This is my annual thread of free horrorshow games! Previous years can be found here:
Trick or Treat 2013
Trick or Treat 2012
Trick or Treat 2011
Trick or Treat 2010
Click the images below to play. Some are download pages, some are browser-based games.
Will Love Tear Us Apart
Yes, this was inspired by the Joy Division song. It’s a black-hearted little art game about an oppressive relationship.
Humanoid 47
This one has a distinctly notable art style. We begin with a mad scientist operating on your brain in some horrible experiment. In an accidental explosion, and with the top of your skull missing, you make your escape. Now you must escape the crazy compound where other unfortunate experiments like what you were about to become are roaming the grounds.
SCP Containment Breach
In this dark, atmospheric horror title with a first person perspective, you are inside a secret government compound that was supposed to contain some evil creatures, particularly some stubby armed bobbly headed thing. I may have posted an earlier version of this game a few years back, but it has seen notable updates since then.
It Moves
A horror game made in RPG-maker sounds like it couldn’t possibly be that scary, but It Moves tries to prove you wrong by being smart about its ambience and story.
Hide
A pixelated horror game, that looks more like another better known Pixelated Nightmare.
VIDdEO
Oh, the horror of VHS with poor tracking. It makes for great ambience, doesn’t it?
Dust City (by Kitty Horrorshow)
Not quite horror, but definitely surreal with some unsettling moments.
The Sun Does Not Exist
This is pretty much a Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas video-game. More surrealist than horror I suppose, but some twisted imagery nevertheless.
Bad Dream Series
“Ewww. I wish I hadn’t clicked that” OR “Dude, where’s my finger?”
A Night in the Woods
A first person adventure game where the scariest thing is the headlines of the future.
Ghost Wheel
In a game jam where the developers were to work around the theme of a “ghost wheel”, these are the nine games that resulted. More descriptions and links in the link.
A Dark Room
A surprisingly compelling text-based game that uses a time-management mechanic where you do your best to survive after beginning out in the woods inside a dark room of a cabin.
Sanitarium Massacre
"Stalk, maim, and murder the staff of a Washington state hospital"
Babysitter Bloodbath
"simple night of babysitting will turn into an unspeakable nightmare…"
Minotaur
"Injured after a car crash, you flee through the woods into an abandoned building, looking for help. The door jams and you’re locked inside, forced to search through the dark corridors alone"
Dog of Dracula 2
“2000 A.D. Nuevo Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.”
Castlemania
Castlemania is obviously influenced by Castlevania, so expect to exact your revenge on an awful lot of candlesticks. This one is brutally hard on the platforming though, so though the controls are spot on fun, the level design is frustrating. It plays in your browser using the Unity engine.
No Birdie No
This one is a real cliff hanger. Literally.
