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Ten short horror experiments cast you as explorers, survivors, and spellcasters across unrelated worlds and play styles.
Released 26 May 2020
Play a Haunted Handheld
Cast Ritual Spells
Switch Gun and Flashlight
10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.
Developed by DreadXP, Airdorf Games, Strange Scaffold, Scythe Dev Team, Secret Cow Level, Snowrunner Games, David Szymanski, Lovely Hellplace, Torple Dook, Wayward Preacher, oddbreeze, Mahelyk · Published by DreadXP
Dread X Collection is an anthology of ten separate, short games, each presenting a different horror premise rather than a shared story. Players take on roles ranging from a worker in a secure facility to an explorer of ruins on a dead planet, a castaway, or a spellcaster seeking escape.
Across the games, players explore unsettling locations, search for clues and items, solve puzzles, evade threats, and fight enemies. Settings and presentation vary widely, from a backyard depicted as a simple handheld game to a ruined future Britain and a surreal tropical island.
Each game has its own progression and mechanics: one asks players to survive a sequence of turns using cards, another has them discover and cast spells, and a shooter requires managing a flashlight alongside a gun and limited supplies. Some experiences advance through stages or item searches, while others use repeated runs to reveal clues.
Players often appreciate the anthology’s range of unusual horror concepts, varied mechanics, and atmospheric settings, with Summer Night, The Pony Factory, Shatter, Hand of Doom, and Outsiders frequently singled out. At the same time, reviews repeatedly describe the collection as uneven and rough, with some games criticized for unclear objectives, frustrating play, or a lack of polish; Rotgut and Carthanc draw especially pointed complaints.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 11 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Website | Official website |
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