Demon Slayer
A retro pixel-art platformer that mixes fast weapon-based combat with careful resource management as you fight through a dark fantasy world on an epic rescue quest.
Horror games on itch.io worth your time
itch.io gets thousands of horror games a year and no algorithm to surface them. This is the pile after sorting: the ones players actually rated well, from one-developer projects to small studio work. Prices run from free to a few dollars.
Anthology of the Killer (2024)
A wandering, tongue-in-cheek jaunt through a string of bizarre, cartoonish nightmares that feel more darkly playful than scary.
Enkhirydion: Testament of Shadows (2025)
A grim pilgrimage through decaying, haunted catacombs where exploration and difficult combat blend into a heavy, foreboding atmosphere.
Record of Greypine (2026)
A slow, eerie, and melancholic visual novel where the feeling of a quiet, ominous government placement gradually gives way to creeping dread and psychological unease.
"Voices Of The Void" Alpha
A lonely sci-fi signal-analysis sim in an isolated mountain lab that slowly unearths strange, unexplainable mysteries.
Online Obsession
A deceptively cute visual novel about meeting an online friend that curdles into psychological horror and yandere obsession.
Prescription:LOVE
A cute otome visual novel about waking memoryless in a hospital under a doctor's unsettlingly attentive care.
Vincent: The Secret of Myers
A decaying corporate mansion hides gory sci-fi secrets you uncover through point-and-click puzzle solving and exploration.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
A narrative point-and-click weaving four dark, atmospheric stories aboard a 1920s train masked ball.
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The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Backrooms Survival Horror Game [SCARY GAMES]
A grainy found-footage plunge into the Backrooms - liminal, lonely corridors where something hunts you and every hum of the lights sets your teeth on edge.
BABY BLUES NIGHTMARES
Play a toddler fixing up a tricycle while sneaking past nightmare monsters that hunt anyone who cries.
Funeralopolis | Last Days (2024)
A short, atmospheric first-person horror game about strange occurrences invading your apartment in a sunless, plague-shrouded city.
Idols of Ash
A harrowing descent into ancient dark where you're relentlessly hunted, heavy with oppressive atmosphere and themes of illness and despair.
Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
A surreal RPG Maker puzzle-adventure about a fractured mind, blending dark humor and creeping dread as reality unravels.
I Became an Evil Witch that Cursed the Male Lead
A dark isekai otome visual novel where you become a cursed witch entangled in a yandere love story dripping with unhealthy obsession.
P.T - The Stairway 7
A tense loop-based anomaly hunt through endless stairways where one wrong observation gets you killed.
Silver Thread : Deux
A doubting exorcist investigates a haunted theater in this short, moody pixel-art RPG Maker mystery.
さいはて駅 (Saihate Station) + Artbook
A moody exploration adventure about a codependent love-hate bond between two men waking in a strange, dreamlike train station.
Mind the Gap
A trapped-together train mystery visual novel about fear and trust, thick with claustrophobic psychological dread.
(PRE-ALPHA) WARHEART
A shadowy, choice-driven journey through a war-torn medieval world where every decision quietly reshapes a dark, unfolding mystery.
This list is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Tell the Catbot what you feel like playing for picks tuned to you, or browse the whole catalog.