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Horror games featuring a haunted house

Haunted houses may be an old theme for horror movies and books nowadays, but it was used as a theme for quite a few games in the DOS era.

Most popular haunted house games

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A Nightmare on Elm street

DOS19893.9/5 Westwood Studios
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Alone in the Dark

DOS1992protected4.1/5 Infogrames
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Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet

DOS19924/5 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. The game involves controlling Beetlejuice as he attempts to clear skeletons from various closets in a haunted house. T...
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Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

DOS1991protected4.1/5 id software
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Don't Go Alone

DOS19894/5 Sterling Silver Software
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Horror Zombies from the Crypt

DOS19903.8/5 Astral Software
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Hugo's House of Horrors

DOS19903.9/5 Gray Design Associates
Hugo's House of Horrors is an adventure game developed by David P. Gray and released in the early 1990s. The game is a text-based adventure with simple graphics, and it gained popularity for its witty and often tongue-in-cheek approach to the horror genre.The story of the game revolves around the main character, Hugo, who receives a letter from his...
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Jack in the Dark

DOS19933.8/5 Infogrames
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Last Half of Darkness

DOS19893.9/5 SoftLab Laboratories
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Moonmist

DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
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Nitemare 3D

DOSWindows 3.x1994protected3.8/5 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 protagonist, Hugo, embarks on a mission to rescue his girlfriend, Penelope, who has been kidnapped by the evil Dr. Hame...
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Phantasmagoria

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1995protecteddemo4.2/5 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 a darker, more mature narrative.The game follows the story of Adrienne Delaney, played by Victoria Morsell, and her hus...
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Realms of the Haunting

DOSMac OS1997protected3.8/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
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The 11th Hour

Windows XP/98/951995protected4.1/5 Trilobyte
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The 7th Guest

Windows XP/98/951993protected3.9/5 Trilobyte
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The Legacy: Realm of Terror

DOSLinuxMac OS1993protected4/5 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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Uninvited

DOSMac OS19873.8/5 ICOM Simulations
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