under a red moon

Kholat

Follow the Dyatlov Pass hikers into the snow with only a map and a compass.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Kiosk art: the dim tiled kitchen of the kiosk, with a steel table, an open notebook, shelves of food and the serving window

Kiosk

Cook for the night customers and find out what happened to the last guy.

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

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

Kona: the Magasin General store at night in the snow, a pickup and a snowmobile parked by the fuel pumps

Kona

A detective, a blizzard and a village with no one left in it.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Layers of Fear 2 key art: an ocean liner carried on a heap of jointed wooden mannequins and rats before dark red stage curtains

Layers of Fear 2

An ocean liner, a film shoot and a director who wants more than a performance.

PC / 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 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

Six in a yellow raincoat holds up a lighter on a tabletop crowded with stacked cups and pots, while a large pale hand grips the table edge in the foreground

Little Nightmares

A tiny child sneaks out of a vessel full of hungry giants.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Little Nightmares II key art: Mono with a paper bag on his head and Six in her yellow raincoat stand among leaning houses before the tall Signal Tower under a glowing sky

Little Nightmares II

A boy in a paper bag crosses a world twisted by a distant tower's signal.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Little Nightmares III key art: Low in a bird mask with a bow and Alone in goggles stand on a heap of junk among giant hands in a dusty haze

Little Nightmares III

Two children try to escape the Nowhere, hiding from giant monsters together.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / 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

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

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk key art: a close-up of the girl's wide eyes in purple and dark red pixels

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Help a girl buy milk, as the voice inside her troubled head.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk screenshot: the red-eyed girl in a black sweater looks worried in her dark apartment, with red windows behind her

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

The girl got her milk. Now help her get through the night.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

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

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