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Horror

Featuring tense atmospheres, unsettling themes, and often supernatural elements designed to frighten or disturb players. Games in this category may include jump scares, psychological terror, or survival elements set in eerie environments.

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Death Becomes Her
fuck the masses // total control
meatscience
Concision
"...when there is no longer anything to take away."
Future Proof GamesVerified Account
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Escape The Killer
"Escape The Killer" is a short textual adventure
Nomys_Tempar
Adventure
Play in browser
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
xrafstar
Adventure
GIF
The Third Kind
An unsettling Point'n'Click Adventure on a broken VCR.
Pizzamakesgames
Adventure
Remains of the Day
The sun has died. You have been seduced to Edinburgh below the Stair. But at what price?
James StAnthony
Role Playing
Play in browser
Deep Sleep
Text adventure horror game with 3 different endings
SjoerdThaGamer
Adventure
Macabre
RangerAragorn
Adventure
Play in browser
Fear of the Dark
A text-based game.
Axon
Play in browser
Shiver
kev765
Adventure
Play in browser
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
BOOM!
Graphics-less choose-your-own-adventure horror comic.
R茅my 馃崿 Devaux
Action
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Untidy
You have to finish your art project.
Taffer
Play in browser
Panic
Just trying out Twine!
racialghoul
Adventure
Play in browser
What Makes A Monster?
Entry for #BiteSizedHorrorJam
AriiMoose
Play in browser
Tastes Like Home
A very short interactive horror story written for the #BiteSizedHorrorJam. Satisfy your hunger or die trying.
Jagger Byte Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Long Night
Frogmus
Play in browser
Still
You are the monster.
Mike Guthrie-Plouffe
Puzzle
Play in browser
Higgeldy Piggeldy
A horror text game for #bitesizedhorror jam
rbatty
Play in browser
An Ambiguous Incident
Listen to me. Something went inside your house. It's not safe.
BrandLibel
Adventure
Play in browser
Within the Walls - A text adventure
A horror text adventure.
Asatiir
Adventure
Play in browser
Soulless Me
Text Based horror with choices that matter
Team Savage
Unkindness (Asylum Jam 2015)
A Horror in Shades of Red
Studio Turtledove / Andrea Reventon
Adventure
The Ceramic Uncertainty
A text-based "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" about a mysterious plant.
falpal
Adventure
GIF
5
Grasp Breathe Look Scream
banach-tarski
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A路L路I路E路N: The Adventure
All is in silence... Too much silence...
Alpha Aventuras
Adventure
GIF
7
THE DAMAGE IS DONE.
banach-tarski
Play in browser
Dark Fates
a psychological mystery text adventure
RemEntertainment
Adventure
GIF
8
My bones were sturdy and cold.
banach-tarski
Play in browser
The Case of Kimmirut Chasm
The Case of Kimmirut Chasm - A text-based adventure, inspired by the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
MaxAmaden
Adventure
Play in browser
Game Title: Demo
What if you were a child stuck in a horror story?
Mayo
'Til Death Do We Meet
A day in the life and job of the Grim Reaper.
Alessia Ianni-Palarchio
Play in browser
Yambamo
An interactive choose your own adventure game
kiddtic
Adventure
Play in browser
Everyday
A game about a guy's everyday rituals that turn out to be not what you'd expect.
Game Storm
Role Playing
GIF
shimmer
in the dark. in the water. in my box.
alex
Play in browser
The Writer: A Change Of Identity
$2.99
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
GameAboutGames
Adventure
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