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.
LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
LEGO action adventure retelling four pirate films with local co-op
91% positive
5,743 reviews
The Sinking City Remastered
Lovecraftian open-world detective adventure in a flooded, supernatural city
75% positive
5,722 reviews
DreadOut
Third-person Indonesian horror with camera-based ghost encounters and puzzles
77% positive
5,716 reviews
METAL GEAR SURVIVE
Survival action with scavenging, base building, and creature defense
66% positive
5,712 reviews
A Difficult Game About Climbing
Physics-based climbing platformer where falls can undo hard-won progress
87% positive
5,694 reviews
Selene ~Apoptosis~
Free horror visual novel with dark romance and branching endings
88% positive
Free
Please, Don’t Touch Anything
Point-and-click puzzle game where a red button leads to many endings
89% positive
5,602 reviews
Mr.President!
Physics-based action game about shielding a presidential candidate from attacks
83% positive
5,578 reviews
The Hex
Single-player mystery game with six protagonists and genre-shifting flashbacks
94% positive
5,565 reviews
Job Simulator
First-person VR job simulation with robots and hands-on workplace chaos
91% positive
5,464 reviews
Total War: PHARAOH
Bronze Age strategy with turn-based empires and real-time battles
63% positive
5,420 reviews
Mother Russia Bleeds
Gory side-scrolling beat 'em up with local co-op and drug-fueled combat
87% positive
5,417 reviews
Angels of Death
Psychological horror adventure about uneasy partners escaping a sealed building
95% positive
5,416 reviews
Psychopomp GOLD
First-person horror dungeon crawler through surreal catacombs beneath buildings
98% positive
5,409 reviews
Nunholy
Gothic action roguelike where armed nuns hunt vampires
89% positive
5,407 reviews
Murky Divers
First-person underwater co-op horror about clearing bodies from abandoned labs
87% positive
5,331 reviews
Hide and Shriek
Free-to-play first-person duels where invisible students trade jump scares
82% positive
Free
Ib
Pixel-art horror adventure through a shifting gallery of puzzles
99% positive
5,327 reviews
Scarlet Hollow
Branching horror visual novel about a supernatural mountain-town mystery
98% positive
5,305 reviews
SUCCUBUS
First-person action through Hell with graphic violence and revenge
76% positive
5,298 reviews
MONMUSU
Free-to-play idle game about gathering materials to summon monster girls
80% positive
Free
Left on Read
Choice-driven platformer about texting a crush during quarantine
79% positive
Free
Observation
Sci-fi puzzle adventure viewed through a space station's AI
78% positive
5,218 reviews
Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery
Top-down tactical RPG with demanding squad battles and stealth
80% positive
5,206 reviews