In the light and thunder from grenades of the First World War, a young soldier negotiates the wet trenches. He is alone yet through the thick haze of mustard gas he sees the shadows move. That is when a pack of dinosaurs break through the frontline. 1916 is not as much an FPS as it is a First Person Avoider. It is a dark horror-maze ga...

Some horror games are scary, others are just completely psychedelic. Such is the case with A Mother’s Inferno, a twisted and creepy adventure about a train ride gone to hell where you have to save your son. It’s not a game for those who suffer from epilepsy though, since the students who pulled this off created a vision so wac...

Once in a while we stumble upon a genius game that makes us wonder how the developers decided to offer it for free. Are they out of their minds? Well, Magnesium Ninja Studios probably is, since Ascension is one of the best horror games we’ve played recently and it’s completely free!Using the not-so-common side-scrolling perspective th...

Based on the Bunny Man urban legend, Bunny Man: Lost Souls is a horror game created by a Brazilian developer. Taking some lessons from the blockbuster freeware game Slender, this is a creepy ride through a small forest and the famous Bunny Man Bridge, also known as the Colchester Overpass. Legend says the Bunny Man is a man wearing a bunn...

Who said that having a house in the middle of the woods was a good idea? In Candles, a free horror game developed by Lasse Westmark Nielsen, the player returns to his house only to find out it was invaded by imps, horrible gremlin-like creatures. A letter from the postman tells us about the brief but capable storyline, saying that our gen...

Dark Ocean is a freeware PC game from a team of independent Spanish developers of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. The game is a survival horror set in a luxury cruise where things have gone terribly wrong. Dark Ocean seems to get inspiration from games such as Hydrophobia, Amnesia and even Resident Evil.The player steps in the s...

Dead Wake is a zombie game with a very simple challenge, to survive.

Trapped within a star cruiser, surrounded by hostile creatures, can you and your squad escape the Carnage alive? Derelict is a tactical First Person Shooter with a Sci-Fi survival horror theme. The player must successfully guide his squad of Space marines though a series of increasingly dangerous levels. Each Marine in the squad has uniqu...

With the horror genre booming in the freeware indie scene (although we’re getting a bit tired of the usual Slender gameplay template of search this, pick that), Erie is another entry to the genre and one of the best so far. This is a survival horror done the way they should always be, using a very singular setting and some nice game...

In Euthanasia, you play as Shaun Randall, who retired from the military and leads a normal, boring life. Now he has an ordinary office job, an acceptable pay, an attractive wife and a son. One day when Shaun heads for work he is hit by a taxi and ends up losing his legs. His life was just turned upside down and he attempts suicide, after ...

Forget Me Not Annie is a free first person horror puzzle game with an atmosphere that fans of the popular Amnesia will surely enjoy. This is another game designed by students (Brandon Dolinski and his team) and those tend to be both original and of high quality. Using the Unreal Engine, the graphics are the first thing that jumps to the e...

Based on the sad and tragic reality of child abduction, Free Ice Cream is a freeware flash adventure game that is at the same time motivating and extremely disturbing. Two young girls, Lily and an unnamed girl are attracted to the promise of free ice cream and kidnapped by a crazy and frightening chef. Now the player has the help the youn...

Horror games are few and far between and even popular franchises such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill abandoned most of the scary elements in favor of a more commercial approach – meaning more combat and less atmosphere. So it’s great when small indie studio BLF decides to release a freeware horror adventure game much in the same sty...

Hidden in the Shadows 2 is a freeware horror adventure game where the player has to explore a school in a small town only to find that it is haunted. This is a game in the same style as Ib and Ao Oni, probably created using RPG Maker.You play as a boy who has to seek shelter and escape the entities that inhabit the school by solving puzzl...

Homesick is a free 2D pixel-art side-scrolling horror game created by one single, talented person nicknamed Oh Hey, Chloe. Fans of horror games such as Home, Lone Survivor or the freeware hit Ascension will instantly be at ease with the feel and look of Homesick. The author describes her game as a short point and click style adventure gam...

What kind of irrational fear do you have? In the case of the Hylophobia game, you play as someone who has a fear of forests and trees. It’s pretty understandable considering you’re all alone, in the dark, after your plane crashed and, for some reason, your only means of escaping the woods is by finding three orbs. Luckily, at ...

Ib is a game that will make you look at art museums in a very different light. A freeware horror game for PC developed with RPG Maker, this is one of the most popular free games of its genre. Ib is a nine year-old girl who visits a museum with her parents but suddenly things take a turn for the worse, with everyone vanishing and strange t...

Inside is a straightforward free first person horror game that cuts to the chase – the player is trapped inside some kind of monastery and has to escape. The hallways are covered in near complete darkness with only some flashes of light from the windows and, more disturbingly, of blood red from corpses and a supernatural blood fount...

From a Czech developer comes Lake Queen, a freeware horror game that combines adventure and arcade through six chapters. The dark story will grab your attention from beginning to end, the haunting music will set the mood and the low hardware requirements ensure that everyone will be able to play this impressive game.

M.A.Z.E. is a game where you are thrown into a maze and have to overcome fear to find the exit. This maze is the stage for a freeware horror game that is more difficult that it may seem at first, since to leave this place you have to solve a few puzzles, while being scared by the entities that inhabit the place.With the help of a map R...