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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The Outlast Trials
First-person co-op survival horror built around stealth and escape
92% positive
108K reviews
Metro 2033 Redux
Story-driven survival-horror FPS beneath a ruined, toxic Moscow
91% positive
105K reviews
Cry of Fear
First-person psychological horror amid creatures and nightmarish delusions
88% positive
Free
Firewatch
First-person wilderness mystery shaped by conversations over a radio
90% positive
100K reviews
Half-Life: Alyx
Story-driven VR shooter with hands-on puzzles and alien horror
98% positive
98K reviews
Demo Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
First-person survival horror inside a hostile rural American house
95% positive
96K reviews
Outer Wilds
Open-world space mystery driven by exploration and an endless time loop
95% positive
94K reviews
OMORI
Story-rich psychological horror RPG with turn-based combat and branching endings
97% positive
90K reviews
Friday the 13th: The Game
Multiplayer survival horror with seven counselors against one player-controlled killer
80% positive
86K reviews
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Punishing physics platformer about climbing a mountain with a hammer
81% positive
84K reviews
Split Fiction
Co-op action-adventure across changing fantasy and science-fiction story worlds
97% positive
81K reviews
RV There Yet?
First-person co-op driving adventure with one RV and two winches
90% positive
79K reviews
Content Warning
Online co-op horror where friends film monsters for viral views
93% positive
78K reviews
How to Fish
Physics-based co-op fishing shooter with bosses and trick shots
95% positive
78K reviews
DEVOUR
First-person co-op horror with rituals and escalating monster attacks
90% positive
76K reviews
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition
Realistic open-world flight simulator spanning aircraft and the entire planet
76% positive
75K reviews
Ultimate Custom Night
Free first-person survival horror built around customizable animatronic attacks
94% positive
Free
Cities: Skylines II
Single-player city builder with economies, seasons, and citizen life paths
55% positive
70K reviews
Dead Space
Third-person survival horror aboard a ship overrun by Necromorphs
89% positive
67K reviews
Barotrauma
2D co-op submarine survival horror built around teamwork and betrayal
94% positive
67K reviews
OneShot
Pixel-art puzzle adventure where the world knows you exist
98% positive
65K reviews
PROJECT: PLAYTIME
Multiplayer horror with puzzle-solving survivors and a player-controlled monster
78% positive
64K reviews
Escape from Tarkov
First-person extraction shooter with loot, PvP, and gun customization
48% positive
62K reviews
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
Psychological visual novel about managing a troubled online streamer
94% positive
62K reviews