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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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Side Scroller

Featuring gameplay that moves horizontally across a scrolling background, with characters typically walking, running, or jumping from left to right. Often includes platforming elements and side-view perspectives.

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Juan Lumbreras y familia
Mata a toda tu familia.
Renato Meyer
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dead Pixels II: Straight To Video
When the dead start walking, there's no where to run.
CSR-Studios
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Action
Ghosts'n Demons
Side-scrolling platforming game
BonusJZ
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(68 total ratings)
Platformer
Bride into the Cave
Welcome to the cave, bride.
Bride into The Cave
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
My Friend is a Raven
You must speak with the raven...
Two Star Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(87 total ratings)
Adventure
Homeless Dog Motel
Explore the nightmares that the Homeless Dog is experiencing. Could they reveal more about her..?
PONPORIO
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Return - Alpha
An art driven, soul's like, side scroller
Jesse Eisenbart
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Adventure
Lost魘
迷失在被遺忘的惡夢之中。
AccountForLost
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(102 total ratings)
Puzzle
Don't Look
Fear looking at the screen : Eye-tracker Compatible
Don't Look Team
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Survival
Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2 (DEMO)
A young girl needs to find her friends, unravel a dark mystery and escape the clutches of her cursed toys.
MOONBIT
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Survival
The Little Red Lie
A 2D horror side scroller.
ralphyua
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
Adventure
KEEP OUT - Brand New Demo 2.0
Indie Horror Adventure Game
WEAVERACTIVE
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
Astro Gets A Snack at 2:34 AM | Playable Engine
A silly little demo for an upcoming RPGMaker inspired "horror game".
AceTechno
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
BlackBox
A puzzle horror game about repairing a facility
lower third
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Billy Went to a Carnival
Did he ever come back?
A. V. Dossow
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
Vital Signs
A survival horror adventure game set in zero gravity
Jem Smith
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
in Death we Love
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
colorfiction
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Adventure
Writer's Block Demo
A short 2D horror narrative prototype inspired by Silent Hill 2 and Gustavo Viselner's pixel art
nguyenlong180
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Adventure
LEGION
Loneliness Kills
Drasnus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Action
Träumerei Chapter 1
“Je suis perdu…aide moi……”
Veynn
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Role Playing
Revenance
2D Pixel Art Survival Horror
Asephy
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Survival
HANGMAN
A game of Hangman with a dark twist.
keanataire
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Far Away, Pixel Horror
Short pixel-art horror game
qLes
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Guaishou
atmospheric horror scroller
Apophenia 23
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Days Without
A short narrative about a lonely man in the apocalypse.
Elvies
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
Vertigo Temple
An abandoned car wreck, a txt from your dead sister... cyberpunk/txt/horror
psy_wombats
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Space Major Miner
Mine asteroids, upgrade your equipment and blast cosmic aliens!
Ardiam Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
GIF
Left on Read
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Träumerei Chapter 2
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Veynn
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Adventure
Träumerei Chapter 3
“You may have memories, but they pale in-comparison to seeing them everyday—to know that they still breathe.”
Veynn
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
The Trespasser
A free Metroidvania with horror vibes
Dreamnoid
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Action
Lost Soul
Jesse Eisenbart
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Platformer
GUILT
A short game made in a month for IGMC 2015
Ylzor
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Platformer
Träumerei Chapter 4
"If you could forsake all that you have ever known for a brighter future, would you?"
Veynn
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
GIF
Träumerei (Demo)
Veynn
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Role Playing
Hypocrite
Can you trust the hero they tried to create?
Daybloom Project
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
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