Gavengelthegrim

I wish for peace to find you amidst this heartless pandemonium of life.

Itch.io Gravedigging 2

This is a continuation of: https://itch.io/c/7381420/itchio-gravedigging-1 Only vetted and liked ( free ) Horror games are added. No demos allowed unless stated otherwise. (But don't let that stop you from supporting indie devs financially...

piles of leaves.

a short horror game

sastingus

Deep𐕣Root Delta

Your purpose is fulfilled. The mycelium grows.

Alz

Role Playing

Dreamcatcher 2600

Jack Soucie

Adventure

Play in browser

Petal

A cute horror made with a mouse after my keyboard broke.

13-23

Adventure

Play in browser

Standard Defect

A short PS1 style escape room graphic adventure

plainSightDev

Adventure

Play in browser

Void Realm

Eerie walking simulator, but you get a gun at the end

SUNDIO

Adventure

Play in browser

Dyson

Brief ambiental horror experience

Fedewx

Survival

Clinical Loop - Horror Game

CAN YOU TELL WHAT'S REAL?

Vonark

Adventure

ONCE GREEN (GAW 2025)

A short sci-fi experience. Your body is damaged. Your implants are failing. The dead planet beckons.

libus

Adventure

Gratis

A sinister shopkeep sim

Marlowe Dobbe

Visual Novel

HATRED OF ADDICTION

You have an addiction. Will you be able to overcome it?

NikkyHika

Shooter

Xenologist

Congratulations, you're a xenologist

InheoGames

Simulation

GIF

THE BLACK IRIS

A short cosmic horror exploration game

ARBORETA GAMES

Lobotomized Roaches I

Goat Shaped Chair

Play in browser

Look Again

They hatch at midnight...

Berti

Puzzle

Play in browser

GIF

METAMAZE

a short horror-ish game about a 2D person who dreams to be 3D

adam pype

Platformer

Play in browser

Calefaction

You were sent to space in order to save the Earth.

Boopkins1

Concrete View

A short walk through a large structure

Thneebdev

Interactive Fiction

Till Death Do Us Part

After years in prison you return to the hotel where you were accused for the murder of your wife to learn what happened.

Action

Puzzle

Adventure

Itch.io Gravedigging 1

This is a continuation of both: https://itch.io/c/782559/free-horror-games-6600 https://itch.io/c/1694057/horror-highlights-2000 Only vetted and liked ( free ) Horror games are added. No demos allowed unless stated otherwise. (But don't let...

Sunday

A horror point-and-click adventure.

EZBake Games

Play in browser

De Offectibus - Ritual

Project for the Darktober 2018 GameJam

Yazorius

Adventure

Trusted Friend

A short horror game about online manipulation

Simulation

Who is he?

Play in browser

What starts as a simple mowing job becomes a terrifying nightmare.

TOMAT GAMES

Simulation

Play in browser

The Very Scary Spooky Maze

Happy trails!

Anderson Shoe

Puzzle

Play in browser

Synchro

A walking simulator with scares, frights, and FMV! Tell your mom!

Interactive Fiction

Platformer

Take a package to a disused cemetary

Puzzle

Simulation

Step into the shoes of a child on Halloween, moments before a life-changing event.

Projetos Jogos Feevale

Overflow

Words fill my head, only one thing can make them stop.

Nolan

Strategy

Ashes of the Sun

The sun vanished. Somewhere out there, a way to bring it back still exists.

Syntaxed

Adventure

Project eden

A cold missing case from the early 2000s reopens after an anonymous tip shows the missing person's pc password.

jengaspoon

Puzzle

SUBLEVEL

SUBLEVEL is a short terror game that tells the story of Marion Kessler

vendidev

GIF

Dereb memsiD

A thriller about a haunted forest with a dark past

Berni82

Play in browser

ex(e)periment

A thriller / horror game where you play as a guardian in a top-secret offshore complex

Krokonut

Interactive Fiction

Arcade Man

A cryptic event happens in an arcade in the early 1980s.

DynamicMonoGone

Sick Fashion

A Survival Horror Dressup Experience

Cinnature

Survival

Silence in the forest

decipher the rest

MATTEOOs

Adventure

Snowmanified

HiWilligis

FREE Horror Games (6600+)

Note: Visual Novels, Text-based Interactive Fiction and RPGMaker titles are for the most part excluded. I also try not to include demos or heavy work-in-progress builds due to their unfinished and messy nature. Although indefinitely cancell...

