Best Psychological Horror games on PC
Games tagged Psychological Horror use disturbing themes, uncertainty, or altered perceptions to create tension. They range from story-focused visual novels to first-person co-op horror and action games, so the tag describes tone more than one style of play.
- Unsettling themes and tense situations
- Psychological distress or distorted reality
Related: Horror, Survival Horror, Story Rich, First-Person
4,113 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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The Count Lucanor
Pixel-art horror adventure with castle puzzles and branching endings
93% positive
3,002 reviews
Nightmare House: The Original Mod
First-person horror with jump scares and enemies you can fight
96% positive
Free
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
A point-and-click adventure linking personal tragedies with the supernatural
96% positive
Free
Smile For Me
First-person point-and-click adventure about cheering up strange residents
96% positive
2,986 reviews
The Death | Thần Trùng
First-person psychological horror with puzzles in modern-day Hanoi
91% positive
2,983 reviews
Garten of Banban 3
First-person horror adventure searching for your child beneath a kindergarten
73% positive
2,976 reviews
Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole
Psychological horror visual novel with philosophical themes and unsettling mysteries
92% positive
2,966 reviews
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode I
Fast-paced side-scrolling platformer with Spin Dash and Homing Attack
44% positive
2,964 reviews
Lily's Well
Pixel horror adventure about answering a cry from a well
97% positive
Free
Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
Psychological mystery visual novel about murders on an isolated island
95% positive
2,955 reviews
恋爱绮谭~不存在的夏天~
Mystery romance visual novel about urban legends becoming real
93% positive
2,953 reviews
Demo and Roger
A short interactive novel that begins with a stranger at home
95% positive
2,943 reviews
Silent Hill Homecoming
Third-person survival horror about a missing brother and nightmares
48% positive
2,917 reviews
Demo FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE
Third-person survival horror with a camera for fighting ghosts
85% positive
2,917 reviews
Platform 8
First-person horror walking simulator on an endless, anomaly-filled train
87% positive
2,912 reviews
Squishy the Suicidal Pig
Puzzle platformer about finding the right way to die
82% positive
2,904 reviews
Home Safety Hotline
Analog horror hotline simulator about identifying strange household hazards
90% positive
2,889 reviews
Martha Is Dead
First-person psychological thriller about a twin's death in wartime Italy
78% positive
2,888 reviews
You Will (Not) Remain
A narrative horror game about isolation during an eldritch invasion
92% positive
Free
Demo Scarlet Idol
Two-player horror puzzles rooted in the folk traditions of Zhejiang
68% positive
2,873 reviews
Demo Emissary Zero
Co-op horror with monsters, puzzles, and a building that changes
83% positive
2,870 reviews
The NOexistenceN of Lilith
A desktop companion with an anime character and bedtime reminders
98% positive
2,866 reviews
Demo Folie Fatale
Romance horror visual novel with obsessive suitors and branching endings
86% positive
2,848 reviews
The Complex: Expedition
Slow-paced psychological horror through a VHS camera in the Backrooms
90% positive
2,846 reviews