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
4,447 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Hylics
Surreal turn-based RPG with abstract visuals and generated text
98% positive
9,118 reviews
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Third-person action thriller with light-based combat and arcade survival
74% positive
9,055 reviews
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Fast Food Simulator
First-person fast-food simulator built around hectic co-op teamwork
87% positive
9,038 reviews
MIMESIS
Online co-op horror where monsters impersonate your teammates
84% positive
9,023 reviews
At Home Alone Final
A pixel-art horror adventure beneath a cheerful-looking surface
97% positive
Free
Rusty Lake: Roots
Point-and-click puzzle adventure tracing a family's dark history
97% positive
8,993 reviews
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
First-person mystery adventure examining deaths to find a missing boy
88% positive
8,976 reviews
The Headliners
First-person co-op horror about photographing monsters and surviving expeditions
85% positive
8,971 reviews
Slender: The Arrival
First-person survival horror about collecting pages while evading Slender Man
88% positive
8,964 reviews
Demo The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall
Historical visual novel about surviving a city besieged by demons
62% positive
8,869 reviews
Demo FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
Retro pixel horror about exorcising demons across three chapters
94% positive
8,848 reviews
Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
Top-down horror adventure solving puzzles while hunting a witch
94% positive
8,790 reviews
Demo Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival
First-person action horror with puzzle-box powers and brutal combat
93% positive
8,738 reviews
REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
A psychological horror visual novel that questions dating-sim conventions
97% positive
Free
Her Story
Crime mystery built from searchable, out-of-order police interview clips
89% positive
8,697 reviews
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
A point-and-click puzzle game where the narrator resists your progress
97% positive
Free
Lucius
Third-person horror adventure about staging deadly accidents with supernatural powers
81% positive
8,663 reviews
Deceit 2
First-person social deduction horror with shooting, tasks, and betrayal
55% positive
Free
Poker Night at the Inventory
Texas Hold’em tournaments with video game characters and table banter
95% positive
8,591 reviews
Amnesia: Rebirth
First-person horror adventure retracing a missing journey through Algeria
77% positive
8,543 reviews
Psychopomp
First-person horror dungeon crawling beneath a world built on lies
97% positive
Free
Unfortunate Spacemen
Multiplayer social deduction with a shapeshifting monster in space
86% positive
Free
STEINS;GATE 0
Time travel visual novel where phone calls change the outcome
96% positive
8,481 reviews
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
Chapter-based third-person shooter with puzzles and visual novel storytelling
82% positive
8,458 reviews