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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Narin: The Orange Room, by RedSensationGames store.steampowered.com/app/2050710/... young Narin and excellent talking cat explore perpetually twilight-soaked version of her school in search of Narin's sister cute art style juxtaposed against eerie bug-eyed misshapen shadow fellas

a young girl in an orange parka and red skirt (our protagonist, Narin) wakes up at a desk in a classroom. the golden light of dusk streams through the windows.

lantern in hand, Narin wanders through a corridor strewn with spare chairs and red grass. Narin hasn't noticed the bent figure with swollen calves (wearing school-appropriate loafers) skulking after her.

a dim storeroom. ropes or chains dangle through the barred window of the red door. more ropes are looped along the ceiling or hang down to the floor - or form a noose around a doll's neck. the hanging doll resembles a little girl with a red dress and white bow.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Terminal Mass, by JIN store.steampowered.com/app/3447740/... shooty-shoot through the deliciously weird hellscapes of "The Domain" level names with Vibes: The Guts The Pipeworks The Belly of the Beast icky contorted mannequin-men at least 1 robo-beholder CW: body horror

the door ahead is a fanged maw. through the mouth-door, you can see a large white tube or pod, attached to the metal floor and ceiling by piles of meat.

looking through goggles or binoculars. everything is red and squishy. more white tubes in the distance, as well as a bent and pale figure in agony.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Cat Named Mojave, by Stargazers Studios store.steampowered.com/app/3597880/... in return for food and shelter, cursed cat-man commissions you to hunt, skin, and butcher the local anthros (and other strange creatures, like meat tentacles flagellating through steeple windows) CW: violence and gore

looking at a sign/booth for Remy's Range. screens hang from the sign. one screen reads "HIGH SCORE 24/25 S"; the other screen shows a smug smiley face in a cowboy hat. a shotgun lies on the counter below the sign.

a large sign in the desert. in the distance, we can see the aforementioned meat tentacles flopping through a church steeple. the sign used to read "Mojave Valley Estates Executive Homes; Development Starts [can't read]! $99 Reserves You A Home!" the sign is covered in graffiti, including "ECHO" over Mojave, "He's Watching", a dead x-eyes emoji, and what might be MHX over the last words of the last 2 lines

you're in the titular cat... man's kitchen. he stares at you. he was in the middle of butchering a mysterious lump of meat that lies on the counter.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Imaginary Friend Institution, by Nightmare Emporium store.steampowered.com/app/3083990/... 50s-era tale of horrors perpetrated upon mentally ill children - focused on stealth, platforming, and minigames CW: disturbing themes surrounding mental health; violence & gore

sneakin around as old Pooky - one of the titular imaginary friends, a horned jester kind of fellow. this room looks ransacked - strewn with toppled tables and bottles - and the floor is pockmarked in red oozing sores.

the laundry simulator portion of Imaginary Friend Institution. our main character (a young lady named Annabelle Walker, not Pooky) blow-dries some white clothes hanging on the line.

Annabelle runs up to the pinheaded-ass groundskeeper in a cemetery, the graves marked with only numbers. The Groundskeeper can't talk right now.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol, by SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT store.steampowered.com/app/3633250/... has a demo solve puzzles, set traps, and hide from Junji Ito's demented creations (including the Hanging Balloons) in this official Ito-verse survival horror game CW: frequent violence/gore

a wooden screen covered in clown faces - with blinking lights sticking out of the top - sits in the corner of this dining room. besides clowns, the screen contains a puzzle with three hexagons to rotate, a metal crescent moon inlay, and a plaque.

a wall full of photos of Tomie Kawakami - mostly her two-faced version

cornered by one of the head-coveting mannequins. blood oozes from the hapless victim's (head's) eyes, mouth, and neck stump.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It, by Ferry // Nopanamaman free on store.steampowered.com/app/4122860/... visual novel where middle schooler investigates her classmate's disappearance in Soviet Russia 7-8 hours of playtime CW: loud noises, flickering images

Ira - the soon-to-be-missing girl - lies huddled on a windowsill, smoking a cigarette and giving Asya (our player character) bombastic side-eye. Ira says, "...Is that why you came here? To tell me that?"

a faceless and monochromatic version of Ira, against a background of scattered photographs. narration says, "Do they really want to be here? Do *we* want them to be here?"

talking to two more of your classmates - Marina and Vadim - in the auditorium. Marina says, "Agh, you're right! Man, I wanted her to be a bit more shocked or something."

