Horror for Mac — top best games in the Horror genre

7 Days to Die - a game in the Horror genre

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Survival, Online, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox

Early Access: Mac → 13 December 2013; Game released: Mac → 25 July 2024

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 41/100

Players find themselves in a world gripped by a zombie apocalypse, where the main task is survival. During the day, they search for resources, build shelters and...

System Shock Remake

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Science fiction, Remake

Game released: Mac → 30 May 2023

Players: 7.9/10

A remake of the legendary role-playing shooter System Shock. The game takes place in the year 2072, where all resources on Earth have been practically depleted...

DOOM 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Mac → 27 June 1995

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 77/100

DOOM 2 is a continuation of the legendary bloody first-person shooter in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place shortly after the events of the original DOOM...

Metro: Last Light

Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 10 September 2013

VGTimes: 9.6/10

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Left 4 Dead 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 5 October 2010

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Darkwood

Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Survival, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 17 August 2017

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Top-down survival action-horror adventure. Events take place in a mysterious forest, where every night threatens to be the last. Players control a nameless hero who...

Doom 3

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Mac → 14 March 2005

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Doom 3 is a science fiction shooter with a first-person perspective and horror elements that was released in 2004 as a reboot of the original DOOM (1995). The game...

Unturned

Online, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Sandbox

Early Access: Mac → 7 July 2014; Game released: Mac → 7 July 2017

Players: 7.9/10

Unturned is a multiplayer sandbox action game with a first-person view. The main goal here is to survive by defending yourself from zombies and hostile players...

Don't Starve

Simulation, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Indie, Survival

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Don't Starve is an adventure game about survival in a randomly generated world. In it you have to collect resources, stock up on food, grow berries and vegetables...

Devour

Horror, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Action, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 28 January 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Devour is a first-person cooperative action-horror game with survival elements for 1-4 players. Together with other players, you will have to work together against...

SOMA

Action, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Mac → 22 September 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

SOMA is a new project from Frictional Games, the creators of Penumbra and Amnesia. The plot revolves around the underwater research facility PATHOS-2, where...

Carrion

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view

Game released: Mac → 23 July 2020

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The game's protagonist is a creature created in a laboratory that managed to escape from a glass container and start hunting its creators. The huge complex and its...

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 8 September 2010

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game will tell the story of Daniel, who wakes up in a deserted...

Limbo

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Mac → 21 December 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 88/100

A dark adventure platformer built on the atmosphere of silence, loneliness, and constant danger. The story tells about a boy who sets out to find his missing...

Left 4 Dead

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 27 October 2010

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Police Stories

Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 19 September 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Police Stories is a top-down tactical shooter with horror elements. You will play as a policeman and, together with your partner Rick, go to storm various premises...

Tiny Bunny

Adventure, Horror, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Mac → 5 December 2025

VGTimes: 7.8/10

Players: 8.9/10

An adventurous visual novel with horror elements. Looking out of the window of an old house, the boy Anton sees a fading village, huge snowdrifts, and a frozen...

World of Horror

Role-playing game, Horror, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Adventure, Roguelike

Game released: Mac → 19 October 2023

Players: 8.4/10

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...

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager

Role-playing game, Strategy, Horror, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Early Access: Mac → 20 March 2020; Game released: Mac → 29 April 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager is a dark role-playing roguelike with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. You have to build a...

Spark in the Dark

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era

Early Access: Mac → 7 April 2026; Game in development: Mac → 2029

Players: 7.6/10

A dark role-playing action game with an isometric camera, immersing players in the depths of a sinister dungeon full of mysteries and dangers. The atmosphere is...

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Mac → 17 November 2005

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse is a third-person action-comedy horror game in which you take on the role of a real zombie who has risen from the depths...

Observer

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2017

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Observer is an adventure with horror elements and a first-person view in a cyberpunk style from the creators of Layers of Fear. The game takes place in 2084 in a...

Sunless Sea

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view

Game released: Mac → 6 February 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Sunless Sea is a dark, H.P. Lovecraft-inspired role-playing adventure set in the universe of London Has Fallen. You have to take the helm of a Victorian steamship...

HellSign

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric

Game released: Mac → 24 February 2021

Players: 7.8/10

HellSign is an action-adventure RPG with horror elements and an isometric camera view. You are an Evil Hunter. You protect the human world from evil creatures...

Killing Floor

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 19 May 2010

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Killing Floor is a cooperative horror shooter with a first-person view. Hordes of dangerous clones created by a biotechnological corporation have broken free. Only...

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 10 September 2013

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a continuation of the first-person horror adventure Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The game completely inherits the ideas of the original...

Dead Age 2

Role-playing game, Horror, Side view, Turn-based, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Mac → 12 March 2021; Early Access: Mac → 16 July 2020

Players: 8/10

Dead Age 2 is a continuation of the action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. 10 years after the first...

Death Trash

Role-playing game, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Mac → 5 August 2021; Game in development: Mac → 2026

Players: 10/10

Death Trash is a post-apocalyptic isometric role-playing game with horror elements in a futuristic setting. You'll be sent into a world filled with large creatures...

Undying

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Open world, Zombies

Game released: Mac → 7 December 2023

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 74/100

An isometric zombie action game about a mother who is trying to protect her son from all the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world. The problem is that she has been...

Dead Age

Role-playing game, Horror, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: Mac → 14 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Dead Age is an action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. You will go to a world where you will forever have to...

The Bunker

Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie

Game released: Mac → 20 September 2016

Players: 6.4/10

Bunker is an interactive psychological thriller with horror elements. The game is a reincarnation of video quests that were popular back in the 90s. You will play...

DUSK

Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 10 December 2018

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 88/100

A retro shooter filled with three atmospheric campaign episodes, designed in the spirit of the 90s. The main character fights against mystical creatures. The game...

Stories Untold

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Mac → 27 February 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Stories Untold is a text adventure with horror elements in the style of 80s films. The game is based on the series of the same name, which was never aired. You are...

Decay: The Mare

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 13 February 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Decay: The Mare is an action-horror adventure with a first-person view from the creators of the Decay series. The events of the game unfold around Sam, a drug...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 4 October 2013

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 57/100

Knock-knock is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. In the depths of a dense forest there is a wooden house. A man lives in this house...

Walking Dead: Season 1

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Walking Dead: Season 1 is an episodic third-person interactive adventure based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comics. The main character is a black guy named...

Skyhill

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer

Game released: Mac → 6 October 2015

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Skyhill is a quest with survival elements. The main character ends up in a hotel called SKYHILL, where he rents the safest room on the hundredth floor. And then...

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 23 October 2023

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 91/100

A mixture of horror and dating simulator about a princess imprisoned in a basement. Usually such stories end with the girl being saved, but this time it’s the other...

Slender Threads

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 7 February 2025

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Atmospheric quest, where reality is intertwined with nightmares. Harvey, a wandering salesman, is in a small town of Villa Ventat. Its days are filled with...

Narcosis

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Mac → 28 March 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Narcosis is a first-person horror adventure game that supports HTC Vive, OSVR and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices. The game takes place deep under the Pacific...

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Best Games in the Horror genre for Mac