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Wander a sunken realm of shades and old regrets.
PC / Mac
Horror games that frighten with the impossible rather than the monstrous: rooms that change behind you, dream logic, bodies and places that make no sense. Many are short, and many are free.
145 games
Dream horror games: the top 30, ranked · Office horror games: the top 30, ranked · Liminal space horror games: the top 30, ranked · Painting horror games: the top 30, ranked · Horror games with cats: the top 30, ranked · Lake horror games: the top 28, ranked · Horror games about depression: the top 30, ranked · Time loop horror games: the top 30, ranked · Puppet horror games: the top 26, ranked · Kitchen horror games: the top 24, ranked · Underworld horror games: the top 17, ranked · Horror games set in a house: the top 30, ranked · Television horror games: the top 26, ranked · Swimming pool horror games: the top 13, ranked · Tower horror games: the top 13, ranked · Museum horror games: the top 16, ranked · Mirror horror games: the top 15, ranked · Horror games about angels: the top 12, ranked
Wander a sunken realm of shades and old regrets.
PC / Mac
Wake in a strange house and live through seven days to learn why.
PC
Wake in a cursed library that reads you back.
PC
A locked shed, a bright autumn forest, a mother's voice and wolves howling closer.
PC
Escape a surreal underground Victorian town that rebuilds itself around you.
PC / VR
Crawl through a nightmare house as a toddler searching for your mother.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Every house is haunted. Learn the anatomy of this one.
PC / Mac / Linux
A zine writer, a city of serial killers and a world that runs on dream logic.
PC / Linux / Mac / PlayStation / Switch
A surreal nightmare in sepia, made from its maker's own fears.
Browser
A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.
PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox
A city drowned in ink, and a fever that changes everyone it touches.
PC / Mac / Switch
Five short bad dreams, drawn in ink, where every choice can go horribly wrong.
PC
A barcode reader arrives, and your apartment is not what it seemed.
Browser
An art student wakes inside her own nightmare and has to find a way out.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Step into your own painting, where nobody speaks your language and something is wrong.
PC
Break every mirror in a world between heaven and hell, one death at a time.
PC
Your best friend was declared dead. His belongings say otherwise.
PC
A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Your own home has become an endless hallway. Film what has changed to get out.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Trapped in a home that loops, with a camera and a flashlight.
PC
Selina's nightmares follow her home, in the last part of the trilogy.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
A bodycam shooter in a haunted hospital, against demons and the evil eggs they are hatching.
PC
Wake alone on a bright shore, and walk into the cruel and lonely dreams of other girls.
PC
Find the pieces of your dad in a town where death is a tool.
PC / Mac
A city at war, a girl in danger, and half an hour to save her.
PC / Mac
A drug pusher, a rotten Florida flophouse, and a bad trip that will not end.
PC
Nine strange rooms, one dead woman and the mystery of Rusty Lake.
PC / Mac / iPhone / Android
Wake with no memory in a strange room, and escape the game an old foe has set.
PC / Mac / iPhone / Android
Walk on the walls of a nightmare you cannot wake from, and keep out of sight.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Inherit a serial killer's mansion, and step into his paintings.
PC / PlayStation / Switch
A cabaret dancer's life and nightmares, in surreal pixel art.
PC / Switch
You cannot run from your dreams, only go deeper.
PC
Your brother's dream journals lead somewhere you should not go.
PC
Go down through a complex of concrete and dust, one floor deeper each time.
PC
A 1980s Taiwanese family home that turns into a nightmare.
PC / Mac
A business dinner with an owl-headed host, and an evening that never ends.
PC
A man's guilt turns rooms to rot as he walks a dreamlike road back from despair.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Seize an old woman's home, then pay the price for it.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Get lost in endless dream pools, a looping suburb, a hotel out of time and a dead mall.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Follow a fading light through a world of flesh, and give up your body to reach her.
PC
Two co-workers, one stuck elevator, and floors that should not exist.
PC / Mac
A boy who has lost his eyes, mouth and hands, three strange worlds, and boxing matches with…
PC
A forbidden love inside a game. One night they run. How far can they go?
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
A cheerful platformer about saving a princess, until you evert.
PC / Mac / Linux
Someone is in bed with you. Work out who before the face changes again.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Photograph what is wrong with the room, or stay in the dream.
PC / Switch
You keep having the same strange dream. Maybe you should talk about it.
PC
Walk the empty cars of a night subway, and face the fears of a childhood.
PC