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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Morning Star (2023)
$2.20
-45%
Dareint
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Erinia (2020)
$1.10
-45%
Dareint
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
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
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
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
oooh.ga
£1.99
Gather round... it's time to die.
BlueDeadpool
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Escape the Room
$0.25
kamalHesham
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
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