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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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The House That Whispers
A parser interactive fiction, finding out why you are in the house
ronynn
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Error - A Text-Based Puzzling Adventure
All that's left is a computer but answers won't come that easy.
DinosourKisses
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Interview
Don't worry. As long as you are truthful, nothing can go wrong...
Jafar The Superstar
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Apoxia
A horror text-based RPG
Define Narrative
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Extraction
Command a crew of explorers across an alien world
Matt Ravenhall
Strategy
Play in browser
Split The Party.
Love horror? Hate parties? Welcome...
alexnobodyfamous
Adventure
Play in browser
Trapped in my phone
A 10-minute text game with no sounds or graphics. A starter game made by an old man.
Uncle Laptop
Puzzle
Play in browser
Eldritch Cellar
Text-based adventure where you try to survive strange encounters
AnOtterFailure
Dark Silence
fear inside
ZiPGames
The House
A Psychological Horror Text Adventure
Jake C - Surreal Scripts
Interactive Fiction
Hatekst.txt
GHOST-SHADOWW
Adventure
Niebla
Juego de aventura de horror basado en texto
palonso444
Interactive Fiction
When It Rains | demo
An interactive horror fiction.
bunnine
Interactive Fiction
INDUSTRIAL DREAMS
The DEMO for INDUSTRIAL DREAMS
Calcifi
Puzzle
There Are No People Left
krsdvchk
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GPMEscpae
A horror game navigated through text parser playing in our beloved university the HNU.
Sepulana
Survival
Play in browser
Goober's World
Goober's friends . . . did they all betray him?
Goober
Adventure
Play in browser
The House of Echoes
Text-Based Horror Adventure
Liobeh
Interactive Fiction
Cave.EXE
Quirky text-based horror adventure.
Wild Jerboa
Adventure
Play in browser
The Lost Tapes
Unravel the past about year deceased father, but some secrets are best left undisturbed.
TextGames
Interactive Fiction
A Blur of Right & Wrong
Everything has always been your choice.
Neo Phantom
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
WHAT WE SAW UNDER EDEN LAKE
two boys & the strange game they weave together
key
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Moth: Part One
Ulp Std
Visual Novel
Merry Kidnapping
EstopaDev
Survival
The Beast That Follows
Can you survive being its prey?
Sethiepooh4
Survival
Play in browser
Are You a Good Person?
A brief personality quiz designed to assess your moral beliefs
CheesePenguin
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Grasp of the Manor
A horror-romance visual novel game
mattis2square
Visual Novel
MINISTRY
Welcome to Ministry. So... You think you can follow God (GOOD LUCK)
MTRF@ink
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dumpster Diving
taylorhooten
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Christabel
Coleridge in hypertext
Antemaion
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Grim Notebook
The Grim Reaper lost his notebook
icecraig
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Trek to Dead Water
Sister's last wish led you to mortal danger, but these two strangers might be enough to keep you safe, warm, and loved.
Ligia Nunes
Visual Novel
The Dark Attic
RPG_Vexivy
Adventure
Play in browser
Pale Luna
"A text adventure in the vein of Zork and The Lurking Horror"
Baph_Tan
Interactive Fiction
the barista
a cosmic horror Twine game about wooing a stranger and, hopefully, killing a Cybertruck owner
jeddcole
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Flashpoint
There's something out there in the woods, and it wants to come inside.
Sailing Shells Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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