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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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Top donatedtagged Horror and Text based (133 results)

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What do you desire? However odd or however wonderful, it can always come true.
Visual Novel
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Simulation
An interactive fiction game about fire season.
Interactive Fiction
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Isn't it nice that there is a perfectly normal bear at the window?
Interactive Fiction
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exobotanical horror
Visual Novel
A surreal visual novel built on old bones and entropy
Interactive Fiction
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
Adventure
You're eight years old and alone in the house tonight. But something is lurking outside...
Interactive Fiction
The envelope is just the beginning. Burn it. Destroy it. Don't play his game. When you see him, it’s already too late.
Survival
Spam has never been so deadly.
Visual Novel
Something isn't right in Ashwood Grove.
Interactive Fiction
A text-based "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" about a mysterious plant.
Adventure
An interactive survival horror adventure for your ZX Spectrum 48k
Interactive Fiction
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a horror survey game
Interactive Fiction
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calamity occult-horror rpg
Role Playing
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A brief, text-only tale of darkness and woe with six endings, only one of them good.
Interactive Fiction
A cosmic horror text game about a quiet beachside community
Interactive Fiction
Interactive Fiction
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The signs brought you here.
Visual Novel
A narrative-driven teen slasher
Interactive Fiction
A reimagining of classic 90s cult horror games.
Self-determination in the face of supernatural horror.
Interactive Fiction
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A narrative adventure game.
Adventure
Emergency plan.
Interactive Fiction
A short & eerie text adventure for the C64.
Interactive Fiction
a friendly horror game in your neighborhood
Interactive Fiction
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You have some company at the end of the world.
Interactive Fiction
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It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Interactive Fiction
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A cute fox girl explores her small hometown on her way to a date with a friend.
Interactive Fiction
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A short and creepy story told through emails and instant messages
Visual Novel
A short folk horror twine adventure
Interactive Fiction
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Every day, for the rest of your life.
Adventure
An original text adventure for the 48k ZX Spectrum
Interactive Fiction
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