Gavengelthegrim

Itch.io Gravedigging 1

This is a continuation of both: https://itch.io/c/782559/free-horror-games-6600 https://itch.io/c/1694057/horror-highlights-2000 Only vetted and liked ( free ) Horror games are added. No demos allowed unless stated otherwise. (But don't let...

Out Of The Loop

Step into the shoes of a child on Halloween, moments before a life-changing event.

Projetos Jogos Feevale

Overflow

Words fill my head, only one thing can make them stop.

Nolan

Strategy

Ashes of the Sun

The sun vanished. Somewhere out there, a way to bring it back still exists.

Syntaxed

Adventure

Project eden

A cold missing case from the early 2000s reopens after an anonymous tip shows the missing person's pc password.

jengaspoon

Puzzle

SUBLEVEL

SUBLEVEL is a short terror game that tells the story of Marion Kessler

vendidev

GIF

Dereb memsiD

A thriller about a haunted forest with a dark past

Berni82

Play in browser

ex(e)periment

A thriller / horror game where you play as a guardian in a top-secret offshore complex

Krokonut

Interactive Fiction

Arcade Man

A cryptic event happens in an arcade in the early 1980s.

DynamicMonoGone

Sick Fashion

A Survival Horror Dressup Experience

Cinnature

Survival

Silence in the forest

decipher the rest

MATTEOOs

Adventure

Snowmanified

HiWilligis

GIF

The Storm

Atmospheric point and click adventure

Pixel Trash

Adventure

Orwell 1899

First person survival horror, with a unique revolver reload mecanic, and a storytelling / narration.

AwfulStudio

Encore Of The Damned

Where the show never ends.

Once Upon Games

Path Of Matches

Path Of Matches

LucSar

Puzzle

fish face again

An unsettling, atmospheric fishing game. Created in 36 hours for The DTJ36 Game Jam #27 🏳️‍🌈

Somniladon

Simulation

Play in browser

Nerve Core

A nervous typing game mixed with dungeon crawler controls

FélixVE

Survival

Play in browser

7 Days Before Heaven

Heaven looks like this.

SeriousDaniel

Visual Novel

Sector 0: The Incident

Restore power. Follow instructions. Descend deeper.

Static Veil

Adventure

GIF

HEART OF THE MACHINE

"Heart" Simulator

CFish

Simulation

Play in browser

Sanctuary

Do you seek solace from the unknown?

Nodrogagon

Adventure

Play in browser

FREE Horror Games (6600+)

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. Although indefinitely cancell...

Break It

DevilRabbitStudio

Survival

Do Not Search

Should you keep searching and unlock increasingly personal and dangerous results, or is it better not knowing?

myra boholst

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

BLOODY SAND

Offer blood to revive your loved one.

picklejarpotatoes

Survival

Play in browser

A Simple Treat

Not your regular platformer

Aruno

Adventure

Play in browser

BLUT CLUB

On that cold and early morning of 2003, you stumble upon a lost mobile phone...

xena-spectrale

Interactive Fiction

The fall of the Buxhaven family

Pixelated horror adventure inspired by 19th century gothic novels (but set in the present).

Buxtejor

Adventure

Play in browser

Our House

Explore a mysterious and endless "house"

BigBread

Adventure

GIF

The Raoch Hotel

Come enter and Start booking in now

Hawt Combo

Survival

GIF

Kissa

take your cat for a walk

Kultisti

Adventure

Play in browser

Gornom

Gornom is coming, you know what he wants.

Cube Legal

Gornom 2: Vuskhell Station

He is here again, and not alone...

Cube Legal

Bloodletter

im sorry you had to see us like this

Window Pane Membrane

Adventure

xoodilB

Ripped from an old and unknown 1996 Horror (?) DOS game

atygeek

Survival

198145

Selfish Dream

Black Birds

Created for Cursed Jam: The Void!

BTL games

Interactive Fiction

GIF

MEDULLA

A two minute horror-short, about giving someone a brain scan.

RETRO SESSION

Cabaret

3D first-person horror interactive novel

Andrew Gan

Inward Umbra

Phosphene Factory

Puzzle

GIF

SNAKE 3310

A horror experience embedded within a Nokia 3310.

Luis S.

Simulation

Play in browser

The DELIVERY factor

THEY DON'T FEEL ANYTHING

Mandoli

Adventure

The Sangawawal Cult LOST FILES

JaiService124

Survival

Horror Highlights (2000+)

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...

