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Horror

Featuring tense atmospheres, unsettling themes, and often supernatural elements designed to frighten or disturb players. Games in this category may include jump scares, psychological terror, or survival elements set in eerie environments.

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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$15 or less tagged Horror and Text based (40 results)

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Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
GIF
BBirthday
$9.99
In bundle
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Yun Seven
Visual Novel
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
Play in browser
Sorry We're Open
$7.99
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Role Playing
PROXIMATE
$5.99
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
cain
Adventure
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
xrafstar
Adventure
GIF
_transfer
$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Abyssal Uncreations
Adventure
The Devil's Collection - Beware the Festival of Fools
$5
Gerrark
Adventure
Home Safety Hotline: Seasonal Worker
$7.99
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
Can You Come In?
$2
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
spacetwinks
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Indiepocalypse #52
$15
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Indiepocalypse #1
$15
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
The Morning Star (2023)
$2.20
-45%
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
You're Going To Be Fine (Branches)
$1
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Megan
Interactive Fiction
Peculiar Fables: The Werebed
$1
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Whitewatt
Interactive Fiction
Moral Conflict
$2
Multiple endings, moral choices, and a quest for vengance.
Brainfont
Interactive Fiction
The Writer: A Change Of Identity
$2.99
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
GameAboutGames
Adventure
Play in browser
The Locks
$1.99
Lock in you
Author
Visual Novel
Desert of Vice
$2.99
A narrative based horror text adventure game with choice dependent multiple endings.
karolisd
Adventure
The Lurking Shadow
$1.99
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
LegosDeveloper
Interactive Fiction
Erinia (2020)
$2
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
Evelyn's Farm
$2.99
Idle Paranormal Adventure
jsenter
Adventure
Microcrawl
$2.99
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
ZPJ Interactive
Adventure
oooh.ga
£1.99
Gather round... it's time to die.
BlueDeadpool
Adventure
Dianthus - The Mark of Death V1.1
$2.99
DianthusDev
Survival
The Scarlet Gallery
$2
Ghoul Shadows - Tales of the Twisted.
Interactive Fiction
This is Your House
$1.04
A short horror game, in twine.
jestershark
Adventure
Play in browser
Let Her Leave (Roots)
$1
A dark fantasy
Megan
Interactive Fiction
MYSTERY FILES: House Of Horrors
$1.99
A Choose Your Own Adventure Style text-based horror game
Trihexa Studio
Interactive Fiction
GIF
LOST in CODE
$1.50
find what was taken
haruto.fun
Adventure
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