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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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Mom's Acting Weird
Um jogo de terror e família.
Daiani Marques
Play in browser
Doki Doki Rapper's Clubhttps://itch.io/dashboard/game/2415218/devlog
Dope Rhymes, Dark Vibes, Rappers Get Ready, Come Eat Mom's Spaghetti
SpenceyWencey
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
I wouldn't sleep if I were you
Beta text based RPG
DRUNKBOYO
Role Playing
Trick / Treat
Can you make it through the neighborhood on Hallowe'en night?
Jei D. Marcade
Play in browser
In My Dreams
What do you dream of?
MooseboyGames
Adventure
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
Ground Down
A horror narrative presented in Twine.
inverts
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fall of the Achilles
Horror/mystery on an abandoned starship.
davidesky2
Adventure
Play in browser
Urban Exploration
Urban exploration text adventure, Zork-like
fredric
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Slumber Party Spectacular!!!
Slumber party time! Fun times with friends, and probably no imminent danger!
mwahahavilah
Interactive Fiction
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Human Geometry
Climb a pyramid.
Elena Murphy
Interactive Fiction
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Museum Trouble
He's so lost! Please help him won't you?
yukiangel51
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The 2D Platformer
The 2D platformer you loved as a kid.
Jayjayhawk
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Open Cases
A text-based Horror/Mystery game where you play as Detective Hal Apenyo
Holy Grail Studios
Play in browser
In the Deep
Clean-up mission
Styxcolor
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Doorway
The Doorway calls to you. Will you go to it?
Frankie Granero
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
bleed
screams on the street. can you make it out
Daniel Mok
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
phyto-filed
kaygee
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dark As Blood
A short, text-based horror game inspired by Slavic folklore
Misha [he/they]
Role Playing
Play in browser
The Hollow Mirror (teaser!)
a gothic horror text-based game
Christi Kerr
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cold Iron
A short, text-based horror game inspired by European witch folklore
Misha [he/they]
Role Playing
Play in browser
Yambamo
An interactive choose your own adventure game
kiddtic
Adventure
Play in browser
Sylvan Shadows
A horror themed text based adventure game where you're trying to escape a dark, spooky forest
Seedborne
Adventure
Play in browser
Richard Quest: Canada™ Edition
Creeping yuletide dread. May contain traces of maple syrup.
Will
Interactive Fiction
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Infer-No. 079 (Version 1.1)
Be careful what you seek for...
Colespy
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Where we'll live for nine days
Half-remembered fragments that possibly happened
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Haunted Carnival
Explore a spooky old carnival at night.
frostyfreeze
Adventure
Play in browser
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
Stalker tale
Will you survive or die. Only for the brave
Cheater
Simulation
Stock: A Tale from The Pages
A horror game with spoons
thefactotumproject
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Make Your Own Story
Make Your Own Story With Text Game
Frostcano Games
Adventure
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Camp Promise
What's beyond your imagination.... Or Reality?
Beebee Narrative
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
In the Trees - Story Version
The faster "story version" of 2017 text adventure "In the Trees" with simplified puzzles
Caspian Depression Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DRMS-01
First part in a series about dreams
thatguynm
Interactive Fiction
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Have a spoonful.
Thoughts for food.
jondewoo
Play in browser
Tastes Like Home
A very short interactive horror story written for the #BiteSizedHorrorJam. Satisfy your hunger or die trying.
Jagger Byte Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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