Gavengelthegrim
Hi, I am a horror obsessed lunatic. Horror this, horror that. Horror games are like comfort food and filled with amazingly rich stories and beautiful musical palettes.
They're my animal crossing.
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...
Survive what lies beyond the darkness of FORGOTTEN: Whispers of the Past
Survival
Adventure
The house is interesting, I want you to check it out, Find anything and get out with a answer
Adventure
What does it mean to be a convolutional neural network? Find it out in Backpropagation.
Survival
You got locked into your own apartment from a higher being and need to escape
Puzzle
Each delivery brings us closer to greatness! (And you closer to your next box.)
Adventure
is a psychological horror game set in an abandoned hotel. Players explore dark hallways and uncover dark secrets.
Adventure
Man in the Corner is a survival horror game where you must secure a house and escape a lurking terror. Will you survive?
Horror Highlights (900+)
Most enjoyed Horror games from my "FREE Horror Games" collection. All playtested. Game quality ranges from lo-fi indie good to good good and AA good. It's versatile, but never bad or without quality gameplay elements/enriching experiences...
Adventure
The house is interesting, I want you to check it out, Find anything and get out with a answer
Adventure
is a psychological horror game set in an abandoned hotel. Players explore dark hallways and uncover dark secrets.
Adventure
The Unlit Sun is a psychological horror game where Ethan faces a twisted reality ruled by the enigmatic Nyctarion.
Adventure
2D side-scroller horror and suspense game with visual novel elements.
Role Playing
Play in browser
Find safety in darkness and block out the moonlight. They may look human. They are not.
Adventure
Explore strange worlds
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳...
The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner.
Interactive Fiction
All expenses paid vacation to the decrepit city of sins falling apart at the seams
Adventure
Prepare yourself for an interactive sensory journey unlike anything you've ever played before.
Surreal dungeon crawler RPG set in the city you keep seeing in your dreams.
Silent Hill-likes
𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦...
A slow paced horror drama inspired by nightmares, psychological themes and the beauty of lost places.
Adventure
Haunted by grief and guilt, you start seeing a house in your dreams. You feel it calling for you, so you answer it.
Adventure
A gruesome death leads to a mysterious town in this 3rd person retro game.
Adventure
Post trauma is a horror game inspired by the old classics with fixed camera angles and today's graphics.
Survival
A psychological and story driven horror game with old retro vibes.
Adventure
An adventure Horror RPG. Ride to survive, fight to win, Road to Hollow Hills
Adventure
A Horror Experience from the eyes of Detective Michael Beckham.
Action
Interesting looking VNs
The ship was hit... you're suspended in the vast abyss of space... waiting to die.
Visual Novel
A short visual novel about being tied up in the backseat of a moving vehicle.
Visual Novel
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The pursuit of perfection can unravel anyone—even artificial intelligence.
Visual Novel
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A horror adventure and visual novel with a fast-paced story, intense scares, and choice driven gameplay.
Visual Novel
What happens when the evil demon kid meets an opponent they can't beat?
Visual Novel
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Saddest games on Itch.io
𝘈𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨. (Maintenance is not guaranteed.)
A narrative game combining elements of both the virtual pet and horror genres.
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A short emotional story about loss, struggling to survive and not loosing hope.
Adventure
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A small sad platformer about being born in a world that is not built for you. 100% hand-painted art by Marie.
Platformer
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A 1st person exploration game in which you play as a man obsessed with the meaning of a painting
Adventure
A solo game about loss and grief from the perspective of a ghost
My Lovely Daughter is a game that explores the depth of a father's grief and how far he will go to safe his daughter.
Simulation
Shopping List
Games I can only buy on here?
When Peter York becomes trapped on a remote farmstead, he is forced to confront a dark history in his bid for freedom.
Adventure
Atmospheric surreal horror game about day and night cycle
