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: 8.2/10

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...

Left 4 Dead 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 5 October 2010

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 89/100

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

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...

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...

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: 7.8/10

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tiny Bunny

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

Game released: Mac → 5 December 2025

VGTimes: 7.8/10

Players: 8.8/10

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...

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...

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...

Left 4 Dead

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 27 October 2010

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Mina the Hollower

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Top-down view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Mac → 29 May 2026

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 91/100

The game takes you to a dark gothic world where a cursed island hides behind a thick curtain of darkness. The main character is the agile and fearless Mina, who is...

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...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 4 October 2013

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

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...

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...

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...

Monstrum

Action, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 20 May 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Monstrum is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. All levels in the game are procedurally generated, so with each playthrough you will encounter...

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...

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 23 October 2023

Players: 9.5/10

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...

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...

System Shock

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Cyberpunk

Game released: Mac → декабрь 1995

Players: 6.9/10

Metacritic: 85/100

System Shock is a legendary shooter with a first-person view and elements of a role-playing game in a cyberpunk style. The game takes place in the year 2072, where...

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...

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

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

Game released: Mac → 17 November 2005

Players: 7.6/10

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...

Slender: The Arrival

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Mac → 28 October 2013

Players: 8/10

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...

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...

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...

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Free game

Game released: Mac → 27 April 2017

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Bendy and the Ink Machine is an episodic adventure with horror elements and a first-person perspective. Visually, the game is made in the style of the first...

OMORI

Horror, Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 25 December 2020

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 88/100

OMORI is an indie horror adventure with fantasy RPG elements. You have to explore a strange world full of colorful friends and enemies. You'll travel through the...

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...

Skyhill

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

Game released: Mac → 6 October 2015

Players: 7.3/10

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...

Left 4 Dead 3

Action, Shooter, Horror, Hack and slash, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Not officially announced: Mac → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 7.8/10

The game is a prequel to Left 4 Dead and tells about the first month of infection. Six chapters, four characters, one of which fights with fists and has a unique...

Among the Sleep

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 29 May 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Among the Sleep is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view and horror elements. The main character is a very young child. He is hiding from a mysterious...

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Best Games in the Horror genre for Mac