The Horror Zone

Games built to scare, unsettle, pursue, disturb, or create dread.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Silver Pines - Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
Invokyr - A co-op survival horror game about a cursed board game. Play with up to 5 friends. Roll the dice, survive the horrors that are summoned, and beat the Gamemaster to win your freedom.
Gears of War: E-Day - Players say: Join Marcus and Dom as the Locust erupt on Emergence Day, fighting through a cover-shooter campaign and team modes. Players like: Cover-Based Combat · Visuals and Atmosphere · Movement and Controls ·
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Experience Emergence Day – the brutal origin story of one of gaming’s most acclaimed third-person shooter franchises.

RetroSpace - Immersive, disco-punk, space horror where you can be a sneaky chap or a mutant action hero as you try to survive on a space station swallowed by a black hole. A mind-bending ride with weird creatures, immersive features, time jumps, and '70s mustaches!
SILENT HILL: Townfall - Players say: In 1996, Simon returns to fogbound St. Amelia, using stealth, scarce weapons, puzzles and a signal-tuning pocket TV to uncover its past. Players like: Foggy Town Atmosphere · Sound Design · Detailed Environments ·
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Returning to an island town to ‘put things right’, Simon Ordell descends into a world of tense evasion, explosive confrontations, and mind-bending puzzles that slowly surface the truth of St. Amelia.

lily's world XD - Players say: Explore a missing teen’s 2004 laptop, decode its messages and files, and uncover why someone is watching your investigation. Players like: Early-Web Aesthetic · Emotional Story · Immersive Investigation ·
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Lily was an ordinary teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop. Read her diary, message her friends, and piece together what happened to her before it’s too late. But you're not the only one with access to her computer… A fourth wall-breaking psychological horror experience featuring LilyPichu

The Plant Shop - A cozy horror game where you craft plants for late-night customers while you manage a small plant shop. Expand your plant collection, upgrade your shop & grow your business.
Fright Train - Fight through a train overtaken by monsters and survive Antarctica’s cold as paranormal special agent Doug Barker in this chilling single-player third-person survival horror roguelite.
Active Matter - Players say: Trapped in a time loop, an operative raids reality-warping zones for loot, facing monsters and rival players before extraction. Players like: Eerie Anomaly Atmosphere · Dedicated PvE Raids · Satisfying Gunplay ·
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Join dangerous raids for loot or intense PvP battles in this new realistic military shooter set in a fractured multiverse. Fight in the quantum unstable zones over control of the active matter – the substance that bends time and space.

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Sep 15, 2026
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Rehaunted - Enter a house where every clue feels wrong. Investigate a brutal crime scene, uncover hidden evidence, and use your detective tools to piece together a disturbing truth buried beneath the silence.
Tenebris: Terra Incognita - A turn-based tactical RPG. Experiment with the talent trees of 23 heroes. Combine abilities with equipment. Defeat 17 terrifying bosses and uncover the secrets of the planet Tenebris!

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Last Room - Players say: Explore a dark labyrinth of medieval rooms, finding clues, solving logic puzzles, and navigating hazards to reach an exit. Players like: Dark atmosphere · Room-by-room puzzles · Thoughtful clue hunting ·
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Dive into a world of puzzles, medieval mysteries, and strategic challenges. Navigate, solve, and leap your way through a thrilling adventure.

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Jun 14, 2021
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DISTRAINT 2 - Players say: As Price confronts his past in a surreal 2D horror adventure, explore strange places, collect items, and solve puzzles. Players like: Emotional Narrative · Atmospheric Soundtrack · Pixel-Art Style ·
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You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.

Toby: The Secret Mine - Players say: Toby crosses a dangerous world of traps and puzzles to find the villagers kidnapped from his mountain home. Players like: Moody Visual Atmosphere · Varied Environments · Approachable Puzzles ·
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A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.

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Oct 20, 2015
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Slain: Back from Hell - Players say: Guide Bathoryn through six cursed realms in a gothic side-scrolling action platformer built around elemental weapons, parries, and traps. Players like: Dark Pixel Art · Heavy Metal Soundtrack · Challenging Combat ·
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Slain: Back from Hell. A heavy metal inspired arcade combat with puzzle elements and gore galore. Stunning visuals and true old school gameplay accompanied by the most metal soundtrack you've ever heard.

Darkwood - Players say: Trapped in a hostile forest, scavenge by day, fortify hideouts by night, and make choices while seeking a way out. Players like: Atmosphere and Sound · Story and Characters · Tense Night Survival ·
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Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition - Players say: As an ambitious repossession agent, Price explores eerie 2D locations, solves item puzzles, and confronts the cost of his work. Players like: Emotional Moral Story · Unsettling Atmosphere · Pixel Art Style ·
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DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.

