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
4,117 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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[Chilla's Art] Parasocial | パラソーシャル
Psychological horror adventure about a livestreamer facing unwanted attention
94% positive
1,717 reviews
STEINS;GATE ELITE
Animated time-travel visual novel with branching paths and endings
90% positive
1,712 reviews
KIDS
A surreal interactive animation where you move with or against crowds
85% positive
1,710 reviews
Toree 3D
Fast-paced 3D platforming with a late-nineties low-poly visual style
95% positive
1,708 reviews
Demo Cryptmaster
First-person dungeon crawler where typed words drive combat and puzzles
94% positive
1,707 reviews
Toilet Chronicles
First-person escape-room comedy where a public restroom's exit disappears
90% positive
1,700 reviews
Golfing Over It with Alva Majo
A physics-based platformer about climbing a mountain with golf shots
74% positive
1,699 reviews
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
A psychological questionnaire with horror elements and personalized results
98% positive
Free
Reminiscence
Psychological horror with time-travel puzzles inside a changing family home
84% positive
Free
Touhou Kanjuden ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom.
Bullet-hell shooter with chapter retries for clearing patterns without hits
98% positive
1,691 reviews
SIMULACRA 2
Phone-based horror mystery about investigating an influencer's death
87% positive
1,690 reviews
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
Third-person survival horror where photographs ward off island ghosts
89% positive
1,685 reviews
Stephen's Sausage Roll
Difficult 3D puzzle game built around rolling sausages
96% positive
1,680 reviews
pla_toon
Cartoon multiplayer shooter with destructible buildings and rideable ostriches
87% positive
Free
Sixty Four
Incremental factory clicker that grows from manual production to automation
73% positive
1,680 reviews
Demo 14 Minesweeper Variants
Minimalist logic puzzles that reinvent Minesweeper without forced guessing
97% positive
1,675 reviews
Skull Hotel
First-person horror about cleaning hotel rooms and spotting deadly anomalies
79% positive
Free
Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs
Mystery visual novel questioning whether an island's killer is human
95% positive
1,674 reviews
Sixtieth Kilometer
A visual novel about train passengers trapped by deadly fog
78% positive
1,671 reviews
Demo Trap Shrine
A shrine-set romantic visual novel with a crossdressing goddess
94% positive
1,671 reviews
I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling
Satirical loot box clicker about opening crates and collecting cosmetics
91% positive
1,668 reviews
Garten of Banban 7
First-person horror adventure through monster-filled kindergarten levels and puzzles
83% positive
1,662 reviews
Demo Total Chaos
First-person survival horror with makeshift weapons and an island mystery
86% positive
1,659 reviews
Varenje
Hand-drawn hidden-object adventure through a world seen at insect size
87% positive
Free