Break It

DevilRabbitStudio

Survival

Do Not Search

Should you keep searching and unlock increasingly personal and dangerous results, or is it better not knowing?

myra boholst

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

BLOODY SAND

Offer blood to revive your loved one.

picklejarpotatoes

Survival

Play in browser

A Simple Treat

Not your regular platformer

Aruno

Adventure

Play in browser

BLUT CLUB

On that cold and early morning of 2003, you stumble upon a lost mobile phone...

xena-spectrale

Interactive Fiction

The fall of the Buxhaven family

Pixelated horror adventure inspired by 19th century gothic novels (but set in the present).

Buxtejor

Adventure

Play in browser

Our House

Explore a mysterious and endless "house"

BigBread

Adventure

GIF

The Raoch Hotel

Come enter and Start booking in now

Hawt Combo

Survival

GIF

Kissa

take your cat for a walk

Kultisti

Adventure

Play in browser

Gornom

Gornom is coming, you know what he wants.

Cube Legal

Gornom 2: Vuskhell Station

He is here again, and not alone...

Cube Legal

Bloodletter

im sorry you had to see us like this

Window Pane Membrane

Adventure

xoodilB

Ripped from an old and unknown 1996 Horror (?) DOS game

Survival

Created for Cursed Jam: The Void!

BTL games

Interactive Fiction

GIF

MEDULLA

A two minute horror-short, about giving someone a brain scan.

RETRO SESSION

Cabaret

3D first-person horror interactive novel

Puzzle

A horror experience embedded within a Nokia 3310.

Luis S.

Simulation

Play in browser

The DELIVERY factor

THEY DON'T FEEL ANYTHING

Mandoli

Adventure

The Sangawawal Cult LOST FILES

JaiService124

Survival

Horror Highlights (2000+)

Most enjoyed Horror games from my "FREE Horror Games" collection. All playtested. Game quality ranges from lo-fi indie good to good good and AA good. It's versatile, but never bad or without quality gameplay elements/enriching experiences...

GIF

BLOODY SAND

Offer blood to revive your loved one.

picklejarpotatoes

Survival

Play in browser

BLUT CLUB

On that cold and early morning of 2003, you stumble upon a lost mobile phone...

xena-spectrale

Interactive Fiction

The fall of the Buxhaven family

Pixelated horror adventure inspired by 19th century gothic novels (but set in the present).

Buxtejor

Adventure

Play in browser

GIF

The Raoch Hotel

Come enter and Start booking in now

Hawt Combo

Survival

GIF

Kissa

take your cat for a walk

Kultisti

Adventure

Play in browser

Gornom

Gornom is coming, you know what he wants.

Cube Legal

Gornom 2: Vuskhell Station

He is here again, and not alone...

Cube Legal

xoodilB

Ripped from an old and unknown 1996 Horror (?) DOS game

atygeek

Survival

Black Birds

Created for Cursed Jam: The Void!

BTL games

Interactive Fiction

GIF

MEDULLA

A two minute horror-short, about giving someone a brain scan.

RETRO SESSION

Cabaret

3D first-person horror interactive novel

Andrew Gan

The DELIVERY factor

THEY DON'T FEEL ANYTHING

Mandoli

Adventure

Lukas Adventure 64 (OLD)

"Lukas is back in this new 3D installment! Get ready to collect gems and platform through tricky levels!"

Blennz Fire

Adventure

YOU ARE MY HOME

Footage of your life from angles you've never seen from someone you never knew.

chillworksdev

untitled.mov

'There's something in here with me... I can't see it, but I know it's here...'

kelorlyn

Survival

Kaset

Recover the footage. Face the distortion. Some memories are better left buried.

Casta Game

Simulation

Go Home, Touch Grass

A productive 14 hour shift at the office turns into a surreal experience.

Nerd Monkeys

Simulation

Tiny Mina: No signal found

Idos

Interactive Fiction

Monster Indoors

Satisfy the unbearable hunger

BearEye

Action

GIF

P.T.D

Can you solve the loop?

Aaron Wise

Survival

Beneath Us

Its said to rest near the Earths core.

vyrez

Explore strange worlds

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳...

Mercuralia

Explore a mysterious festival

Jacob Potterfield

Adventure

Even the Stars

wandering through space without a purpose_ getting old and getting lost_

Pol Clarissou

GIF

The City Haze

Friendly and pretentious city exploration

Aergia

Play in browser

weirdparisgame

dosogy

Remnants of Celestial Giants

Explore and photograph a ritualistic landscape

Nicholas Staracek

Iridescent

Explore a colorless world and see your true emotions through crystals.

Puzzle

Dream for as long as you want...

Dorcat Studio

Interactive Fiction

Nameless Desert

Atmospheric first-person desert exploration. Photograph forgotten structures and witness a world shift.

