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Psychological horror games on Xbox

83 psychological horror games on Xbox, 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.

83 games

All psychological horror games on xbox

A.I.L.A screenshot: a tall figure with a skull face and a crown of branches stands among dark trees at night

A.I.L.A

Test an AI that builds horror games out of your fears.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Ad Infinitum key art: a screaming skeleton in a German steel helmet against a pale grey background

Ad Infinitum

Caught between your family home and the trenches of the Great War.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Alan Wake 2 key art: Alan Wake's face looms over a red-lit forest where a small figure stands with a flashlight

Alan Wake 2

An FBI agent and a trapped writer face a horror story that is coming true.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Alan Wake Remastered key art: Alan Wake's silhouette with a flashlight and a gun stands inside the letters of the title against a misty forest

Alan Wake Remastered

A writer, a missing wife and a darkness that comes alive at night.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Alone in the Dark key art: Emily Hartwood and Edward Carnby with weapons in front of a masked, hatted figure

Alone in the Dark

Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

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

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Descend into the infernal machine beneath an industrialist's factory.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: Rebirth key art: Tasi holds up a lit match, a pale clawed creature lurking in the dark beside her

Amnesia: Rebirth

Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent art: a pale green stone hall in Brennenburg Castle with a carved fountain at its centre

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Among the Sleep key art: a toddler in starry pyjamas hugs a teddy bear on a crescent moon that drips into a shadow with glowing eyes

Among the Sleep

Crawl through a nightmare house as a toddler searching for your mother.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Bad Dream: Coma art: crows perch on cracked yellow paper that opens onto ink-drawn glimpses of a hospital bed, a house and a bloodstained floor

Bad Dream: Coma

A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox

Blair Witch key art: the silhouette of a man and his dog walking into a forest washed in red, a stick-figure shape formed by the branches above, a wrecked truck and a tent nearby

Blair Witch

Lose yourself in the Black Hills Forest, with only your dog to trust.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Burnhouse Lane key art: a tall wooden house in red mist with a small figure facing a huge skeletal cat-like creature

Burnhouse Lane

A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Call of Cthulhu screenshot: robed cultists and candles around a tall crystal in a dark cave, with a strange figure in the foreground

Call of Cthulhu

A 1924 investigation on a whaling island, where the truth costs you your mind.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CAPTURED key art: a dark figure with small white eyes and a grin peers around a doorway, with tentacles curling in the grainy camcorder light

CAPTURED

Your own home has become an endless hallway. Film what has changed to get out.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Conarium key art: a pale man's face with glowing white eyes and a light shining from his forehead

Conarium

Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DARQ screenshot: Lloyd, a pale boy in a striped shirt, crosses a tilted room of pipes and machines as gravity turns

DARQ: Complete Edition

Walk on the walls of a nightmare you cannot wake from, and keep out of sight.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DISTRAINT 2 screenshot: Price stands in a rotting room by a glowing old TV, dark growths hanging from the ceiling and a skull-faced figure in a chair beside him

DISTRAINT 2

A side-scrolling nightmare about a man's guilt and what he sold to get ahead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition key art: Price in a shirt and tie among his bosses, a couple with teacups and an old woman with a rabbit, under a looming red elephant

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

Seize an old woman's home, then pay the price for it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus art: Sayori waving, Yuri with a book, Natsuki with folded arms and Monika with a sheet of paper on a pink background

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Join a cute school poetry club in a dating sim that is not what it seems.

PC / Mac / iPhone / PlayStation / Switch / Xbox

DREDGE key art: a small fishing boat with lit windows beside a red and white lighthouse under a dark sky, with tentacles and strange fish in the green water below

DREDGE

A quiet fishing adventure with a cosmic horror in the deep.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Fran Bow key art: Fran holding her black cat Mr. Midnight in front of a red-eyed monster, with skeletal and masked characters on the left

Fran Bow

A girl escapes an asylum while her pills show her a world of blood and monsters.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Gray Dawn: an old 1920s car abandoned among ferns and wildflowers in a misty pine forest

Gray Dawn

A priest blamed for a lost altar boy walks through visions of blood and faith.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Hellblade II: Senua's Saga key art: Senua's grim, dirt-streaked face surrounded by many hands reaching from the darkness to touch her head

Hellblade II: Senua's Saga

Senua's journey through the myths and horrors of Viking Iceland.