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Bad Dream: Afterlife, by Desert Fox store.steampowered.com/app/3202410/... an empty nightmare where everyone in the city's avoiding you the latest in Desert Fox's doodlecore point-and-click series! CW: verbal abuse, violence, suicide, self-harm, partial nudity, and gore

first-person scene. protagonist is walking through an alley with a fence on one side. a scarecrow (which might also be a corpse) invades the foreground. straw extrudes from its sweater sleeves, but its lacerated face gapes in horror, its eyes bleeding. an alien octopus-looking thing (labeled Strange Creature in the UI) is on the other side of the fence; it left a series of puddles behind. there is a No Smoking sign on the wall to the left.
the UI and filter mimic VHS footage. the upper-right corner of the UI reads MENU. the upper-left reads "REC: 00:00:28". the lower-left features four icons; this might be your inventory. there is a broken heart, a teddy bear, a rubber duck, and a jar.

the junk-strewn landing of an apartment building. graffiti around the door to the protagonist's apartment reads:
"WE HATE YOU!!!"
"STAY INSIDE AND DIE ALONE"
"SCUMBAG"
"Keep YOUR monsters to yourself"
"Dumbass lives HERE"
"NOBODY wants YOU HERE"
and a cutout at the top of the screen shows a fish in a pond

a walled-in park. to the left: a ghostly woman, eyes and mouth black and gaping, her heart broken and dripping blood. to the right: a grave flanked by dead trees. the headstone reads "YOU," dated 2013 to... nothing because the second year has chipped away.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Metal Undergrowth, by @kenforest.bsky.social free on kenforest.itch.io/metal-underg... PSX-style Ludum Dare 58 submission by LiDAR Exploration Program dev explore/escape "strange, overgrown superstructure" and collect the techno-organic creatures that dwell within

your escape pod - a gizmo reminiscent of an industrial phonebooth topped with helicopter blades

inside what appears to be a silo succumbing to nature. a tree whose branches end in mushroom-shaped lights grows in the center, surrounded by lightbulb-flies.

one of the techno-organic creatures - a large flying insect with a vacuum for a proboscis, a canister for a body, and red emergency lights for eyestalks

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Resurface.exe, by @jecopx.bsky.social PWYC at jecopx.itch.io/resurface 1-bit horror story with console interface and "minimalist and claustrophobic style" set in northeastern Italy submission for Italocurso Game Jam

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Wall of Insanity 2, by VenomizedArt play.google.com/store/apps/d... Beksinskian over-the-shoulder shooter - for Android and iOS???? wild makes me want to check out the first Wall of Insanity (which is available on Steam, Switch, and mobile)

our military-dude protagonist faces off against some weirdos in a stone(?) corridor. there is one tall n lanky weirdo, and four little weirdos. all the weirdos wear grubby coats, limbs made of clusters of bones, and spiky cudgel hands. tall weirdo's face looks a bit like Max Schreck's Count Orlok with ill-define features. the small weirdos' heads are just... little balls. they're just little guys.

protagonist enters a chamber lined with cave-like windows (or they're holes for bodies, idk), coming face to face with a lantern-toting floating entity with a head like a fleshy astrolabe, tattered white robes, long fingers, and candles sprouting from its shoulder

a brutalist arena with branches reaching through the arcades. we look up as an entity - what looks like a flayed human with pipes knotted inside its chest cavity, twisting horns like a jester's hat, and washboards sticking out of its thighs - ascends.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Connect Me, by @chaoticrobin.bsky.social and IODINE free on logicallychaotic.itch.io/connect-me "DO YOUR JOB, NOTHING ELSE." werk simulator with grungy rusty color palette that switches between scribbly cubicle view and 3D isometric maps CW: flashing lights, themes of self harm

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Zooparasite, by Mascot Bro Studio store.steampowered.com/app/2954450/... 1st-person survival horror sewer delve in VHS/nightvision with lots of BUGS BIG BUGS BIG SPOOKY-SCARY BUGS available on PC and consoles! CW: if you have claustrophobia, entomophobia, or arachnophobia - beware

there is also at least one snek. a large snake slithers down a boarded-up corridor.

