The Psychological Horror Zone

Horror games built from dread, perception, instability, guilt, and mental pressure.

Latest Standouts

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

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.
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.
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.
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.
Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY! - Run your bar as a gorilla and hunt down the humans in animal costumes hiding among your customers. Observe them closely, spot the clues that give their disguises away, test their slogans, and blow the imposters away with your shotgun. Choose your targets wisely... or become the hunted.
Survivor's Notes - Players say: A manga artist with apocalypse dreams and a soldier from the future shape a zombie outbreak’s story through choices and QTEs. Players like: Story and Characters · Cinematic Action Scenes · Branching Story Paths ·
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"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock different branches and endings. Follow a girl who foresees disaster and acolonel from the future as their stories reveal the outbreak's origins. Trust,rescue, or walk away. Survival is onlyone of them.

Anomaly Company - You and your crew are sent in to assess reality in this 4-player co-op horror game. Memorize the environment. Spot disturbing anomalies. Decide if the timeline is safe. One bad call—and you’re forced to start over.
THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY - The well has gone dry. It's up to you to find out why. Traverse through abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Power dying machinery to bring light into darkness. Dig into broken earth and crawl your way out. Down here you’re not exploring... you're trespassing.
Dissolution of My Self - A prince who has lost his kingdom and everything else. His uncle and aide-de-camp, unable to leave him. In a cramped rented room abroad, click on objects and piece together a codependent relationship filled with brutality and endurance. Watch helplessness turn into violence, tenderness into torture.

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CPU Invaders - Players say: Defend your computer from invading enemies in a desktop-overlay shooter, dodging attacks and clearing ten stages. Players like: Desktop Overlay · Quick Arcade Sessions · Challenging Stages ·
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Invaders are living inside your computer. You shouldn't let that happen! Interact with your desktop while playing, watch Youtube videos, chat with your friends and more! CPU Invaders overlaps the game itself with your computer screen.

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.

Everything - Players say: Shift from animals and objects to atoms and galaxies in an open-ended sandbox of exploration, transformation, and philosophical audio. Players like: Scale-Shifting Exploration · Alan Watts Recordings · Relaxing Atmosphere ·
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Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.

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.

Asleep: Act 1 - Players say: As Ana Lúcia, explore a 1990s Brazilian nightmare, solve point-and-click puzzles, and use light to evade hostile creatures. Players like: Eerie Pixel Art · Brazilian Setting · Intriguing Story ·
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Use light to survive a nightmare: each creature reacts differently to it. Explore, solve puzzles, and evade the horrors in the dark. You are in the skin of Ana Lúcia.

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.

Hiveswap Friendsim - Players say: After crash-landing on Alternia, an unnamed survivor tries to make friends with its trolls in short, choice-driven visual-novel episodes. Players like: Darkly Funny Writing · Memorable Troll Characters · Alternian Worldbuilding ·
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You’ve crash landed on a dangerous alien planet with no food, medicine, or prospects, but you do know one thing—you are absolutely desperate for friendship.

The Stillness of the Wind - Players say: As Talma, an elderly holdout on a remote farm, tend goats and crops, trade with a visitor, and read unsettling city letters. Players like: Poignant Story · Quiet Atmosphere · Art and Sound ·
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A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.

永远消失的幻想乡 ~ The Disappearing of Gensokyo - Players say: Lead Touhou fighters through Gensokyo’s crisis in a top-down action RPG of character skills, shooting, and danmaku dodging. Players like: Distinct Character Abilities · Touhou References · Character Art ·
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"The Disappearing of Gensokyo" is a Touhou Project doujin game from MyACG Studio, a Chinese doujin game fan circle. We have re-imagined Touhou as an ARPG, creating this "Danmaku-Shooting-ARPG". We hope this game will be a good experience for those who are both new and knowledgeable of Touhou!

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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.

Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 - Players say: Help pizza-maker Caetano with deliveries while pursuing his old saxophone through a surreal, secret-filled city corner. Players like: Surreal City Setting · Jazz Soundtrack · Secrets to Find ·
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On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?

Aurora Hills: Chapter 2 - Players say: As ranger Ethan Hill, search an abandoned Appalachian park for missing Jen, photographing clues and solving point-and-click puzzles. Players like: Beautiful Environments · Clever Puzzles · Eerie Atmosphere ·
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Aurora Hills: Chapter 2 is the second part in series of point and click puzzle adventure games. Follow the journey of Ethan Hill, a park ranger tasked with investigating strange disappearances from a national park to uncover the mystery of Aurora Hills!

your sisters - Players say: Keep animated characters on your desktop as they follow your cursor, react to clicks, and unlock new looks through interaction. Players like: Steam Profile Styling · Desktop Companions · Trading Cards ·
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Who needs one desktop girl when you can have a whole squad? Meet your adorable chaos crew, always cute, sometimes weird and fun. Your Sisters is a little dose of dopamine for your boring desktop.

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?

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.

Burger Shop - Make burgers, shakes and more in this exciting food-making game that has been enjoyed by millions of fans everywhere.
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Dec 1, 2017
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Pizza Game - Every boy have a secret. One of them is bones.
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Sep 6, 2019
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Misericorde Volume Two: White Wool & Snow - White Wool & Snow is the second visual novel in the Misericorde series.
Babushka's Glitch Dungeon - Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.
A Chamber of Stars - The rise and fall of a rock n' roll star.
This Curse Is Metal as Hell! | Kusodeka Bayashi - This Curse Is Metal as Hell! is a first-person horror comedy game. As the game’s child protagonist, master the special powers hidden within your dad’s MP3 player to rush your way through a world of pure terror. Do you have what it takes to defeat the curse that plagued your family for generations?

Top Rated

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

Steam Engine Simulator - Players say: Operate a miniature steam engine by balancing heat, water, and pressure, then tune its output or power a city in optional DLC. Players like: Hands-On Engine Tuning · Learning Steam Mechanics · Realistic Machine Physics ·
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The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

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.

Patrick's Parabox - Players say: Push boxes across grids, then step inside them as recursive levels turn classic Sokoban into layered logic puzzles. Players like: Inventive Box Mechanics · Clever Puzzle Design · Satisfying Aha Moments ·
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A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

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Mar 29, 2022
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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.

Picayune Dreams - Players say: As Cyl, survive spaceborne hordes in a roguelike shooter, build weapons between waves, and dodge bullet-hell bosses. Players like: Breakcore Soundtrack · Surreal Visual Style · Bullet-Hell Bosses ·
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Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival, and bullet hell gameplay. Adrift across the endless void, you must fend off thousands of nightmarish and otherwordly creatures. Uncover a mysterious and surreal story. And don't forget. You mu [TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED...]

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.

Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim - Players say: In a town of object-headed residents, pursue romance, explore Dialtown, and make choices across a surreal visual novel. Players like: Unpredictable Comedy · Memorable Characters · Surprising Story Depth ·
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If you've ever wanted to romantically pursue a phone, then hot DARN, do I have just the game for you.

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Feb 14, 2022
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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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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.

Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It - Players say: In a snowbound Soviet closed city, outcast Asya searches for missing classmate Ira and prepares a radio message to the universe. Players like: Emotional Writing · Atmospheric Art and Music · Relatable Asya ·
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USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

Berry Bury Berry - Players say: Grow fruit in a first-person garden, feed it to a growing hole, and buy upgrades and tools to uncover the garden’s secrets. Players like: Satisfying Hole Loop · Well-Paced Upgrades · Cute Uneasy Art ·
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A juicy first-person incremental game about growing berries and tossing them down an ominous hole. Earn money and upgrades. Make new friends with sentient berry pals. Grow and control the hole as you unearth why nobody leaves this accursed garden. Bury it all, Berry everything.