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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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I Eat Dreams As a Living
A choose-your-food/adventure game where you play as a creature 食梦貘 who eats dreams
fuzzyAgent
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hepburn: Takaishitai
A reimagining of classic 90s cult horror games.
emmahallows
my own paper walls
A "Le Grand Guignol" submission to Ectocomp 2018
fia glas
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Rabbit
A horror game about you, six eyedroppers, a rabbit, and its cage.
Sara S. Messenger
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tell Me A Bedtime Story (Beta)
Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story
Greasy Paint
Puzzle
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
Santa Carcossa Nights
A cosmic horror text game about a quiet beachside community
bitterkarella
Interactive Fiction
Doppelganger
someone is drinking your milk
maxine sophia wolff
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Microcrawl
$2.99
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
ZPJ Interactive
Adventure
GREEN MOON
edmond00
Play in browser
Tutorial-thing
Can you persuade the mystery voice to free you from the infinite void?
Outgrabe
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
You Are Likely To Be Eaten
A brief, text-only tale of darkness and woe with six endings, only one of them good.
Our Flag Means Fun
Interactive Fiction
the passing of persephone
wizardkieran
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eyes Like Pressed Flowers
A brief atmospheric horror game
Caspian Depression Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Visitor
You wake up. Something isn't right. Are you home alone? A short interactive fiction.
0xRobert
Interactive Fiction
GIF
I summoned an eldritch abomination to do the laundry, and now my socks can play the piano
A short interactive text adventure in which you substitute arcane ingredients for any old shit you find about the house
WayfarerGames
Play in browser
Twisted Mirror
Are you willing to be alone?
Cel C.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Has sobrevivido: Trauma
Short horror visual novel with three ways to die and only one to survive. Spanish and English.
Gorgon Games
Visual Novel
The Blue Room
WW1 Engineers attempt to get a haunted train running
ClockworkBeetle
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Elevator
Enter the elevator and see where fate takes you...
Queen Nebula
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The trees surround us.
Can getting lost lead to discovering something else?
Elvie Mae Parian
Visual Novel
Play in browser
little
a tiny yarn for ectocomp
CMG
Play in browser
warrior of sunlight
maze of dream
fotocopiadora
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Outpost Nine
benjybates
Adventure
Medieval Psycho
Use Ghost powers to save a kidnapped child.
VasantJ
Adventure
Erinia (2020)
$1.10
-45%
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
white rabbit.
Spooky Enhanced Text Adventure
PneumaJams
Interactive Fiction
Strayed
The woods are waiting.
adventurecow
Role Playing
Warding: Demo
Text based horror game, where you play as Cecilia, a blind woman, on the night that someone breaks into her house.
risraelwriter
Adventure
Play in browser
Lamb
You're living a normal day like always... but what if it isn't as normal as you think?
Ramiro Almeida Basso
Deep Playground (สวนเด็กเล่น)
จมดิ่งลงสู่จิตใจที่ไม่มีที่สิ้นสุด
jelato
Interactive Fiction
But Satisfaction Brought It Back
Curiosity Killed the Cat...
simplyqueerly
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wake Up
An Ectocomp 2018 Game
Phillip J Rhoades
Tangle Lake
Inside Samuel Daggue's classic book lies answers to the unknown
Maxime Monast
Adventure
Play in browser
Wildheart
You are the Horror in the Woods
illustriouse
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Emma is Offline
Feather of wolf
Visual Novel
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