Really Big roaches and maggots litter the floor. a dead guy in a hazmat suit is slumped against a table in the distance.

another corridor, another dead guy in a hazmat suit. no glowstick needed here, thanks to one dim bulb.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Face of Another, by @madbugstudio.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/3272170/... VERY icky and uncanny monster solve puzzles with your smartphone collectible phone cases! including A F*CKING FROG CW: social media addiction, cyberbullying, identity distortion, flashing lights

a red stage in a black void, surrounded by red flowers and red butterflies. three tendrils extrude from a center-stage bathtub, each ending in a giant smartphone. each screen shows a different shot of someone sitting on a toilet in a dingy stall. a mannequin stands off to the side, watching you.

the monster (or A monster) - a stringy-haired corpse wearing a living girl's face - stumbles after you in a grimy bathroom

protagonist reads conversation with Sarah on their phone.
Protagonist: Why did'nt you show up at school today?
P: pleaase answer.. you are scaring me
Sarah: No one will remember you

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Bleakhour, by AzaGameStudio azagamestudio.itch.io/bleakhour puzzly stealthy survival horror with "randomized audio cues and binaural surround sound" visually, reminds me of Outlast with more inspired/superior enemy designs currently on sale for $2.44 CW: gore, flashing lights

a dead patient's room; a HAPPY BIRTHDAY banner's strung on the blood-spattered wall above their corpse

face to face with one of the crazed survivors of the mysterious virus - a straitjacketed fellow with stabbies attached to his free hand, headgear holding his mouth and eyes open

another survivor attacks - this one a nurse with buggy eyes and a black mask stitched to her face

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Office After Hours, by @gameandcode.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/3207300/... an anomaly-spotting game with a Stanley Parable sense of humor, Office After Hours knows that overtime is the true horror anomalies running the gamut from goofy to unnerving yummy secrets has a demo

your boss. stupid idiot's covered in post-it notes. good.

a fire-and-brimstone hellscape, as opposed to the everyday office hellscape. sign in the foreground says "Shred all documents individually and on time!" your boss - now sporting ram horns - and a giant clock loom over the distant crags

a storage room with dim greenish fluorescent lighting. dinosaur mask and a mug on the nearby shelves. graph paper on an easel reads, "Your collection," referring to the objects on the shelves. "Observe the Office (next room). Notice something strange? No > walk on. Yes > search for numbers OR collectibles. Walk back." "The way to the office," plus an arrow pointing to the office.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Shoggo.th, by @apehardware.bsky.social free on apehardware.itch.io/literal-doom... tbh i can't describe this better than the dev: "In eldritch Twitter, time wastes YOU." a black and piss-yellow doomscrolling/post-saving simulator "denouncing the enshittification of social media"

a four-panel introduction/tutorial screen, illustrated with doodles.
Panel 1: "Some days ago, you saw certain posts. You can't fully recall them, but for some reason you want to see them again."
Panel 2: "This used to be a place of joy, but now it's been twisted. Horrible posts run rampant. Scroll away from them, leave them unseen."
Panel 3: "Like a post to filter posts with similar tags. But beware, the algorithm is an unknowable beast."
Panel 4: "When you find the posts you are looking for, save them. Beware, saving a wrong post will cost you valuable battery life.
"Let's do this."

Screenshot from Spanish translation. This post features an image of police in riot gear beating up a civilian.
The post reads: "Nos arrestaron a mi y la pandilla por intentar alimentar a un Dios Antiguo con immigrantes.
"¡Nos obligaron a PAGAR y DISCULPARNOS! Vivimos en una dictadura.
"Al gobierno Lemuriano le importan más unos refugiados Atlánticos que su gente.
"¡Nos están ROBANDO la libertad!"

The sidebar reads: "Find posts about:
"Someone running to Lemuria
"How to harm the Mi-Go machine
"Internal rebellion in Deepssia"
This post features an image of swirly skies above a remote building.
The post reads: "Eastern Mu's president, Jabato Milanesa, claims that Typhon's attack has nothing to do with the approved corporate extractions of Hades energy. Critics of the Milanesa Administration argue that the giant monster only attacked the factory."

