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Interactive Horror Stories
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A free-to-play interactive fiction collection of short horror choose-your-own-adventure tales with branching outcomes and a compact ~1-hour runtime.

[Stories to Tell] Greyville Stay
A free, single-player psychological horror walking simulator drawn from the developer's nightmares, delivering a suspenseful, atmospheric experience in a very short ~40-minute playthrough.
2025-01-06
- First person

Thriller

Adventure

Horror

Survival

Indie

Simulator

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Lucid Dream

A compact free-to-play point-and-click horror game about escaping a dream world, with light puzzles and unsettling sound design.

2020-05-04

First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Point-and-click

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Perceptions of the Dead

A short, free single-player adventure following three eerie stories about the dead and things beyond the veil.

2017-10-31

Adventure
Indie
Visual Novel

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Ignited Entry

A compact free-to-play single-player psychological horror with dreamlike visuals, voice acting, and an ominous door-based story.

2024-11-11

First person
Adventure
Horror
Strategy
Indie

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Traum

A compact single-player psychological horror adventure where choices lead to multiple endings and a dark twist on a man's dream.

2018-03-19

Adventure
Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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For Mother Matron

A short, free atmospheric horror visual novel about a girl's desperate journey through a miserable world, with tense life-or-death choices and eerie worldbuilding.

2022-10-17

Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Visual Novel

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Bite-Sized Scares

A free-to-play collection of short indie horror games with varied mini-experiences and a relaxed, snack-friendly tone, playable in about three hours.

2025-03-26

Adventure
Indie

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Fragments of Dread - False Haven

A free-to-play episodic psychological horror adventure with a creepy world-switching mechanic and short, self-contained survival stories.

2025-10-07

Action
First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie

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Trick and Treat - Visual Novel

A free-to-play anime visual novel with choice-driven branching paths in a cursed forest, offering a short, mysterious experience that reviewers find decent but rough in execution.

2016-12-30

Thriller
Indie
Simulator
Mystery
Romance
Visual Novel

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Notebook Entries Vol. 1

A brief indie horror anthology of vignettes, each using a distinct tension method, with unsettling creatures and a deeply creepy atmosphere.

2022-11-11

Action
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Simulator

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Horror Family｜恐怖家族 - Flight

A brief, free-to-play time-loop horror vignette on an airplane, with a median reviewer playtime of about 10 minutes and mixed reviews.

2024-05-09

First person
Adventure
Indie
Simulator

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SCHIZOPHRENIA

A brief, free-to-play psychological horror game where a dark, sad atmosphere and a door-knocking wake-up scenario drive the experience.

2025-04-14

Action
Adventure
Horror
Indie