Browse GamesGame JamsUpload GameDeveloper LogsCommunity
Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
Tags

Filter Results

(Clear)
Tags

Horror

Games that aim to startle and unnerve the player.

Suggest updated description

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!)

Suggest updated description

Top rated
available in English tagged Horror and Text based (169 results)

169 results

Explore games available in English tagged Horror and Text based on itch.io · Upload your games available in English to itch.io to have them show up here.

New itch.io is now on YouTube!

Subscribe for game recommendations, clips, and more

View Channel
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(582 total ratings)
Role Playing
Please Answer Carefully
a horror survey game
litrouke
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(1,949 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(294 total ratings)
Simulation
GUTLESS
hadopelagic false light
DOMINO CLUB
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(88 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(91 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Mind Games: Trepidation
Horror, Sci-fi, Queer-friendly, and Romance... what more could you ask for?
Bottlecap Rabbit Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(60 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service (Demo)
One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.
etherane
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(73 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Inner Demons
A supernatural horror story set in modern-day Seattle. Will you save the world or succumb to the darkness?
a.w. morgan
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(165 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(137 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(100 total ratings)
Adventure
Disharmony
An investigative IF journey into the unknown.
Pink Soda Studios
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sleepover Rules
Your friend invites you to his house for a sleepover with a certain set of rules
SjoerdHekking
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now
$22.99
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Goodwolf Studio
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
Adventure
ONE DAY HIKE
kit
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(39 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Come to Jesus
An apocalyptic cult pick-your-path game! Neato!
Bone Octopus
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Adventure
eurydice exhumed
orpheus descends into the underworld
sweetfish
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Series of Interactive Stories Where No Matter What You Do You Are Immediately Killed by a Werewolf
Can you escape the werewolf? (No.)
Luke Burns
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(71 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
The Mouth Of The Woods
Twenty-seven-year-old Casper Antilles was last seen on ███████ street Wednesday night around 9:00 PM.
DOMINO CLUB
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
venial sin
when a burden becomes too much
nadia nova
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Neotrogla
A Twine story of bugs and bodies.
Roxy S.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
AL - A Choose Your Own Adventure
Gabriel Cornish
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
EXSP-Tech
A game scarier than actual customer service
Ascendance IF
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Spooky Romance Times
Text-based horror-romance dating(?) sim
Anamika
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
On Mount Ségou
Mystical Horror Sound Novel
Rastagong
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Survival
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(185 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ONLY THIS
And nothing more.
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Puzzle
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
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Stares Back
The signs brought you here.
StephenW313
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Content Moderator Sim
A workplace horror game, playable in 5 minutes.
samplereality
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Death's Gambit
A gamble with a unique guest for an intriguing price.
SjoerdHekking
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Loading more games...
Next page
itch.io now on YouTube!
AboutFAQBlogContact us
Copyright © 2024 itch corp · Directory · Terms · Privacy · Cookies