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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Life Tastes Like Cardboard
A surreal walking simulator about boredom and self-pity
95% positive
Free
Fractured Minds
First-person puzzle game exploring mental health through distorted everyday situations
82% positive
396 reviews
Demo Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
Live-action mystery adventure about radio hosts caught in supernatural trouble
75% positive
396 reviews
DERE EVIL EXE
Side-scrolling horror platformer with environmental puzzles and a meta story
87% positive
395 reviews
我的傲娇妹妹 MY TSUNDERE SISTER
A short anime romance visual novel set during summer
66% positive
395 reviews
Bouncy Goat Climb
A precision platformer about bouncing a goat up a mountain
75% positive
Free
Doorways: Prelude
First-person horror adventure mixing exploration, puzzles, and tests of reflexes
60% positive
393 reviews
Piggy Poggy Pog
A 2D platformer with acorn collecting and instant-death traps
81% positive
393 reviews
Airplane Mode
Real-time airline passenger simulation about passing time on commercial flights
67% positive
393 reviews
Simple Fish Adventure
A physics-based platformer about wriggling a fish across dry land
88% positive
393 reviews
Egg Squeeze
Arcade timing game about squeezing eggs without cracking their shells
99% positive
393 reviews
잭과 콩나무: 숨겨진 이야기
A fairy-tale adventure with psychological horror inside a beanstalk castle
64% positive
Free
My Therapy
A dating visual novel that plays with familiar romance clichés
96% positive
Free
Demo Caput Mortum
First-person survival horror with puzzles and a separately controlled hand
95% positive
392 reviews
Demo SCP: Blackout
First-person survival horror with branching choices inside an SCP facility
67% positive
Free
Demo 14 Minesweeper Variants 2
Minesweeper logic puzzles with changing rules and unconventional clues
97% positive
391 reviews
Connected Hearts - Visual novel
Mystery visual novel about strange dreams and an unfulfilled promise
89% positive
Free
Kaigrad
Dark fantasy visual novel where living beings provide the only light
92% positive
Free
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure
Point-and-click adventure about escaping a maze of rust and sewage
97% positive
390 reviews
Paper Bride 6 Nightmare
Chinese folklore horror puzzle game tracing nightmares through time
81% positive
390 reviews
The Flayed Man
Short point-and-click horror adventure about judgment and branching endings
91% positive
390 reviews
Strange Night
First-person psychological horror built around security cameras and nightly patrols
60% positive
389 reviews
Mewing Simulator 🤫🧏🏻♂️
A casual clicker built around internet slang and meme humor
97% positive
389 reviews
SubwaySim Hamburg
Subway driving simulator set on Hamburg's elevated U3 ring line
65% positive
388 reviews