The Best Scare Games

Update : The Pool Rooms, Backrooms level 37 added at rank #23.
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From The Rain (2022)

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PC Windows

From The Rain is a single player survival horror game. Reboot the generator, lock all entrances, and defend yourself from the entities that lurk in the rain. Survive each hour and wait for help to arrive!

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  • scare
  • jump
  • survival-horror
  • choices
  • time-management
  • multiple-endings
  • horror
  • demons
  • narration

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At Tony's (2024)

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PC Windows

At Tony's is a first-person horror experience taking place in a haunted pizzeria. The last night shift worker vanished mysteriously, it's your turn to step in to help the family's business.

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  • scare
  • jump
  • horror
  • immersive
  • psychological
  • multiple-endings
  • simulation
  • survival-horror
  • fiction
  • linear
  • first-person
  • interactive

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Sinister Mansion (2024)

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Prepare to face your deepest fears in Sinister Mansion, a bone-chilling horror experience that will haunt your every step.

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  • scare
  • jump
  • horror
  • psychological
  • post-apocalyptic
  • dark
  • survival-horror
  • immersive
  • hidden-object
  • investigation
  • puzzle

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Veranoia: Nightmare of Case 37 (2023)

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Help Vera Herdman, a Gifted Detective who can get into victim's nightmares to reveal their mysterious death secrets, to escape the nightmare or reside there forever.

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  • action-adventure
  • scare
  • jump
  • hair-raising
  • horror
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • casual
  • realistic
  • adventure
  • first-person
  • story
  • detective

5

Don't Scream (2023)

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early access PC Windows

If you scream, you restart. An Unreal Engine 5 short horror experience made by two indie devs. The challenge: explore the forest for 18 minutes without screaming. The catch? Time only ticks when you move. It’s the perfect game to scare the pants off your friends and family. MICROPHONE REQUIRED!

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  • voice
  • scare
  • control
  • jump
  • horror
  • short
  • 1990s
  • supernatural
  • psychological
  • immersive
  • surreal
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • realistic

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Intruders (2023)

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PC Windows

Intruders is a survival horror / strategy game where you get kidnapped and in order to save your life you will need to survive five nights. Use camera system and environment to defend yourself against different intruders.

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  • scare
  • jump
  • thriller
  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • time-management
  • psychological
  • resource-management
  • perma-death
  • dark
  • surreal

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Vacant's Mine (2024)

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PC Windows

So you’ve been arrested? No Problem! In Vacant’s Mine you can regain your freedom in just 7 Days! With a Mine Railway and a Plunger you’ll navigate through an abandoned mine to steal eggs. But beware of the Greebs, they have terrifying big mouths and razor sharp teeth!

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  • horror
  • scare
  • jump
  • lore
  • survival-horror
  • dark
  • psychological
  • trains
  • resource-management
  • atmospheric
  • thriller
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • mystery
  • single-player

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Evil Of Demons: Algailah (2023)

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PC Windows Android

There is a child did not listen to his mother, because there is a Demon kidnaps children at noon, so he went out to play at noon, but the Demon appeared to him and kidnapped him to underground to face danger in order to survive and escape before the Demon eats him.


  • scare
  • jump
  • escape
  • runner
  • room
  • linear
  • action-adventure
  • horror
  • demons
  • survival-horror
  • first-person

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OUTSTAND (2023)

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PC Windows

OUTSTAND is a game that reflects the real face of dark and intense fear to the person from a first-person camera angle. Your treasure-seeking friend is trapped! Can you save him? Solve puzzles, watch out for the items around you and most importantly survive!

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  • scare
  • jump
  • psychological
  • horror
  • psychedelic
  • mystery
  • demons
  • dark
  • supernatural
  • thriller
  • hidden-object
  • zombies

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DON'T LOOK AWAY (2022)

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early access PC Windows IOS iPhone

A frightening asymmetrical multiplayer experience! Survive as the Human or terrorize as the Entity that can only move when it isn't being watched.

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  • scare
  • jump
  • psychological
  • horror
  • pvp
  • survival-horror
  • demons
  • supernatural
  • thriller
  • investigation
  • dark
  • atmospheric

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