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A single-player indie survival horror game featuring two modes—action-heavy Classic Mode and dread-focused Atmosphere Mode—wrapped in a lost-media CRT visual aesthetic.

CAPTURED
A tense single-player survival horror game where you photograph anomalies in a procedurally generated endless hallway while evading sinister entities.
2024-10-15
- Action
- First person

Puzzle

Horror

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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Flesh Made Fear

A retro-style survival horror game with tank controls and fixed cameras, set in an occult world of twisted experiments, offering a compact five-hour horror campaign with multiple protagonists.

2025-10-31

Action
Horror
Third person
Indie

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ZERO PROTOCOL

A compact sci-fi survival horror adventure with retro 3D visuals, puzzle-solving, non-linear story, and monster battles, playable in about six hours.

2024-09-26

Action
First person
Adventure
Horror
Survival

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Dead Format

A ~6-8 hour survival horror in 1990s Scotland, following a missing brother's trail through VHS tapes in a tense, resource-scarce adventure.

2025-12-10

Action
First person
Horror
Survival

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Nightmare Frames

A supernatural thriller adventure through 1980s Hollywood, a haunted town, and Hell, with a strong story, mild puzzles, and an ominous mood running about 6.5–8 hours.

2022-06-16

Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Side view
Mystery
Point-and-click

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Project Nightmares Case 36: Henrietta Kedward

A short procedural survival horror about investigating a woman's dark past through a dream-induced nightmare, with a tense opening but repetitive exploration.

2021-09-29

Action
First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Mystery

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Connection: The Nightmare Within

A roughly six-hour retro-inspired survival horror adventure of atmospheric exploration, monster combat, and puzzle-solving with a conspiracy story and selectable camera perspectives.

2024-10-25

Shooter
Action
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Mystery

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Them and Us

A single-player survival horror game with old-school Resident Evil vibes, set in an atmospheric nightmare, offering a roughly 12-hour campaign.

2021-09-28

Shooter
Action
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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Paranormal VHS

A compact VHS-styled horror adventure where a vlogger explores haunted locations and faces intense jumpscares, in roughly 2.5–3 hours.

2023-09-15

First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator

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Nightmare of Decay

A compact, first-person survival horror game set in a monster-filled manor, blending tense resource management with fast, challenging combat.

2022-05-03

Shooter
Action
First person
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie

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3 Nights of Terror

A compact single-player survival-horror experience of three distinct nightmares, described by players as panic-inducing and intense.

2026-02-18

Shooter
First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie