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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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Interactive Fiction

Blending narrative storytelling with player choice, often text-based experiences where readers shape the story through their decisions. These works can range from simple branching narratives to complex simulations, offering immersive worlds and character-driven plots that unfold based on user input.

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$15 or less tagged Horror (101 results)

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We Know the Devil
$6.66
A Group Relationship Horror Visual novel.
pillowfight
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(339 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Speed Dating for Ghosts
$6.99
Wholesome horror conversation sim about death and robbing banks
Copychaser Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(343 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
(PRE-ALPHA) WARHEART
$7
An Interactive Novel Fiction in Early Development Stages.
codewar
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(77 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(145 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Up All Night
$6.99
Unearth secrets. Solve a murder. Confront the darkness. Whatever transpires, you’re guaranteed to be up all night.
Fiendish Fiction
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(103 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
a pet shop after dark
$9.99
A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
npckc
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Adventure
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
xrafstar
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Adventure
Hapunan
$3.99
A balut vendor's simple life turns into a nightmare—can you survive the shadows of Barangay Sak Dudol?
Yikon
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike
$2.99
Second installment of the Fears to Fathom anthology
Rayll
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(89 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Ezrebeth (A Holiday Mindfudge)
$4.99
An old, bitter recluse finds herself stuck in a time loop during the winter holidays. Out March 2025.
Tymedust Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Pale Cachexia
$5.99
A Gothic fantasy tale of loneliness, dark secrets, and the search for a cure.
Argent GamesVerified Account
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Visual Novel
THERE SWINGS A SKULL: GRIM TIDINGS
$6.98
In bundle
Enter the doomed town of Pareildas.
Quinn K.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Can Androids Pray: Blue
$6.99
In bundle
Angry femme mech pilots at the end of the world, and God.
Strange Scaffold
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Can Androids Pray: Red
$6.99
In bundle
Angry femme mech pilots at the end of the world.
Natalie Clayton
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(114 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Exile
$2
of loneliness at the ocean floor
HEXRAE
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Three Lesbians in a Barrow
$3.99
Tabby and her friends get trapped in a barrow. Hijinks ensue.
Digital Poppy
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(129 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Silence Under Your Bed
$8
Two teens tell tall tales.
Kevin Snow
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(149 total ratings)
Adventure
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Lorraine
$1
Attend the grotesque tale of the diabolical widow.
ABNOCTO
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Forsaken
$1
You wake up on the island with no memory of the place. Find out what happened.
Niven Hedinger
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(48 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Twisted: A dark fairytale
$10
A horror/fantasy visual novel about a wanderer, a priestess, and a monster.
Fablesoft Studios
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Anchorhead
$9.99
A text adventure game of brooding, Lovecraftian horror.
mikegentry5
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Manse on Soracca
$5
In bundle
A retro adventure game of mystery and madness!
hanabarger-digital
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Adventure
Kill The Dragon
$2
A choices matter adventure game with gruesome deaths!
WallaceLovecraft
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Adventure
The Theater - A Creepypasta Legend
$1.99
The Theater
NeWa Studios
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
Can You Come In?
$2
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
spacetwinks
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Indiepocalypse #24
$15
Issue #24 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
The Wolf of Derevnya
$4.97
A werewolf survival horror story in Kievan Rus'
Nightwell Games
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
ring ring
$2
You found a strange phone on the beach. Who will you call?
h i l o q o
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Bunny Hill Horror: Bunny Boiler
$0
-100%
A Bizarro Horror Visual Novel Adventure
Krunchy Fried Games
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Doodle Date
$1.99
Date your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!
Nick Lives
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Bunny Hill Horror
$0
-100%
A Bizarro Horror Visual Novel Adventure
Krunchy Fried Games
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #6
$15
Issue #6 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
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