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Out of Sight, by The Gang store.steampowered.com/app/2526310/... help young blind girl Sophie escape a sinister mansion in this 2nd-person Little Nightmares-like has a demo

a hallucination, an illusion, or the shade of another unfortunate child? Sophie meets a purple-eyed child-shaped shadow at a hallway intersection.

Teddy watches a too-tall too-long fellow in cozy slippers approach from down the hall

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Out of Hands, by Game River store.steampowered.com/app/1839810/... i'm a big big sucker for nightmarish collage imagery - started with Nightmare Ned as an impressionable yunglad, reinforced by Madoka Magica card-based RPG where you have a face made out of hands OH SHIT THAT'S THE TITLE OF THE

world maps have sketchy ballpoint pen art style. this level is Campus In Memory, a school and its grounds. UI to the right reads Nightmare Level (10), Moon Coins (344), Inclination (a triangle with a blue dot in the lower left corner), Current Deck (17), and Max HP (25).

a battle. you're on the bottom; your face (made of hands) is in the lower left, next to the cards in your hand. player is fighting False Goddess Venus, a broken stone head with black hands reaching out of the hole. player is attacking with Yellow Cup.

hub is protagonist's apartment, with stop motion art style. protagonist - a person bandaged head to toe, wearing a bathrobe - is slumped in a chair. options include "Mirror of Faces," "Card Collection," "Achievements," and "Favorite Songs." more options available to the left and right, indicated by arrows.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

In Full Bloom, by @obleakgames.bsky.social PWYC on obleakgames.itch.io/in-full-bloom grimsical grayscale Tamagotchi with an eldritch horror nurture "the mouth". watch it grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and (this is a proof of concept; a full version is in development)

awww what a cute little mound-of-flesh-with-only-a-mouth-and-nothing-else growing in my garden next to my carrots and Large Gourds

a sleepy little island town in the middle of some mountains that look a lot like tongues

the mouth - now sporting two rows of teeth - has grown so large, it towers over those tongue-shaped mountains

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

OYASUMII, by @neoproject-st.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/3033520/... another knockout horror-explorer (although more first-person platformer than walking simulator) that dropped last month PSX/N64 nostalgia trip set in Dream Quest Online, a game within a game

an underwater city inside a giant stone chamber

a foggy hedge(?) maze with some blocky abstract architecture to jump on. message at the bottom of the screen says, "The art department needs to deliver the textures."

looking through the window of a facility, you see a black void with rows and rows of eerie white masks

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

ENA: Dream BBQ, by ENA Team first chapter free on store.steampowered.com/app/2134320/... first game in Joel G's ENA series looks like Gekidan Inu Curry's brains exploded and the mess squished into the shape of a first-person Yume Nikki-like - and I mean all that in the best way possible

a city beneath a sky of giant paving stones. a creature(?) floats above the street, attached to a crumbling building by giant veins (or maybe it's destroying the building, I'm not sure). the creature is like a giant lavender beaker with a hippo head instead of a neck, and the beaker body is wrapped in ribs and veins, and it uses the veins like tentacles.

backstage. a matryoshka doll hangs from a hook.

ENA's talking to... a little house with a giant thumbs-upping noodle arm snaking out of the front door. The house/arm says, "They can't kidnap our free will to go to the bathroom."

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

MROI, by @dosogy.bsky.social free on dosogy.itch.io/mroi originally an #lsdjam 2024 submission 3D Yume Nikki-like (or you know, LSD: Dream Emulator-like, hence LSDJam) meets 90s dementia anime (getting Serial Experiments Lain vibes)

the handy-dandy UI informs us we are dreaming, and this place is "fleshcity." protagonist is face-to-face with an androgynous angelic humanoid with red eyes, covered in electrodes.