GIF

BLOODY SAND

Offer blood to revive your loved one.

picklejarpotatoes

Survival

Play in browser

BLUT CLUB

On that cold and early morning of 2003, you stumble upon a lost mobile phone...

xena-spectrale

Interactive Fiction

The fall of the Buxhaven family

Pixelated horror adventure inspired by 19th century gothic novels (but set in the present).

Buxtejor

Adventure

Play in browser

GIF

The Raoch Hotel

Come enter and Start booking in now

Hawt Combo

Survival

GIF

Kissa

take your cat for a walk

Kultisti

Adventure

Play in browser

Gornom

Gornom is coming, you know what he wants.

Cube Legal

Gornom 2: Vuskhell Station

He is here again, and not alone...

Cube Legal

xoodilB

Ripped from an old and unknown 1996 Horror (?) DOS game

atygeek

Survival

Black Birds

Created for Cursed Jam: The Void!

BTL games

Interactive Fiction

GIF

MEDULLA

A two minute horror-short, about giving someone a brain scan.

RETRO SESSION

Cabaret

3D first-person horror interactive novel

Andrew Gan

The DELIVERY factor

THEY DON'T FEEL ANYTHING

Mandoli

Adventure

Lukas Adventure 64 (OLD)

"Lukas is back in this new 3D installment! Get ready to collect gems and platform through tricky levels!"

Blennz Fire

Adventure

YOU ARE MY HOME

Footage of your life from angles you've never seen from someone you never knew.

chillworksdev

untitled.mov

'There's something in here with me... I can't see it, but I know it's here...'

kelorlyn

Survival

Kaset

Recover the footage. Face the distortion. Some memories are better left buried.

Casta Game

Simulation

Go Home, Touch Grass

A productive 14 hour shift at the office turns into a surreal experience.

Nerd Monkeys

Simulation

Tiny Mina: No signal found

Idos

Interactive Fiction

Monster Indoors

Satisfy the unbearable hunger

BearEye

Action

GIF

P.T.D

Can you solve the loop?

Aaron Wise

Survival

Beneath Us

Its said to rest near the Earths core.

vyrez

Explore strange worlds

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳...

Mercuralia

Explore a mysterious festival

Jacob Potterfield

Adventure

Even the Stars

wandering through space without a purpose_ getting old and getting lost_

Pol Clarissou

GIF

The City Haze

Friendly and pretentious city exploration

Aergia

Play in browser

weirdparisgame

dosogy

Remnants of Celestial Giants

Explore and photograph a ritualistic landscape

Nicholas Staracek

Iridescent

Explore a colorless world and see your true emotions through crystals.

FélixVE

Puzzle

Automatism

CaseyS

Somniscape

Dream for as long as you want...

Dorcat Studio

Interactive Fiction

Nameless Desert

Atmospheric first-person desert exploration. Photograph forgotten structures and witness a world shift.

Sandro Wainmaier

Adventure

GIF

Somewhere Strange

Where did all the aliens go?

Rudi Prentice

Adventure

The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place

A short story about a municipal building eater.

Studio Oleomingus

Promesa

A surreal journey through dreams, memories and fantasies.

Julián Palacios

Adventure

GIF

0°N 0°W

Enjoy a surreal vacation in a magical dimension!

colorfiction

Adventure

Salt-Sick Vestibule

You're lost and salt sick

ChotoTheBright

Adventure

Oneira

View your dreams on the family computer!

whitestags

Adventure

Artists of a Dead World

A lonely city somwhere at the end of the world

Autumn Rain

GIF

A Vacancy That's Hard To Talk About

Walk around. Zone out. Breath.

Jibrill Allaway

Interloper

The last vestiges of safety before the howling dark.

Benrooker

Adventure

Dream a Little Dream

Walk along a dream

JungaBoon

Adventure

Telomeria

watch the water where the siren tears float

VaporShark

Adventure

SYMBOL

weird things on the side of the road

Lilith Zone

Saddest games on Itch.io

Nothing but devastation.

No Sunshine

An interactive story about loss and depression

Mattias Gustavsson

The Death of Me

A medical thriller about life with chronic illness. Gameboy Compatible!

Cambroth

Play in browser

snowstorm

DavidMunoz

Family Secrets 1 : Empty Plate

Short Horror Game

BADCAT GAMES

Adventure

Stay

As humanity starts to die out, a neglected pet does its best to survive.

zbpreston

Interactive Fiction

Birthday Friends Forever!

