Best Modern Horror

The year is 2006, and the halls of Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School echo with the endless bickering and intense debate between two inseparable best friends. Exuding unshakeable confidence, Satoru Gojou and Suguru Getou believe there is no challenge too great for young and powerful Special Grade...

Idly indulging in baseless paranormal activities with the Occult Club, high schooler Yuuji Itadori spends his days at either the clubroom or the hospital, where he visits his bedridden grandfather. However, this leisurely lifestyle soon takes a turn for the strange when he unknowingly encounters a c...

Anchorhead is a parser-based interactive fiction game written by Michael Gentry and published in 1998. The narrative draws heavily from the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft, tasking the player with investigating a decrepit New England coastal town and their newlywed husband's sinister family legacy....

Ever since the death of his father, the burden of supporting the family has fallen upon Tanjirou Kamado's shoulders. Though living impoverished on a remote mountain, the Kamado family are able to enjoy a relatively peaceful and happy life. One day, Tanjirou decides to go down to the local village to...

Denji is robbed of a normal teenage life, left with nothing but his deadbeat father's overwhelming debt. His only companion is his pet, the chainsaw devil Pochita, with whom he slays devils for money that inevitably ends up in the yakuza's pockets. All Denji can do is dream of a good, simple life: o...

Kenjaku, the one known as Noritoshi Kamo and most recently as Suguru Getou, has initiated the next step in his destructive, thousand-year plan of ordinary humans' evolution and eventual eradication. The jujutsu world higher-ups reinstate 15-year-old Yuuji Itadori's execution, as Satoru Gojou is inca...

While the mission to exorcise Jin "Jiji" Enjouji's family home is underway, things are not going as expected. Momo Ayase narrowly evades an attempted abduction while Ken "Okarun" Takakura and Jiji are ambushed by the Kitou family—the unsettling landlords of the cursed estate. The trio's efforts thre...

Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student, manages to survive a vampire attack with the help of Meme Oshino, a strange man residing in an abandoned building. Though being saved from vampirism and now a human again, several side effects such as superhuman healing abilities and enhanced vision...

Violent misfortunes frequently occur around 16-year-old Yuuta Okkotsu, a timid victim of high school bullying. Yuuta is saddled with a monstrous curse, a power that dishes out brutal revenge against his bullies. Rika Orimoto, Yuuta's curse, is a shadow from his tragic childhood and a potentially let...

"Echoes of the Eye" is a 2021 downloadable expansion for "Outer Wilds," an adventure game developed by Mobius Digital. The add-on introduces a new, horror-tinged narrative centered around a hidden, decaying space station called The Stranger. Players must explore this environment while avoiding hosti...

Slouching Towards Bedlam is a text-based interactive fiction game created by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto in 2003. The narrative takes place in an alternate-history Victorian London where the player assumes the role of a doctor investigating an unusual illness at a psychiatric asylum. It is r...

Slender Man is a fictional supernatural character created by Eric Knudsen (under the username Victor Surge) for a 2009 photoshop contest on the Something Awful forums. The character is depicted as an unnaturally tall, thin figure wearing a black suit, with a blank, featureless face and sometimes sho...

"Eat Me" is a horror-oriented text adventure game written by Chandler Groover using the Inform programming language. The narrative confines the player character in a dungeon-like setting where they are compelled to consume a variety of increasingly bizarre and monstrous entities. The game relies on...

"Vespers" is an interactive fiction game written by Jason Devlin in 2005 using the Inform development system. Set in a fifteenth-century Italian monastery, the narrative follows Father Giovanni as he manages the abbey while the surrounding countryside is ravaged by a deadly plague. As the crisis dee...

A sinister threat is invading Tokyo: flesh-eating "ghouls" who appear identical to humans and blend into their population. Reserved college student Ken Kaneki buries his nose in books and avoids the news of the growing crisis. However, the appearance of an attractive woman named Rize Kamishiro shatt...

King of Shreds and Patches is a 2009 parser-based interactive fiction game written by Julian Mortimer Smith in Inform. Set in Elizabethan London, it combines detailed historical research with Lovecraftian cosmic horror, as the player investigates supernatural threats within the streets, taverns, and...

"Candle Cove" is a horror story, or creepypasta, written by author Kris Straub and originally published on the internet in 2009. The narrative is structured as a series of forum posts where users reminisce about a fictional, unsettling children's television show from the 1970s. The story's unique fo...

Frank Darabont is a prominent American screenwriter and director recognized for his adaptations of Stephen King’s works. He notably brought "The Shawshank Redemption" and “The Green Mile” to the screen, achieving significant critical and commercial success. Darabont also developed and oversaw produc...

Stories Untold is a narrative-driven horror anthology game developed by No Code and published in 2017. The experience is divided into four interconnected episodes that utilize retro text-adventure interfaces and 1980s computer aesthetics to create an atmosphere of psychological tension. Players inte...

Cragne Manor is a collaborative work of interactive fiction released in 2018, organized by Jenni Polodna and Ryan Veeder as a tribute to Michael Gentry's horror classic "Anchorhead." Over 80 IF authors each contributed a single room to a large-scale haunted manor, making it one of the most extensive...

Choice of the Vampire is an interactive text-based role-playing game developed and published by Choice of Games. Written by Jason Stevan Hill, the narrative spans several decades of American history, beginning in the antebellum South and continuing through the American Civil War. Players assume the...

Strangeland is a surreal point-and-click adventure game developed by Wormwood Studios and released in 2021. It follows an unnamed man who awakens in a nightmarish carnival and must solve inventory-based puzzles while confronting its inhabitants and recurring symbolic imagery. The game addresses grie...

Depths of Sanity is a 2022 underwater horror metroidvania developed by Captain Bits, exploring a missing submarine crew's eerie fate in the deep ocean.

Their Angelical Understanding is an experimental hypertext game created by Porpentine Charity Heartscape using the Twine engine. The interactive fiction piece explores complex themes of spiritual longing, physical transformation, and body horror. It is distinguished by its densely layered, poetic pr...

Drew Goddard is an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer. He began his career writing for television series like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Lost," eventually creating the Marvel series "Daredevil" for Netflix. In film, Goddard wrote the found-footage monster movie "C...

Obsession is a 2025 horror film directed by Curry Barker. The narrative centers on Bear who acquires a supernatural item intended to influence his friend Nikki’s affections. The story unfolds with increasingly disturbing outcomes stemming from this intervention, featuring Cooper Tomlinson and other...

Secret World Legends is a free-to-play, story-driven MMORPG developed and published by Funcom, originally released in 2017 as a reboot of the 2012 game The Secret World. The game is heavily inspired by urban legends, mythology, and conspiracy theories, tasking players with joining one of three secre...

Just where do Curses, the fiendish spirits invisible to normal humans, come from? What is Sukuna Ryoumen, whose very existence grips the Jujutsu world in fear? And who exactly is Yuuji Itadori, the boy who recently became the center of attention in Jujutsu society? No need to fear, for Satoru Gojou,...

The Last Human is a Chinese post-apocalyptic manhua also known by the Chinese title Moshi Fanren. It follows Zuo Tianchen, a survivor who remains in a city populated by mutated zombies and becomes the focus of a struggle for human survival. The story is distinguished by a regression or time-reset pr...