Best Horror Game

P.T., developed by Konami, is a short, first-person psychological horror experience released in 2014. It gained significant attention as an interactive demo created to showcase ideas for the cancelled Silent Hills game directed by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro. The game’s unsettling atmosphere...

Developed by David Szymanski and published by New Blood Interactive in 2018, Dusk is a retro-style first-person shooter that incorporates distinct horror elements. The game is heavily inspired by classic 1990s shooters like Quake and Blood, featuring fast-paced combat, varied level designs, and an a...

Released in 2017 by Team Salvato, Doki Doki Literature Club is a freeware visual novel that initially presents itself as a standard anime-style dating simulation. As the narrative progresses, the game undergoes a abrupt tonal shift into a psychological horror experience, breaking the fourth wall and...

The Forgotten City is a 2021 first-person mystery adventure developed by Modern Storyteller. Set in an underground city modeled on the ancient Roman world, it places the player in a time loop triggered whenever any resident violates a supernatural law that punishes the entire community. The game gre...

GTFO is a cooperative first-person shooter and survival horror game developed by the Swedish studio 10 Chambers and released in 2021. Teams of up to four players explore an underground complex, completing objectives while managing limited ammunition, tools, and health. Stealth, coordinated equipment...

Cry of Fear is a standalone psychological survival horror game developed by Team Psykskallar and released in 2012. Originally created as a modification for the game Half-Life, it was later published as a free-to-play title on Steam. Players navigate a dark, fictional Scandinavian town, engaging in c...

Observer: System Redux is an expanded edition of Bloober Team's first-person cyberpunk horror game Observer, released in 2020. Players control Daniel Lazarski, a neural detective voiced by Rutger Hauer, while investigating a decaying apartment building in a dystopian Krakow. The edition adds three s...

Still Wakes the Deep is a first-person survival horror game developed by The Chinese Room and released in 2024. Set aboard the fictional Beira D oil platform in the North Sea during 1975, it follows Scottish electrician Cameron McLeary as a disaster and an unknown organism overwhelm the rig. The gam...

Released in 1992 by Infogrames, Alone in the Dark is a survival horror video game developed by Frédérick Raynal. Set in a haunted Louisiana mansion, it tasks players with escaping monstrous creatures while solving puzzles rooted in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Its use of 3D character models superimp...

The Witch's House MV is a 2018 remake of Fummy's 2012 Japanese horror role-playing game. Developed by Fummy and published by DANGEN Entertainment, it uses RPG Maker MV and presents a young girl named Viola inside a mysterious house filled with puzzles, traps, and sudden dangers. The remake retains t...

Song of Horror is a Spanish episodic survival-horror game developed by Protocol Games. Its story follows an investigation into a mysterious threat associated with a disturbing song, while players explore environments, solve puzzles, and control a roster of as many as 16 playable characters. The game...

Corpse Party is a Japanese horror-adventure game series created by Makoto Kedouin and developed through Team GrisGris. The original game began as a 1996 RPG Maker title, and later versions expanded the story for platforms including the PSP. The central premise places students inside the haunted Heav...

The Witch’s House is a Japanese freeware puzzle-horror role-playing game created by Fummy and released in 2012. It follows Viola, a young girl who enters a strange house and must navigate rooms containing puzzles, sudden hazards, and lethal traps. Built in the style of a top-down RPG Maker adventure...

Clock Tower is a 1995 Japanese survival-horror adventure game developed by Human Entertainment for the Super Famicom. It uses a point-and-click style interface in which the player guides Jennifer Simpson through a dangerous house while avoiding the persistent pursuer known as Scissorman. Progress de...

The Mortuary Assistant is a horror game developed by DarkStone Digital and released in 2022. It casts the player as an apprentice mortician who performs embalming work while investigating supernatural disturbances and trying to identify demonic possession among the bodies; its narrative is designed...

Forbidden Siren is a survival horror game released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan in 2003. It was developed by SCE Japan Studio and directed by Keiichiro Toyama, and its story centers on a group of people in the rural village of Hanuda. The game's defining mechanic is sightjacking, which lets the pl...

The Blackout Club is a first-person cooperative horror game developed by Question LLC and released in 2019. It follows a group of teenagers investigating strange disappearances and other unsettling events in their suburban community while trying to avoid hostile adults and a larger supernatural thre...

Tormented Souls is a survival-horror game released in 2021 by Dual Effect and Abstract Digital Works. It follows Caroline Walker as she investigates the disappearance of twin girls at the isolated Winterlake mansion, using exploration, puzzle solving, and limited resources to survive. The game uses...

Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel is a first-person survival-horror game developed by Brazilian studio Pulsatrix Studios and released in 2022. The player follows amateur journalist Roberto Leite Lopes as he investigates the St. Dinfna Hotel in Santa Catarina, a site associated with disappearances and paranor...

Tormented Souls 2 is a survival horror video game developed by Dual Effect and published by PQube. It continues the story of Caroline Walker after the events at Wildberger Hospital and places her in a new investigation involving her sister Anna, a convent, and the setting known as Villa Hess. The ga...

Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror anthology created by the independent developer Rayll. Each episode presents a separate first-person story built around an ordinary contemporary situation that develops into a threat, rather than continuing one uninterrupted plot. The series is dist...

No More Room in Hell is a cooperative first-person survival horror game that began as a 2011 total-conversion modification for Valve's Source engine and Half-Life 2. Players work together across zombie-infested environments, completing objectives while managing limited weapons, ammunition, health, a...

Imscared: A Pixelated Nightmare is an independent psychological horror game created by Ivan Zanotti and first released in 2012. Its meta-horror design addresses the player through events outside ordinary gameplay, including files created in the game's folder, rather than limiting the fiction to the...

Clock Tower: Rewind is a 2024 revival of the 1995 Super Famicom horror adventure Clock Tower, developed by WayForward. It preserves the original game in an original mode and adds an enhanced mode with extra content and quality-of-life improvements. The release supplies the first official English loc...

Layers of Fear (2023) is a psychological-horror collection by Bloober Team built in Unreal Engine 5. It revisits Layers of Fear, its Inheritance expansion, and Layers of Fear 2, while adding the new chapter The Final Note and the Lighthouse story involving the Writer. The project presents the separa...

The Convenience Store, also titled 夜勤事件, is a first-person psychological horror game by the Japanese independent studio Chilla's Art. Released for PC in 2020, it casts the player as a college student working a convenience-store night shift, where stocking shelves, serving customers, and watching...

Ao Oni is a Japanese freeware horror and puzzle game developed under the name noprops and first released in 2008. It uses RPG Maker and follows a group of young people who enter an abandoned mansion and are pursued by a large blue monster. Progress depends on exploring rooms, solving simple puzzles,...

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is a South Korean survival-horror game developed and published by Sonnori for Windows in 2001. Set in a school during White Day, it follows students who remain inside after dark and must explore the building, solve puzzles, and evade threats. The game is notable a...

GYLT is an adventure horror game developed by the Spanish studio Tequila Works. It was first released in 2019 as an exclusive title for Google Stadia and later became available on additional platforms in 2023. The game uses a third-person perspective and follows a young protagonist in a story involv...