Nep

Role Playing

Flowers For My Lover

A First Person Experience Regarding the Horrors of Love

Opulent Games

Interactive Fiction

too late

hoarime

Interactive Fiction

Buried Deep

A short game poem about sadness

Logan Grimes

Play in browser

I Like To Visit Graveyard Sometimes

Game Jam Project

Minaridev

Adventure

Last day of Shizuka

Make the game about last day of 19 years old girl with depression and anxiety

yvkino

Five More Minutes

Hay decisiones que nos persiguen toda nuestra vida, los sueños no son un lugar donde podamos refugiarnos.

QuadMoon Protocol

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Isolation

A Creative Vent.

𝙀𝘾𝙇𝙄𝙋𝙎𝙀𝘿

GIF

Konbini || コンビニ

konbini e yōkoso

Knico

Play in browser

She Will Not Open

A Horror Visual Novel about a man and a door

Nwest

Visual Novel

I WANNA STOP BREATHING

20 second psychological horror

DoctorFlower

Simulation

Play in browser

Jobhunt

horror game about applying for jobs

aplove

Simulation

Play in browser

I Exist

No one's coming till eternity

Kick14

Adventure

I am not whole

not nothing

brick101

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Don't go outside

Maybe you're the problem?

Chabata

Visual Novel

Play in browser

GIF

sacrament iv.

calamity occult-horror rpg

melessthanthree

Role Playing

Play in browser

Interesting looking VNs

My most subjective collection. (Not limited to horror and without quality assurance.)

A Midnight Ride

game about a dude who needs to get home

soyapping

Visual Novel

Play in browser

GIF

This is not a Vacation

Short horror game for web or GameBoy

rezajamesahmed

Visual Novel

Play in browser

A Mind to Mourn

Bexe

Visual Novel

Carceri

A short autobiography

DeoSancteiCogito

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Daydream City

A psychological horror visual novel about identity, reality, and unfinished things.

eda_v4lent1ne

Visual Novel

Family found you

Another day living under the same roof

iCreativity

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Fantomas

Ceci n'est pas un Fantomas

Vimi

Visual Novel

Where the Visual Novel

Surreal visual novell with point and click elements. Will you figure out the mystery?

Yeswhat

Visual Novel

GIF

Penumbra Lane

A fuzzy point-and-click adventure horror.

HaZeyEyed

Puzzle

Accident In Shellf

Very short game about turtles and regret, freedom too.

Aqlamirai

Visual Novel

Play in browser

visions

christian analog horror

helen

Visual Novel

Play in browser

When The Snow is Gone

Do you remember the snow?

JADE

Visual Novel

Play in browser

The Crystal Eye

Explore the dungeon, discover horrors or friends.

Egg_pionono

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Welcome to Sunnyside

murder mystery with PUPPETS

ToyFox

Visual Novel

PHOTOGHOST

all images are haunted

S.T.

Visual Novel

Play in browser

biohazard 4: stabat mater

a resident evil visual novel

S.T.

Visual Novel

Play in browser

No life detected

Story about a robot in a post-apocalyptic world

shimiyayo

Visual Novel

Play in browser

The Disaster of Project Domus Nova

Explore the remains of a derelict spaceship to find out what happened on this failed space project.

Katelynn Parsec

Visual Novel

elegy of mind

memories

br0kenleg

Visual Novel

Play in browser

VERI

Who is she?

X29X studios

Visual Novel

Play in browser

The Mysterious Death of Mr. Parkinson

What really happened to Mr.Parkinson? The more you uncover the stranger it gets.

JuneYu

Visual Novel

Play in browser

From the Deepest Abyss

Horror games that were so obscenely oppressive atmospherically or plain disturbing I ended up saying "Something's wrong..." with a deadpan delivery. (Originally intended to be a private collection.)

Silence in the forest

decipher the rest

MATTEOOs

Adventure

Black Messiah

Entering this village was your last mistake....

Kido

Interactive Fiction

Do They Know

The DAY 3 entry for Haunted PS1's 'Madvent Calendar 3: Necrosis'!

The Bonsai Treehouse

Adventure

REPENTIA

A short horror game about Christ and his death.

dankito

Interactive Fiction

Something In The Woods

You should be alone out here.

