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Gavengelthegrim

Hi..., I am a horror obsessed lunatic. Horror this, horror that. Horror games are like comfort food ~~:̤̈Ï̤̤̈T̤̤̈̈ ̤̤̈̈Ḧ̤̤̈Ṳ̤̈̈R̤̤̈̈T̤̤̈̈S̤̈~~ and filled with amazingly rich stories and beautiful musical palettes... ~~̧I̧Ţ'̧Ş ̧ŞO̧ ̧ḐA̧ŖĶ~~

They're my animal crossing. ~~𝗠̘̚𝗘̘̚𝗗̘̚𝗜̘̚𝗖̘̚𝗜̘̚𝗡̘̚𝗘̘̚~~

FREE Horror Games (3900+)

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. Horror highlights > https://i...

Twilight Specter

Adventure

Abyss Under Lock

In this game you will fall.

Adventure

one day forgotten

Explore the home of someone slowly forgetting it

Simulation

A short experimental horror experience about working data entry.

Puzzle

Jake's Halloween Night [Remastered]

Get ready for Halloween night

Role Playing

Play in browser

I could not save her...

Simulation

Reality is fragile when the mind is already fractured.

SwordSpire Studios

Play in browser

The gears are turning, the machine is ready

The Photo Of God

Take the photo of God

Adventure

This is a narrative-driven game that tells a heartbreaking story about a teenager suffering from a curse within society.

Strube Entertainments

A meaningful lie. An end to a world.

Welcome to Mad Mansion. A First-Person Horror and Puzzle Game, Developed for our Games Design and Production Course.

Puzzle

Abandoned in the Abyss

Investigate the disappearance of the crew of the SPARS-2, floating alone in the empty void.

Delivery for Mr. Lucy

Delivery to a bizarre spot

Adventure

Play in browser

Intense fear of plants

Simulation

A mysterious postman comes across a petrifying event

Adventure

a game about a man and his routine

Mental Health

Toxic Roseworks

Adventure

Be the leader of an expedition in search for God

Eduardo Scarpato

Survival

Play in browser

Backrooms by xphilq

Backrooms walk sim

Simulation

Midnight Thirst

Never drink in the middle of the night... something might be waiting for you.

Adventure

Horror Highlights (1000+)

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...

The Photo Of God

Take the photo of God

Adventure

A meaningful lie. An end to a world.

Mental Health

Toxic Roseworks

Adventure

A PS1-style horror game where you're an injured cave explorer trying to escape before you bleed out.

Survival

A short horror game about buying a run-down house, and the residents that still reside.

Interactive Fiction

Curse of the Mantle

A short, Gameboy adaptation based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Mantle of Lady Eleanor".

Play in browser

Bite-Sized Scares

A collection of short, bite-sized games of indie-horror goodness!

Adventure

Short Point & Click Game

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Midnight Mansion

A retro survival horror

Adventure

Play in browser

Escape or DIE...

Adventure

Puzzle

Saksi Malam Kematian

Hide, run, and save! Someone is watching you and you need to escape from your school befora it to late!

Puzzle

Platformer

After your brothers are killed by Mr. Wolf you wake up trapped in your home and must use your wits to escape.

Survival

A Lakeside Walk in the Dolomites

Horror

Adventure

Entry for "Spaghetti Invasion Game Jam 2025"

disconnectedstudios

Adventure

Incontri ravvicinati di un tipo

Horror point-and-click adventure

Rigettarigettatori

Adventure

Mysterious Gelatinous Substance

Horror game

Rigettarigettatori

Adventure

Play in browser

Short Adventure Game

Digital Mosaic Games

Adventure

Play in browser

Cucina Stellata ✦ Starred Cuisine

A disturbing culinary tale in 19th-century Italy.

Adventure

Short horror experience about elevator

Adventure

Explore strange worlds

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳...

