The most popular horror games
Anything even remotely connected to horror: all things splatter, Cthulhu and Lovecraft, vampires, zombies, ghosts, mummies, hideous creatures from outer space.
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Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Windows XP/98/951999protected Sierra On-Line
The Ultimate Doom
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1995protected id software
Ultimate DOOM is an expanded version of the original DOOM (1993), developed by id Software and released in 1995. It includes all three original episodes of DOOM along with a brand-new fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed. The g...
The Hound of Shadow
DOS1989 Eldritch Games
Transylvania 3: Vanquish the Night
DOS1990 Polarware
Ravenloft: Stone Prophet
DOS1995protected DreamForge Intertainment
Ravenloft: Stone Prophet is a fantasy RPG set in the egyptian Ravenloft campaign that uses the Advanced Dungeons & Dragon ruleset. It's the sequel to Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession and uses the same first person real-time 3d e...
BloodNet
DOS1993protected MicroProse Software
BloodNet combines vampires, cyberspace, and noir in a cocktail so strange it probably shouldn’t work but somehow does. You are a hacker who just got bitten by a vampire and now you must juggle your thirst for blood with your...
Transylvania
DOS1986freeware Polarware
Alone in the Dark
DOS1992protected Infogrames
Step into the polygonal shoes of Edward Carnby (or Emily Hartwood, if you're feeling bold) in Alone in the Dark, the grandfather of survival horror games. Released in 1992 for DOS, it throws you into a haunted mansion filled with ...
Horror Zombies from the Crypt
DOS1990 Astral Software
Horror Zombies from the Crypt is a platform game released in 1990 by Millennium Interactive for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS platforms. The game is heavily inspired by 1950s horror movies, both in atmosphere and design, offerin...
Ecstatica
DOS1994 Andrew Spencer Studios
It Came from the Desert
DOS1990freeware Cinemaware
It Came from the Desert is an abandonware action-adventure game developed by Cinemaware and released in 1990 for PC (DOS) and Amiga. It Came From the Desert is an action-adventure game with a peculiar flavor: it's set in the 50s, ...
Nitemare 3D
DOSWindows 3.x1994protected Gray Design Associates
Nitemare 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by David P. Gray under the Gray Design Associates label. It was released in 1994 as a follow-up to the earlier adventure games in the "Hugo" series. The...
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected Sierra On-Line
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS1989 Silhouette Software
Arachnophobia
DOS1991 Blue Sky Productions
You don’t need to hate spiders to fear Arachnophobia (1991), but it helps. Based on the movie of the same name, it tasks you with exterminating wave after wave of creepy crawlies in a town that’s clearly being punished...
The Legacy: Realm of Terror
DOSLinuxMac OS1993protected Magnetic Scrolls
The Legacy: Realm of Terror is a first-person view survival horror RPG set in the modern world, in a haunted house. The Legacy was developed by Magnetic Scrolls and published by MicroProse Software in 1993.
Shadow of the Comet
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected Infogrames
Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession
DOS1994protected DreamForge Intertainment
Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession is a computer role-playing game (CRPG) released in 1994. It is set in the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting of Ravenloft, which is known for its gothic horror themes. The game was developed by ...
Dylan Dog: Murderers
DOS1992 Simulmondo
Plan 9 From Outer Space
DOS1992 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Moonmist
DOS1986 Infocom
Prisoner of Ice
DOS1995protected Chaosium Inc.
Elvira: the Arcade Game
DOS1991 Flair Software
Doom: The Roguelike
DOS2005freeware
Phantasmagoria
Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1995protecteddemo Sierra On-Line
Phantasmagoria is a point-and-click horror adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line, released in 1995. Directed by Roberta Williams, Phantasmagoria departed from Sierra's usual fantasy and comedic themes to explore...
Night Breed
DOS1990
Jack in the Dark
DOS1993 Infogrames
Scapeghost
DOS1989 Level 9 Computing
Night Hunter
DOS1988 UBI Soft