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.
BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
Multiplayer Backrooms horror with a shapeshifter hiding among scientists
83% positive
1,662 reviews
BOKURA: planet
Two-player puzzle adventure built around communication and hidden objectives
74% positive
1,660 reviews
The Forgotten Ones
First-person horror shooter about a detective tracking Nazi officers
60% positive
Free
The Inn-Sanity
First-person hotel horror where trust matters as guests turn monstrous
96% positive
1,655 reviews
Hush Hush - Only Your Love Can Save Them
Branching dating visual novel about juggling romances and dangerous secrets
94% positive
1,651 reviews
Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
Dark point-and-click adventure about a pandemic and broken time
83% positive
1,639 reviews
Snail Simulator
Online snail simulator with slow exploration and hat collecting
98% positive
1,622 reviews
Autopsy Simulator
First-person autopsy simulation with forensic cases and psychological horror
52% positive
1,621 reviews
Hollowbody
Third-person survival horror about finding your partner in a sealed zone
85% positive
1,617 reviews
Mouse (Sneaking)
One-button desert runner about escaping a cat and collecting cheese
84% positive
1,607 reviews
Rogue Glitch Ultra
2D action roguelite with auto-targeting and tough platforming runs
92% positive
1,594 reviews
Zardy's Maze
First-person horror: cut giant weeds while evading cornfield monsters
91% positive
Free
Children of Silentown
Hand-drawn point-and-click mystery about disappearances near a forbidden forest
87% positive
1,584 reviews
노베나 디아볼로스
Survival mystery adventure with nine days to find the human
93% positive
1,570 reviews
Cat in the Box
Pixel horror adventure about exploring and escaping a cult mansion
94% positive
1,569 reviews
Amanda the Adventurer 2
First-person horror puzzle adventure through a library and interactive tapes
83% positive
1,566 reviews
PUSS!
2D bullet-hell action through randomized levels as a trapped cat
88% positive
1,561 reviews
NOeSIS01_诉说谎言记忆物语
Horror visual novel about campus suicides and voices of the dead
98% positive
Free
CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2 It's a Night Magic
Adult club-management sim with customizable maids and rhythm battles
83% positive
1,548 reviews
Cat Bait
Pixel-art action roguelite where helper cats fight rodent swarms
96% positive
1,547 reviews
Hentai 3018
Casual escape puzzles with enemies and traps to avoid
79% positive
1,544 reviews
A Fisherman's Tale
VR puzzle adventure with a lighthouse inside another lighthouse
94% positive
1,539 reviews
Corpse Party (2021)
Retro horror adventure in a haunted school with branching endings
91% positive
1,536 reviews
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
Branching horror visual novel about a curse and seven characters
85% positive
1,533 reviews