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Elevator horror games

In these games the elevator is how you get anywhere, and you can't trust it. You ride it floor by floor, wait for it to arrive, keep it running or keep it fed. The doors open on a floor you didn't pick, the car stops between levels, or you have to send it back up before something else rides it down to you.

The top 16 of 16 elevator horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 16 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 UpturnedYou ride the inn's elevator up floor by floor, and when it breaks you hunt for power nodes to restart it. 99% on Steam (2,173 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC
  2. JOLLY key art: the huge round eyes of Jolly the blue bee animatronic in the dark, with the title in glitching blue letters FNAFJOLLYAn elevator joins the floors, and you must send it back up before something rides it down to you 96% on Game Jolt (2,408 ratings)FreePC
  3. Elevator Hitch cover: a grinning blond co-worker behind a nervous one in glasses, both in brown suits, with red tendrils at the edges and the red title above EscapeElevator HitchTwo co-workers are stuck together in a "Perfectly Normal" 70s office elevator and must find a way to get off it 96% on itch.io (2,243 ratings)about 1 hPay what you wantPC, Mac
  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 OfficeThe broken elevator is the way on: it is fixed on Friday and opens with a code typed into its keypad 94% on itch.io (408 ratings)about 15 minPay what you wantBrowser, PC
  5. KLETKA key art: a gas-masked figure holding a wrench and a gas-masked creature in a cone-like hood, either side of a giant open red mouth with teeth Co-opKLETKAThe crew rides a living, hungry elevator called Kletka down through the building and must keep it fed. 90% on Steam (8,033 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  6. Elevated Dread key art: the title in green neon letters below an open red-lit elevator holding pale skull-faced figures, in a dark teal corridor PsychologicalElevated DreadOne elevator carries you between floors, and it is the game's key art and title. 92% on itch.io (462 ratings)about 20 minPay what you wantPC
  7. Backrooms Descent key art: an eye peering through a tear in yellow-green chevron wallpaper, a face pressing against it from behind ShortBackrooms Descent: Horror GameA store screenshot starts you in a dark elevator whose panel reads LEVEL 0, its doors open on the yellow rooms 88% on Google Play (34,411 ratings)about 40 minFree with adsiPhone, Android
  8. Wrong Floor key art: a tall, scarred, shirtless man stands in a dark room before a chair, a lamp glowing at his feet, under the red title EscapeWrong FloorIt opens when the elevator carrying your character falls all the way down into the building's basement. 90% on itch.io (602 ratings)about 15 minPay what you wantPC, Mac, Linux
  9. Dead Signal key art: a glowing cyan satellite dish over a hooded silhouette on black, with the title in digital-display lettering Night shiftDead SignalEvery errand means an elevator ride between your floor and the roof 89% on Steam (1,108 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC
  10. GRAIN ROT key art: the game's logo above three wooden puppet characters with goggles and glowing chest cores in a dark ruin Co-opGRAIN ROTRide a cursed elevator into shifting underground ruins with your crew. 88% on Steam (2,492 reviews)PaidPC
  11. Golden Light key art: an old monitor showing a red mouth full of teeth, with fleshy spiked arms reaching for it and a cluster of eyeballs beside it in a dark room Body horrorGolden LightOn every floor you hunt for keys to unlock the elevator down to the next one. 85% on Steam (4,010 reviews)PaidPC
  12. Cursed Apartment key art: a sack-headed figure with a cleaver in a dark tiled corridor with a big 8 on the wall, above the title Co-opCursed ApartmentYou use the elevator to reach floor 1; miss an anomaly and it glitches and takes you back to the highest floor. 90% on itch.io (150 ratings)about 45 minPay what you wantPC, Mac
  13. Closing Doors cover styled as a game case: the yellow title over pixelated grey-green elevator doors and a button panel PsychologicalClosing DoorsThe maker calls it a spooky elevator simulator: the elevator stops even though it is not your floor, and you close the doors each time. 86% on itch.io (329 ratings)about 4 minPay what you wantBrowser, PC, Mac, Linux
  14. PANICORE key art: a close-up of a terrified woman's eye with blood running down her face Co-opPANICORERepairing an elevator is one of the noisy jobs, and a screenshot shows an explorer at an elevator panel with a wrench. 79% on Steam (13,067 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC
  15. Anomaly Company key art: two crew members in orange hazmat suits, one in a gas mask, in a blue-lit arched field tent with supply cases PsychologicalAnomaly CompanyEach run begins with the crew riding an elevator down from the lobby tent into the map. 76% on Steam (226 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC
  16. Security 51 key art: a moustached guard in a peaked cap at his desk beside an old computer showing a green alien, with tentacles curling in around him Night shiftSecurity 51You decide who may enter the elevator down to the unknown levels and who must not come back up 72% on Steam (543 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac

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  6. Mac horror games391
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  12. VR horror games69
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