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
939 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
RUSSIAPHOBIA
First-person co-op adventure collecting evidence while avoiding pursuers
69% positive
7,497 reviews
Breakout 13
Live-action adventure with branching choices in a teen correctional center
88% positive
7,492 reviews
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Story-driven visual novel pairing deadly choices with escape-room puzzles
93% positive
7,409 reviews
INMOST
Dark pixel-art puzzle platformer connecting three characters' stories
91% positive
7,370 reviews
Matchmaking Inc.
Card-based dating sim about matching clients and finding love
89% positive
7,344 reviews
Amanda the Adventurer
First-person horror puzzle game with cartoon characters addressing you
94% positive
7,289 reviews
The Silent Age
Side-scrolling point-and-click adventure with puzzles across two time periods
93% positive
7,196 reviews
YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
School romance visual novel with branching paths and psychological horror
95% positive
7,074 reviews
1000xRESIST
Sci-fi adventure about a clone uncovering secrets through memories
94% positive
7,033 reviews
In Sound Mind
First-person psychological horror with puzzles across unsettling memories
95% positive
6,990 reviews
Passpartout: The Starving Artist
Casual art simulation about painting and selling to pay bills
89% positive
6,969 reviews
The White Door
Point-and-click puzzle adventure built around daily routines and lost memories
94% positive
6,866 reviews
Deceit 2
First-person social deduction horror with shooting, tasks, and betrayal
58% positive
Free
Insaniquarium Deluxe
Casual aquarium game about feeding fish and defending against aliens
97% positive
6,852 reviews
ibb & obb
Two-player puzzle platformer with upward and downward gravity
89% positive
6,844 reviews
Zup! X
Physics puzzle game using explosions to keep a ball on platforms
96% positive
6,837 reviews
Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™
Choice-driven dating sim about romancing killers on a strange island
90% positive
6,815 reviews
Mad Father
Pixel-art horror adventure uncovering secrets in a family's mansion
97% positive
6,800 reviews
The House in Fata Morgana
Gothic visual novel tracing tragedies across a mysterious mansion's past
95% positive
6,726 reviews
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We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]
Short point-and-click game about how news shapes public behavior
96% positive
Free
Marie's Room
First-person story exploration uncovers an old friendship's secrets in one room
93% positive
Free
POOLS
First-person horror exploration through empty, maze-like pool spaces
95% positive
6,707 reviews
FOREWARNED
Co-op survival horror in shifting Egyptian tombs haunted by mummies
90% positive
6,664 reviews
Serena
Short point-and-click mystery told through objects in a remote cabin
77% positive
Free