Video Game Reviews

Free Retro Horror Games on Itchio

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.

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
Delivering 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 a creepy twist.

Melissa
A normal dating game played on a normal library computer.

The Mist
A Lovecraftian story about a lonely lighthouse keeper.

One Hell of a Maid
A handsome maid is contracted to clean an apartment owned 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?

A Time for Giving
On the winter solstice, the village god demands a sacrifice.

Waking Nightmare
No matter how you navigate the maze, you can’t escape your fate.

Horror Adventure Games

Afterdream
A nightmarish haunted house simulator with puzzle elements.

Corpse Party
A group of teenagers are trapped in a haunted school building.

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.

Oxenfree
A Pacific Northwest Gothic island adventure with a spooky sci-fi twist.

The Witch’s House
A girl must escape a beautiful haunted house filled with deadly traps.

Fantasy Adventure Games

A Short Hike
A nonviolent stroll to the top of a beautiful autumn mountain.

Anodyne
A Zelda-style quest into the nightmares of the protagonist.

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.

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.

Spiritfarer
A profoundly gorgeous time-management game about death.

Sumire
A story about spirit friends set in a quaint pastel-painted Japanese village.

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.

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
An adorable Zelda-style quest to destroy business documents.

Game Boy Adventure Games on Itchio

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.

Visual Novels

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.

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.

Reminiscence in the Night
A point-and-click adventure game about recovering from depression.

Root Letter
Enjoy virtual tourism of Matsue city while solving a strange 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.

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.

The House in Fata Morgana
A gothic fantasy about the bloody history of a cursed house.

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.

Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
A traditional turn-based fantasy JRPG created by Studio Ghibli.

The Cruel King and the Great Hero
A hand-drawn adventure starring a would-be hero raised by monsters.

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.