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Psychological horror games in VR

7 psychological horror games in VR, 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.

7 games

All psychological horror games in vr

A grey, misty swamp with hanging moss and dark tree trunks

A Chair in a Room: Greenwater

Wake in the Greenwater Institute with no memory, and dig through your own past in VR.

PC / VR / PlayStation

Dagon screenshot: dark tentacles rise from a black, fish-strewn mud flat beside a half-sunken ship hull

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

Walk through Lovecraft's Dagon, from a morphine addict's room to the sea floor.

PC / VR

A dark living room with green sofas around a glass coffee table, seen from inside the house

I'm on Observation Duty 3

No cameras this time: walk the haunted house yourself and photograph what changed.

PC / Mac / Linux / VR

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

Layers of Fear VR

Walk a painter's shifting mansion in VR as his mind comes apart.

VR / PC / PlayStation

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

Narcosis screenshot: a large tentacled sea creature lunges at the diver's arm inside a dark flooded room, with the suit's oxygen gauges at the bottom

Narcosis

Walk the Pacific seafloor in a dive suit before your air and your nerve run out.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / VR

A cave chamber drawn in coloured LIDAR dots: green stone arches, a small human figure and orange dots across the floor in the dark

Scanner Sombre

See a pitch-black cave only through the dots your scanner leaves behind.

PC / Mac / VR

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