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Good Horror Games

CONTENT WARNING: Due to the nature of the genre, these games can contain uncomfortable and can even cause distress. Please check the blurbs to see what content it contains.

you find a dusty vhs tape, with footage of an old video game
Shooter
Short horror game. Oldschool 2D point n' click.
Adventure
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The year is 1996 and you’re employed by a mysterious company known as Nova Nexus.
body horror meet n fuck
Visual Novel
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CONTENT: Photos of real life surgery, sexual content.

This is so weird that I imagine that most people are going to be put off of it by the aesthetics, but the few who would like it are going to really like it.

Adventure

CONTENT: Mild supernatural themes.

This is incredibly short and a little underwhelming but it's free and has a neat aesthetic. It's worth playing at least once.

Welcome to Fernwood Creek.
Adventure

CONTENT: Homophobia, torture, panic attack, violence against animals.

Beware of the nanny...
Adventure

CONTENT: Threats and violence towards children, jump scares.

A tale of dark and troubling things.
Adventure
Sentient is an experimental psychological horror experience regarding technology and human consciousness.
Adventure

CONTENT: Loud noises and flashing lights.

Experience Horror, Live.
Adventure

CONTENT: Brief nudity, jump scares, violence.

Affordable rooms with a view TO DIE FOR...
Survival

CONTENT: Jump scares.

At the tattered ends of trauma...can you survive the Butcher of Northbury Grove one last time?
Survival

CONTENT: Jump scares, torture.

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.
Shooter

CONTENT: Supernatural.

Welcome to Northbury Grove...we hope you survive your stay!
Survival

CONTENT: Jump scares.

please
$1.99
A horror short
Adventure

CONTENT: Gore.

Manage customers in this PSX themed Burger Chef Simulator!
Adventure

CONTENT: Jump scares.

A GZDoom-based standalone remake of PT!
Survival

CONTENT: Jump scares.

You’re going on a date but not everything is as it seems. A dark secret is waiting for you.
Play the VHS tape left by an employee of Building 71 as they delve into a mystery they never expected to unveil.
Adventure
Four of the scariest VHS soaked shorts in one shocking anthology! PS1 style survival horror!
Adventure

CONTENT: Jump scares, violence, gore.

"vires acquirit eundo"
Interactive Fiction
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Escape the nightmarish human abattoir in this blood-soaked Horror FPS.
Shooter
STEP INTO THE DREAMSCAPE
Puzzle

CONTENT: Potential harm to animals depending on actions, general violence.

This is a neat little homages to PS1 horror games like Silent Hill.

A short PS1-style horror game
Survival
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Can Sara survive a late-night trip to the Laundromat or will the Womb Ripper perform an early delivery?
Adventure

CONTENT: Murder of infants and pregnant women, gore, jump scares.

A fun throwback to original 80s slasher films and PlayStation 1 horror games.

Journey through a dark fever dream...
Adventure

A short atmospheric game set in a setting that seems familiar but everything is off.

A 5 minute horror game.

A 5 and a half minute experience that tells it's story not only without a word, but without even leaving the room that it starts in. It doesn't have much replayability but it's definitely worth playing once.

And then I saw this ship. No signal, scan's returning nothing. I could have passed, but... I'm a curious one
Adventure

Solis has no jump scares, but tons of atmosphere that will keep you on your toes and leaves enough to imagination as to what exactly happened.

It does a fantastic job at guiding the player along with it's mechanics.