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.
The catalog in 3D
The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. They work from the whole catalog, not just this list.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Idols of Ash
A harrowing descent into ancient dark where you're relentlessly hunted, heavy with oppressive atmosphere and themes of illness and despair.
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.
HIKEBACK
A short, dark visual novel about a late-night hitchhiker encounter that spirals into cycles of trust and self-sabotage.
This list is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. You can also browse the whole catalog, or look around it in 3D and ask the Catbot there.