Sandro Wainmaier

Adventure

GIF

Somewhere Strange

Where did all the aliens go?

Rudi Prentice

Adventure

The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place

A short story about a municipal building eater.

Studio Oleomingus

Promesa

A surreal journey through dreams, memories and fantasies.

Julián Palacios

Adventure

GIF

0°N 0°W

Enjoy a surreal vacation in a magical dimension!

colorfiction

Adventure

Salt-Sick Vestibule

You're lost and salt sick

ChotoTheBright

Adventure

Oneira

View your dreams on the family computer!

whitestags

Adventure

Artists of a Dead World

A lonely city somwhere at the end of the world

Autumn Rain

GIF

A Vacancy That's Hard To Talk About

Walk around. Zone out. Breath.

Jibrill Allaway

Interloper

The last vestiges of safety before the howling dark.

Adventure

Walk along a dream

Adventure

watch the water where the siren tears float

VaporShark

Adventure

SYMBOL

weird things on the side of the road

Lilith Zone

Saddest games on Itch.io

Nothing but devastation.

LAMB

You and your granddaughter visit a park called the Whispering Garden, and are attacked by a terrifying lion.

Osama msa

Adventure

No Sunshine

An interactive story about loss and depression

Mattias Gustavsson

The Death of Me

A medical thriller about life with chronic illness. Gameboy Compatible!

Cambroth

Play in browser

snowstorm

DavidMunoz

Family Secrets 1 : Empty Plate

Short Horror Game

BADCAT GAMES

Adventure

Stay

As humanity starts to die out, a neglected pet does its best to survive.

zbpreston

Interactive Fiction

Birthday Friends Forever!

Nep

Role Playing

Flowers For My Lover

A First Person Experience Regarding the Horrors of Love

Interactive Fiction

Interactive Fiction

A short game poem about sadness

Logan Grimes

Play in browser

I Like To Visit Graveyard Sometimes

Game Jam Project

Minaridev

Adventure

Last day of Shizuka

Make the game about last day of 19 years old girl with depression and anxiety

yvkino

Five More Minutes

Hay decisiones que nos persiguen toda nuestra vida, los sueños no son un lugar donde podamos refugiarnos.

QuadMoon Protocol

Visual Novel

Play in browser

A Creative Vent.

konbini e yōkoso

Play in browser

A Horror Visual Novel about a man and a door

Nwest

Visual Novel

I WANNA STOP BREATHING

20 second psychological horror

DoctorFlower

Simulation

Play in browser

Jobhunt

horror game about applying for jobs

aplove

Simulation

Play in browser

I Exist

No one's coming till eternity

Kick14

Adventure

I am not whole

not nothing

brick101

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Interesting looking VNs

My most subjective collection. (Not limited to horror and without quality assurance.)

Conjure Her

Reach beyond the grave. Find the answers you seek.

BRANCHES

Visual Novel

3D Workers Island

Horror story about a screensaver.

mryes

Run in browser

Sunday Never Comes

The last civilian in a three-pronged apocalypse comes to terms with their fate via the five stages of grief.

AbyzouDev

Visual Novel

under the lighthouse

you shouldn't be here.

CD-RR0M 💿

Visual Novel

A Midnight Ride

game about a dude who needs to get home

soyapping

Visual Novel

Play in browser

GIF

This is not a Vacation

Short horror game for web or GameBoy

rezajamesahmed

Visual Novel

Play in browser

A Mind to Mourn

Bexe

Visual Novel

Carceri

A short autobiography

DeoSancteiCogito

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Daydream City

A psychological horror visual novel about identity, reality, and unfinished things.

eda_v4lent1ne

Visual Novel

Family found you

Another day living under the same roof

iCreativity

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Fantomas

Ceci n'est pas un Fantomas

Vimi

Visual Novel

Where the Visual Novel

Surreal visual novell with point and click elements. Will you figure out the mystery?

Yeswhat

Visual Novel

GIF

Penumbra Lane

A fuzzy point-and-click adventure horror.

HaZeyEyed

Puzzle

Accident In Shellf

Very short game about turtles and regret, freedom too.

Aqlamirai

Visual Novel

Play in browser

visions

christian analog horror

helen

Visual Novel

Play in browser

When The Snow is Gone

Do you remember the snow?

JADE

Visual Novel

Play in browser

The Crystal Eye

Explore the dungeon, discover horrors or friends.

Egg_pionono

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Welcome to Sunnyside

murder mystery with PUPPETS

ToyFox

Visual Novel

PHOTOGHOST

all images are haunted

S.T.