Ephemeral Frame

Walk into the picture frames of a fragmented mind. Made for LSDJAM2024

Puzzle

Wander through an assortment of dreams... and nightmares. Made for LSDJAM 2023

Puzzle

three short dreams

Adventure

Play in browser

People see me as a miserable thing, stuck in the world of my own creation. I pity them.

Adventure

From Vapor To Pure Chaos

Exploration interne et externe d'un personnage détruit

In Another Shape

Visual Novel

explore some dreams of me

Simulation

They Grew Lungs and Drowned

the lake opens for all

Window Pane Membrane

Adventure

Explore a closed off subconsious...

satori malignis

Crawl into your mouth.

Anything Nose Productions

Adventure

A forgotten shadow in a strange world

Adventure

The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner.

Interactive Fiction

Nightmare SuperHighway

All expenses paid vacation to the decrepit city of sins falling apart at the seams

Adventure

Explore the hazy::temporality of city::ephemera

Clockwork Dreams

Explore over 30 huge dreams, as you traverse the Chronoverse.

Simulation

Quantum Eternity

A 120 dream adventure through the chronoverse!

Adventure

So... Would You Come With Me?

This trip will only get weirder.

Adventure

Serial Dreams Escape

A walking simulator about dreams.

BRAINSTORMED 2: DEATH IS NOT THE END or, HYPERPHANTASIA

a stage for the psychosis to play

Adventure

ISLANDS: Non-Places

A surreal trip through the mundane

Prepare yourself for an interactive sensory journey unlike anything you've ever played before.

Silent Hill-likes

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦...

Atmospheric horror game with ps2/early 2000's pc game aesthetic.

Adventure

the moth inside me

Free your dreams.

Adventure

Do you feel guilty?

Puzzle

Under the Redwood Motel

A nightmare from the past lives beneath the Redwood Motel

DinosaurAfterlife

Люди могут боятся всего, даже цвета.

Survival

A point-and-click psychological horror game

Adventure

Near Death Experience

Distorted Production

Adventure

small exploration

Awaken from sleep and investigate the horrors lurking below in this short pixel art horror game.

matchristiandev

Adventure

RE77 Reupload (0.8 and 0.9 and 0.10.1 combined)

Original Developer: MrDewitt77 These are all the builds I have, Just unpack and have Fun!!!

THE HORROR ARCHIVER

A short narrative experiment built as a University Project.

Interactive Fiction

One Unfathomable Nightmare

Is it possible to die in your dream? Are you in a dream?

The Concrete Tower

Uh-Oh! Bunny got himself trapped in a tower! Can you help him escape?

Adventure

A slow paced horror drama inspired by nightmares, psychological themes and the beauty of lost places.

Adventure

The Windows Are Gone

Haunted by grief and guilt, you start seeing a house in your dreams. You feel it calling for you, so you answer it.

Adventure

Lake Haven [Chrysalis]

A gruesome death leads to a mysterious town in this 3rd person retro game.

Adventure

Post Trauma Demo

Post trauma is a horror game inspired by the old classics with fixed camera angles and today's graphics.

Survival

LoneLy - The DesCent (Demo)

A psychological and story driven horror game with old retro vibes.

Adventure

The Frozen Garden

Distorted Production

Adventure

Survival-horror adventure

Adventure

Interesting looking VNs

Visual Novel

An unusual dark visual novel in the psychological horror genre.

Visual Novel

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Home, Sweet UNIT 404

Your new, own, free life

Visual Novel

It's weird. She used to be a normal girl—that's what I thought, but... I don't know who she is anymore.

Visual Novel

Metchi : The Legend of Half Angel Half Fly

Metchi wants to become an angel. She is a Half Angel Half Fly.

Visual Novel

Play in browser

We've met before

In your house, don't you remember?

Visual Novel

A void where there is Nothing Left.

Visual Novel

The Shadow Over Cyberspace

A Modempunk Horror Story

Fiction Factory Games

Visual Novel

The ship was hit... you're suspended in the vast abyss of space... waiting to die.

