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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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GIF
Can you hear them?
SeanAndrie
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
MIND Psychometry
An employability assessment from a dystopian HR department
Juniper-C
Interactive Fiction
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Wildheart
You are the Horror in the Woods
illustriouse
Visual Novel
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The Thing on the Fourble Board
"As far as I know, the abandoned oil rig is still there. And that was twenty years ago."
Octopi with Hats
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Shambles
monalloyd
Interactive Fiction
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Blue Line, Red Line
A horror noir set in Cardiff, Wales. Built as supplementary material for a home-brew Vampire the Masquerade chronicle.
gcmxyz
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Everlasting Household Love
The ghost of a domestic returns to his former workplace to clean up again.
Adel Faure
Simulation
Play in browser
Town of Troutberk
Short text based adventure I did for uni
shellrider
Adventure
Play in browser
Halloween Hypertales
Stories to chill your bones!
Quantum Sheep
Visual Novel
daimonic
a story about identity, gender, family, and dionysus. inspired by euripides' bakkhai
andy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Crew
Journey to the Pale Planet
Olaf Nowacki
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Deep in the Spooky, Scary Woods
Healy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rue d'Auseil
been there before: interactive text adventure with audio
CHRONOMATOPOEIA
The Deer Trail
Dark Forest Media
Adventure
La Dulce Compañía
Una aventura interactiva de terror realizada para la ECTOCOMP 2021
DareDoge
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tránsito
Una Ficción Interactiva Liminar
n2n
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Festival of Wax: Chapter I
The longest Hallowe'en of your life starts in a mysterious caravan in the dark, lonely woods.
popculturedeathdrive
Interactive Fiction
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Festival of Wax: Chapter II
The longest Hallowe'en ever continues with the haunted woods, a spooky village and a seriously weird moon.
popculturedeathdrive
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Jack
A short game of horror and humor.
Arlan Wetherminster
Interactive Fiction
Dagon
You've found yourself lost at sea during the great war after escaping imprisonment.
frogsanddaydreams
Interactive Fiction
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Enter the Props Room... (a virtual haunted adventure)
Enter the props room if you dare, but be careful, you might not be the only one inside.
alteriproductionsalteri
Interactive Fiction
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The Deadly Dare
Mystic Nexus Digital
Adventure
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One Night With Mr.Smiley
ThunderCreeper
Survival
It Can Only End In Death- DEMO
An incredibly difficult text adventure CYOA horror game where, no matter what, death is inevitable.
Phantasm Games
Adventure
Play in browser
Something Made of Skin - demo
Your brother just brought home a new game on floppy disk and something knows you're playing.
HeroRobb
Interactive Fiction
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Stranger In The Night
After a long day of studying it's time to head home...
Redcakes
Interactive Fiction
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The Fate of Greenvale
Neko Cassowary
Interactive Fiction
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Your Basement (Twine)
A short creepy story that takes place in your basement. Written in Twine.
xorgaming - Kevin McCullough
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
À deux doigts des enfers
Parcourez les boyaux du diable en sacrifiant des parties de votre corps.
Basile de Lamberterie
Adventure
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bleed
screams on the street. can you make it out
Daniel Mok
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Telium
Short Text Based Horror / Adventure
HughJazz3095
Adventure
Claustrohemia: Alone in a Crowd
A small text based game about a super populated world
Ionatan B Maghidman
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Midnight Abductor
University of Tulsa CSG 1003: Game Design Challenge 02
KWE Game Design
Interactive Fiction
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Festival Of Horrors
A text-based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure/Interactive Fiction game set in a spooky festival.
clarismakesgames
Interactive Fiction
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A Walk Through the Woods
Let's go for a walk together!
melodysakura
Adventure
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Survival
A short existential horror game
Lukey
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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