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01 Zahmahrel Cover

2025 · PC

Zahmahrel

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As a YouTuber investigating supernatural events, explore the mysterious and terrifying happenings in an abandoned location. Your camera is your only ally, but can you uncover these dark secrets?

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02 Psalm 2 Cover

2026 · PC

Psalm 2

80%

First-person psychological horror where the elevator is the only safe place. Each floor is a new reality. Each floor has a new inhabitant. Find it to continue your descent downward.

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03 Nightwatch at the Museum Cover

Year unknown · PC

Nightwatch at the Museum

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A routine night shift at an old Javanese museum. A fire from 1990 that nobody talks about. And something, or someone that refuses to let the truth stay buried.

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04 Apsulov: End of Gods Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Apsulov: End of Gods

77%

You awake in a sanctuary of steel and concrete, built to honor the Nordic Gods and to house an artifact, buried in the earth aeons ago. Unveil the secrets of the inhabitants, the artifact, and the nine realms of Yggdrasil in Apsulov: End of Gods.

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05 Infliction Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Infliction

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Infliction is a story driven first person physiological horror experience. Set in a regular suburban home, the story is told over alternating time periods spanning 13 years. Through environmental storytelling, Infliction tackles taboo subject matter. While you...

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06 Murder Castle Cover

2026 · PC

Murder Castle

71%

You are trapped inside a masterpiece of madness. Unravel the chilling mystery of H.H. Holmes Murder Castle. In this atmospheric true crime escape simulator, every room is a puzzle and every document a shocking discovery. Can you escape the architect of death?

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07 Masochisia Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, PC

Masochisia

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A young man discovers through a series of hallucinations that he will grow up to become a violent psychopath. How will he respond to these revelations? Can he change his fate? Can you even... change fate...

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08 House of Caravan Cover

2015 · Mac, PC

House of Caravan

65%

Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark secrets and vexing puzzles.

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09 The Forest Cover

2018 · PC, PS4, Steam VR

The Forest

59%

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

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10 Don't Knock Twice Cover

2017 · Switch, PC, PS4

Don't Knock Twice

57%

Don't Knock Twice is a single-player first-person survival horror game with support for virtual reality headsets. The player explores a large manor house in search of a missing daughter, interacting with almost every object and following hints delivered throug...

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11 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

56%

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enou...

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12 Call of Duty: World at War Cover

2008 · PC, PS3, X360

Call of Duty: World at War

54%

Call of Duty: World at War is a first-person shooter set during World War II, focusing on the Pacific and Eastern Front theaters. The single-player campaign follows two perspectives: U.S. Marine Private C. Miller fighting against the Imperial Japanese Army acr...

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Adventure Genre Horror Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Co-op Game feel
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13 Dying Light Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, PC

Dying Light

52%

Dying Light is a first-person, action survival horror game set in a vast and dangerous open world. During the day, players traverse an expansive urban environment overrun by a vicious outbreak, scavenging the world for supplies and crafting weapons to defend a...

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14 Rusty Lake: Roots Cover

2016 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake: Roots

52%

James Vanderboom's life drastically changes when he plants a special seed in the garden of the house he has inherited. Expand your bloodline by unlocking portraits in the tree of life.

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52% Spannender Match
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15 Bloodborne Cover

2015 · PS4

Bloodborne

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An action RPG in which the player embodies a Hunter who, after being transfused with the mysterious blood local to the city of Yharnam, sets off into a "night of the Hunt", an extended night in which Hunters may phase in and out of dream and reality in order t...

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16 Dead Space 2 Cover

2011 · PC, PS3, X360

Dead Space 2

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Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Just as his health begins to improve, The Sprawl is overrun with even more advanced forms o...

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17 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

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Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

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18 Resident Evil 5 Cover

2009 · PC, PS3, X360

Resident Evil 5

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Resident Evil 5 is the seventh video game in the Resident Evil series. It features similar gameplay to Resident Evil 4 utilizing the same over the shoulder view, but this time the environment plays a significant role. The player is now dependent on his partner...

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19 Resident Evil 6 Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, X360

Resident Evil 6

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Resident Evil 6 is the ninth video game installment in the Resident Evil series. It continues the struggle against zombies infected by the new highly virulent C-virus. The game uses the same over-the-shoulder view as Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5, howeve...

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20 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, New 3DS

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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A top-down roguelike action-adventure game and remake of the 2011 original, rebuilt from its Flash engine to enable expanded content and features. Players control Isaac through procedurally generated dungeon floors, using tears as projectiles to defeat monster...

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