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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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The Haunted House
A text-based horror experience like no other.
karenscps
Adventure
Husk.
Unfinished text adventure of an unnatural phenomenon that happened in Dubai in 1984
Asatiir
Adventure
Play in browser
Paper Brexit
A Dream | Narrative Game (20 Minutes)
Greg R. Buchanan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
All Hail The Spider God
All Hail The Spider God is an eerie interactive fiction adventure about You, and all the Yous you've left behind.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
KINSALE HORROR
Hitchhike. See what I saw.
Rarykos
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Widemare
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Andrea Pignataro
Visual Novel
GIF
Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Adventure
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
GIF
Angel In The Dark
An Audio & Text based horror game, set in total darkness. Will you survive?
Philip Aldous
Visual Novel
Ms. Lojka or: In Despair to Will to Be Oneself
A game of darkness & inner turmoil
Jordan Magnuson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Living in Darkness
A text adventure game. Can you survive?
SinisterlySweet
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
The Brigand's Story
And the captain said: "Antonio, tell us your favorite story!" And Antonio began:
Laura Michet
Interactive Fiction
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
Two Words
Take the first step...
Skruffye
Adventure
Frozen Empty
twine weirdness
Len Cunningham
Play in browser
DRMS-01
First part in a series about dreams
thatguynm
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Slumber Party Spectacular!!!
Slumber party time! Fun times with friends, and probably no imminent danger!
mwahahavilah
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The mystery of the asylum
Made for the twine Tuesday game jam.
LaCreaturaVioleta
Adventure
Play in browser
21 Rooms
With no options left you decide to play the stranger's twisted game.
BrianPickens53
Adventure
Play in browser
Haraal
Tulga
Adventure
Gulam
A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)
arkicade
Visual Novel
Upon A Darkening Flood
A horror tale of the Revolution on culture, heritage, and the anxieties elicited by a strange library.
Rastagong
Visual Novel
In The Trees
A text-based speculative horror game
Caspian Depression Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SixSixSixFlags
Escape the dark carnival in this story-driven text-based adventure!
bencodrington
Adventure
Dark Days
Benjamin Lockwood
Survival
Broken
See how a group of young adults in a time of despair learn to survive in a world of disease.
Cyprus Developer
Adventure
The Storks Are Crying
Unknown Developer
Role Playing
Escape the Room
$0.25
kamalHesham
Adventure
Play in browser
The Desert Breathes.
no one returns from the desert. but it's your best chance.
costlyblood // piratescarfy
Play in browser
Omina Mortis
Rhino Games
Visual Novel
Cheap Room 값싼 방 (Sound Novel)_en/kr
Old-fashioned sound novel. Asian horror story.
QamarART
Adventure
Play in browser
Dark Sacrament
A Gamebook style narrative about being trapped by groupthink
S_lynch
The Outpost Nine
benjybates
Adventure
Warding: Demo
Text based horror game, where you play as Cecilia, a blind woman, on the night that someone breaks into her house.
risraelwriter
Adventure
Play in browser
Home by the Sea (text-based)
Udemy's Unity course Project: Text101 hounted house-themed game.
nyokiart
Adventure
Play in browser
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