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Underworld horror games

In these games you cross into a land of the dead or something like it: Helheim, purgatory, a limbo inside paintings, a hotel for lost souls, a pit you are thrown into. You walk its roads, solve its rules and face whatever rules it, often with the hope of getting back out. The fear is in a place that was never meant for the living and does not want you to leave.

The top 17 of 17 underworld horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 17 best, 2026

  1. The Upturned key art: a small figure in a wide hat holds up a lantern on a path to a lit inn at night, with glowing eyes watching from the dark SurrealThe UpturnedThe Upturned Inn is a hotel for the dead, and every soul in it is in danger. 99% on Steam (2,173 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC
  2. HorrorVale key art: Alice in a witch hat and skeleton face with her green zombie dog, a haunted town and full moon behind them 2D horrorHorrorValeAlice journeys through a strange Underworld with its own deep history and mythos to rescue her dog. 99% on Steam (436 reviews)50 h or morePaidPC
  3. Time is Solid Here cover: a long-necked figure in black stands on a yellow background casting a scribbled shadow, beside the title and a Goethe Institute Standstill Project selection laurel PsychologicalTime is Solid HereThe paintings are a limbo where souls stay stuck on what they dwelt on in life, inspired by Neil Gaiman's looping hell in Other People. 96% on itch.io (1,130 ratings)about 30 minPay what you wantBrowser, PC, Mac
  4. Soul Void key art: a green pixel portrait of a woman with closed eyes on a dark background, above the title Soul Void PsychologicalSoul VoidYou play a living woman lost in the Soul Void, an underground realm between life and death, looking for the way home. 96% on itch.io (1,119 ratings)about 2 hFreeBrowser
  5. Ignited Entry key art: a firefighter silhouetted before a pink blaze at left, pine trees and smoke in the middle and a dark ruined house at right PsychologicalIgnited EntryYou and your brother are pulled from the burned house into an afterlife world of dark corridors. 94% on itch.io (469 ratings)about 1 hFreePC
  6. Retail Hell key art: a grinning pale monster reaches out from behind the shop window toward a soda can and cash on the counter, beside the title PsychologicalRetail HellThe store stands in purgatory, a liminal void between life and death, and your customers are the dead 95% on Steam (593 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  7. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice key art: Senua in silhouette stands among wildflowers before a great tree lit by golden sunlight and falling leaves PsychologicalHellblade: Senua's SacrificeSenua travels into Helheim, the Norse underworld, to win back her dead lover's soul from the goddess Hela. 90% on Steam (76,810 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  8. Of Love and Eternity logo: red gothic title wrapped in branching roots and leaves, with a small skull on top, on dark grey Walking simulatorsOf Love and EternityThe knight's soul falls into a world of the damned, a place between death and the afterlife. 94% on itch.io (299 ratings)about 30 minPay what you wantPC, Mac, Linux
  9. Lunacid key art: a pale, gaunt figure with pointed ears and a chain around the neck holds a glowing blue sword in the dark Multiple endingsLunacidThe Great Well, where you are banished, is described as an underworld of sorts, a pit of chaos and disease 90% on Steam (11,684 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC
  10. Key art: horned Polly in an orange jacket stands with arms crossed, a skateboard and gun on her back, before ruined buildings under a stormy sky, with the Silly Polly Beast logo AnimeSilly Polly BeastAfter a fall Polly lands in purgatory, an underworld city where she must defeat three demons. 91% on Steam (2,518 reviews)about 6.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  11. Shadow Corridor 2 key art: a carved wooden mask of a laughing old man floating in dark blue haze SurvivalShadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩Shigure wakes in Ame no Yohira, an underworld full of corruption whose god has called her there 88% on Steam (952 reviews)PaidPC, Switch, PlayStation
  12. Overnight Interview key art: the title in yellow letters over dark convenience store shelves Night shiftOvernight InterviewThe Steam page says the underworld is expanding and wants to open its own retail stores. 92% on itch.io (181 ratings)about 12 minFreeBrowser, PC
  13. Apsulov: End of Gods key art: a pale woman's lower face and shoulder carved with red runes, breaking up into digital glitches Sci-fi horrorApsulov: End of GodsWhen you die you wake in a strange afterlife realm and must find two orbs to open a portal back to life 87% on Steam (1,717 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  14. Garten of Banban 4 key art: a grinning dark brown toad mascot in a small top hat with a gold star badge on a pink background Mascot horrorGarten of Banban 4The store promises an entire underworld for you to explore and survive beneath the kindergarten 86% on Google Play (2,150 ratings)PaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  15. KOBOLD key art: the jagged white title KOBOLD VR Experience beside two pale, skull-faced creatures with glowing eyes crawling out of the dark PsychologicalKOBOLD: Chapter IPast the villa you enter a dark, mythical underworld, where reviewers say an ancient evil chases you. 81% on Steam (269 reviews)about 1 hPaidPC, VR
  16. Spectral Scream key art: the dripping white and red title beside a close-up of a hooded, wide-eyed grinning face Co-opSpectral ScreamYou are trapped in purgatory, the space between the living and the dead, and must deliver its orbs to escape 78% on Steam (657 reviews)PaidPC, VR
  17. The Sorrowvirus key art: a man in a hospital gown hugs a pale doll while two shadowy figures stand behind him in rain among glowing lilies and leaves PsychologicalThe SorrowvirusEach time Wyatt dies he wakes in Purgatory, a place between death and the afterlife built from memories, dreams and nightmares. 73% on the PlayStation Store (63 ratings)about 50 minPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch

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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
Every genre

Where you play

  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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