Free Retro Horror Games on Itch.io
Apartment Complex
Manage a building tenanted by eldritch monstrosities.
Blackout
A 16-bit point-and-click adventure game set in a haunted house.
Bloodbark
A relaxing forest horror game about cutting trees(?) that bleed.
Candypink
A short interactive lesson about cooking with blood love.
Capacity
An epic quest to escape an unhealthy relationship.
A Dark Winter Wander
A girl chases her sister through an uncanny underworld.
Deadeus
Something is haunting the children of a seaside town.
Don’t Let Her In
A short and lonely story about postapocalyptic body horror.
Dorotea
A museum archivist enters a strange door in a neglected storage room.
Escaped Chasm
A lonely girl must leave her house as the universe crumbles around her.
Flesh, Blood, & Concrete
An uncanny apartment building exploration simulator.
Ground Down
A narrative Twine game that tells a botanical horror story.
It’s Not Me, It’s My Basement
You are a small child, and the monsters in the basement are hungry.
Last Train Home
A short creepypasta story game about a cursed commuter train.
Leftovers
Deliver creepy food to creepy neighbors in a creepy apartment building.
Lily’s Well
An adventure game about making it to the bottom of a cursed well.
A Man Outside
A simple vocab flashcard game with an eerie twist.
Melissa
A normal dating game played on a normal library computer.
The Mist
A Lovecraftian story about a lonely lighthouse keeper.
Il Mistero di Felina
An influencer travels to a small island to document a sinister festival.
NextDoor
An interactive Junji Itō story about an eldritch next-door neighbor.
One Hell of a Maid
A handsome maid is contracted to clean an apartment rented by cultists.
Opossum Country
A delivery driver is stranded in a trailer park where something isn’t right.
Rental
A small bunny girl wanders through a spooky vacation rental home.
See You Soon
Are you playing the game, or is the game playing you?
Symbiosis
A rouge geneticist murders home intruders and uses their corpses for science.
A Time for Giving
On the night of the winter solstice, the village god demands a sacrifice.
Vacant
A masterfully written 2D adventure set in an abandoned nature lodge.
Waking Nightmare
No matter how you navigate the labyrinth, you can’t escape your fate.
Horror Adventure Games
Afterdream
A nightmarish haunted house simulator filled with puzzles.
Corpse Party
A group of teenagers are trapped in a cursed school building.
Crow Country
Investigate a disappearance at an abandoned amusement park.
Dreaming Mary
Plunge into the nightmare underlying a pastel pink dreamworld.
Inside
A gritty puzzle platformer set in a near-future apocalyptic dystopia.
Mad Father
You are a tiny girl in a large house with many terrible secrets.
Misao
The vengeful ghost of a bullied girl haunts a decrepit high school.
Oxenfree
A Pacific Northwest Gothic island adventure with a spooky sci-fi twist.
Tales of the Black Forest
Travel back to the 1990s to explore a haunted Japanese town.
Vartio
A short but atmospheric walk through the woods at night.
Whispering Willows
A 2D exploration of a California mansion haunted by generations of ghosts.
The Witch’s House
A girl must escape a beautiful haunted house filled with deadly traps.
Fantasy Adventure Games
Animal Well
A no-combat Metroidvania about exploring a gorgeous mossy labyrinth.
Anodyne
A Zelda-style quest into the nightmares of the protagonist.
Castaway
A short and sweet tribute to Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.
Deepwell
A crunchy lo-fi story game about the importance of mysteries.
Giraffe and Annika
A gentle 3D adventure across a green and beautiful island.
Hades
A stylish and challenging rougelike about gods and monsters.
Hoa
A 2D puzzle-platformer with an art style inspired by Studio Ghibli.
The Last Campfire
An isometric puzzle game set in a strange but intriguing fantasy world.
The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince
A 2D puzzle platformer with hand-drawn graphics and a dark story.
The Minish Cap
A classic GBA Legend of Zelda game that’s great for younger players.
Mr. Saitou
A quirky but heartfelt magical realist fantasy about skipping work.
Ocean’s Heart
An epic island-hopping quest with beautiful 16-bit pixel graphics.
RiME
A boy washes up on a deserted island filled with monumental ruins.
A Short Hike
A nonviolent stroll to the top of a beautiful autumn mountain.
Spiritfarer
A profoundly gorgeous time management game about death.
Sumire
A story about spirit friends set in a quaint pastel-painted Japanese village.
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
An adorable Zelda-style quest to destroy business documents.
Game Boy Adventure Games on Itch.io
An Autumn With You
Help a young girl settle into her new home in an enchanted forest.
Deep Forest
An apprentice witch solves clever puzzles in a sprawling sea of trees.
Red Trees
An extended item trading sequence in a quaintly haunted town.
There’s Nothing To Do In This Town
Experience everyday life in the ruins of late-stage capitalism.
Usurper Ghoul
Explore the remains of a fallen kingdom in a nonviolent Soulslike game.
Visual Novels
Aviary Attorney
A Parisian courtroom drama set on the cusp of revolution.
Beacon Pines
An isometric exploration of a small town with disturbing secrets.
Coffee Talk
An urban fantasy about the everyday problems of unusual people.
Cross the Moon
An elaborate murder mystery set in a world where vampires are real.
Firebird
A progressively strange drive across Russia’s far northern tundra.
Half Past Fate
A romantic comedy adventure set in a quirky urban neighborhood.
Hypnospace Outlaw
The year is 1999, and you are an internet content moderator.
Later Daters
Drama, romance, and solid life advice at a posh community for seniors.
League of Enthusiastic Losers
Two broke friends in their early twenties navigate Moscow in the 1990s.
Norco
A darkly comedic Southern Gothic story about a cyberpunk mystery.
Reminiscence in the Night
A point-and-click adventure game about recovering from depression.
Root Letter
Enjoy virtual tourism in Matsue City while solving a bizarre mystery.
Speed Dating for Ghosts
Short but intriguing conversations with a colorful variety of dead people.
Horror Visual Novels
Fishy
A group of friends spends the night at a spooky aquarium.
The House in Fata Morgana
A gothic fantasy about the bloody history of a cursed house.
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
A supernatural murder mystery set in Tokyo in the 1990s.
Spirit Hunter: NG
Gruesome urban legends come to life in a Tokyo suburb.
We Know the Devil
Three kids at a Christian summer camp confront their demons.
World End Syndrome
The beauty of a small seaside town is marred by a mysterious curse.
Soulslike Metroidvanias
Blasphemous
In which you challenge a gauntlet of the nightmares of the Catholic Church.
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights
An atmospheric adventure through a kingdom corrupted by poison rain.
Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist (early access version)
A young mage attunes renegade robots in a decaying rustpunk kingdom.
Infernax
An ultraviolent 8-bit slasher set in a morally ambiguous medieval kingdom.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Adorable anime lesbians fighting in an elaborate gothic castle.
JRPGs
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
An interactive sci-fi story game with occasional giant robot battles.
The Cruel King and the Great Hero
A hand-drawn adventure starring a would-be hero raised by monsters.
I am Setsuna
A bittersweet story set in a beautiful world blanketed by snow.
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
A traditional turn-based fantasy JRPG created by Studio Ghibli.
Trinity Trigger
A simple but addictive fantasy action game with colorful environments.
Walking Sims
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
A meandering stroll through a beautiful postapocalyptic English village.
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Explore an abandoned hotel to investigate the death of its caretaker.
What Remains of Edith Finch
A teenage girl returns to her isolated family home in the woods.
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