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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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a horror survey game
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a man outside
a friendly horror game in your neighborhood
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Vermis - Fan Game
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adam Duehring
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Crimson Arcade
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
What Girls Do in the Dark
A short slumber party text adventure ♡
olivebranche
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Snakeroot.
[ INACTIVE ] A fantasy horror IF WIP.
cerberus
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
A Series of Interactive Stories Where No Matter What You Do You Are Immediately Killed by a Werewolf
Can you escape the werewolf? (No.)
Luke Burns
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
Rabbit Starvation
A late night conversation in a diner with someone claiming to be your spouse.
vileidol
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
To Be Human
An eldritch being finds a child.
KingOverlord
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sleepover Rules
Your friend invites you to his house for a sleepover with a certain set of rules
SjoerdHekking
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Role Playing
Play in browser
Suffer The Night(Demo)
The envelope is just the beginning. Burn it. Destroy it. Don't play his game. When you see him, it’s already too late.
TaintedPact Games
Survival
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
All Hail The Spider God
All Hail The Spider God is an eerie interactive fiction adventure about You, and all the Yous you've left behind.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Dust Below
The horizon is a haze of polluted ash.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Ouroborous Incident
Uncover the dark dealings of the Turing Corporation and their mysterious RAVENOUS project.
DOMINO CLUBVerified Account
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Florence
A narrative game of Gothic romance
Anamika
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
MIND Psychometry
An employability assessment from a dystopian HR department
Juniper-C
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mind Games: Trepidation
Horror, Sci-fi, Queer-friendly, and Romance... what more could you ask for?
Bottlecap Rabbit Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Helmouth Halls
A narrative-driven teen slasher
Yarn Spinner
Interactive Fiction
Disharmony
An investigative IF journey into the unknown.
Pink Soda Studios
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Survival
GIF
Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Adventure
American Election
A Nightmare | Narrative Game (1-2 Hours)
Greg R. Buchanan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Miss Spring Pomegranate 2019
A short text adventure about a story that's way more trouble than it's worth
olivebranche
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service (Demo)
One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.
etherane
Adventure
Play in browser
GUTLESS
hadopelagic false light
DOMINO CLUBVerified Account
Interactive Fiction
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domvs
a gothic mystery
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
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There's A Bear Outside
Isn't it nice that there is a perfectly normal bear at the window?
The Very Worst Thing
Interactive Fiction
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Forest Of The Lost
A WIP interactive fiction. Succeed your mission, find romance or die trying
CroWoods
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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