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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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venial sin
when a burden becomes too much
nadia nova
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Adventure
You Will Travel No More
Stay a while. Stay forever. Won't you come outside?
BanzaiBonsai
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Circus : Eyes of God
The Circus doesn’t come in town often. Never, really. Only when it needs to be fed.
venus !
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Twisted Place
Depressing Cosmic Horror
Volition Newlove
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Trek to Dead Water
A Visual Novel about the impact of people and the power of story in history.
Ligia Nunes
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
The Lancaster Leak - Entity Exam
Jeremy Fischer
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Action
angel numbers
the world's worst guardian angel thinks about you.
sophiades
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
He Knows That You Know and Now There's No Stopping Him
How are you going to talk your way out of this?
Charm Cochran
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Forever and Ever
A father will do anything to keep his son safe.
PetricakeGames-IF
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 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
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
Neotrogla
A Twine story of bugs and bodies.
Roxy S.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Limber Love
Self-determination in the face of supernatural horror.
Copper Spines
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
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$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
Dark Arrangement
O2A2 Visual Novel Jam 2024
Banya
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
1 4 the $
Charm Cochran
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
A TEXT-BASED HORROR GAME ABOUT YOU.
knucklebones
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
On Mount Ségou
Mystical Horror Sound Novel
Rastagong
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
This Too Too Solid Flesh
Recover your memories after losing everything - even your own body.
vileidol
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
GIF
AL - A Choose Your Own Adventure
Gabriel Cornish
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Mass of Consumption
The Church has been waiting for you.
cmrnprry
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Crimson Arcade
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(143 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
EXSP-Tech
A game scarier than actual customer service
Ascendance IF
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Unbecoming
A revisionist body horror denouement
-hexcavator-
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Survival
Miss Spring Pomegranate 2019
A short text adventure about a story that's way more trouble than it's worth
olivebranche
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
It can’t be true it mustn’t be true
He couldn't have... could he?
Charm Cochran
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
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Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(55 total ratings)
Role Playing
Suffer The Night(Demo)
The envelope is just the beginning. Burn it. Destroy it. Don't play his game. When you see him, it’s already too late.
TaintedPact Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Survival
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(189 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Suspended in the air so that all of your weight is concentrated on a single point halfway down your spine
Alone in a dark, unfamiliar room
Charm Cochran
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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