Visual Novel

Play in browser

biohazard 4: stabat mater

a resident evil visual novel

S.T.

Visual Novel

Play in browser

No life detected

Story about a robot in a post-apocalyptic world

shimiyayo

Visual Novel

Play in browser

From the Deepest Abyss

Horror games that were so obscenely oppressive atmospherically or plain disturbing I ended up saying "Something's wrong..." with a deadpan delivery. (Originally intended to be a private collection.)

Horror story about a screensaver.

mryes

Run in browser

Trusted Friend

A short horror game about online manipulation

Soup-o-Stat

Simulation

Silence in the forest

decipher the rest

MATTEOOs

Adventure

Black Messiah

Entering this village was your last mistake....

Kido

Interactive Fiction

Do They Know

The DAY 3 entry for Haunted PS1's 'Madvent Calendar 3: Necrosis'!

The Bonsai Treehouse

Adventure

REPENTIA

A short horror game about Christ and his death.

dankito

Interactive Fiction

Something In The Woods

You should be alone out here.

InfinityRaccoons

In between the static

torchTeam

Puzzle

Dial M for Machina

Solve retro tech puzzles and save humanity

Alpha Apex Entertainment

Adventure

When the Bell Tolls

Atmospheric Grave Digging Horror Experience For The Eye Jam II

Brain Lid

Deeply Dark: Found Footage

WARNING: This software was found on the Deep Web and contains material about the backrooms

Play in browser

Kill the Unkillable

Adventure

A short horror game where you must take 50 photos.

YAGI SAKAGUCHI

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Wheres my baby

Hide. Record. Survive. The asylum remembers what you’ve forgotten.

Adventure

Adventure

A short PS1 style horror game set in an isolated forest

Dog Melon

Survival

VOID CRAWLER

Void Crawler is a First Person horror game set in a dystopian future.

Ricardo Pratas

Simulation

Vestige

An old game holds more than nostalgia

Philisophic Games

Adventure

A Collection That's Hard to Talk About (Itch.io Edition)

Park

A short game I made. Includes some thoughts.

Maia

Bloodletter

im sorry you had to see us like this

Window Pane Membrane

Adventure

Penultimate Pyre

A small village. A lonely cabin. And a fire that must never die.

Saturnine Mage

Adventure

IN THE RED LIGHT YOU BECOME THE HAND

A short game about a dead place

snorv

Interactive Fiction

Heartbeat

Make the final walk deep into a living structure

Thneebdev

Interactive Fiction

195 Hours in the Cold

How long you have walked. How nice it would be to rest.

BanzaiBonsai

Adventure

GIF

The Disappearance of Eileen Kestler

A Marginalia Prelude

Connor Sherlock

Adventure

C.R.A.W.L.

All you have left are the broadcasts.

ChotoTheBright

Adventure

HeartRot

A short PSX horror game about finding your wife in a forest.

Insertrave

ESCAPIST'S DIARY

a game about avoiding the reality through dreams

hoarime

Interactive Fiction

Lunar Echoes

Isolation can get to you.

Interactive Fiction

Unlock your mind

Puzzle

Night approaches. Take a walk down Exit 19.

Ovsko

Remember Places?

An AI is your only friend.

Bryce Bucher

Tonight You Die

Wander a dreary city of concrete structures and unknown melodies

Ovsko

9.03m

9.03m, is a short, first person, art/empathy game for PC.

SpaceBudgie

Adventure

GIF

After The Curtain Call: Act 2

Play your part. Follow the script.

SirTartarus

Adventure

237

You Can't Handle The Truth

Ayush Vaibhav Goyal

Denunciation

A short narrative horror experience

HeroRobb

Adventure

We Don't Talk About It

Art-horror game about how hard it can be to express yourself

Michael Bonardi

Interactive Fiction

Condo

Explore. Defer. Sleep.

FlubbedMachina

Adventure

Silent Hill-likes

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦...

Promised Death

Solve disturbing mysteries, and survive what lurks in the darkness.

Timalote

Adventure

Project DD - canceled horror game

Canceled horror project by Frostwood Interactive

Frostwood Interactive

Shooter

Almost plastic, Not Even Real

Some things don't move on.

Otakuracer

Adventure

Play in browser

FALLEN

You were kidnapped, find your way out.

Kuri Toigca

Puzzle

Vox Nebulae

The past condemns us/O passado nos condena

1Patrolino1

Acceptance

Will you uncover your past, or fall to the nightmares lurking within?