InfinityRaccoons

In between the static

torchTeam

Puzzle

Dial M for Machina

Solve retro tech puzzles and save humanity

Alpha Apex Entertainment

Adventure

When the Bell Tolls

Atmospheric Grave Digging Horror Experience For The Eye Jam II

Brain Lid

Deeply Dark: Found Footage

WARNING: This software was found on the Deep Web and contains material about the backrooms

DALESI

What Lies Beneath

LoZog

Play in browser

INMORTIS

Kill the Unkillable

Mandoli

Adventure

Alene's Photoshoot

A short horror game where you must take 50 photos.

YAGI SAKAGUCHI

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Wheres my baby

Hide. Record. Survive. The asylum remembers what you’ve forgotten.

MR X Lab

Adventure

victim's tongue

kinzo.144p

Adventure

Cruel Nature

A short PS1 style horror game set in an isolated forest

Dog Melon

Survival

VOID CRAWLER

Void Crawler is a First Person horror game set in a dystopian future.

Ricardo Pratas

Simulation

Vestige

An old game holds more than nostalgia

Philisophic Games

Adventure

Missed My Exit

A nice mountain drive

Zander S.

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Christ the Savior Cult (Lost)

ps1/psx retro horror 90s

Garmash

Tired

An endless road.

pandesoft

Survival

Unfamiliar, Yet

Wake up in ▒▓░▒. Survive. And discover the truth about your actions.

PowerLine Studios

Puzzle

A Collection That's Hard to Talk About (Itch.io Edition)

Bloodletter

im sorry you had to see us like this

Window Pane Membrane

Adventure

Penultimate Pyre

A small village. A lonely cabin. And a fire that must never die.

Saturnine Mage

Adventure

IN THE RED LIGHT YOU BECOME THE HAND

A short game about a dead place

snorv

Interactive Fiction

Heartbeat

Make the final walk deep into a living structure

Thneebdev

Interactive Fiction

195 Hours in the Cold

How long you have walked. How nice it would be to rest.

BanzaiBonsai

Adventure

GIF

The Disappearance of Eileen Kestler

A Marginalia Prelude

Connor Sherlock

Adventure

C.R.A.W.L.

All you have left are the broadcasts.

ChotoTheBright

Adventure

HeartRot

A short PSX horror game about finding your wife in a forest.

Insertrave

ESCAPIST'S DIARY

a game about avoiding the reality through dreams

hoarime

Interactive Fiction

Lunar Echoes

Isolation can get to you.

Mega Bite Games

Interactive Fiction

The Place Between

Unlock your mind

Misterclap

Puzzle

GIF

Exit 19

Night approaches. Take a walk down Exit 19.

Ovsko

Remember Places?

An AI is your only friend.

Bryce Bucher

Tonight You Die

Wander a dreary city of concrete structures and unknown melodies

Ovsko

9.03m

9.03m, is a short, first person, art/empathy game for PC.

SpaceBudgie

Adventure

GIF

After The Curtain Call: Act 2

Play your part. Follow the script.

SirTartarus

Adventure

237

You Can't Handle The Truth

Ayush Vaibhav Goyal

Denunciation

A short narrative horror experience

HeroRobb

Adventure

We Don't Talk About It

Art-horror game about how hard it can be to express yourself

Michael Bonardi

Interactive Fiction

Condo

Explore. Defer. Sleep.

FlubbedMachina

Adventure

WALLTHINGS

The rooms will cling on to you. It is in their nature.

ToujoursThomas

Adventure

Silent Hill-likes

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦...

Promised Death

Solve disturbing mysteries, and survive what lurks in the darkness.

Timalote

Adventure

Project DD - canceled horror game

Canceled horror project by Frostwood Interactive

Frostwood Interactive

Shooter

Almost plastic, Not Even Real

Some things don't move on.

Otakuracer

Adventure

Play in browser

FALLEN

You were kidnapped, find your way out.

Kuri Toigca

Puzzle

Vox Nebulae

The past condemns us/O passado nos condena

1Patrolino1

Acceptance

Will you uncover your past, or fall to the nightmares lurking within?

Stefano_Gaming

Survival

Lost Life : Origins [Act-I, Act-II]

Lost Life The Game

Action

Opilla Hill

Opila bird meets Silent Hill

StrawberryRainbow

Adventure

Play in browser

Red Satin

A simple experiment. A deadly escape.

redplanetcat

Action

Play in browser

Oak Field

90s psychological survival horror

DoubleRoom Games

Survival

Leucanthemum Eyes

Escape from the sewer.

Kuraishimi

Adventure

Shattered

Fight your way through an apartment complex and piece together the fragmented memories of a crime you did not commit.

