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A compact third-person horror adventure set in a haunted high school, blending a spooky yet cozy atmosphere with tactile puzzles and a séance-gone-wrong mystery.

GYLT
A gentle, story-driven horror adventure with puzzles, stealth, and light action, featuring a cute-but-creepy style and approachable difficulty.
2023-07-06
- Action
- Puzzle
- Adventure

Horror

Third person

Role-playing (RPG)

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Studio System : Guardian Angel

A compact fixed-camera horror adventure where three students use a camera-based light weapon to investigate a secret film studio and rescue friends.

2025-02-04

Action
Adventure
Indie

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Homebody

A single-player survival-horror thriller with time-loop puzzles, a female lead, and a haunting emotional story, running about nine to ten hours.

2023-06-01

Action
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie

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Heartworm

A compact single-player survival horror set in a memory-born world, where you defend with a camera and solve death's mysteries in a haunting ~7-8 hour campaign.

2025-07-31

Shooter
Action
Puzzle
Horror
Survival
Third person
Indie

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Late Homework | 遅れた宿題

A short retro survival horror adventure in a haunted school, featuring tank controls, fixed-camera views, puzzle-solving, and a low-poly PS1-style mood.

2024-10-30

Adventure
Horror
Survival
Third person
Indie

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The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication

A first-person survival horror adventure with four playable characters, ghost encounters, puzzle-solving, and a conspiracy plot, offering a hand-holdy, moderately scary experience that runs about five to six hours.

2024-05-09

Action
First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Survival

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Clock Tower: Rewind

A short, tense 16-bit survival horror adventure about evading Scissorman, praised for its restored content but with some technical quirks.

2024-10-28

Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Side view
Point-and-click

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Born Into Fear

An eerie first-person horror adventure in an evacuated neighborhood, featuring task-based objectives, enemy avoidance, and free non-linear exploration in a short ~4-hour experience.

2022-03-21

Adventure
Horror
Indie

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The Little Red Lie

A compact 2D side-scrolling horror adventure about avoiding monsters and solving puzzles, with a fun, eerie mood.

2021-04-06

Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Visual Novel

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Killer Frequency

A first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, where you play a radio host helping callers survive a slasher killer in a story-rich, atmospheric adventure with multiple endings.

2023-06-01

Action
First person
Comedy
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Virtual Reality

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Tales of the Forgotten

A compact PSX-style horror anthology of three ghost stories with jump scares and multiple endings, taking roughly 80 minutes to complete.

2025-03-28

First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Mystery

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The Mortuary Assistant

A first-person horror sim about embalming corpses and banishing demons in a dark, atmospheric mortuary, with a methodical rhythm punctuated by genuine scares.

2022-08-02

First person
Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Mystery