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.
Mahjong
Solo tile-matching puzzles across boards of varying difficulty
84% positive
653 reviews
BodyRecords
Bodycam horror exploration where speaking can draw creatures near
65% positive
652 reviews
Criminal Girls: Invite Only
Anime dungeon crawler guiding seven girls up hell's spire
77% positive
651 reviews
Paper Bride 4 Bound Love
Chinese folklore horror game about solving Yichang Town's mysteries
78% positive
651 reviews
The Anomaly Project
First-person co-op horror game about spotting changes to escape
82% positive
649 reviews
Backrooms Media
First-person co-op survival horror with puzzles and entity hunts
40% positive
648 reviews
The Coma 2B: Catacomb
2D survival horror with puzzles and a pursuing killer
75% positive
640 reviews
Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
First-person point-and-click horror mystery about an occult-linked murder
73% positive
636 reviews
Pieces of me
First-person psychological thriller exploring memories in an empty school
88% positive
634 reviews
The Bad Kids
Psychological horror adventure about a student investigating unsettling mysteries
76% positive
633 reviews
Slender Threads
Point-and-click horror adventure about a nightmare that might come true
91% positive
633 reviews
Richie's Plank Experience
VR simulation of walking a plank high above a city
80% positive
630 reviews
Nya Nya Nya Girls (ʻʻʻ)_(=^･ω･^=)_(ʻʻʻ)
Sliding picture puzzles that reveal anime character illustrations
81% positive
630 reviews
Moero Chronicle
Turn-based dungeon RPG about battling and recruiting Monster Girls
70% positive
627 reviews
Violent Horror Stories: anthology
Four short horror games with different takes on pursuit
82% positive
617 reviews
The logic of the miniature garden
Mystery visual novel about campus disappearances and branching choices
87% positive
615 reviews
Ruined Nurse
First-person survival horror shooter about installing internet in a nurse-filled hospital
83% positive
612 reviews
Panic Room: House of secrets
Free-to-play hidden-object mystery about escaping a puzzle-filled mansion
60% positive
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The Devourer: Hunted Souls
First-person co-op horror with puzzles in a cursed forest
77% positive
606 reviews
Ten Bells
First-person anomaly horror in an English pub that keeps changing
97% positive
595 reviews
The Alien Cube
First-person horror adventure investigating a missing uncle's occult past
81% positive
593 reviews
OmniBus
Physics-based driving missions in a bus that cannot slow down
82% positive
579 reviews
Pushing it! Together - Sisyphus Co-op
Third-person co-op platformer about pushing a boulder uphill together
50% positive
565 reviews
Mr. Pumpkin 2: Kowloon walled city
Point-and-click puzzle adventure about escaping Kowloon Walled City
92% positive
558 reviews