Abandonware DOS title

Horror games sorted by release date

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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Xenomorph

DOS1990 Pandora
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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...
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Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

DOS1991protected id software
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Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus

DOS1991 Horror Soft
Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus is an abandoned horror adventure/RPG hybrid game with elements of dark fantasy, developed by Horror Soft and published by Accolade for DOS in 1991. Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus is also part of the ...
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Elvira: the Arcade Game

DOS1991 Flair Software
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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 ...
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Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet

DOS1992 Riedel Software Productions
Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet is a video game based on the popular Beetlejuice franchise, which includes a 1988 film directed by Tim Burton and an animated television series that aired in the late 1980s and early 1990s.&nbs...
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Dark Seed

DOS1992 Cyberdreams
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Daughter of Serpents

DOS1992 Eldritch Games
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Dylan Dog: Murderers

DOS1992 Simulmondo
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Plan 9 From Outer Space

DOS1992 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
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WaxWorks

DOSMac OS1992protecteddemo 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 p...
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Alone in the Dark 2

DOS1993protected Infogrames
The sequel no one expected takes our trench-coated hero from gothic horror to gangster ghost story. Yes, Alone in the Dark 2 (1993, DOS) swaps Lovecraftian horror for Tommy guns and pirates - because why not? The combat’s a ...
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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...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula

DOS1993 Psygnosis
Bram Stoker's Dracula (the game) is based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the movie) based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the book). Confused yet? Good. This 1993 action-platformer has you battling the undead with the grace of a ...
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Dangerous Dave: Risky Rescue

DOS1993protected Softdisk Publishing
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Doom

DOS1993protecteddemo id software
Doom was released by id Software in 1993. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential and groundbreaking video games of all time, particularly within the first-person shooter (FPS) genre.Set in the future on the moons of ...
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Endless Horror

DOS1993
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Halloween Harry

DOS1993freeware Interactive Binary Illusions
Halloween Harry is a DOS science fiction multi-directional scroller shooter game. Halloween Harry - later renamed Alien Carnage - was published by Apogee, developed by Interactive Binary Illusions and designed by John Passfield an...
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In Extremis

DOS1993 Blue sphere
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Jack in the Dark

DOS1993 Infogrames
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Monster Bash

DOS1993protected Apogee Software
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Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness

DOSWindows 3.x1993protecteddemo Sierra On-Line
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness is an adventure role-playing game (RPG) developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1993 as the fourth installment in the Quest for Glory series. The game was designed by L...
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Rusty

DOS1993 C-lab.
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Shadow of the Comet

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected Infogrames
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The 7th Guest

Windows XP/98/951993protected Trilobyte
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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.
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Veil of Darkness

DOS1993protected Event Horizon
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Alone in the Dark 3

DOS1994protected Infogrames
By the time Alone in the Dark 3 (1994, DOS) rolls around, Edward Carnby has seen it all - so now it’s off to the Wild West, because of course it is. Zombies? Check. Cowboys? Check. Zombie cowboys? You bet. The gameplay is st...