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Occultic;Nine
Adventure 09 November 2017
Classic visual novel adventure game, which was created by producers of the popular Steins;Gate. During the game, which was set in contemporary Japan, we play the role of a seventeen-year-old blogger dealing with paranormal phenomena and urban legends.
Yume Nikki
Adventure 26 June 2004
A free adventure game developed for PCs. Yume Nikki features no dialogues or typical puzzles, instead focusing on exploring disturbing nightmares of a Japanese woman in search of magical items.
Koudelka
RPG 30 November 1999
A Japanese role-playing game in the horror convention. The title is embedded in the universe with the time developed through the Shadow Hearts cycle. The action of the game takes place in 1898 and focuses on a young woman exploring the secrets of a gloomy monastery. In terms of mechanics, production combines the exploration of a prerendered environment with real-time, three-dimensional battlefields.
Lazaret
Adventure 20 February 2024
A horror-themed FPP adventure game. Lazaret takes place on board of the MTS Endurance ship that got lost four years ago and sent out an SOS message after its reappearance. A rescue mission quickly turns into a fight for survival against dark forces and humanoid monsters.
Slender: The Arrival
Adventure 26 March 2013
A survival horror adventure game, a commercial development of the free-to-play hit Slender: The Eight Pages. Mark Hadley and the development team of Blue Isle Studios remained faithful to the urban legend of the faceless man. The player-created protagonist is looking for his wife, who disappeared from their home in unexplained circumstances. Words written on the walls suggest that the woman may be in serious danger.
Silent Hill: The Short Message
Adventure 01 February 2024
A psychological horror and a new installment of Konami's classic franchise. Silent Hill: The Short Message is a game about Anita, a girl trapped in a mysterious abandoned building, who needs to face her fears in order to escape.
Eresys
Adventure 18 December 2023
An FPP horror adventure game. In Eresys we find ourselves on an island overrun by monsters, and our task is to send the uninvited guests back to the Void and seal the portal leading there. The game was designed with co-op gameplay in mind.
Hibernaculum
RPG 2025
Hibernaculum is an RPG made in the futuristic horror style. The player explores the wreckage of Soviet spaceships from an first person perspective. Movement takes place in a jumping manner, and combat is played in real time.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Adventure 28 September 2022
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a retro-style adventure game inspired by 1990s games. The story is set in the Victorian era, and the plot revolves around supernatural creatures from English folklore.
Surviving the Abyss
Strategy September 2024 (early access since 17 January 2023)
Surviving the Abyss is a strategy game in which we engage in the expansion of a secret underwater base during the Cold War. The player must construct new sections, conduct research and organize the work of the crew.
Deceit 2
Action 14 September 2023
The second installment in the series of asymmetrical multiplayer action games with survival horror elements. In Deceit 2 all players are divided into Innocents and Infected; the former must escape an asylum alive, while the latter try to stop them.
Silent Hill: Townfall
Adventure TBA
Silent Hill: Townfall is the next installment in the cult survival horror series, published by Annapurna Interactive. It was developed by the Scottish studio No Code, known for such game as Stories Untold and Observation.
Bye Sweet Carole
Adventure August 2024
A horror adventure game, visually inspired by iconic animated movies. Bye Sweet Carole stars Lana Benton, a young girl seeking a way out of a horrible orphanage overrun by nightmarish rabbits.
Hollow Cocoon
Adventure 07 December 2023
A first-person psychological horror adventure game. Holloy Cocoon is set in the 1980s Japan, in a mountain village terrorised by a bloodthirsty monster. The player must survive and learn the truth about the place.
Shadowman: Darque Legacy
Action 2024
Shadowman: Darque Legacy is an action adventure game based on an American comic book series published by Valiant. The playable character can travel between the worlds of the living and the dead, using this power in combat and during puzzles.
Fort Solis
Adventure 22 August 2023
A third-person sci-fi thriller action adventure game. Fort Solis has us traversing the titular Mars facility, trying to learn what had happened to its staff and why was it built. The game's stellar voice cast includes Troy Baker and Roger Clark.
Pinball M
Arcade 30 November 2023
An arcade pinball simulator by ZEN Studios. Pinball M supports singleplayer and local multiplayer, featuring many horror-themed tables.
Silent Hill: Ascension
Adventure 31 October 2023
The next installment in an iconic survival horror series by Konami, described as a "new form of entertainment". Silent Hill: Ascension was co-developed by four studios: Genvid, Bad Robot Games, Behaviour Interactive and dj2 Entertainment.
Stasis: Bone Totem
Adventure 31 May 2023
The second part of a series of adventure games called Stasis, launched in 2015. In Stasis: Bone Totem, we take control of the scrap collectors lying on the ocean floor, who face the nightmares lurking on them on a seemingly deserted oil platform.
The Exit 8
Adventure 29 November 2023
An unusual FPP adventure game with some horror vibes, inspired by Japanesee underground passages. The Exit 8 has us travelling through a mysterious and seemingly non-ending corridor. The key of the game is to make our way to the exit while avoiding anomalies.
Dementium: The Ward
Action 26 October 2007
The Ward is a FPS item, designed for owners of a two screen console from the Nintendo stables. The user takes on the role of a man who wakes up in an extremely gloomy place on a stormy night. After a while he comes to the conclusion that he is in a hospital and takes part in a strange experiment.
Zoochosis
Simulation June 2024
An original FPP game mixing horror with simulation, in which we play as a nightkeeper in the zoo. Our tasks in Zoochosis involve feeding and looking after the animals in the enclosures, as well as hunting down sick mutated animals and trying to create a vaccine for them.
Dead Signal
Adventure 20 October 2023
Dead Signal is a simulation game with horror elements, revolving around watching hacked camera footage on the lookout for interesting events.
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Action 27 April 2017
An action-adventure game in the form of a survival horror, created by TheMeatly Games - an independent Canadian developer. The game was divided into episodes to be released on a regular basis - the first of them can be tried out for free. Henry, the game's protagonist, is a former employee of an animation studio who revisits his old workplace in response to an invitation he received from his previous boss.