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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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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
(142 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
xrafstar
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Adventure
Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Puzzle
GIF
_transfer
$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Abyssal Uncreations
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(147 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
Sorry We're Open
$3.99
-50%
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(55 total ratings)
Role Playing
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$7.49
-50%
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
BBirthday
$9.99
In bundle
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Yun Seven
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
PROXIMATE
$5.99
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
cain
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Indiepocalypse #1
$15
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
The Devil's Collection - Beware the Festival of Fools
$5
Gerrark
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
You're Going To Be Fine (Branches)
$1
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Megan
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Peculiar Fables: The Werebed
$1
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Whitewatt
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Home Safety Hotline: Seasonal Worker
$7.99
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Night Signal Entertainment
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Moral Conflict
$2
Multiple endings, moral choices, and a quest for vengance.
Brainfont
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Indiepocalypse #52
$15
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
The Writer: A Change Of Identity
$2.99
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
GameAboutGames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Erinia (2020)
$1.10
-45%
Dareint
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Microcrawl
$2.99
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
ZPJ Interactive
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Desert of Vice
$2.99
A narrative based horror text adventure game with choice dependent multiple endings.
karolisd
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
The Morning Star (2023)
$2.20
-45%
Dareint
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Evelyn's Farm
$2.99
Idle Paranormal Adventure
jsenter
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
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
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
oooh.ga
£1.99
Gather round... it's time to die.
BlueDeadpool
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
This is Your House
$1.04
A short horror game, in twine.
jestershark
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Escape the Room
$0.25
kamalHesham
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
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