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589 Horror games reviewed and scored, best first.
589 reviews
A free browser incremental built for a 2025 game jam, about hauling a strange substance up out of a mining town's collapsing depths — deliberately short, unusually confident about its Lovecraftian ending, and patched several times since launch to fix the rough edges that shipped with it.
7 / 10
An atmospheric, beautifully art-directed Early Access horror action RPG from the creator of cult favourite Withering Rooms, drawing strong early praise for its Victorian horror mood and music, but facing a detailed, credible critique from longtime fans that it has traded the original's punishing survival-horror identity for a more generic soulslike formula, alongside a reproducible severe performance issue at maximum settings on high-end hardware.
7 / 10
A pixel-art corporate-horror adventure with a gripping, well-written story and striking atmosphere that reviewers compare favorably to Ib and The Witch's House — undercut for a large, vocal share of players by a harshly limited save system and frustrating, poorly-explained combat sections.
7 / 10
This solo-developed horror adventure turns every action into a countdown, delivering a moody, well-written couple of hours on a remote Scottish island — short by design, and honest about it.
6.9 / 10
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A Retro-Styled Nightmare in Eastern Europe Iron Blight drops players into Prasnova, a rain-soaked Eastern Bloc town, trapped in a room while abominations claw at the door, tasked w
6.9 / 10
SEVER reskins blackjack as a dark, body-horror gambling game in the vein of Buckshot Roulette, letting players trade flesh for cash and items, and its small but Positive review sample praises its atmosphere and strategic item layer while flagging a short runtime and a conspicuous missing rule.
6.9 / 10
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A Tumbling Bumblebee Fleeing Giant Spiders Through an N64-Style Cave Tumblebee is a short, bite-sized horror game from solo Norwegian developer Agelvik, built around a premise that
6.9 / 10
A short, folk-horror follow-up from solo developer Jonny's Games (of Fear the Moon fame), whose mask-swapping mechanic and unnerving atmosphere won over most returning fans even as a specific, recurring complaint held that its story crams too much cryptic lore into too short a runtime, alongside instakill maze sections that drove at least one refund.
6.8 / 10
A short, dread-soaked drive on an alien moon MOONROT puts players behind the wheel of a small rover named HOPE, tasked with crossing a desolate lunar landscape to photograph anomal
6.8 / 10
The third and final entry in the 2D hand-drawn horror series, closing out its decade-long story in a single clean April 2026 launch, with a rocky first week of bugs that a documented patch cadence — including one reviewer explicitly reversing their verdict after a named patch — visibly worked through.
6.8 / 10
This brief, atmosphere-first psychological horror game about three uneasy days in the South Korean countryside earned near-unanimous praise from a genuinely large review base, even as one loud dissenting voice questions whether its short runtime justifies the price.
6.8 / 10
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Sentenced, Starving, and Completely Alone DEATH PENALTY opens with about as blunt a premise as horror games get: you've been condemned to die, dropped into a fortress crawling
6.7 / 10
A short, cheap, genuinely atmospheric PS1-VHS horror game that launched with real killer-AI and logic bugs — and a developer who shipped six patches in three weeks that visibly won back reviewers who'd initially soured on it.
6.7 / 10
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A dungeon you learn instead of level DEMON DUST drops you into a mysterious, interconnected complex with no tutorial, one gun, and a mouse cursor that does not double as a camera.
6.7 / 10
Die on the Job, Steal the Data, Catch the Last Train Home DATA BREACH puts you and up to three friends in the boots of expendable corporate robots sent into hostile facilities to s
6.6 / 10
4Spicchi is a free-to-play first-person horror shooter from GoldenShrimpsGames in which delivery girl Margherita defends her family pizzeria from food-alien invaders using a weapon that fires pizza ingredients, and this review's sample finds a scrappy, genuinely funny lean FPS undercut by thin ammo economy and a few rough technical edges the developer has been actively patching.
6.5 / 10
A free, short PS1-style horror visual novel about a double date gone wrong in an abandoned house, praised for genuinely lived-in dialogue, real branching endings, and a well-judged creepy atmosphere, hampered by rough animation, a limited camera, and a couple of softlock reports.
6.5 / 10
A free, short daylight psychological horror experience set in a wind-battered desert, praised for its unsettling atmosphere and sound design, but criticized by a vocal minority for sluggish movement, thin plotting, and an erratic pursuing threat, though the developer's active patching won over some early critics.
6.5 / 10
A visually stunning solo-developed psychological horror game exploring dreamlike Frutiger Aero liminal spaces, widely praised for its atmosphere and ambition but held back by an absent save system, painfully slow movement, and rough translations.
6.5 / 10
Another Trip Down the Exit 8 Corridor, This Time in the Backrooms BACKROOMS ANOMALY takes the "spot the difference and decide whether to turn back" formula popularized by
6.5 / 10
A visually striking, thematically ambitious psychological horror game whose strong first half gives way to a bloated, uneven back half, further complicated by a genuine, multi-reviewer controversy over undisclosed AI-generated assets.
6.5 / 10
A viral, dirt-cheap psychological game built on Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun and a handful of items to manipulate the odds, whose tense, short-session charm and meme-ready presentation carried it to millions of sales, tempered by a large, consistent complaint that its RNG-heavy design offers little lasting depth and a specific, recurring grievance from early itch.io backers who felt abandoned by the Steam release.
6.5 / 10
Six Mythologies, One Very Old-School Format Burrows of Cairntir wears its inspiration openly: a first-person, turn-based dungeon crawler built, in the solo developer's own word
6.5 / 10
A short, atmospheric psychological horror escape game from Mounpeak Games, Very Positive across 166 reviews for its tense sound design and genuinely effective scares — undercut by an almost universal complaint that the entire experience is over in well under an hour.
6.5 / 10
