BABY BLUES NIGHTMARES
Play a toddler fixing up a tricycle while sneaking past nightmare monsters that hunt anyone who cries.
Modern games with the old PlayStation look
Low polygons and fog hiding a short draw distance. A wave of current developers builds games that look like 1998 on purpose, and horror suits the style unreasonably well. All of these are recent releases, not the originals.
KryptaFM
A creepy PSX-style first-person horror short set in a Polish village plagued by strange paranormal occurrences.
EEK3 2020 Virtual Show Floor
A low-poly retro exploration of a suddenly-appeared monolith glowing with eerie lights and faint shrieks.
Bad Parenting 1: Mr Red Face
A short retro PSX horror tale where a childhood bogeyman story turns out to be horrifyingly real.
Of Love and Eternity
An atmospheric retro PSX-style horror wandering the void as a murdered soul searching for meaning beyond death.
Dead Space Demake
A gory retro-PSX demake of Dead Space, all limb dismemberment and affine-texture horror nostalgia.
Frontier Diver Progenexis
A low-poly PSX-style horror shoot-em-up piloting a recon drone through a monster-overrun abandoned city.
Asobi
A moody, retro-styled taxi-driver narrative that turns an ordinary late-night ride into something unsettling.
FERALPALS: Chapter 1
A chapter-based mascot horror adventure with a PSX retro aesthetic set in a world wiped out by friendly-turned-sinister creatures.
Meet Santa
A campy, creepy Christmas-themed minigame where you battle a sinister wooden Santa figure in a Nutcracker-style showdown.
Haunted PS1 Madvent Calendar 2021
An atmospheric low-poly PSX horror anthology, a dreamlike Christmas advent calendar of 24 unsettling mini-games.
Reindeer Games
A tense, retro-3D Christmas Eve horror game where a lonely night shift turns into a sinister festive nightmare.
Plead with the Mountain God
A somber low-poly PSX-style dark fantasy platformer about climbing ancient towers to plead with a mountain god.
Elevated Dread (2023)
A short, unsettling retro PSX-style horror about a delivery job that goes wrong in one final apartment building.
The House In The Woods
A retro PSX-styled forest walking-sim inspired by Blair Witch, where a friend vanishes into an endless wood.
Happy's Humble Burger Barn (2020)
A tongue-in-cheek PSX-style horror sim where your dream burger-joint job turns into a low-poly nightmare shift.
Cookies (2021)
A surreal PSX-style crime horror steeped in gang violence and addiction, likened to Silent Hill meeting Twin Peaks in a gutter town.
MOTH HOUSE
A dark, monochrome VHS-styled horror where you collect moths through a dim old house with only a matchbox for light.
Metal Undergrowth
A strange, atmospheric jam game exploring an overgrown superstructure full of peculiar creatures and quiet unease.
Zero Visibility
A chilling cosmic-horror game about four friends lost in a blizzard, stalked by something sinister in the fog.
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.