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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 story of love, death and lies.
Visual Novel
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Puzzle
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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find what was taken
Adventure
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Interactive Fiction
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
A Choose Your Own Adventure Style text-based horror game
Interactive Fiction
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Adventure
Will you be able to retain your very humanity in the Mansion of the Damned?
Interactive Fiction
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Adventure
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BBirthday - Visual Novel
Visual Novel
Idle Paranormal Adventure
Adventure
Multiple endings, moral choices, and a quest for vengance.
Interactive Fiction
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Adventure
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Interactive Fiction
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
Interactive Fiction
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
Haunted Dream House is a 3-D text based horror mystery. You find yourself in an obscure house and must find your way.
Adventure
A narrative based horror text adventure game with choice dependent multiple endings.
Adventure
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
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.
Interactive Fiction
A dark fantasy
Interactive Fiction
A short horror game, in twine.
Adventure
Play in browser
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Adventure
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