"THE PLACE IS: abandoned1"
sure is.
we're walking through a decrepit, abandoned, foggy city

"THE PLACE IS: flesh"
protagonist is inside a meatcave, face to face with an otherwise normal person whose face is a shadow full of eyes

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Look Outside, by @frankiepixel.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/3373660/... survival (emphasis on 'survival' - resource management aplenty) horror RPG with fantastic creature design - LOTS of icky monsters (over 150!) and multiple endings stoked this got a full release! CW: violence/gore

#me #mood #relatable
(our exhausted protagonist stares at themselves in the mirror, preparing to brush their teeth)

our protagonist out in the field, scrounging. about to run into one of Look Outside's more surreal monsters - a sort of centipede with "legs" and "feelers" made of human fingers, arms, and legs

Look Outside's monsters lean towards surreal or ickynasty body horror. this monster falls into the latter camp - a man whose head has turned into an oozy toothy tumor (accompanied by his friends, other oozy toothy tumors).

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𖤐🎃Shrieking Gooey Stewie🎃𖤐 @stevepattee.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 07/04/2025

Hey, do me a favour and get super excited about this please www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Get Ready for Liquid Steel

From Melsonian Arts Council - Get Ready for Liquid Steel

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👻 Gordon Little 🎃 @gord.games · 31/03/2025

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility, a day we need now more than ever. Remember to keep punching nazis and yeeting terfs into the sun. My spaces are safe spaces and you are loved here. Trans rights are human rights.

Trans rights are human rights. Transgender day of visibility.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so are you a trans gamedev? Reply with your games, and let's see if we can't get you some visibility? Please include a description of your game, introduce yourself if you feel comfortable doing so, and very importantly, a link to your game or work.

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a pixel art of a person wearing a red hat and blue scarf

Alt: Madeline, the main character from the game Celeste, doing squats.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

My friend in an eternal loop, by leobritu - re-released by their friend Void Player voidplayer1408.itch.io/my-friend-in... another Little Nightmares-coded game with a touch of It Takes Two, love it, dig it also available on GameJolt: gamejolt.com/games/MyFrie...

one of the little ragdoll beans has gone solo, pulling a switch in a vast dungeon or basement

our two little patchwork protagonists, holding hands on a bed

a mass of red and black tentacles reaches for one of the protagonists

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

NO-SKIN, by NoEye-Soft store.steampowered.com/app/3011030/... explore a Spooky House in this cryptic off-the-wall roguelike RPG unlock different characters, content, and endings between each run also on Itch! CW: violence, gore, themes of suicide

buying upgrades/items from... some bubbles? wares include Strange Pills, Nightshade, Cigarettes, Ammo, Lighter, and Dummy (rude)

your character is wielding a GUN, fighting a blue-haired knife-wielding blood-crying person named "Noire From A Previous Timeline"

your character is attempting to Escape from Two-Headed Skull Horse

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Locks, by Carel store.steampowered.com/app/1974230/... love love LOVE the puppet theater/popup book style horror puzzle-platformer with nightmarish imagery inspired by "Tim Burton, Junji Ito, [and] A24 films." currently on sale for $9.59 - or $11.54 with OST. sale ends March 20th.

the room is covered in obnoxious striped wallpaper - and more importantly, a giant mouth

as your puppet walks through a night sky, the backdrop tears, revealing a horrible grinning (and upside-down) face

your puppet balances on a Ferris wheel as they contend with two Carnival Gents juggling knives

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Subway Exorcist Girl, by 纤指游戏 store.steampowered.com/app/3263210/... gorgeous sidescrolling horror inspired by Exit 8 randomized scares between each death and rebirth; "your previous exploration experience cannot help you or provide a sense of security" ouuuuuuuuu (currently on sale!)

our part-time exorcist encounters a giant fanged baby with a hat on its back

protagonist is talking to Bai Wuming, who looks like White Blood Cell in an Organization XIII coat - has a ceremonial sword, little blue spirit flames floating around him. Bai says, "Be careful, when you're on a de-spiritualization mission, make sure you've cleared one carriage before you try to move on to the next."

close-up on ara-ara lady with blue hands

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Double Shoulders, a capstone project from @RubikaEducation store.steampowered.com/app/3393620/... co-op puzzle-adventure with fantastically grotesque creature design and gorgeous environments in the vein of Little Nightmares free to play

a large room full of shelves, palettes, drawers, and cabinets. a clock hangs above a giant hole in the center of the room, also lined with drawers.