PC / Xbox / PlayStation

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice key art: Senua in silhouette stands among wildflowers before a great tree lit by golden sunlight and falling leaves

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Walk into Viking Hell with the voices in your head.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream key art: glowing blue circuit-board lines on a black background

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Five prisoners of an insane computer, each sent through a nightmare of their own past.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Camera view of an indoor pool with a green spiral waterslide, timestamped 01:18 and labelled Waterslide

I'm on Observation Duty 7

Six new places on camera, one night shift each, and paranoia to fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Camera view labelled Catwalk: two figures stand at the end of a dim fashion runway between rows of red seats

I'm on Observation Duty 8

A catwalk, a stable, the deep sea: six more nights on the cameras.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

In Sound Mind key art: a man in a coat with a gaping mouth of teeth for a face holds a camera, a cat on his shoulder and a pale girl beside him, against a burst of colour

In Sound Mind

Step into your patients' worst memories, one tape at a time.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Infliction key art: a man's silhouette in a brightly lit doorway at the end of a dark hall, with a bloodied hand holding a knife in the foreground

Infliction

A family home, a tragedy, and the thing that still walks its halls.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Inscryption key art: a wooden cabin door lit from above by hanging lanterns in a dark log cabin

Inscryption

A card game for your life in a dark cabin, and secrets written on the cards.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

INSIDE key art: the boy hides behind a pillar in a dark factory while a machine sweeps the room with a searchlight

INSIDE

A boy alone, hunted through a grey world toward the centre of a dark project.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

Just Ignore Them key art: three hooded monsters with pale masks and bleeding eyes crowd around a terrified man holding his head

Just Ignore Them

A boy, the monsters in his house, and choices that decide who lives.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

KARMA: The Dark World key art: a pale young man with wet hair and a heavy collar, lit from above against black

KARMA: The Dark World

Dive into the minds of the accused in a dystopian 1984.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Kholat: a dead forest of bare trees at night under a red moon

Kholat

Follow the Dyatlov Pass hikers into the snow with only a map and a compass.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Kiosk art: the dim tiled kitchen of the kiosk, with a steel table, an open notebook, shelves of food and the serving window

Kiosk

Cook for the night customers and find out what happened to the last guy.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Kona: the Magasin General store at night in the snow, a pickup and a snowmobile parked by the fuel pumps

Kona

A detective, a blizzard and a village with no one left in it.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Layers of Fear screenshot: a first-person hand holds up a glowing lantern before a mansion staircase buried under a heap of framed paintings, with a dark figure in the glow

Layers of Fear

A painter's mansion that changes every time you turn around.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox

Layers of Fear 2 key art: an ocean liner carried on a heap of jointed wooden mannequins and rats before dark red stage curtains

Layers of Fear 2

An ocean liner, a film shoot and a director who wants more than a performance.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

LIMBO: the silhouetted boy stands in a bright clearing as the long legs of a giant spider reach down beside him

LIMBO

A boy looks for his sister in a grey forest where everything wants him dead.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Little Misfortune key art: a little girl in a red beret and green coat looks back over a golden autumn hillside, with a fox holding a crackling staff and a Missing poster on a tree

Little Misfortune

A sweet little girl, a friendly voice and a very bad day in the woods.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Six in a yellow raincoat holds up a lighter on a tabletop crowded with stacked cups and pots, while a large pale hand grips the table edge in the foreground

Little Nightmares

A tiny child sneaks out of a vessel full of hungry giants.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Little Nightmares II key art: Mono with a paper bag on his head and Six in her yellow raincoat stand among leaning houses before the tall Signal Tower under a glowing sky

Little Nightmares II

A boy in a paper bag crosses a world twisted by a distant tower's signal.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Little Nightmares III key art: Low in a bird mask with a bow and Alone in goggles stand on a heap of junk among giant hands in a dusty haze

Little Nightmares III

Two children try to escape the Nowhere, hiding from giant monsters together.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

LOVE ETERNAL key art: a giant red figure with raised arms looms over dark suburban houses and pine trees at night

LOVE ETERNAL

A stolen child, a lonely god, and a castle built of bitter memories.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

A dim hallway in a family home lined with framed pictures, leading to a lit living room

Luto

You cannot leave your home, and every way out leads deeper in.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

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

Martha Is Dead key art: the upside-down face of a young woman with a pearl necklace, as if seen through dark water

Martha Is Dead

A twin's death, a Tuscan lake and a war closing in.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Moons of Madness key art: an astronaut in a blue and white suit falls through dark mist toward huge red-ridged tentacles

Moons of Madness

Cosmic horror on a failing research base on Mars.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

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