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Top Psychological Horror Games

60+ psychological horror games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Horror, Singleplayer, Adventure, Indie.

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  1. #1 Lethal Company
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 503,936 reviews2023
    Developer: Zeekerss
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.2hMean: 28.7h≥1hr: 94%

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

  2. #2 Phasmophobia
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 815,266 reviews2020
    Developer: Kinetic Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 16.9hMean: 50.2h≥1hr: 95%

    Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

  3. #3 Crab Game
    98% matchVery Positive91% of 152,113 reviews2021
    Developer: Dani
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.5hMean: 8.6h≥1hr: 61%

    Crab Game is a First-Person Multiplayer game where you play through several different minigames based on children's games, until only one player stands victorious.

  4. #4 Doki Doki Literature Club!
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 219,150 reviews2017
    Developer: Team Salvato
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.0hMean: 38.2h≥1hr: 74%

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

  5. #5 Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
    98% matchVery Positive82% of 80,812 reviews2017
    Developer: Bennett Foddy
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.5hMean: 9.9h≥1hr: 60%

    A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.

  6. #6 MiSide
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 136,956 reviews2024
    Developer: AIHASTOPublisher: IndieArk
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.8hMean: 21.1h≥1hr: 92%

    Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?

  7. #7 OMORI
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 85,929 reviews2020
    Developer: OMOCAT, LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 10.9hMean: 24.5h≥1hr: 84%

    Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.

  8. #8 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
    95% matchVery Positive95% of 53,234 reviews2022
    Developer: WSS playground
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.6hMean: 18.3h≥1hr: 82%

    NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).

  9. #9 SILENT HILL 2
    95% matchVery Positive95% of 58,918 reviews2024
    Developer: Bloober Team SAPublisher: KONAMI
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 18.6hMean: 26.0h≥1hr: 93%

    Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

  10. #10 Escape the Backrooms
    93% matchVery Positive91% of 134,540 reviews2025
    Developer: Fancy GamesPublisher: Secret Mode
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.0hMean: 12.9h≥1hr: 90%

    Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.

  11. #11 Gorilla Tag
    93% matchVery Positive91% of 81,526 reviews2023
    Developer: Another Axiom Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 16.3h≥1hr: 47%

    Run, jump, and climb using only your hands. Play tag or infection with people online. Run away from the infected players, or outmaneuver the survivors to catch them. Embrace your inner ape.

  12. #12 Outlast
    93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 133,959 reviews2013
    Developer: Red Barrels
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.6hMean: 18.6h≥1hr: 83%

    Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

  13. #13 The Outlast Trials
    92% matchVery Positive93% of 98,919 reviews2024
    Developer: Red Barrels
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.0hMean: 32.7h≥1hr: 95%

    Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

  14. #14 Outlast 2
    92% matchVery Positive91% of 62,280 reviews2017
    Developer: Red Barrels
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 16.8h≥1hr: 85%

    Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.

  15. #15 Cry of Fear
    92% matchVery Positive89% of 82,586 reviews2013
    Developer: Team Psykskallar
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 7.6h≥1hr: 57%

    Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

  16. #16 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,488 reviews2021
    Developer: Team SalvatoPublisher: Serenity Forge
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.9hMean: 79.9h≥1hr: 79%

    Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.

  17. #17 FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction
    92% matchOverwhelmingly Negative18% of 4,240 reviews2011
    Developer: Team 6 StudiosPublisher: Strategy First
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 18mMean: 11.2h≥1hr: 25%

    Feel the adrenaline pulse through your veins as you barrel through insane race tracks against monster trucks, race cars, off road vehicles and much more.

  18. #18 Chinese Parents
    90% matchVery Positive91% of 26,604 reviews2018
    Developer: 墨鱼玩游戏
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 7.9hMean: 23.9h≥1hr: 89%

    In this casual sim set in China, you step into the shoes of an average kid from birth towards the end of your high school. Study hard, have fun, make friends and face your ultimate challenge, the “Gaokao”. What will your life be after that? And when you have a child, will you be a Tiger Parent?

  19. #19 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,266 reviews2021
    Developer: Nikita Kryukov
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.6hMean: 7.6h≥1hr: 79%

    A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.

