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.
Mysterious School
Co-op school horror about destroying cursed objects under changing rules
36% positive
Free
Mr. Hopp's Playhouse
2D horror sidescroller about hiding from a stalking toy rabbit
94% positive
Free
Paranoia Place: Escape Together
First-person co-op survival horror with puzzles and a pursuing killer
88% positive
1,844 reviews
The Desolate Hope
Side-scrolling sci-fi platformer with RPG battles against a computer virus
93% positive
Free
CLICKOLDING
Dark narrative clicker in a hotel room with a masked stranger
82% positive
1,815 reviews
Only Up: With Friends
Third-person parkour races up obstacle courses with punishing falls
69% positive
1,781 reviews
CHKN
Open-world survival sandbox where you build creatures block by block
80% positive
Free
Cooking Simulator VR
VR cooking simulator with hands-on recipes and kitchen experiments
73% positive
1,741 reviews
Ad Infinitum
First-person horror between World War I trenches and a family manor
78% positive
1,741 reviews
Layers of Fear
First-person psychological horror linking two games through new chapters
79% positive
1,736 reviews
Angel at Dusk
Top-down bullet hell shooter where close-range attacks fuel survival
98% positive
1,736 reviews
Out There: Ω Edition
Space exploration roguelike about surviving with scarce ship resources
76% positive
1,732 reviews
Metal Waltz: Anime tank girls
Free-to-play strategy RPG commanding armored heroines against runaway Beast Tanks
79% positive
Free
Solium Infernum
Turn-based strategy for Hell's throne through diplomacy and betrayal
88% positive
1,728 reviews
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[Chilla's Art] Parasocial | パラソーシャル
Psychological horror adventure about a livestreamer facing unwanted attention
94% positive
1,717 reviews
METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED
Side-scrolling tower defense with pixel-art armies and deck building
69% positive
1,714 reviews
Spirit Island
Cooperative digital board game about driving colonizers from an island
92% positive
1,693 reviews
SIMULACRA 2
Phone-based horror mystery about investigating an influencer's death
87% positive
1,690 reviews
STEINS;GATE ELITE
Animated time-travel visual novel with branching paths and endings
90% positive
1,687 reviews
Touhou Fuujinroku ~ Mountain of Faith.
2D bullet-hell shooter with stages of dense enemy fire
98% positive
1,681 reviews
14 Minesweeper Variants
Minimalist logic puzzles that reinvent Minesweeper without forced guessing
97% positive
1,678 reviews
I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling
Satirical loot box clicker about opening crates and collecting cosmetics
91% positive
1,668 reviews
Sixty Four
Incremental factory clicker that grows from manual production to automation
74% positive
1,665 reviews
Garten of Banban 7
First-person horror adventure through monster-filled kindergarten levels and puzzles
83% positive
1,662 reviews