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50 Free Horror Games, Reviewed.

We've downloaded and completed 50 free horror games from the popular website "itch.io", a website that many indie game developers use to share their projects. All of the following games are available for both Windows and MacOS.

#1 // Start Survey

Summary: You're in your room taking a survey on your computer.

Cons: Predictable, boring, can barely move mouse.

Pros: Good art style, great concept.

- Rating /10

- Suspense /10

- Scare /10

- Ending

2.5/10

3/10

1/10

Disappointing

#2 // One-way Ticket (Ep. 2)

Summary: You work for a soda company and then get drugged by a crazy lady.

Cons: Slow dialogue, the annoying noise.

Pros: Not much lol

4/10

5.5/10

3.5/10

Disappointing

#3 // Shiver

Summary: You crash your car and have to figure out how to get out of an abandoned park.

Cons: Very difficult.

Pros: Amazing art, storyline, and puzzles.

8/10

6.5/10

4/10

Satisfactory

#4 // The New Resident

Summary: You're a detective investigating disappearances connected to a manequin company.

Cons: Pretty difficult, too short.

Pros: Great mechanics, amazing concept, fun.

6/10

5/10

2/10

Satisfactory

#5 // Baldi's Basics

Summary: You have to escape your batshit crazy teacher and collect 7 notebooks.

Cons: Gets annoying after the first few rounds.

Pros: Good concept, even better execution.

6.5/10

8/10

2.5/10

Satisfactory

#6 // Pancakes Game Show

Summary: You compete in a "saw-style" gameshow to win pancakes.

Cons: Annoyingly slow, confusing.

Pros: Good concept, funny.

6.5/10

4.5/10

2.5/10

Weird

#7 // Chōjirō

Summary: You're in Japan, walking through a town.

Cons: It's more just a film than a game. It's short, and the controls are asscheeks.

Pros: Cool art style, good atmosphere.

3.5/10

1/10

1/10

Disappointing

#8 // (Don't) Open Your Eyes

Summary: You're falling asleep when you're visited by a strange being that won't leave you alone.

Cons: Annoyingly long dialogue which gets boring.

Pros: Awesome art style, great voice acting.

4.5/10

1/10

1.5/10

No ending

#9 // Small Island Woes

Summary: You frequent a small island to tend to a machine in their lighthouse.

Cons: None, really.

Pros: Great art, very unsettling, good characters.

7.5/10

6/10

2/10

Confusing

#10 // Frontier Diver

Summary: We couldn't tell you.

Cons: They just throw you in, they give you no information whatsoever, so it's confusing.

Pros: Looks like it has potential.

N/A

N/A

N/A

We gave up

#11 // The Woods Massacre

Summary: You're investigating some murders in the woods, when you come across some notes...

Cons: Bad game, simple story dragged out, boring.

Pros: Pretty unsettling.

3.5/10

4.5/10

3.5/10

Disappointing

#12 // Towel Required

Summary: You're shooting towels at naked old men that are chasing you in a locker room.

Cons: Gets boring after a while. Not a horror game.

Pros: Cool art style, fun concept.

5.5/10

6.5/10

0/10

No ending

#13 // The Tomatoes Are Ok

Summary: We seriously couldn't tell you.

Cons: It's trying to hard to be edgy/scary, and you can barely see.

Pros: Cool puzzles.

4.5/10

6/10

4.5/10

Lacks conclusion

#14 // Solitary

Summary: You're trapped in a solitary confinement cell.

Cons: Zero backstory, game actually broke for us.

Pros: Creepy music, random notes, unsettling.

2.5/10

3.5/10

1/10

Disappointing

#15 // I'm Still Here

Summary: You move into your new apartment, but ghosts are still there...

Cons: Not really horror, per-se, more of a comedy.

 

Pros: Funny, and a fun, smooth game.

6.5/10

1.5/10

1/10

Satisfactory

#16 // CHYRZA

Summary: You're walking around a desert.

Cons: There's barely a game, it says to collect fragment of a "memoir", but we could find nothing of the such.

 

Pros: The atmosphere is cool?

1/10

1/10

1/10

Lacks game

#17 // down.

Summary: You're walking and reading notes.

Cons: Character movement lags a little, typography quality is low.

 

Pros: Atmosphere is amazing, and the message is strong.

8.5/10

8/10

1/10

Powerful

#18 // The Open House

Summary: You're buying a house virtually, but something seems off.

 

Pros: Amazing story, graphics, amazing concept, and flawless execution.

9/10

8.5/10

7/10

Weird

#19 // Clown House

Summary: You have to find the key to escape a house full with clowns that may or may not kill you.

 

Cons: Too short, no backstory, pretty easy.

 

Pros: Good graphics, good concept.

5/10

7.5/10

6/10

Disappointing

#20 // FeedVid

Summary: You're browsing a video app, when suddenly you have to solve puzzles for a user.

 

Cons: Too short, no explanation of story.

 

Pros: Great concept, intricate puzzles, graphics.

5/10

4/10

1.5/10

Confusing

#21 // Paralyzis

Summary: You wake up, but you can't move, what do you do?

 

Cons: Cheap jumpscares, annoying and slow.

 

Pros: Cool concept.

3.5/10

6/10

5.5/10

Satisfactory

#22 // The Rooms

Summary: You're a mentally ill person who murders a bunch of people in a building.

 

Cons: Lacks a real sort of game, super short.

 

Pros: Cool concept.

3.5/10

3.5/10

1/10

Disappointing

#23 // Anxiety

Summary: You wake up in an abandoned house, what do you do?

Cons: Game ruining bugs.

 

Pros: Looks incredible, very promising, fix those bugs!

4.5/10

8/10

5/10

We gave up