Abandonware DOS title

The best 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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Beast

DOS1984
Beast is ASCII horror at its most gloriously minimal. You’re a brave soul (well, a smiley face) trapped in a dungeon with sentient blobs (the titular beasts) that want you very, very dead. Armed only with moving blocks and r...
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Night Hunter

DOS1988 UBI Soft
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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...
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Uninvited

DOSMac OS1987 ICOM Simulations
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Bureau 13

DOS1995 Take-Two Interactive
Paranormal agents, conspiracy theories, and point-and-click puzzles that would make even a ghost sigh in frustration. Bureau 13 is like The X-Files if Mulder and Scully spent more time pixel-hunting. You choose your agents—o...
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The Hound of Shadow

DOS1989 Eldritch Games
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American McGee's Alice

Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/11Mac OS2000 Rogue Entertainment
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Ghost Master

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected
Ghost Master is a strategy and simulation game developed by Sick Puppies and published by Empire Interactive. It was originally released for Microsoft Windows in 2003 and later ported to other platforms. In Ghost Master, you ...
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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...
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Voodoo island

DOS1985 Angelsoft
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A Personal Nightmare

DOS1989 Horror Soft
A Personal Nightmare (1989) blends horror and detective work into one spooky little cocktail of 1980s DOS game design. You return to your hometown to find it overrun by demonic possession, creepy villagers, and enough red flags to...
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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected Sierra On-Line
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Dylan Dog: Murderers

DOS1992 Simulmondo
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Realms of the Haunting

DOSMac OS1997protected Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
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Grave Yardage

DOS1989 Incredible technologies
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Plan 9 From Outer Space

DOS1992 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
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The Typing of the Dead

Windows XP/98/951999 Smilebit
The Typing of the Dead is a distinctive video game, essentially a typing adaptation of the classic rail shooter arcade game, The House of the Dead. Initially debuting in 1999 as an arcade machine, it later became available on othe...
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Scapeghost

DOS1989 Level 9 Computing
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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 ...
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In Extremis

DOS1993 Blue sphere
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Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams

Windows XP/98/952002 Konami
Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams is an enhanced version of the original Silent Hill 2, released in 2001 for the Xbox. It later appeared on PC and PlayStation 2 under titles like Director’s Cut or Greatest Hits, depending on th...
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Blackstar: Agent of Justice

DOS1995
In Blackstar: Agent of Justice (1995), you play a noir-style detective in a trench coat so dramatic it probably has its own union. Set in a dark, crime-ridden city where everyone talks like they’ve swallowed gravel, it&rsquo...
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Dracula in London

DOS1988 SDJ Enterprises
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Psycho

DOS1988 Starsoft Development
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Wolfsbane

DOS1995 Midnight Software
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Demon's Tomb: The Awakening

DOS1989 Silhouette Software
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Doom: The Roguelike

DOS2005freeware