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.
[DE:]Fanastasis
Exploration-focused RPG with hidden paths in a ruined kingdom
97% positive
183 reviews
Take the Dream IX
Surreal horror adventure RPG about saving your girlfriend from a phantom
78% positive
Free
Burial
Psychological horror in a Soviet apartment during a deserted wake
75% positive
175 reviews
Ball of Wonder
Circus-themed brick breaker with clowns, varied objectives, and co-op
64% positive
170 reviews
Night Mysteries: The Amphora Prisoner
First-person 3D mystery adventure with hidden objects aboard a cargo ship
64% positive
169 reviews
我亲爱的妹妹 Happy Sisters Life
Choice-driven visual novel about sisters and diverging endings
20% positive
168 reviews
Nothing
Idle game where the challenge is to take no action
92% positive
166 reviews
Felix Jumpman
3D platformer about leaping between comets to repair a spaceship
53% positive
165 reviews
Manivore
Linear psychological horror with crime scene photography and puzzles
70% positive
165 reviews
?? Movie Theater
Story-led first-person horror in a movie theater with strange screenings
97% positive
155 reviews
Welcome To The Backrooms
First-person survival horror in an endless, procedurally generated maze
47% positive
Free
Backrooms Loop
First-person horror about spotting changes in endlessly looping hallways
92% positive
145 reviews
Demonheart: The Cursed Trial
Dark fantasy otome visual novel about keeping your identity secret
91% positive
134 reviews
Bonds of Yachiyo
Adult horror adventure with puzzles and chases through a transformed university
88% positive
129 reviews
Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club TOKIMEKI Roadmap to Future
School-life visual novel about lost memories and branching idol stories
84% positive
129 reviews
Miniballist
One-button platformer about guiding a ball through changing levels
70% positive
128 reviews
Clink
First-person psychological horror in an old house of buried memories
74% positive
121 reviews
Mistwood Heroes
Top-down party RPG with turn-based battles and boss fights
64% positive
120 reviews
Among The Whispers - Provocation
First-person ghost investigation across a four-story haunted mansion
82% positive
119 reviews
NOROI KAGO: the Grudged Domain
First-person co-op horror about escaping a barrier haunted by yokai
79% positive
117 reviews
Containment Corp, Inc.
First-person survival horror with co-op shooting and anomaly hunting
91% positive
114 reviews
Instant Death
First-person platformer where touching red sends you back to start
71% positive
109 reviews
SAVE
First-person survival horror aboard a ship hiding supernatural threats
51% positive
109 reviews
Chess
Turn-based board game with AI opponents, puzzles, and online matches
77% positive
107 reviews