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A short, low-budget single-player horror adventure about restoring light in a dark forest, with basic exploration and puzzles, though reviewers found the scares and atmosphere underwhelming.

Siren Head: Awakening
A free-to-play first-person horror scavenger hunt in a dark forest, featuring a terrifying cryptid and a very short runtime.
2020-10-30
- Action
- First person

Thriller

Adventure

Horror

Indie

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Phobic Nightmares

A single-player psychological horror title that has you exploring nightmarish realities, collecting items and notes to find your sister, with a short, tense runtime.

2025-10-31

Action
Indie

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Misery Mansion

A short, creepy first-person survival horror about exploring a dark forest and a mysterious mansion and escaping its horrors, with effective jumpscares but a brief playtime of about 88 minutes.

2021-01-19

Action
First person
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Stealth
Mystery

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Goodnight, Lily

A brief, tense single-player adventure about escaping a nightmare world by following light and fleeing your fears.

2020-09-17

Adventure

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Help

A brief ~85-minute horror adventure about searching an abandoned bunker for your daughter, with lamp-charge management and puzzle-solving, though reviewers find it repetitive and reliant on cheap scares.

2016-10-13

Action
First person
Adventure
Indie

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Horror

A short single-player horror game about surviving primal fear with only a dying flashlight and logic, but reviewers report technical issues that undercut the experience.

2026-01-25

Action
First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator

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Heart attack

A very short single-player horror adventure about surviving ghosts in the dark with limited light sources, with mixed reception.

2023-01-17

Action
Adventure

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123 Slaughter Me Street

A brief, tense survival horror escape from an abandoned building with a dying flashlight, noted as genuinely scary.

2015-09-25

Action
Horror
Indie

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Nyctophobia

A short first-person horror game about surviving a motel night shift while dark areas conjure hallucinated faces, undermined by bugs and cheap scares.

2026-07-05

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Gnomophobia

A brief single-player escape-horror where gnomes freeze when watched, set in a forest and driven by note-based clues.

2025-12-26

Adventure

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Lost in a Forest

A short, unpolished horror-parody game where you fight back against monsters rather than flee.

2015-01-26

Action
Adventure
Indie

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Nyctophobia: Fear the Dark

A tense single-player physiological horror game about navigating a dark neighborhood while hunted by a fear-feeding SCP, with short sessions under an hour.

2024-02-29

Action
Adventure
Strategy
Indie