  20. #20 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,921 reviews2020
    Developer: Nikita KryukovPublisher: Nikita Igorevich Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 24mMean: 7.2h≥1hr: 11%

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

  21. #21 Mouthwashing
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 36,133 reviews2024
    Developer: Wrong OrganPublisher: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.8hMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 91%

    The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.

  22. #22 Fran Bow
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,826 reviews2015
    Developer: Killmonday Games AB
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 7.4hMean: 10.3h≥1hr: 91%

    Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

  23. #23 Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 115,718 reviews2017
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.7hMean: 27.5h≥1hr: 93%

    Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.

  24. #24 Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
    86% matchVery Positive94% of 52,523 reviews2018
    Developer: ProjectMoon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.7hMean: 30.0h≥1hr: 74%

    A roguelite monster-management simulation inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation, Cabin in the Woods, and Warehouse 13. Order your employees to perform work with the creatures and watch as it unfolds; harness greater energy, and expand the facility

  25. #25 Jump King
    86% matchVery Positive90% of 13,075 reviews2019
    Developer: Nexile
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.1hMean: 10.5h≥1hr: 68%

    Take up the challenge and face true high-stakes platforming in Jump King! Struggle upwards in search of the Smoking Hot Babe of legend, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down...

  26. #26 Five Nights at Freddy's
    86% matchVery Positive94% of 57,765 reviews2014
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 10.5h≥1hr: 56%

    Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!

  27. #27 Pacify
    85% matchVery Positive86% of 42,392 reviews2019
    Developer: Shawn HitchcockPublisher: Hitchcock Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.1hMean: 7.8h≥1hr: 73%

    There is reportedly an evil inside that house. Something about an old funeral parlor offering a last chance to talk to their dead loved ones. Plus something about lights, laughter, a girl, missing people, etc... You know the same stuff everyone claims. Take a team, and check the place out.

  28. #28 Poppy Playtime
    84% matchVery Positive88% of 132,662 reviews2021
    Developer: Mob Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 8.8h≥1hr: 51%

    You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.

  29. #29 The Evil Within
    85% matchVery Positive85% of 32,478 reviews2014
    Developer: Tango GameworksPublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.5hMean: 19.0h≥1hr: 89%

    Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.

  30. #30 SILENT HILL f
    83% matchVery Positive81% of 25,603 reviews2025
    Developer: NeoBards Entertainment Ltd.Publisher: KONAMI
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 13.3hMean: 22.3h≥1hr: 91%

    Hinako's hometown is engulfed in fog, driving her to fight grotesque monsters and solve eerie puzzles. Uncover the disturbing beauty hidden in terror.

  31. #31 Visage
    83% matchVery Positive84% of 10,620 reviews2020
    Developer: SadSquare Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.0hMean: 7.6h≥1hr: 77%

    Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.

  32. #32 Hand Simulator
    83% matchVery Positive84% of 36,440 reviews2017
    Developer: HFM Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.2hMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 73%

    There are many different levels where you can play with spinners, plunge into the subtleties of handling weapons, milk a cow, take part in a Mexican duel with your friends, have a good time fishing, play chess or simply chat in an anonymous club.

  33. #33 Layers of Fear (2016)
    82% matchVery Positive88% of 27,237 reviews2016
    Developer: Bloober Team SA
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.1hMean: 8.3h≥1hr: 82%

    A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.

  34. #34 Inside the Backrooms
    82% matchVery Positive81% of 45,968 reviews2022
    Developer: MrFatcat
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.7hMean: 15.0h≥1hr: 87%

    Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...

  35. #35 SIGNALIS
    81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 31,986 reviews2022
    Developer: rose-enginePublisher: Balor Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.4hMean: 9.0h≥1hr: 79%

    A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

  36. #36 Dead Space
    81% matchVery Positive91% of 63,544 reviews2023
    Developer: MotivePublisher: Electronic Arts
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.2hMean: 16.8h≥1hr: 87%

    The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.

  37. #37 Little Nightmares II
    81% matchVery Positive93% of 55,847 reviews2021
    Developer: Tarsier StudiosPublisher: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.9hMean: 8.6h≥1hr: 89%

    Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.

  38. #38 Alan Wake
    81% matchVery Positive90% of 56,400 reviews2012
    Developer: Remedy Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 13.2h≥1hr: 87%

    A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.

