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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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Microcrawl
$0.59
-80%
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
ZPJ Interactive
Adventure
The Hollow Mirror (teaser!)
a gothic horror text-based game
Christi Kerr
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Lake
A short, eerie Japanese folktale
hosomeowa
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An Ordinary Day
A simple game about going to buy milk
Brendan_Jax
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Outsider
A vampire must remove spirits haunting their new home.
Welcome_Oblivion
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Are You a Good Person?
A brief personality quiz designed to assess your moral beliefs
CheesePenguin
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Turn the lights off if you can hear me.
A mall guard talks to two people over a radio, using only a light switch.
GreenClovers
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
All Hallows' Eve 1881
An original text adventure for the 48k ZX Spectrum
Mancave Software
Interactive Fiction
Consumed
Can you survive the room?
Peanut Panda
Visual Novel
Play in browser
core_ailtt.exe
Emergency plan.
Silver Stitch
Interactive Fiction
Resist!
A real-time zombie apocalypse willpower management game.
Damon L. Wakes
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
i wasn't sure what to make of my new flatmate.
An interactive fiction about a new flatmate.
flatmategame
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 Caretaker
Uncanny Machines
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
0808-1718
text-based mystery about seas, sins, and gods
Button Cupcake
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Malcookie
Malcookie is a 4th wall breaking game, you are tasked with finding bugs in games, and one day a virus comes across.
Leah
Azrok and the Scepter of Light
A text-based RPG within a third-person horror game.
NJSP
Simulation
CaveBox
CaveBox is a horror text adventure set in a misterious cave
Tiz010
Adventure
You are hiding under your bed.
You are hiding under your bed. Something is searching for you.
picklejarpotatoes
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Remains of the Day
The sun has died. You have been seduced to Edinburgh below the Stair. But at what price?
James StAnthony
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
The Brigand's Story
And the captain said: "Antonio, tell us your favorite story!" And Antonio began:
Laura Michet
Interactive Fiction
Moral Conflict
$2
Multiple endings, moral choices, and a quest for vengance.
Brainfont
Interactive Fiction
Dinner at Suzanna's
Your friends invited you over for dinner, which wouldn't be so hard if you weren't a Vampire.
jwfreeman
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Construct
A horror text adventure game with a deep & engaging story with original music.
Aaron Wise
Adventure
Friend...
IggyLikesToCode
Simulation
Play in browser
Rust/Blood
The walls are covered in
June Flower
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sunny Side Down Chapter.1 beta
Meet a strange entity with reality altering abilities, go on a date...
Moosky
Visual Novel
A Face That Isn't Yours
JustinaY
Interactive Fiction
EXTENDED CARE UNIT ROOM 19B
A Medical Adventure Game with Horror Elements
Ambrosio
Visual Novel
The Writer: A Change Of Identity
$2.99
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
GameAboutGames
Adventure
Play in browser
YOUR PARTY IS DEAD
Unfortunately, death is not the end.
Norbez Jones (call me Bez)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ZEUS 111
We choose the moon.
DancingEngie
Interactive Fiction
Little Red
​An text game based on Little Red Riding Hood.
illuminesce
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Nine Moments in Fairyland
He wanted me to stay.
hpowellsmith
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Occult Agenda
Something’s festering within quaint Pomeina. But great news—you've been appointed the new town Minutetaker!
Jae Stuart
Interactive Fiction
Five Against The Sea-King!
Enid Blyton meets Cthulhu in this short game about packing eldritch totems for a seaside adventure with your friends.
Thomas Martin
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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