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Best free horror games
Short horror games for the browser: creepy exploration, haunted places, the Backrooms and things in the dark. Best with headphones.
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HALDANE-4
by Denis Bondare · built with Cursor
Make a solo descent beneath the Antarctic ice shelf in a short horror story drawn in ASCII.
horrornarrative+1 2 players -
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NO CARRIER
by u/ElComandantePrimer
Connect to a forgotten 90s research server through a terminal and piece together why the facility went dark. No quest log, just files.
narrativeretrohorror0 4 players -
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0 4 players
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Fanto's Mega-Mart
by e_c_t_o · built with Codex
Race a rocket-powered shopping cart through a haunted grocery store to grab everything on your list.
3dracing-1 4 players -
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vackrooms
by Pablo Stanley
You wander an endless, seed-generated Backrooms maze in first person with a VHS filter, while a creature only moves when you aren't looking at it.
3dpuzzlearcade0 3 players -
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Red//Black
by matthias
You play through two short horror stories in PICO-8 pixel art.
horrornarrative0 0 players -
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The Harvest
by Sibwara
You walk home through dark woods after a long day and try to stay calm as things start watching you.
horrorretro0 0 players -
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Forest Escape
built with Cursor, Claude
You search a dark 3D forest by flashlight for seven blue flowers while spirits hunt you when your light is on.
horror3d0 0 players -
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Vampire Security Checkpoint
by sabrina_ramonov
You question arrivals at a Transylvanian checkpoint by typing questions to an AI, then decide whether to let them through or reject them as vampires.
narrativeword0 0 players -
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Ashes of Ulthar
by Elliot Nelson
You bend a village of pixel-art villagers to your will, gathering resources on the keyboard before time runs out as ash falls from the sky.
strategyhorror0 0 players -
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Effective Immediately
by @insomni4_jpg · built with Codex
You fight your way out of a collapsing, surreal office with a stapler gun before the corporate system swallows you.
shooterhorror0 0 players -
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Almost Surgery
by @RagimMusakaev · built with Codex
You run a shady back-room surgery, sawing, cutting and electrocuting patients for cash.
horrorweird0 0 players
Every game here is free and runs in your browser with nothing to install. The order comes from players on Joystumble: thumbs up and down (weighted so a few votes don't outrank many), then how many people played. Made one that belongs here? Submit it.