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
4,453 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Hide and Shriek
Free-to-play first-person duels where invisible students trade jump scares
82% positive
Free
Matchmaking Inc.
Card-based dating sim about matching clients and finding love
87% positive
6,106 reviews
Cats
A free clicker about collecting more cats through repeated clicks
81% positive
Free
The Painscreek Killings
Unguided detective mystery built on exploring and connecting clues
90% positive
6,094 reviews
Demo F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
First-person horror shooter with slow-motion gunfights and supernatural threats
82% positive
6,060 reviews
Chair Simulator
A sitting simulator where staying seated too long risks permanent death
89% positive
Free
Demo The Casting of Frank Stone™
Choice-driven horror adventure about a killer's legacy and branching fates
62% positive
6,008 reviews
Minds Beneath Us
Choice-driven sci-fi visual novel about sharing a stranger's body
96% positive
5,996 reviews
BLACK SOULS II
Dark fantasy RPG where killing inhabitants changes what you see and hear
97% positive
5,982 reviews
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First-person cyberpunk horror adventure about investigating memories for clues
78% positive
5,934 reviews
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[Nightmare Files] Clap Clap
First-person horror in a house with clap-controlled lights
96% positive
Free
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water
Mission-based horror adventure where a camera fights mountain ghosts
77% positive
5,873 reviews
Demo OneShot: World Machine Edition
Pixel-art puzzle adventure with clues inside a simulated desktop
98% positive
5,868 reviews
The Test: Final Revelation
A psychological horror quiz built around increasingly personal questions
98% positive
5,831 reviews
A Difficult Game About Climbing
Physics-based climbing platformer where falls can undo hard-won progress
86% positive
5,830 reviews
The Sinking City Remastered
Lovecraftian open-world detective adventure in a flooded, supernatural city
74% positive
5,819 reviews
In Sound Mind
First-person psychological horror with puzzles across unsettling memories
94% positive
5,807 reviews
BirdGut
Hand-drawn puzzle platformer following a bee swallowed by a bird
95% positive
Free
Demo CODE VEIN II
A Souls-like action RPG with blood-powered skills and time travel
66% positive
5,744 reviews
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Free first-person parkour with bunny hopping, surfing, and meme humor
91% positive
Free
Moe Era
Free anime visual novel with choices leading to different endings
88% positive
Free
Demo HROT
Retro first-person shooter fighting strange intruders in 1980s Czechoslovakia
96% positive
5,689 reviews
Mr.President!
Physics-based action game about shielding a presidential candidate from attacks
83% positive
5,675 reviews
Demo Forspoken
Open-world action RPG with spellcasting and magic-powered parkour
65% positive
5,654 reviews