Best Indie Horror Games
TOP: indie horror games (not expensive scary games). While large studios are bound by contracts with publishers and mandatory deadlines, small independent teams have complete creative freedom. There is an opinion that without it, a good horror game simply cannot be made.
Such games are largely based on unconventional solutions. And publishers, as we know, are not always fond of that. It is the indie developers who are ready to risk everything for a good game.
Simulation, Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world
April 30, 2018
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
81/100
The Forest is an adventure action-horror game with survival elements set in an open world and presented from a first-person perspective. The main character is the...
Action, Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Survival horror, Science fiction, Puzzle
October 27, 2022
Players:
9.6/10
Steam:
96/100
Metacritic:
81/100
SIGNALIS is a classic sci-fi horror, the style of which is very reminiscent of the movie "Alien". Finding herself alone on the snowy planet Elster, the main...
Online, Business / Management, Roguelike, Side view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival horror, Survival
June 6, 2019
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
95/100
A game about a submarine, which features procedural generation of tasks, a character editor and an online mode for 16 players. The gamer will be able to visit a...
Horror, First-person view, Old school, Walking Simulator, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Adventure, Indie
September 26, 2024
Players:
9.2/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
88/100
Space indie horror in the style of games from the PlayStation One era. The game tells the dark story of the crew of the Tulpar ship, drifting in outer space...
Action, Racing, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Science fiction, Survival, Exploration, Survival horror
February 21, 2024
Players:
8.9/10
Steam:
82/100
Metacritic:
78/100
A racing survival game in which the main emphasis is on control and interaction with the car. The game takes place in the northwestern regions of the United States...
Horror, First-person view, Action, Open world, Stealth, Survival, Exploration, Sandbox, Adventure, Survival horror
June 6, 2023
Players:
9.1/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
76/100
The game takes place during the First World War. French soldier Henri Clément finds himself locked in an abandoned military bunker, where something sinister lives...
Adventure, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Indie, Survival horror, Open world
December 9, 2022
Players:
6.9/10
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
56/100
Choo-Choo Charles is a psychological horror shooter with a first-person view in an open world, in which you have to run away from a monster engine that resembles a...
Role-playing game, Horror, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Adventure, Roguelike, Survival horror, Point & Click
February 20, 2020
Players:
8.4/10
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
79/100
An unusual text role-playing game in a Japanese setting, combining horror from the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The old gods awaken and once again invade a...
Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival horror
March 26, 2013
Players:
8/10
Steam:
86/100
Metacritic:
63/100
Continuation of the atmospheric horror with a first-person view Slender. The story tells of Slenderman, a paranormal figure who haunts inquiring minds around the...
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