Horror for Mac — top best games in the Horror genre

Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023)

Action, Third-person view, Adventure, Zombies, Survival horror, Remake, Horror

Game released: Mac → 20 December 2023

VGTimes: 8.4/10

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Remake of Resident Evil 4 (2005) 2005. The story takes place in 2004, six years after the events of Resident Evil 2. Leon Scott Kennedy, a government agent, is...

7 Days to Die

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

Game released: Mac → 25 July 2024

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 85/100

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...

Slender Threads

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 7 February 2025

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 90/100

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...

Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival horror, Adventure, Zombies, Horror

Game released: Mac → 2 July 2024

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 85/100

The main character Ethan receives a message from his girlfriend, who disappeared without a trace three years ago. She invites him to meet in the vicinity of the...

Forgotten Hill Tales

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Horror, Adventure, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 27 April 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 90/100

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...

Tiny Bunny

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

Game released: Mac → 5 December 2025

VGTimes: 7.8/10

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 81/100

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...

Dying Light

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies, Survival horror

Game released: Mac → 27 January 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Adventure action game in the open world Dying Light allows you to fully immerse yourself in the world of the zombie apocalypse. You can expect upgrades, RPG...

Subnautica

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival, Open world, Horror

Game released: Mac → 23 January 2018

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A single-player adventure in a vast open world, with a first-person view, survival elements, and sandbox features. Playing the game will evoke feelings associated...

Doki Doki Literature Club!

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

Game released: Mac → 6 October 2017

Steam: 96/100

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, Gothic

Game released: Mac → 29 May 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

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, Zombies, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Mac → 5 October 2010

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 89/100

System Shock Remake

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

Game released: Mac → 30 May 2023

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

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...

BioShock

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Steampunk, Horror

Game released: Mac → 10 October 2009

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 89/100

BioShock is an adventure shooter with a first-person view in a steampunk style. The game takes place in 1960. The main character, a young man named Jack, as a...

Fran Bow

Adventure, Horror, Point & Click, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 27 August 2015

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 96/100

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...

Subnautica: Below Zero

Action, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival, Open world, Horror

Game released: Mac → 14 May 2021

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Continuation of the adventure action Subnautica in first-person view, combining elements of role-playing games, sandbox gameplay, and a bit of exploration and...

Walking Dead: Season 1

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie, Zombies, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 24 April 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 97/100

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...

AI2U-With You 'Til The End

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

Game released: Mac → 12 August 2026

Players: 7/10

Steam: 88/100

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

Choo-Choo Charles

Adventure, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Indie, Survival horror, Open world

Game released: Mac → 9 December 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...

Alien: Isolation

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival horror, Science fiction

Game released: Mac → 6 October 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Alien: Isolation is a first-person stealth horror adventure set in the Alien universe. The plot of the game takes place fifteen years after the events of Ridley...

Metro 2033 Redux

Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Horror, Action

Game released: Mac → 15 April 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 88/100

The Metro universe tells the story of the inhabitants of Moscow, whose city was destroyed by a nuclear strike in 2013. The only salvation turned out to be the...

Left 4 Dead

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

Game released: Mac → 27 October 2010

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

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

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones

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

Game released: Mac → 26 September 2019

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 66/100

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...

SOMA

Action, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Survival horror

Game released: Mac → 22 September 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 95/100

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, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 23 July 2020

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Layers of Fear

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac → 15 June 2023

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Reimagining the Layers of Fear game series, offering a new perspective on the original stories. The game includes updated versions of the horror Layers of Fear...

Banebush

Horror, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Mac → 25 December 2024

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Heart of the Forest

Adventure, Horror, Interactive movie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival horror

Game released: Mac → 12 February 2026

Steam: 69/100

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...

Outlast

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Survival horror

Game released: Mac → 4 September 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Outlast is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place in the Mount Massive Asylum, which for a long time served as a home...

Police Stories

Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Tactics, Roguelike, Strategy, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Mac → 19 September 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 82/100

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...

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival horror, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 8 September 2010

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

Darkwood

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

Game released: Mac → 17 August 2017

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Observer

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

Game released: Mac → 15 August 2017

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 77/100

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...

Doom 3

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

Game released: Mac → 14 March 2005

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 84/100

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...

Dying Light - Enhanced Edition

Action, Horror, First-person view, Collection, Zombies, Survival horror

Game released: Mac → 27 January 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 94/100

Dying Light — Enhanced Edition — a collection that will include the original Dying Light and The Following add-on. Players have access to a large and...

YAPYAP

First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Comedy, Exploration, Fantasy, Procedural generation, Survival horror, Online, Horror

Game released: Mac → 3 February 2026

Steam: 84/100

Cooperative survival horror where you can test your magical abilities with friends. In the story, the player and their allies are wizards summoned by a powerful...

DOOM 2

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

Game released: Mac → 27 June 1995

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

Limbo

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 21 December 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 69/100

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...

Black Mirror

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 28 November 2017

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 47/100

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...

Inscryption

Card game, Horror, Roguelike, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 22 June 2022

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Inscryption is a first-person card puzzle horror game from the creator of Pony Island. In the game, you will find yourself in the cabin of Leshy, from which you...

Horror

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