Daikalos

Adventure

VACANT TUNNELS Demo

Jaming

Adventure

Blank Frame

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

ThroughTunnel

Adventure

GIF

the moth inside me

Free your dreams.

sodaraptor

Adventure

Broken

Do you feel guilty?

Lemnon

Puzzle

Under the Redwood Motel

A nightmare from the past lives beneath the Redwood Motel

DinosaurAfterlife

Blue

Люди могут боятся всего, даже цвета.

Poseva

Survival

46 Memory Lane

A point-and-click psychological horror game

shamz

Adventure

GIF

Near Death Experience

Distorted Production

Adventure

DownSchool

small exploration

DreamsBell

Monitoring

Game projects I am uncertain about or awaiting the release of.

VEIN

It was just a hole in the floor...

Mango

Lament of the Crimson Angel and White Garden

Hard to understand, easy to feel.

JakeKleiner

Adventure

Play in browser

I've Always Hated That House

Our Homes Shape Us

Klick404

Interactive Fiction

My Dear Akari

Six quiet days living together. She's gentle. So why does the quiet feel like it's hiding something? A quiet horror.

Rajiomaru

Visual Novel

Uranoim Forest

Retro horror inspired by 2012 indie games.

Raul_Antuns

down.

A short, somber, narrative experience about depression and anxiety

Pixelbark

254_FREEFALL: PROTOCOL_Ijazah Asli Rezaldi_PC

Kacamata Studio

Shooter

LIDAR

Explore total darkness using only a LIDAR scanner.

Samu

Adventure

The Yellow Walls

A short Backrooms horror experience.

saladsquid

Play in browser

In-Dreams

A small collection of found MS-DOS games by the developer VISICNS.

Vacant Mannequin

Play in browser

Running at Night

Sometimes we have no choice but to run when we can

RailgunRabbit

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Everyone_suffering

this is not a game this is a true story. a guy who lost his love by a car accident.

vaskar_das

Visual Novel

Unfulfilled Wish

vaskar_das

Adventure

ParrotNormal Activity

A ghost hunting game where you team up with a parrot that can see ghosts invisible to humans.

NateGamesUnpacked

OMEN

OGX Games

Meat Line

HiWilligis

MI LON MA

Remotely control an undersea drone

Forburnt

Simulation

Play in browser

Manifest

Horror game

CollectorDev

Puzzle

Tunnel.exe

A (late) Halloween 2024 Gift

Ramiro Almeida Basso

Simulation

Lamb

You're living a normal day like always... but what if it isn't as normal as you think?

Ramiro Almeida Basso

Through Thick and Thin

You find a 20$ laptop at a thrift store.

HERUHERU

Puzzle

Play in browser

Shopping List

Games I can only buy on here?

PULCRA (Short Body-Horror FPS)

A nightmarish "Slender-like" set in a body-horror landscape.

vikintor

Action

THE INFIRMARY

Life & Death from the Purgatory

ORB RESEARCH & BROADCASTING

Simulation

Tales from Dreadlight: The Morgue

A continuation of the See Through Static Trilogy

Stefano_Gaming

ENIGMA

A psychological horror experience with light puzzle elements. Can you escape the truth?

Alan Smileey

Survival

GIF

ring ring

You found a strange phone on the beach. Who will you call?

h i l o q o

Interactive Fiction

The Long Road Back

Every. Shot. Counts.

ks98

Shooter

ATONEMENT

Complete the Harbinger's trial and atone for what you've done.

GlitchedLizard

Survival

HORSES

An enigmatic first person horror adventure. Tend to the horses and adhere to the farmer's rules!

Santa Ragione

Adventure

Hope Springs: Penstroke

Dan Kenny Games

Adventure

Mortician Final Night

One last shift. One last body. One final night.

AzaGameStudio

Grieving (Berduka)

Mourning Ritual for a Haunted Boarding Room

flycat.games

Adventure

Miremind

Psychological Detective Horror - Supernatural Murder Investigation

AzaGameStudio

GIF

Narrative Nightmares: Trilogy of Terror

3 creepy tales told through interactive storytelling wrapped up in an interactive launcher.

Aaron Wise

Survival

The Cell

A dark experience

Adriano Silva

Adventure

The Silent Watcher

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

Christine_890

Survival

GIF

Meat Lust

A 3D first person Horror experience with retro graphics

1909Games

Survival

Liminal State

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

GL Studio

Adventure

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

AzaGameStudio

Daardoa

Atmospheric surreal horror game about day and night cycle

Vidas Games