Skip to content
FiltersEvery game, every platform 24 gamesChoose
Where you play
Kind of horror
19 more
Price
Players
Time to finish
Released
Content

Your choice stays on as you move around the site, until you clear it. One place to play opens that part of the site; within a group any option will do, except Content, where every one you pick holds. Content goes by each game's content notes.

Victorian horror games

These games are set in the Victorian era or in worlds built from it: gaslit streets, cobbled lanes, brick factories and old mansions full of candles, damask wallpaper and gramophones. You walk dark houses, hotels and moors, read letters left behind and follow a mystery. The fear sits behind the polite surface, in locked rooms, old family secrets and what the period would not talk about.

The top 24 of 24 Victorian horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 24 best, 2026

  1. Rusty Lake Hotel key art: the grey gothic hotel on a small island in a still green lake, with mountains and a cloudy sky behind PsychologicalRusty Lake HotelGuests and staff wear Victorian suits among chandeliers, damask wallpaper and brass scales. 96% on Google Play (20,600 ratings)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  2. Bloodborne key art: a hunter in a long coat and tricorn hat, seen from behind with a bloody saw cleaver and a pistol, on a foggy cobbled gothic street under the title Body horrorBloodborneYharnam is a decaying Gothic city inspired by the Victorian era, all cobbled streets, gas lamps and carriages 95% on the PlayStation Store (292,931 ratings)34 h or morePaidPlayStation
  3. Gloomwood key art: a cloaked figure in a top hat, seen from behind, walks a foggy Victorian street toward a glowing archway with a red lantern and a blade SurvivalGloomwoodYou escape into a forgotten, twisted Victorian metropolis full of haunted streets and decadent mansions 95% on Steam (8,511 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC
  4. Ten Bells key art: a screaming, blood-streaked portrait hangs between two lit wall lamps above a shelf of roses PsychologicalTen BellsIts makers set the pub in the Victorian era, the time of Jack the Ripper. 97% on Steam (599 reviews)about 1 hPaidPC, Mac
  5. The Last Door Collector's Edition key art: a man in a coat holds a lantern before a dark manor at sunset, a crow beside the gold title PsychologicalThe Last DoorSet in late 19th-century Britain, as Jeremiah Devitt crosses the country to learn why his schoolmate died. 95% on Steam (2,476 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone
  6. The Last Door: Season 2 screenshot: a man in a dark coat stands by a glowing gas lamp on a night street before an old brick house PsychologicalThe Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's EditionThe store sends you back to Victorian England, through mental asylums, abandoned manors and opium dens 94% on Steam (992 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone
  7. Painted art of Thomasina Bateman at a rain-streaked window, her reflection in the glass, looking out at a moor where cracks of pink light spread from a stone barrow PsychologicalThe Excavation of Hob's BarrowIt is set in rural Victorian England. 92% on Steam (3,459 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch
  8. Forgotten Hill Mementoes key art: four masked, grotesque townsfolk in old clothes stand in a dark field under a red moon, with a Victorian house and pines behind Puzzle horrorForgotten Hill MementoesTownsfolk in old-fashioned clothes stand before a Victorian house in the key art, and the headstones are dated 1874. 90% on Google Play (5,960 ratings)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  9. Alisa key art: Alisa in a blue dress and striped stockings reclines on a floral chaise with a tommy gun, one hand on a doll's head, brass gears around her, against dark red wallpaper SurvivalAlisaSet in an old Victorian mansion in a fantasy world inspired by the 1920s 89% on Steam (1,607 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  10. Omen Exitio: Plague key art: a pale hand with rosary beads holds a glowing Earth while purple tentacles curl around it PsychologicalOmen Exitio: PlagueSet in 1896, with a London-born army doctor and a mood the store calls that of Victorian London. 85% on Steam (496 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch, iPhone
  11. Sunless Sea key art: a lone lit buoy with a bell leans out of a flat dark sea under a green-black sky 2D horrorSunless SeaSet in Fallen London, a Victorian London carried underground, and sailed in a Victorian steamship 83% on Steam (9,582 reviews)22 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone
  12. The Fear Business key art: a goat-headed figure in a bloody robe holds a dagger, flanked by four hooded skull-faced cultists, with two candles lit in the dark SurvivalThe Fear BusinessSolomon Manor is described as a huge Victorian manor, with damask wallpaper and candlelit halls. 93% on Steam (122 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux
  13. Sherlock Holmes The Awakened key art: a giant tentacled creature with glowing red eyes looms out of green fog and rain MysterySherlock Holmes The AwakenedSet in 1882, from Baker Street and gaslit London streets to a gloomy manor reached by horse-drawn carriage. 81% on Steam (1,156 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  14. Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity key art: a cracked pocket watch on a grey floor, spattered with blood, under the title 2D horrorSkautfold: Shrouded in SanitySet in an alternate 1897 Angelic Empire of Britannia, among gothic halls, candelabras and hand cannons. 80% on Steam (505 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  15. Layers of Fear VR key art: a torn cloth half covers a framed portrait of a woman whose face is smeared with blood, on dark damask wallpaper PsychologicalLayers of Fear VRThe store page sets it in a Victorian mansion filled with 19th-century art and decor. 82% on the Meta Quest store (370 ratings)about 2.5 hPaidVR, PC, PlayStation
  16. Layers of Fear key art: a torn blood-red canvas, with an eye and part of a painted face showing through the rip and an empty picture frame behind PsychologicalLayers of FearThe Painter's house is a decaying Victorian mansion full of period furniture, candles and gramophones. 79% on Steamabout 8.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  17. Mister Jack key art: a pale-haired face in profile before a red, foggy cobbled alley where a figure in a top hat walks away, with the title and Scream Jam 2024 award laurels 2D horrorMister JackSet in London in 1888, among gaslit streets, a parlour and a crowded pub of the period 94% on itch.io (22 ratings)Pay what you wantBrowser, PC
  18. Tell It Slant cover: the ornate white title over a curly red-haired figure in a green hooded cloak, in dark green tones PsychologicalTell It SlantTagged Victorian on itch.io, with a gaslit parlour, a grandfather clock and cloaked, ruffle-collared characters. 100% on itch.io (13 ratings)FreePC, Mac, Linux
  19. Maid of Sker key art: a frightened woman covers her mouth while a man runs through ivy-covered iron gates beside the hotel wall SurvivalMaid of SkerIt is set in 1898, with Victorian dress, gramophones and gaslit rooms. 79% on Steamabout 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  20. Waxworks key art: a melting wax head in profile with a staring eye and anguished faces in its drips, before a dark red door with iron hinges Puzzle horrorWaxworksA whole exhibit is 19th-century London, with gaslit alleys, constables and a killer at large. 76% on GOG (257 ratings)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac
  21. Atropa key art: a curly-haired woman holding a pale Egyptian funeral mask beside her face, with faint nightshade leaves behind the title Visual novelsAtropaThe maker calls it a supernatural horror visual novel set in Victorian England, dated 18XX 96% on itch.io (6 ratings)about 45 minPay what you wantBrowser
  22. 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 PsychologicalAmnesia: A Machine for PigsSet in London on New Year's Eve 1899, among cobbled streets, brick factories and a wealthy industrialist's house. 70% on Steamabout 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  23. Albino Lullaby key art: a crowd of blue hooded ghouls with glowing eyes and jagged green teeth in neon light, with the title at lower left PsychologicalAlbino Lullaby: Episode 1You escape a dark, surreal Victorian town that clings to the cliffs of an underground cavern. 68% on Steam (257 reviews)about 2.5 hPaidPC, VR
  24. Identity V 8th anniversary key art: characters in elaborate costumes in a rose garden beneath a flowered arch at sunset Co-opIdentity VThe store page invites you to travel back to the Victorian era, and the maps, costumes and characters are drawn in that period's style. 54% on Google Play (807,178 ratings)about 15 minFree to playiPhone, Android, PC

Free to play

4 games

Every game of the kind

More picks

Scores are those players and critics give on the stores and sites named; each game's page says where.

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
Every game, A to Z