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

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...

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...

Slender Threads

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Comedy

Game released: Mac → 7 February 2025

Players: 7.6/10

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...

Forgotten Hill Tales

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Horror

Game released: Mac → 27 April 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Forgotten Hill Tales is an arcade puzzle horror game with a first-person view. The game will delight you with a series of exciting and atmospheric stories with many...

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Horror, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Visual novel, Free game, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 6 October 2017

Metacritic: 78/100

A visual novel that starts as a carefree story about a school literature club but gradually turns into something much more unsettling. Upon joining the club, the...

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...

Left 4 Dead 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 5 October 2010

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Walking Dead: Season 1

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

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2012

Players: 9.2/10

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...

System Shock Remake

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

Game released: Mac → 30 May 2023

Players: 8/10

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...

Banebush

Horror, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Mac → 25 December 2024

Players: 9.7/10

A gloomy adventure made in black and red colors and inspired by fairy tales. The game has several endings, the receipt of which depends on the decisions made by the...

Fran Bow

Adventure, Horror, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 27 August 2015

Players: 9.4/10

Fran Bow is an atmospheric point and click adventure with horror elements. A very interesting story awaits you of a girl who is not at all crazy. But still, the...

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...

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...

Left 4 Dead

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 27 October 2010

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Turn-based

Game released: Mac → 26 September 2019

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is an isometric horror RPG with turn-based combat that will take you to eerie worlds based on the stories of writer Howard Phillips...

Observer

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

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2017

Players: 8.3/10

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...

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 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...

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...

Heart of the Forest

Adventure, Horror, Interactive movie, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Mac → 12 February 2026

An interactive adventure inspired by German folklore. A group of students goes to the Black Forest, where they encounter a vengeful spirit that resides there. The...

AI2U-With You 'Til The End

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 12 August 2026

Players: 7/10

An unusual adventure with elements of psychological thriller and AI, where each story unfolds differently thanks to language models. The main character finds...

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...

Aurora Hills: Chapter 2

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Point & Click, Hidden Objects

Game released: Mac → 6 March 2026

The second part of the adventure Aurora Hills about the ranger of Ethan Hill National Park. The main character investigates a series of disappearances and tries to...

CASE: Animatronics

Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 3 August 2016

Players: 7.9/10

CASE: Animatronics is an adventure horror game with stealth elements and a first-person view in the Five Nights at Freddy's universe. The main character, detective...

Kvark

Action, Shooter, Science fiction, First-person view, Horror

Game released: Mac → 3 October 2024

VGTimes: 4.0/10

Players: 9.3/10

The game takes place in a fictional version of the Czech Republic in the 1980s. The main character finds himself in an underground structure, which falls apart as...

Don't Starve

Adventure, Horror, Simulation, 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...

Unturned

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

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...

Bendy and the Ink Machine

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

Game released: Mac → 27 April 2017

Players: 7.6/10

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...

American McGee's Alice

Action, Shooter, Horror, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 21 August 2001

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 85/100

American McGee's Alice is a third-person action game with shooter, horror, platformer and puzzle elements from the masters from the Rogue Entertainment studio. The...

Black Mirror

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 28 November 2017

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 57/100

Black Mirror (2017) — point and click horror adventure with puzzle elements. Since childhood, our hero, David, has been tormented by nightmares and visions...

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...

Bulb Boy

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 29 October 2015

Metacritic: 75/100

Bulb Boy is an indie horror adventure with point and click elements. The main character of Bulb Boy is a boy with a glowing head. You have to overcome your fear and...

Devour

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

Game released: Mac → 28 January 2021

Players: 7.8/10

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...

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...

Dead Reset

Adventure, Horror, Interactive movie

Game released: Mac → 11 September 2025

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 69/100

The main character, surgeon Cole Mason, was kidnapped and forced to perform an operation to remove a parasite from a patient in an underwater complex. At the same...

Stasis

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Mac → 31 August 2015

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Stasis is a dark sci-fi horror game with an isometric camera view. The game tells the story of John Maracek, who lost his wife and daughter. The hero suddenly wakes...

The Drifter

Adventure, Horror, Point & Click, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Mac → 17 July 2025

Metacritic: 84/100

A dark story inspired by King, Crichton, and Carpenter. The main character constantly moves from one job to another, never staying in one place for long. One day...

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...

DOOM 2

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

Game released: Mac → 27 June 1995

Players: 8.3/10

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...

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...

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Best Games in the Horror genre for Mac (Game released)