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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 selling paidtagged Horror and Text based (35 results)

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Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
A story of love, death and lies.
Visual Novel
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Puzzle
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Adventure
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.
Interactive Fiction
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Adventure
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Adventure
Play in browser
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Interactive Fiction
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Visual Novel
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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A narrative based horror text adventure game with choice dependent multiple endings.
Adventure
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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BBirthday - Visual Novel
Visual Novel
Multiple endings, moral choices, and a quest for vengance.
Interactive Fiction
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Interactive Fiction
Idle Paranormal Adventure
Adventure
A dark fantasy
Interactive Fiction
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
Adventure
Play in browser
A Choose Your Own Adventure Style text-based horror game
Interactive Fiction
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
Interactive Fiction
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Adventure
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Interactive Fiction
Will you be able to retain your very humanity in the Mansion of the Damned?
Interactive Fiction
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