  39. #39 When the Darkness comes
    80% matchVery Positive92% of 8,408 reviews2019
    Developer: Sirhaian
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 3.9h≥1hr: 65%

    When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.

  40. #40 SOMA
    80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 50,500 reviews2015
    Developer: Frictional Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.6hMean: 10.2h≥1hr: 89%

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

  41. #41 Pony Island
    80% matchVery Positive95% of 17,910 reviews2016
    Developer: Daniel Mullins Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.0hMean: 15.5h≥1hr: 88%

    Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

  42. #42 Backrooms: Escape Together
    80% matchVery Positive88% of 34,229 reviews2022
    Developer: Triiodide Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.9hMean: 5.6h≥1hr: 91%

    A visually lifelike co-op horror for 1-6 people. Journey through 10 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.

  43. #43 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
    79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,737 reviews2023
    Developer: Black Tabby Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.0hMean: 6.7h≥1hr: 88%

    You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

  44. #44 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
    79% matchVery Positive93% of 19,673 reviews2024
    Developer: 0x0Real StudioPublisher: Nino Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.5hMean: 15.7h≥1hr: 70%

    Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

  45. #45 KinitoPET
    79% matchVery Positive93% of 14,022 reviews2024
    Developer: troy_en
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.1hMean: 3.3h≥1hr: 87%

    KinitoPET is a psychological horror experience that takes place through Kinito, an early 2000s virtual assistant. Kinito is able to walk, talk, browse, adapt, and play games as Kinito is like no other with its adaptive technology!

  46. #46 The Evil Within 2
    79% matchVery Positive92% of 30,357 reviews2017
    Developer: Tango GameworksPublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.9hMean: 22.4h≥1hr: 94%

    Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.

  47. #47 Tiny Bunny
    78% matchVery Positive83% of 29,932 reviews2025
    Developer: SaikonoPublisher: Serenity Forge
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 8.5hMean: 12.6h≥1hr: 91%

    Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.

  48. #48 Egg
    78% matchVery Positive86% of 13,007 reviews2024
    Developer: blevsoft
    Platforms: Windows

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  49. #49 Five Nights at Freddy's 2
    78% matchVery Positive94% of 25,453 reviews2014
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.4hMean: 16.1h≥1hr: 58%

    Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.

  50. #50 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
    78% matchVery Positive95% of 35,239 reviews2010
    Developer: Frictional Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.2hMean: 10.2h≥1hr: 54%

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

  51. #51 Sally Face - Episode One
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 26,081 reviews2016
    Developer: Portable Moose
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.4hMean: 8.2h≥1hr: 84%

    Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.

  52. #52 Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 35,609 reviews2016
    Developer: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 7.9hMean: 22.8h≥1hr: 88%

    Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.

  53. #53 DEVOUR
    77% matchVery Positive91% of 86,959 reviews2021
    Developer: Straight Back Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.4hMean: 13.4h≥1hr: 90%

    DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.

  54. #54 DREDGE
    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,902 reviews2023
    Developer: Black Salt GamesPublisher: Team17
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 7.5hMean: 11.0h≥1hr: 89%

    DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

  55. #55 No, I'm not a Human
    77% matchVery Positive93% of 26,830 reviews2025
    Developer: TrioskazPublisher: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.8hMean: 5.7h≥1hr: 92%

    WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

  56. #56 Paunch
    77% matchVery Positive89% of 11,289 reviews2019
    Developer: Kozhakov
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 18mMean: 1.0h≥1hr: 13%

    One-on-one physical online duels.

  57. #57 The Song of Saya
    77% matchVery Positive90% of 9,092 reviews2019
    Developer: NitroplusPublisher: JAST
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.0hMean: 56.3h≥1hr: 83%

    Bear witness to a love that will change the world, in this classic horror romance visual novel from acclaimed writer Urobuchi Gen.

  58. #58 Firework
    76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 43,818 reviews2021
    Developer: Shiying StudioPublisher: Gamirror Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.6hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 85%

    An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.

  59. #59 Escape from Tarkov
    76% matchMixed47% of 48,121 reviews2025
    Developer: Battlestate Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 35.8hMean: 144.7h≥1hr: 94%

    Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.

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