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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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Memento Mori
Uncover the secrets hidden on an abandoned computer.
Triceratops43
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
One Floor Away from the Beam
if it begins to speak to you, remain calm.
Noa Segal
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Maxwell's Demon
You can be ok again
evermelon
Visual Novel
Into The Wilderness
Welcome to the wilderness! How did you get here again?
hannah
Simulation
warped reflections
interview a monster on the night before its execution
zorkie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Двері
Не відчиняй
Anna Rzhevska
Visual Novel
Circus : Eyes of God
The Circus doesn’t come in town often. Never, really. Only when it needs to be fed.
venus !
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mistworld
Weird fantasy text adventure RPG
GagaGievous
Interactive Fiction
do not let your left hand know
two hands - two hearts - two ends
Naarel
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Column
Perform the ritual or suffer the curse.
Passerine
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Jumpscare Manor
It's pronounced "Jump-scar-ay."
Damon L. Wakes
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DracOS™
©1993 GâtSoft, inc. LON, UK
J. Isaac Gadient
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Return to Misty Cove
fluorescent-star
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Late Night
Amanda Powell
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Contaminated Space
Short story about alien parasites.
Kanderwund
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sundown
Before you feed your dog, you have to find him.
Charm Cochran
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Doorway
The Doorway calls to you. Will you go to it?
Frankie Granero
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
MemoryScape
A journey through memories
Rinko0515
Adventure
BACKROOMS STORIES DEMO
VISUAL NOVEL HORROR STORY SET IN THE BACKROOMS
Liminal Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
White.Black.Blood.
Outside the pages of the book
Kalina
In Rememberance
A text based psychological horror game jam game.
Chance Hoard
Role Playing
Play in browser
Deep Space Stranded
Trapped in a room on a wrecked Space Station. What will you do? A text based Adventure.
Semor1539
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Hollow Mirror (teaser!)
a gothic horror text-based game
Christi Kerr
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Bright Circle
ZateFx
Adventure
Play in browser
That Assignment
An interactive story about executive dysfunction, made while suffering from it.
Fracture Initiative
Adventure
Play in browser
TTOS
The overcomplicated Text Roguelike
Smokey
Role Playing
Egbert Has to Go Outside at 3AM
A text adventure where you take your dog outside late at night.
El-Dee
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
When Day Breaks
You wake up alone. At least, you hope so.
BessotenJenny
Puzzle
旧城惊魂(中文) Old Town Horror
纯文字灵异游戏Text-based Supernatural Horror Game
yokofok
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Scary Maze Game
A Perilous Text Based Maze Game.
DUBYindustries
Survival
Play in browser
La Cucaracha
Roguelike Deckbuilder with Text-Based Adventure
Eduardo Scarpato
Card Game
Memories of the Forgotten Village
The protagonist returns to their childhood town, facing dark secrets and a choice between escape and entrapment.
LunaStev
Visual Novel
Home Alone - A Text Base Horror Game
rb2794
Visual Novel
Play in browser
You're Going to Breakfast
A text only horror game about getting to breakfast.
gacktical
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rare Meats
A game about working the overnight shift at a popular, albeit sinister, fast food restaurant.
midbiamedia
Survival
Play in browser
GIF
WHISPERSTRING
An 80s inspired text adventure game that takes place inside a “chat room”.
RocRac
Visual Novel
Play in browser
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