Visual Novel

Sky Giant ERROR

End this nightmare.

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Rigor Mortis (Chapter 1)

Nicktoons-esque horror comedy visual novel

holographicdoll

Visual Novel

A short visual novel about being tied up in the backseat of a moving vehicle.

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Portrait of a Ghost

A con man. A camera. A ghost.

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Glitchless Perfection

The pursuit of perfection can unravel anyone—even artificial intelligence.

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Who twisted the lock on this bird cage?

Visual Novel

SSSM: in the shadow of jupiter

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

The Good Weapon

Will you nuke the world to save it?

Interactive Fiction

A simple rescue mission... GONE WRONG.

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Someone to Hold Me

Longing for non-sexual closeness; a story about an asexual girl

Visual Novel

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Atmospheric driving game.

In Pay Off, you travel through the past of Brian, a simple man with one dream, to go on a vacation.

lost_in_development

You and your granddaughter visit a park called the Whispering Garden, and are attacked by a terrifying lion.

Adventure

Morto Chapter : 1 and 2

Indie Game of Psychological Horror

Puzzle

HANABIRA: BLOOM

Role Playing

Goodnight Meowmie

A narrative game combining elements of both the virtual pet and horror genres.

Play in browser

Somber game about guinea pig coping with loss

Simulation

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A short emotional story about loss, struggling to survive and not loosing hope.

RabbitTheCreator

Adventure

Play in browser

Life Tastes Like Cardboard

sorry i made this

Role Playing

Sally the Sad (and Lost) Flower

Platformer

Play in browser

A small sad platformer about being born in a world that is not built for you. 100% hand-painted art by Marie.

Circle House Media

Platformer

Play in browser

You are a very sad bunny.

Adventure

THE STATIC SPEAKS MY NAME

A 1st person exploration game in which you play as a man obsessed with the meaning of a painting

thewhalehusband

Adventure

A short entry about Sanae's retrospections

Simple game for the holidays.

Rhythm

A child searching for happiness.

Puzzle

You're Worthless.

Role Playing

A game about suicide and how one's death can effect people around them.

Platformer

A short narrative horror experience

Adventure

Shopping List

Games I can only buy on here?

The Silent Watcher

Will you uncover the truth, or become the next chapter in its story?

Survival

Copperport Casefiles: The Witching Hour

Uncover the truth behind the Death Metal Murders.

ProfessorStitch

Puzzle

Lovecraftian Body Horror Loveletter

Adventure

A 3D first person Horror experience with retro graphics

Survival

a puzzle game set in liminal locations, with procedurally generated rooms.

Adventure

Taste the Noise

Experience insanity over the course of a week.

Among the Innocent: A Stricken Tale

When Peter York becomes trapped on a remote farmstead, he is forced to confront a dark history in his bid for freedom.

Zero Degrees Games

Adventure

Incident In Oakwood

VHS Urbex - Alien Abduction Horror

Atmospheric surreal horror game about day and night cycle

An atmospheric horror game where you pilot an arctic exploration vehicle.

Adventure

Ghost Of Wynlow

VHS Urbex Paranormal Haunted Lighthouse Horror

Late night shopping

Shopping late at night, what could go wrong?

Adventure

Final Clue Oakloon

VHS Urbex Homicide Detective Survival Horror With Combat

Survival

Survive the night - VHS Urbex Horror Stalker Simulation

Zorovan Powerplant

VHS Urbex Alien / UFO Stalker Horror

Blackmail is a 3D horror walking-sim set in Pittsburgh during the 1930s.

Adventure

Reef Light Conundrum

Urban Exploration Lovecraftian Horror

Silversoul Orphanage

Urban Exploration Sim Stalker Horror

A thing of bygone days

Fps retro horror

Adventure

A retro 90's style adventure game

Adventure

Location Withheld

A short horror in which you find yourself in an unfamiliar office...

Adventure