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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 sellingtagged Horror and Text based (167 results)

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Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
A story of love, death and lies.
Visual Novel
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
You're eight years old and alone in the house tonight. But something is lurking outside...
Interactive Fiction
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
A narrative based horror text adventure game with choice dependent multiple endings.
Adventure
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Simulation
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
An interactive fiction game about fire season.
Interactive Fiction
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
Isn't it nice that there is a perfectly normal bear at the window?
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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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
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Puzzle
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
Something isn't right in Ashwood Grove.
Interactive Fiction
Spam has never been so deadly.
Visual Novel
An interactive survival horror adventure for your ZX Spectrum 48k
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A text-based "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" about a mysterious plant.
Adventure
a horror survey game
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
calamity occult-horror rpg
Role Playing
Play in browser
A brief, text-only tale of darkness and woe with six endings, only one of them good.
Interactive Fiction
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