Silence of the Sleep - Players say: After waking without his memories in a nightmarish world, Jacob explores, solves puzzles, and evades creatures to find his purpose. Players like: Unsettling Atmosphere · Surreal Visual Style · Emotional Mystery ·
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You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.

THE IMPOSSIBLE - Players say: Guide a small square across impossible-perspective structures, finding a route to the goal in 30 minimalist puzzles. Players like: Perspective-Bending Puzzles · Simple, Relaxing Play · Narration and Music ·
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THE IMPOSSIBLE is a minimal perspective illusion puzzle game. You control a small square in the IMPOSSIBLE world and remember: nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.

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Jul 24, 2020
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CONTROL Ultimate Edition - Players say: As Jesse Faden searches a shifting paranormal bureau for her brother, she battles its invaders with firearms and telekinetic powers. Players like: Supernatural Worldbuilding · Telekinetic Combat · Unsettling Bureau Atmosphere ·
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Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Harvester - Players say: After waking in a bizarre town, Steve investigates his missing fiancée and a secretive lodge through puzzles, exploration, and combat. Players like: Bizarre Story · Dark Humor · Surreal Atmosphere ·
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A strange and twisted world...Harvester! The most violent adventure game of all time comes to Steam!

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Apr 4, 2014
91% 👍
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Darkest Dungeon® - Players say: Lead flawed heroes through randomized dungeons, managing stress, supplies and turn-based battles as you reclaim an ancestral estate. Players like: Tactical Party Combat · Gothic Art and Atmosphere · Hero Stress System ·
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Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Alan Wake's American Nightmare - Players say: As Alan Wake faces his murderous double in Arizona, use light and firearms to fight Taken in a short story and survival modes. Players like: Faster, Smoother Combat · Expanded Weapon Selection · Arcade Survival Mode ·
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A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite - Players say: Trapped in a demon-ravaged school, Olive pursues a dog romance through branching choices that can lead to death or happiness. Players like: Cute-Creepy Art · Charming Characters · Dark Humor ·
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Olive is trapped in school in the midst of the apocalypse! With demons slaughtering every dog in sight there's only so many left to spend time with! Will their special someone be Brownie the snack-loving corgi, Sparky the sporty husky or Patches the dalmatian bookworm? You decide!

Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum - Players say: A debt-bound cybernetic corporate agent hacks, fights, sneaks, and bends time through lethal top-down missions. Players like: Flexible Mission Approaches · Creative Hacking · Build Variety ·
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Embody the ultimate cybernetic corporate agent. Master deadly gunplay, time manipulation, and supernatural abilities. Hack computers, people, even the individual bullets flying at you. Confront the future, and die trying.

Don't Escape Trilogy - Players say: Three point-and-click horror adventures: secure a cabin, prepare for a zombie attack, and investigate a silent spaceship. Players like: Reverse Escape Premise · Clever Environmental Puzzles · Branching Endings ·
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In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology by award-winning indie developer Scriptwelder, you'll protect an unsuspecting hamlet from yourself, try to prepare for an incoming undead horde, and search a seemingly empty spaceship for answers to a gruesome mystery.

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Jul 29, 2019
99% 👍
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Anthology Of The Killer - Players say: Zine-maker BB investigates a surreal city’s killer-filled mysteries by exploring strange places, reading dialogue, and escaping chases. Players like: Witty Surreal Writing · Distinctive Art Style · Dreamlike Atmosphere ·
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The complete surrealist horror-comedy series! A mysterious world of zines and blood!!

Penko Park - Players say: Ride a camera-equipped cart through an abandoned wildlife park, photographing odd creatures and uncovering paths and secrets. Players like: Distinctive Creature Designs · Relaxing Photo Runs · Creepy-Cute Art ·
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Snap pictures of spooky-cute creatures & explore an abandoned wildlife park.

Matsuro Palette - Players say: Trapped in a studio for seven days, a painter searches for sketch ideas and completes a cursed girl's portrait without angering her. Players like: Emotional Story · Atmospheric Music · Distinctive Art Style ·
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Survive seven days with a cursed painting. Rely on notes from past victims and manage to successfully paint her portrait. But be careful not to upset her, or you'll quickly find yourself dead! An assortment of terminal tableaus awaits you. Will you be the one to finally finish her?

Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno - Patches is dragged to school for the first ever cat-and-dog school day! All he needs to do is get this damn collar off and wreck some havoc! Will he prove cats and dogs can get along, or will he make this the Purrfect Apawcalypse?
Growing My Grandpa! - Players say: As Adrienne, search a strange basement, feed and teach the entity she calls Grandpa, and uncover what it wants. Players like: Atmosphere and presentation: players often praise the eerie mood, visuals, and sound design. · Story and lore: reviews frequently enjoy the unusual narrative, writing, and process of piecing together information from documents. · Originality: players describe the premise and overall experience as strange, distinctive, and memorable. ·
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Growing My Grandpa! is a Cronenberg-inspired point-and-click adventure game with virtual pet elements that puts a heavy emphasis on exploration and lore.

HorrorVale - HorrorVale: A grand Spooktacular adventure about a girl, her dog, and her long journey to save him in a strange and horrifying Underworld.
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Oct 1, 2024
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Purrfect Apawcalypse: Purrgatory Furever - One thousand zombies from the massacre of Hachiko High are crashing Olive's birthday party! Trapped in the Grimalkin Estate they'll have to unravel the mystery behind the zombies, all while making sure their friends are having the Purrfect Apawcalypse!
Misericorde Volume Two: White Wool & Snow - White Wool & Snow is the second visual novel in the Misericorde series.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Paper Lily - Chapter 1 - Players say: Guide anxious Lacie through a supernatural hidden world, exploring, solving flexible puzzles, and making choices that shape outcomes. Players like: Intriguing Story · Flexible Puzzles · Memorable Art And Music ·
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Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue - Players say: As student Kat follows a golden letter into an after-dark school, she solves flexible puzzles and makes choices around an occult ritual. Players like: Eerie Atmosphere · Distinctive Pixel Art · Branching Endings ·
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Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

Ib - Players say: As young Ib, explore a shifting art gallery, solve puzzles, evade traps, and search for a way back to your parents. Players like: Surreal Gallery Atmosphere · Distinctive Pixel Art · Memorable Characters ·
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A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.

The Supper - Players say: As tavern keeper Ms. Appleton, explore, solve item puzzles, and cook strange meals for customers under a voice’s command. Players like: Distinctive Pixel Art · Creepy Cozy Atmosphere · Memorable Short Story ·
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The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.

The Children of Clay - Players say: As an archaeologist, inspect a strange clay artifact, cross-reference clues in books, and uncover a folkloric horror at your desk. Players like: Eerie Atmosphere · Stop-Motion Art · Artifact Investigation ·
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The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

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Mar 7, 2025
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Endacopia - Players say: Guide Mellow, a boy who has lost his senses, through a surreal world of point-and-click puzzles, strange characters, and monsters. Players like: Distinctive Mixed-Media Art · Quirky Characters and Humor · Music and Sound Design ·
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Endacopia is a Point-and-Click Puzzle Adventure that is visually reminiscent of early computer edutainment games... with underlying horrors.

Left 4 Dead 2 - Players say: Four survivors battle through Deep South campaigns, sharing supplies and rescuing teammates as zombie encounters shift each run. Players like: Co-op Teamwork · Dynamic Replayability · Workshop Mods ·
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Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

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Nov 16, 2009
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Half-Life: Alyx - Players say: Play as Alyx Vance in VR as you explore Combine-controlled City 17, solve hands-on puzzles, scavenge supplies, and fight. Players like: Immersive World Interaction · Detailed Environments · Natural VR Controls ·
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Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.

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Mar 23, 2020
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Firework - Players say: A rookie officer reopens a massacre investigation in a mountain village, exploring eerie scenes and solving story-linked puzzles. Players like: Emotional Storytelling · Eerie Village Atmosphere · Memorable Characters ·
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An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.

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Feb 3, 2021
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The Room - Players say: Follow a cryptic invitation and investigate a mysterious safe by turning, unlocking, and solving the mechanisms hidden inside it. Players like: Satisfying Box Puzzles · Detailed Mechanisms · Mysterious Atmosphere ·
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A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

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Jul 28, 2014
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The Room Two - Players say: Follow a scientist’s cryptic letters through eerie rooms, inspecting objects and solving linked mechanical puzzles to move forward. Players like: Creative Mechanical Puzzles · Dark, Eerie Atmosphere · Tactile Object Interaction ·
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Unique events transport you to the halls of a long-forgotten crypt. The only means of escape lies locked within a stone pedestal, along with a note from your mysterious ally. His words promise assistance, but only serve to entice you into a compelling world of mystery and exploration.

The Room 4: Old Sins - Players say: Investigate a missing couple’s manor by exploring a strange dollhouse, solving mechanical puzzles, and uncovering its secrets. Players like: Interconnected Room Puzzles · Satisfying Mechanisms · Fair Puzzle Difficulty ·
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The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?