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Time travel horror games

In these games the past is a place you can walk into. You step through a mirror, a rift or a ball pit and find the same rooms years earlier, then carry what you learned back to the present. The fear comes from places that are familiar but wrong, and from knowing that what you change in one time can make the other worse.

The top 14 of 14 time travel horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 14 best, 2026

  1. The Past Within key art: the game's title beside a hexagon badge with a dark figure with white eyes, over a blurred dim room PsychologicalThe Past WithinOne player is in The Past and the other in The Future, and what each sees unlocks the other's time 96% on Google Play (49,400 ratings)about 2 hPaidPC, Mac, Switch, iPhone, Android
  2. Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit key art: a worn yellow rabbit animatronic with glowing blue eyes rising from a ball pit SurvivalFive Nights at Freddy's: Into the PitA magical ball pit carries Oswald back in time to the pizzeria of years ago. 96% on Steam (11,018 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  3. Tales of the Black Forest key art: three anime girls, one white-haired in a kimono, one in school uniform, one with fox ears, before a dark pixel-art station 2D horrorTales of the Black ForestKihara uses a power called Nensha, touching retro electronics such as a radio, to travel back to the 1990s. 96% on Steam (1,080 reviews)about 3.5 hPaidPC
  4. A Day in the Office cover art: the clock-headed boss in a blue suit and white gloves raising a finger to his face for silence, on black 2D horrorA Day in the OfficeYou move between Monday and Friday on the same floor, taking a soldering iron from Tuesday back to the technician on Monday 94% on itch.io (408 ratings)about 15 minPay what you wantBrowser, PC
  5. Tormented Souls key art: a twisted figure stands in a red-lit corridor lined with suits of armour, glowing light behind it SurvivalTormented SoulsBy crossing through mirrors to another time, Caroline can change things that open the way in the present. 90% on Steam (8,283 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  6. Costume Quest 2 art: four cartoon children in Halloween costumes, a candy corn with big glasses, a caped hero in goggles, a bearded wizard and a dinosaur, on a glowing clock circle HalloweenCostume Quest 2The children chase the dentist through portals to before their hometown was founded and to the future 90% on the PlayStation Store (2,633 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox
  7. Cronos: The New Dawn art: the Traveler's dented dome helmet marked ND-3576, with a shoulder lamp, before a ruined clock tower and a red rift under a red sky SurvivalCronos: The New DawnThe Traveler passes through time rifts from a ruined future back to 1980s Poland to extract the essences of the dead. 88% on Steam (12,214 reviews)18 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  8. RetroSpace key art, painted in two panels: a frightened mustached man with a pistol glances back at a red-eyed, insect-headed mutant in white armor Sci-fi horrorRetroSpaceThe station keeps jumping between two time periods while you look for a way home 90% on Steam (531 reviews)13 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  9. Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel key art: a figure in a dark gas mask with one green lens stands in a red-lit hotel corridor SurvivalFobia - St. Dinfna HotelThe camera shows the hotel in other times, and certain sequences are played in a different time period. 83% on Steam (2,392 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  10. spookY2K key art: a girl with long pigtails winks and makes a peace sign beside a boy in a leopard-print jacket and purple headband, over a purple cobweb background Multiple endingsspookY2KYou find you have somehow travelled back in time to the cusp of the 2000s. 100% on itch.io (31 ratings)12 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux
  11. Pathologic 3 key art: a young man's face seen through the pieces of a shattered mirror PsychologicalPathologic 3You can rewind to earlier days or look ahead at the worst outcomes, using a scarce substance called amalgam. 80% on Steam (2,839 reviews)25 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  12. Re:Turn - One Way Trip key art: Saki, a red-haired young woman, holds a flashlight in the aisle of a dark, rotting train car with mouldy teal seats and cobwebs PsychologicalRe:Turn - One Way TripThe train shifts between its rotten present and its past, and Saki carries what she learns between the two 79% on Steam (132 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  13. Prisoner of Ice key art: a terrified man lit from below by a glowing open book, over an old map of the Americas and a cloudy sky Puzzle horrorCall of Cthulhu: Prisoner of IceThe store page promises you must master the complexity of time travel during the investigation. 74% on Steam (149 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Linux
  14. Dark Fall 2: Lights Out key art: a stone lighthouse on a rock in a teal storm, a big wave breaking at its base under dark clouds PsychologicalDark Fall 2: Lights OutTime portals take you through the lighthouse in four eras, from the Bronze Age to a future research base. 72% on GOG (263 ratings)about 4.5 hPaidPC

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More kinds of horror

  1. Short horror games621
  2. Psychological horror games530
  3. Horror games with multiple endings417
  4. Horror puzzle games341
  5. Survival horror games259
  6. 2D horror games254
  7. PS1 horror games233
  8. Stealth horror games180
  9. Horror escape games164
  10. Surreal horror games145
  11. Horror visual novels137
  12. Anime horror games132
  13. Haunted house games131
  14. Mystery and detective horror games127
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  1. Steam horror games1009
  2. Epic horror games97
  3. GOG horror games270
  4. itch.io horror games592
  5. PC horror games1337
  6. Mac horror games391
  7. Linux horror games261
  8. PlayStation horror games404
  9. Xbox horror games367
  10. Switch horror games317
  11. Mobile horror games188
  12. VR horror games69
  13. Browser horror games236
  1. Scary games1456
  2. Free horror games561
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