a monstrous baker - with a long face and numerous knives in his back - toils away, prepping pastries

our protagonists Lois and Sam run down a hallway full of giant portraits and doors, away from a horrible lumpy scientist so large he scrapes both walls and ceiling

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

thrilled to be part of the @horrordna.bsky.social crew 🎃 look for me shilling more of my reviews in the future 👍

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

(PWYC for) Bleeding Code, by CapCrowGames capcrowgames.itch.io/bleeding-code "a decaying fantasy world long abandoned by its creator" "This game incorporates your desktop wallpaper as part of the gameplay experience"😮 a short PSX-inspired joint (~15 minutes) with multiple endings

a barren valley. a house and a brazier on a pedestal are buried in the hills.

a crumbling fort. a person made of white static speaks to you: "Ah... you're awake... Are you ok? I found you here alone."

four people made of red static kneel around a giant heart. The heart is suspended, wrapped in chains attached to turrets. three red triangles float in front of the heart.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Little Bartmares, by David Mills shadowband.itch.io/little-bartm... i unironically love this; looks like more than "Little Nightmares with Simpsons skins" (no disrespect to ToastedShoes) ngl, would love to see more Little Nightmares x [insert show with child character here] fangames

Bart and Lisa in a dark room. A bit of light creeps through as massive double doors crack open.

The Burns' Alien looms on the bank of a river of chemical sludge

Ms. Krabappel - now with many heads, red eyes, and fangs - elongates her neck(s) to chase Bart down blood-red school hallways

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Baptisterio, by 2am_Project store.steampowered.com/app/3271320/... PS1-style dungeon-crawl horror by candlelight - with evidence photography! run from Weirdos That Want To Hurt You, including: Butler with Meathook Quaker Oats Man Hoodly-Boodly Bloody-faced Guy Mr. Rogers

a black-and-white photo of Hoodly-Boodly Bloody-faced Guy

Butler with Meathook attacks our protagonist; our protagonist valiantly brandishes their camera and bent candle

Quaker Oats Man peeks at you from around the corner

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The Dark Gift, by JustTomcuk another holiday horror joint love the use of VHS aesthetic a short experience, 30-40 minutes store.steampowered.com/app/3387120/...

All the lights are out in your living room

A normal Christmas scene! Christmas tree! A little snowman! Fireplace decked out with garland and stockings!

Also a normal Christmas scene! A dingy dungeon, where you can only navigate by flashlight! A large rusted old-timey computer!

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

LIMINAL SHIFT, by NextPhase store.steampowered.com/app/3282700/... a higher-tier Backrooms game, with its own twists on liminal environments that playplace superstructure tickles my megalophobia just right Early Access + has a demo CW: claustrophobia

Towers covered in off-yellow wallpaper rising from a black void. Thin plank bridges lead from tower to tower.

A giant red playset in a blacklit room, partially submerged in water

Several houses float through a black, watery void dotted with spotlights

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Winion Virus, by Dawntown Studio store.steampowered.com/app/3334660/... a "cruel fairy tale" focusing on Winions, sweet little beans (with zero plot armor) that live inside your computer what's lurking under the surface of this bright digital world? CW: death, gore, self-harm, suicide

Your desktop's been decked out with banners and balloons for a party. I-ON is addressing the other Winions (Bo, Grid, Fix, and Debug). I-ON says, "As you all know, there's something called Parents' Day in the human world!"

Debug and Grid stand in a crowd of blank Winions, all standing in a giant pool of blood. They all form a circle around an entity called Winion Face, which looks like a white Winion with a large red eye on its forehead, a black shadowy body coiling beneath it.

3D first-person view. Radar in the upper-left corner. A ghoulish behemoth charges at you from the shadows.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

No Peeking, by AcacieSong acaciesong.itch.io/no-peeking cat-and-mouse encounter between a high school girl (armed with pepper spray) and a stalker love the artstyle and eerie environment runs in browser

The protagonist - a tired-looking high school girl with a black bob - against a backdrop of eyes. Text reads: "GAME DESCRIPTION. Players need to play as a female high school student who keeps getting peeped on in the restroom so use pepper spray to protect yourself from going to the restroom before the school closes! Use the spacebar to spray. Left mouse button to hit the peeping hand. Good luck surviving the restroom!"

