Abandonware DOS title

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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Escape from Hell

DOS19904/5 Electronic Arts
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Bureau 13

DOS19953.8/5 Take-Two Interactive
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Daughter of Serpents

DOS19924/5 Eldritch Games
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WaxWorks

DOSMac1992protecteddemo4.3/5 Horror Soft
Waxworks was a horror-themed first-person role-playing game developed by Horror Soft, a subsidiary of Adventure Soft, published in 1992. The game is set in a wax museum where players must travel through different historical periods, each represented by a wax exhibit. Each exhibit serves as a portal to a different time and place, featuring vari...
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The Typing of the Dead

Windows XP/98/9519993.6/5 Smilebit
The Typing of the Dead is a unique video game that is essentially a typing version of the classic rail shooter arcade game The House of the Dead. It was first released in 1999 as an arcade machine and later for other platforms.In The Typing of the Dead, players use a keyboard to eliminate oncoming waves of zombies and other creatures by typing word...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula

DOS19934/5 Psygnosis
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A Nightmare on Elm street

DOS19893.9/5 Westwood Studios
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In Extremis

DOS19933.5/5 Blue sphere
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BloodNet

DOS1993protected4/5 MicroProse Software
BloodNet is a blend of point & click adventure (it has puzzles and an adventure style dialogue system) and RPG (player statistics, combat, random encounters), set in a dark cyberpunk New York. BloodNet was developed and published by MicroProse software in 1993. You are Ransom Stark who's goal in the game is to defeat a vampire called Van Helsin...
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Veil of Darkness

DOS1993protected3.9/5 Event Horizon
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Elvira: the Arcade Game

DOS19913.9/5 Flair Software
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Ghosts 'n Goblins remake

Windows2004freewareremake4.1/5
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Jack in the Dark

DOS19933.8/5 Infogrames
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Night Hunter

DOS19883.8/5 UBI Soft
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Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the closet

DOS19924/5 Hi-Tech Expressions
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Sanitarium

Windows XP/98/951998protected4/5 DreamForge Intertainment
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The Lurking Horror

DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

Windows XP/98/95Mac2000protected4.3/5 Nihilistic Software
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Prisoner of Ice

DOS1995protected4.1/5 Chaosium Inc.
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The mist

DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
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The 7th Guest

Windows XP/98/951993protected3.9/5 Trilobyte
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Weird Dreams

DOS19883.8/5 Rainbird Software
Weird Dreams is an abandoned action - puzzle game developed and released by Rainbird Software in 1988 for DOS, but also published for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64. Weird Dreams is a surreal action game in which you have to take part in absurd activities in order to progress to the next level.
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Horror Zombies from the Crypt

DOS19903.8/5 Astral Software
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Pray for Death

DOS1996protected4.2/5 Light Shock Software
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The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 Eldritch Games
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Dylan Dog: Through the Looking Glass

DOS19923.6/5 Simulmondo
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Realms of the Haunting

DOSMac1997protected3.8/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
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Time Slaughter

DOS1996freeware4.1/5 Bloodlust Software
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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected3.9/5 Sierra On-Line