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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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Games which have short playtimes and can usually be completed in one sitting.

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Project Kat
A small, unconventional horror rpg.
Leef 6010Verified Account
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4,351 total ratings)
Role Playing
1998 - Found Footage Backroom Horror Game FREE (Microphone Sensitive Demo Game)
Now you will see what really lies in the backrooms, with this found footage style horror game.
Steelkrill Studio
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(1,381 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
missed messages.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
angela he
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(2,358 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Exhibit of Sorrows
Have fun with seemingly friendly dolls and a not so friendly clown.
adayofjoy
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(1,785 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Bad Parenting 1: Mr Red Face
Short Horror Game
2OO2
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(1,327 total ratings)
Adventure
Cold Front
A short RPG horror/story game about unstable friendships and blizzards in july
racheldrawsthis
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(967 total ratings)
Role Playing
Blackout
Point & click adventure set in a spooky house!
FRESH
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(1,111 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Time is Solid Here
A horror puzzle game about helping people move on.
AlgebraFalcon
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(898 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning
Learn with Baldi in his fully 3D interactive schoolhouse! ...Just don't get any questions wrong.
Basically GamesVerified Account
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(1,690 total ratings)
Silver Thread
A skeptical exorcist and an odd encounter.
Spicaze
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(705 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Endacopia - DEMO
Guide a lost child through a world that operates on foreign rules.
AndyL4nd
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(410 total ratings)
Adventure
P.T - The Stairway 7
The P.T style horror game with a cat in this anomaly hunt game. You are stuck in a loop with a cat.
Steelkrill Studio
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(456 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Trapped with Jester
You wake up in a carriage with an annoying stranger...
Anta
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(1,989 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
One Last Game
Checkers in the worst of circumstances.
Goose Ladder Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(973 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GAVRIL
There's an intruder in your house.
Part
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(752 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Help Sheepy, as he explores a forgotten and broken world.
MrSuicideSheep
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(382 total ratings)
Platformer
Please Answer Carefully
a horror survey game
litrouke
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(2,465 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
FeedVid Live
You stumble upon a strange livestream.
Varun R.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(1,119 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Burger & Frights
A short PS1-style horror game
Donitz
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(1,113 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
Funeralopolis | Last Days
Last days before the skies of Huta-Grobno city turned red
BananaDevJeff
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(363 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Stillwater
Private Investigator Hugo Laurent, gets reeled into a murky mystery entangled in lies, secrets, and a family curse.
Studio Clump
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(686 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Leftovers
Don't talk to strangers, unless your mother needs you to.
Realmpact
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(1,041 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Dreader
Retro mouse maze horror game
Donitz
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(1,537 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Crowscare
A short horror RPG about a young boy excited for his town's upcoming Harvest Festival...
arcadekitten
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(348 total ratings)
Role Playing
HIKEBACK
a playable ghost story that changes with every ending.
CLOWN
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(289 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
It's Not Me, It's My Basement
A short horror game about a kid who lives alone
arcadekitten
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(705 total ratings)
Role Playing
Crusty Proto
Glitchy PS1 horror slop straight from 1997
3DI70R
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(388 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Sweet Dreams
You struggle to stay awake on the train...
C2PHOS
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(321 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
IF - Siren Call
​COMPLETE: Play as a CUSTOMIZABLE scientist who catches the deranged attention of a siren .
Darkpetal16
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(286 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
10-103: NULL KELVIN
Infiltrate. Investigate. Exterminate.
Nerdspartan
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(208 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
GIF
Lift Your Spirits
are the campus rumors true? short horror/light romance vn
DeersphereStudios
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(382 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Don't Toy With Me
A short horror visual novel set in a dollhouse
Karmic Punishment
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(302 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Discover My Body
Body Horror/Comedy
Yames
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(530 total ratings)
A Mall Near You
Explore an abandoned mall, make some returns, and scrounge for some nice little gifts.
Diesel Rave Studios
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(292 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Caught by a Spider
You've fallen into the spider's web.
Pitouhui
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(355 total ratings)
Visual Novel
One Hell of a Maid
Clean up the mess!
bun_tired
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(268 total ratings)
Play in browser
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