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FREE Horror Games (3300+)

All of them are playtested...

Note: Visual Novels, Text-based Interactive Fiction and RPGMaker titles are for the most part excluded. I also try not to include demos or heavy work-in-progress builds due to their unfinished and messy nature.

Horror highlights > https://itch.io/c/1694057/best-of

Current number of games: 3303

(Often times the blurbs are just that. Short blurbs that employ my own rating system rather than full blown reviews. Ever wonder why? Poor mental health and personal life constraints are to blame.)


Your latest job as a graffiti cleaner for the urban renewal project is not as it seems.
Adventure
Loot an abandoned house, unravel sinister secrets, and face the lurking terror in this gripping short horror experience.
Adventure

Played on steam. Solid.

Safety Instructions for emergency situation
Simulation

It's ok. Navigation could've been less mindless.

Pretend that you can't see the monster, that may be the only way to survive.
Adventure

Interesting concept, but no...

A retro survival horror game that takes inspiration of games like silent hill and analog horror
Survival
What happened to your dear old grandma?
Adventure
Play in browser
You took a long nap and need some coffee to work
Adventure

Anti-climactic and the brewing noise sounding like someone blowing a warm drink took me out of it long before the jumpscare could take place.

Book of Secrets is a single player atmospheric horror game.
Puzzle
Play in browser
An atmospheric horror game made for GitHub GameOff24
Puzzle
A short river dolphin horror point & click!
Adventure

Decent.

Short Horror Game where you Perform a Ritual.
Adventure

What is going on in this game...

An adaptation of the short story "The Picture In The House" by H.P. Lovecraft
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser

It's ok.

Action

I like the driving, that's about it.

PSX AND VHS STYLE
Adventure
Glitchy PS1 horror slop straight from 1997
Action
Play in browser

Creative.

With The Sin Of The Flesh Every Man Is Born
Adventure

Excluding my lack of investment for the narrative and dislike for public domain visuals that will age poorly over time, this is a fine exploration game.

Horror + Probability
Adventure

Eh, didn't hit me as hard as the previous games.

Nothing prepared you for the darkness and rusty walls of a maze
Survival

For a maze horror it's quite ok.

What can you discover while cleaning someone else's house?
Adventure

It's ok.

Psychological horror set in research center somewhere in Arctic
Adventure

Good enough.

Found your grandmother's gold watch.
Adventure

*Smh*

A Psychological Musing FPS game
Shooter

I don't know...

Emily's car breaks down on a lonely road at night, she must stay brave and fix it to escape the silence.
Survival
There is a piercing light that obscures your vision, you try to remember how you got here...
Adventure

Played on steam. It's peak jank, in a good way.

Enter an abandoned school in search of your lost journal
Simulation

It's ok.

Driving at night hoping for a cheap meal
Adventure
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