Horror walking simulators

Horror games you play by walking through a place and taking in its story: a house that changes, a station that repeats, a memory you piece together. There is little or nothing to fight; the dread comes from what you see, hear and read along the way.

109 games

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All horror walking simulators

Inunaki Tunnel key art: a dark overgrown brick tunnel entrance blocked by graffiti-covered panels, with VHS distortion streaks

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル

Walk to Japan's most notorious sealed tunnel on a VHS camcorder.

Night Delivery key art: a grey metal door ajar at the top of steps beside a cardboard box, in purple light, with the red title 例外配達 Night Delivery

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達

One apartment block, a stack of boxes, and someone behind you.

Okaeri key art: a smiling anime schoolgirl in a sailor uniform holding a bag, beside the title おかえり Okaeri, in a dim teal room of stacked boxes

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] Okaeri | おかえり

Coming home at 6 pm, and your mother is not there to greet you.

Shinkansen 0 key art: the title SHINKANSEN 0 in tall pale letters on a red background that looks like a magnified screen

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] Shinkansen 0 | 新幹線 0号

Ride the bullet train to car 0, and turn back when something is wrong.

Stigmatized Property key art: a two-storey apartment block at night with outside stairs, a balcony walkway on red posts, closed doors under fluorescent lights and a parked car

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] Stigmatized Property | 事故物件

A friend's cheap apartment in Japan, nobody home, and the reason the rent is so low.

The Closing Shift key art: Chilla's Coffee at night with its glowing sign and patio umbrella, and a barista in a green apron looking back over her shoulder

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件

Make the coffee, close the shop, and wonder who is watching.

The Convenience Store key art: a lit convenience store alone in a dark parking lot at night, a white light strip along its roof and red signs over yellow windows

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件

The night shift at a convenience store pays well. Now you know why.

PC / Switch

The Ghost Train key art: passengers in a dim train carriage with magenta seats, a woman in a yellow top in the middle and a man reading on the right

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車

A salaryman's ride home on a last train that goes somewhere wrong.

Walking simulators

[HERROR] Gas Station Case

Work the night shift at a 1999 gas station while people vanish in the woods.

Psychological

Akai Onna

You passed a woman in red on the way home. Now someone is always watching.

Walking simulators

Alone. Again.

A man stands in the street outside. It's getting closer.

Browser / PC

Psychological

ANATOMY

Every house is haunted. Learn the anatomy of this one.

PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

Anthology Of The Killer

A zine writer, a city of serial killers and a world that runs on dream logic.

PC / Linux / Mac / PlayStation / Switch

Psychological

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face

The bedtime figure who rewards good children has come to Ron's apartment.

Walking simulators

Befriended Curse

A summer job in a house in the woods, a missing employer and an old woman among the trees.

Multiple endings

Below, Rusted Gods

Guide a squad into an abyss from a control room, and listen to what they find.

Psychological

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Become an ordinary worker in an ordinary house.

Browser / PC

Psychological

Bleeding Roots

Water the garden through the seasons. Read the book. Don't go in the shed.

Psychological

Broken Through

Your best friend was declared dead. His belongings say otherwise.

Escape

Bunker16

Trapped in an old bunker. Find the way out.

Walking simulators

Christmas Nightmare

New Year's Eve, a quiet couch, and traces in the snow.

Psychological

CINERIS SOMNIA

Wake alone on a bright shore, and walk into the cruel and lonely dreams of other girls.

Psychological

COLD CITY

A city at war, a girl in danger, and half an hour to save her.

PC / Mac

Dagon key art: an engraved medallion of an island under the moon, ringed by tentacles, sea creatures and a great eye, on a starry black field

Psychological

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

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

PC / VR / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Walking simulators

Descent

An abandoned research ship, a missing crew, and what they found.

Browser

Walking simulators

Don't Play This

Every video your friend sends ends with someone dying. Now you are in them.

Psychological

Dread Fields

A quiet farm in the middle of nowhere, and what its last owner buried.

PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

Dreamcore

Get lost in endless dream pools, a looping suburb, a hotel out of time and a dead mall.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Psychological

Eclipsium

Follow a fading light through a world of flesh, and give up your body to reach her.

Psychological

Elevated Dread

One last building of flyers, one elevator, and a long night.

Anime

Enupishi

A forbidden love inside a game. One night they run. How far can they go?

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

False Dream

Photograph what is wrong with the room, or stay in the dream.

PC / Switch

Psychological

Father's Day

A grieving father's plan to bring his family back, told by three people.

Psychological

Fears to Fathom - Carson House

House-sit a stranger's home for the weekend, feed the dog and keep an eye on the cameras.

Psychological

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone

Home alone while his parents are away, Miles slowly realises he is not.

Psychological

Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout

A new fire lookout, a tower in the woods, and the feeling that something is off.

PC / PlayStation

Psychological

Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike

A long way home at night, a lonely gas station and a motel stay.

Buck's Gas n Go, a wooden gas station and repair shop at night among pines, its lit sign reading Out of Gas beside an old wrecked car

Psychological

Fears to Fathom - Scratch Creek

A couple's move goes wrong in a decrepit small town. Two players, online only, survive it…

Psychological

Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway

A winter cabin weekend with college friends, told by the one who made it out.

Psychological

Find Yourself

Walk the empty cars of a night subway, and face the fears of a childhood.

Psychological

Fingerbones

An abandoned building, scattered notes, and a story you will wish you had not read.

PC / Mac

Psychological

Flesh, Blood, & Concrete

A broken-down car, a snowbound apartment block and a girl who calls it home.

Browser / PC

Psychological

For Sale

Photograph the house for the listing. Check every picture.

PC / Linux

Psychological

From The Darkness

Fetch the family album from grandfather's old flat, and meet what lives in its dark.

Walking simulators

Greed Stays Home

Another day, another empty house in a village where people disappeared.

Walking simulators

Haunted Room : 205

Rent the cheap flat, live with the ghosts, and close your eyes in time.

Psychological

Hotel Remorse

Wake in a dark hotel and find out why you are there.

PC / Browser / VR / iPhone / Android

Psychological

How Fish Is Made

You are a sardine in a machine. Up or down?

All horror walking simulators

[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル

[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達

[Chilla's Art] Okaeri | おかえり

[Chilla's Art] Shinkansen 0 | 新幹線 0号

[Chilla's Art] Stigmatized Property | 事故物件

[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件

[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件

[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車

[HERROR] Gas Station Case

Akai Onna

Alone. Again.

ANATOMY

Anthology Of The Killer

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face

Befriended Curse

Below, Rusted Gods

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Bleeding Roots

Broken Through

Bunker16

Christmas Nightmare

CINERIS SOMNIA

COLD CITY

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

Descent

Don't Play This

Dread Fields

Dreamcore

Eclipsium

Elevated Dread

Enupishi

False Dream

Father's Day

Fears to Fathom - Carson House

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone

Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout

Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike

Fears to Fathom - Scratch Creek

Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway

Find Yourself

Fingerbones

Flesh, Blood, & Concrete

For Sale

From The Darkness

Greed Stays Home

Haunted Room : 205

Hotel Remorse

How Fish Is Made

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