Ending CG (no spoilers I assume, since this image is from the itch page). In the mirror above a bathroom sink, we see the reflection of a creepy old bald man in clown makeup. Credits on the left. "Organizer: Jie Lin. (Mont-Royal JiHao Studio) Artistic Director: Jie Lin. CG art: YongJing Guo. Animation: JianJiee Gao, YongJing Guo. 3D modeling: QiaoYi Lin, Yuchen Zheng, YuZhi Huang, Bowenwang. Programming Director: Acacie Song, Yuchen Zheng. Sound effects: QiaoYi Lin, YongJing Guo."

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Liminal Leap, by Wenudu Episode 1: wenudu.itch.io/liminal-leap Episode 2: wenudu.itch.io/liminal-leap... Intelligent twist on the Backrooms phenomeon, an exploration of these spaces as "a distorted reflection of the everyday" (3 dolla per episode)

A blank hallway full of doors. Light bleeds through the doors on the left, while the doors on the right are dark. Darkness swallows the end of the hall as well.

A pool with unusual architecture - several different elevations, and a single ladder poking out of the pool that doesn't reach all the way to the platform above

A subway tunnel lined with posters depicting unusual scenes and unnerving creatures. The right wall features graffiti of a humanoid with squiggly limbs.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Paw Paw Destiny, by Daiyu.studio a "cosmic horror comedy" with ornate pixel art where you can customize the main character to look like your pet oh hell yeah honestly no idea wtf is going on here, but I'm here for it store.steampowered.com/app/2328380/...

Three souls (presented as outlines of people with little purple Triforces floating inside them) kneel before an eldritch Grim Reaper thing

Relaxing on Wailea Beach, Hawaii with a couple of souls in 1697 A.D.

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Trick3nd, by @satsume.bsky.social Halloweeny puzzle-adventure/short story with intricate pixel art that swings between cute nostalgia and mind-bending grotesquerie A short experience, 20-45 minutes Originally an RPG2S Cursed Contest submission satsume.itch.io/trick-3nd

A horrible withered humanoid with messy white hair, a black cloak, and a rictus grin

Our protagonist Bilo is perusing a video game store. He says, "Wow! It's the new Mintendo Shift!! Which game should I try?!" Options are: Super Franco World; Last Fantasy 7; FUFA24; and "I don't have time right now."

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

10 Dead Doves, by Duonix Studios Story-heavy horror-adventure with fixed cinematic angles and multiple endings Switches between the natural beauty of old Appalachia and bizarre liminal spaces Fully voiced, lots o' secrets CW: implied suicide store.steampowered.com/app/1564540/...

Mark faces a blank white void, broken only by a few broken black columns and their shadows

Inspecting something on the ground on a heavily wooded trail

Crooked overhead angle of a hallway, blank except for mold and numerous posters that all read, "YOU WILL DIE - so get insured"

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

While Sleeping, by Sangwoon Jin First-person sleep paralysis sim First trailer in a while to give me a visceral reaction. The way the ghost lady moves is SO deliciously icky, I hate it (affectionately). Estimated 15-30 minutes of playtime store.steampowered.com/app/2396190/...

Ghost lady doing some interpretive dance in the corner of the bedroom

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

MiSide, by AIHASTO Psychological horror with main character stuck in a cursed waifu sim Has a demo Settings include censorship options CW: violence/blood/dismemberment, corpses store.steampowered.com/app/2527500/...

A ghosty girl is stretching out her neck to spook the unsuspecting main character

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Seclica, by ChacoDev Child trapped in creepy house with creepy family Multiple endings The retro visuals are gloomy without being muddy, love that A Game Off 2024 submission chacodev.itch.io/seclica

A dark hallway outside a green room with an ominous portrait of a little girl (and a radiator)

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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Ringing in the new year with Among Ashes, by @ratcliffgames.bsky.social A game within a game with splendidly icky creature design (literally shuddering whenever I look at tree guy from the screenshots) store.steampowered.com/app/2430900/... CW: violence/gore, abuse, suicide

Underground. A horrible Tree Guy with yellow eyes and long teeth is getting in your face. I don't think his smile is genuine.

Zoomed in on the game within the game. Within the brick walls of a castle or fort. Pointing a gun at a flying dragon skull.

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