Stefano_Gaming

Survival

Lost Life : Origins [Act-I, Act-II]

Lost Life The Game

Action

Opilla Hill

Opila bird meets Silent Hill

StrawberryRainbow

Adventure

Play in browser

Red Satin

A simple experiment. A deadly escape.

redplanetcat

Action

Play in browser

Oak Field

90s psychological survival horror

DoubleRoom Games

Survival

Leucanthemum Eyes

Escape from the sewer.

Kuraishimi

Adventure

Shattered

Fight your way through an apartment complex and piece together the fragmented memories of a crime you did not commit.

Adventure

Adventure

Atmospheric horror game with ps2/early 2000's pc game aesthetic.

Adventure

Free your dreams.

Adventure

Do you feel guilty?

Puzzle

Under the Redwood Motel

A nightmare from the past lives beneath the Redwood Motel

DinosaurAfterlife

Blue

Люди могут боятся всего, даже цвета.

Poseva

Survival

46 Memory Lane

A point-and-click psychological horror game

shamz

Adventure

GIF

Near Death Experience

Distorted Production

Adventure

DownSchool

small exploration

DreamsBell

Monitoring

Game projects I am uncertain about or awaiting the release of.

Devils Ride

Are you bold ennough to hitch a ride with the devil?

Viotish

Racing

Play in browser

GIF

CHANDLER

A horror game about surviving sleep paralysis

EHG | bob studios

Simulation

Play in browser

Qualia Transceiver

Senbatale

A Cold Room (Demo v1.0)

It's cold in here

ZITIAN_encoded

Play in browser

Hollow Ones

You play as Mike, a survivor locked in an underground bunker with a handful of survivors.

Sugar_Duke

Survival

Lamb

A duo of 5-minute pixelated horror experiences

GoemGames

Interactive Fiction

The Bells, Bells, Bells

A horror game "inspired" by The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe.

Kapendev

Action

Jinglebug Journey

Let's Blossom Together!

Fable Bae

Visual Novel

Play in browser

GIF

velodroom

Ride through liminal grassy fields, make strange encounters

cumulet!

Adventure

GIF

tantan

tan•tan is a narrative experience about the other side of loss

cumulet!

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Little Smiles Daycare

A haunted daycare. A painted smile. And a truth you were never meant to read.

Survival

An unforgivable night

stained_rosary

Survival

Ire of the Deep

A short nautical adventure

Adventure

Interactive Fiction

Tale of the H. S. S. Co

- 1985. Rural Michigan. Something is very wrong here.

Routlead Games

Adventure

Concrete Under My foot

Simulation

Action

The sky is transmitting. You decode.

Simulation

Survival

The air isn't just thin. Its's HOSTILE

aliina_69

Shopping List

Games I can only buy on here?

GIF

Dépanneur Nocturne

◇ a late-night shopping adventure ◇

KO_OP

Adventure

GIGANT

ukz530

Adventure

PULCRA (Short Body-Horror FPS)

A nightmarish "Slender-like" set in a body-horror landscape.

vikintor

Action

THE INFIRMARY

Life & Death from the Purgatory

ORB RESEARCH & BROADCASTING

Simulation

Tales from Dreadlight: The Morgue

A continuation of the See Through Static Trilogy

Stefano_Gaming

ENIGMA

A psychological horror experience with light puzzle elements. Can you escape the truth?

Alan Smileey

Survival

GIF

ring ring

You found a strange phone on the beach. Who will you call?

Interactive Fiction

Every. Shot. Counts.

Shooter

Complete the Harbinger's trial and atone for what you've done.

GlitchedLizard

Survival

HORSES

An enigmatic first person horror adventure. Tend to the horses and adhere to the farmer's rules!

Santa Ragione

Adventure

Hope Springs: Penstroke

Dan Kenny Games

Adventure

Mortician Final Night

One last shift. One last body. One final night.

AzaGameStudio

Grieving (Berduka)

Mourning Ritual for a Haunted Boarding Room

flycat.games

Adventure

Miremind

Psychological Detective Horror - Supernatural Murder Investigation

AzaGameStudio

GIF

Narrative Nightmares: Trilogy of Terror

3 creepy tales told through interactive storytelling wrapped up in an interactive launcher.

Survival

A dark experience

Adventure

Will you uncover the truth, or become the next chapter in its story?

Christine_890

Survival

GIF

Meat Lust

A 3D first person Horror experience with retro graphics

1909Games

Survival

Liminal State

a puzzle game set in liminal locations, with procedurally generated rooms.

GL Studio

Adventure

Among the Innocent: A Stricken Tale

When Peter York becomes trapped on a remote farmstead, he is forced to confront a dark history in his bid for freedom.

Zero Degrees Games

Adventure