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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 Lurking Shadow
$1.99
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
LegosDeveloper
Interactive Fiction
Unreal Estate
A short game about trying to sell houses to monsters.
Eleanor Hingley
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Text Adventure based Horror EARLY DEMO
A short horror game early demo
cryptiboy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Repeat : Return : Reprise
A choice-based text game. Interactive fiction!
Michael Coorlim
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CastlevaNya
Stuck in a mansion with a classy vampire feline. Will you escape? Or...
Noodle Interactive
Visual Novel
Kiss of Beth
A short conversation with your roommate's date.
Charm Cochran
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Press Enter to Begin
Text based horror fun!
DustyZero
Simulation
The Deer Trail
Dark Forest Media
Adventure
StormAstray
stormastray
Visual Novel
TV
A game about channel surfing.
USM Game Studies
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
All Visitors Welcome
Spend the night at a state park with a sinister secret
bitterkarella
Interactive Fiction
Ghostlight
Don't believe everything you see...
John Q Adams
Interactive Fiction
One Night At Herobrine's 2
This is just another beginning
EpicTDD
The Strings of Fate
Very short Twine horror game about loss, love and red strings.
surrealweirdo
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In One Minute - A Twine Game
Your payment's due
Sammeh
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Blind
You wake up by the cold sound of a heavy door...
Blitzbot26
Something is wrong.
Fighting fate with household objects.
TheAirHideous
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Terminal
A 1 Bit interactive horror game
Jim Hall
Adventure
Play in browser
A Long Night
Frogmus
Play in browser
Tránsito
Una Ficción Interactiva Liminar
n2n
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Microcrawl
$2.99
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
ZPJ Interactive
Adventure
Blind Gun
Blind but you got a gun, survive the apocalipse!
Félix Tremblay
Action
Play in browser
The Game Writer
A text adventure about an aspiring game writer.
Jayjayhawk
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Moth Manor
A short spooky text adventure about finding yourself
Spooky Rosalyn
Interactive Fiction
Crab Grass
While having breakfast with your husband you get the terrible sensation he's not who he appears to be.
sweetishfish
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
La Tempête
Court jeu d'horreur existentialiste
Stéphane F.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
White Door
Are you able to escape?
redhuli
The Stillness
You wake up in a field in the dead of night, you have no idea where, or who, you are...
LozzyM
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Athocrone Demo
The demo-version of a brand-new mysterious visual novel!
Urban Coven
Visual Novel
The Ridgemere care home
A text based horror, adventure story
Calv182
Adventure
Play in browser
Have a spoonful.
Thoughts for food.
jondewoo
Play in browser
GIF
Where we'll live for nine days
Half-remembered fragments that possibly happened
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
When Flowers Cry
What happens when a grieving parent finds a way to hear from their dead loved ones?
Logan Grimes
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Concision
"...when there is no longer anything to take away."
Future Proof GamesVerified Account
Play in browser
The Blind Ones
>> Understand the incomprehensible.
Rollex
Haunted Echoes
Part of a larger ARG project, Haunted Echoes is an old school style DOS game, exploring a haunted mansion set to sea.
The Index Project
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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