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Through the Woods
Adventure 27 October 2016
A horror adventure game and the debut production of Antagonist, a Norwegian studio. The action of Through the Woods takes place in modern times in a dark forest somewhere on the western shore of Norway. While playing, we assume the role of a desperate woman named Karen who tries to find her lost son. She is constantly interrupted by various evil creatures inspired by Nordic mythology and Scandinavian folklore.
Goosebumps: The Game
Adventure 13 October 2015
A point-and-click adventure game created by WayForward Technologies - a team known mainly for DuckTales Remastered. Goosebumps: The Game was based on the license of popular books written by R.L. Stine. The player takes on the role of a kid that on their way home from school, discovers that the neighborhood has been taken over by monsters - werewolfs are lurking in the forest nearby, gnomes are running along sidewalks and scarecrows walk the streets at night.
Year Walk
Adventure 20 February 2013
Year Walk is an adventure game developed by Simogo team based on old Swedish legends. We play the role of a young man wandering through a snowy forest, full of secrets and supernatural beings, and the game consists mainly in exploring a maze of powerful trees and solving riddles.
Song of Horror
Adventure 31 October 2019
An action adventure game, developed by Protocol Games studio, belonging to the survival horror genre. The main protagonist of Song of Horror is a man named Daniel Noyer, and during the game we try to unravel the mystery of the evil force that torments him. However, we control Noyer himself only occasionally, playing instead as sixteen different characters, each of them possessing unique skills and biographies, that are somehow connected with the main hero.
The Coma
Adventure 19 October 2015
A survival horror action adventure game and the debut production of Devespresso Games. In The Coma, we assume the role of a high school student by the name of Youngho who falls asleep during his final exam and having woken up, he discovers that it’s nighttime and everyone has long since left the classroom. It turns out that some sinister force has overrun the school and won’t stop until the student is dead.
At the Mountains of Madness
Action TBA
At the Mountains of Madness is an action-packed adventure game. The production is kept in a horror mood, and its plot was inspired by the short story "In the mountains of madness" by H. P. Lovecraft. We play the role of a geologist taking part in a scientific expedition to Antarctica. He has to face both harsh climatic conditions and monsters straight from the worst nightmares.
Bloodborne: The Old Hunters
RPG 24 November 2015
The first big expansion to an action RPG that combines elements of fantasy and horror, created by From Software (i.e. the creators of the bestselling Dark Souls franchise). The Old Hunters expansion pack offers a brand new story campaign telling of the legendary hunters who used to guard the secrets of Byrgenwerth.
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land
RPG 29 January 2012
Turn-based RPG based on the work of horror master Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The action takes place during the First World War. We control a small group of detectives and soldiers who have to foil the plans of an ancient evil. The game consists mainly in fighting tactically complex clashes.
Sons of Uruzime
Adventure 13 May 2015
An adventure gamebook with RPG elements for mobile devices. Sons of Uruzime was inspired by stories by Howard Philips Lovecraft and utilizes many motives from the Cthulhu Mythos. You play as a University of Miskatonic professor, who receives a letter from a missing student. The student warns the professor against a dark cult involving much of the university's staff. The story is shown mostly via text with occasional pictures.
Corpse Party: Blood Drive
Adventure 24 July 2014
Another installment in the series of Japanese survival horror visual novels developed by 5pb. Corpse Party: Blood Drive takes place after the events shown in Book of Shadows and concentrates on one of its protagonists, Ayumi Shinozaki. The girl's new adventure starts when her aunt visits her. She informs her that since centuries the duty of the Shinozaki family is to guard the mysterious Book of Shadows which, should it fall in the wrong hands, might lead the world to doom.
Friday the 13th: The Game
Action 26 May 2017
Focusing around the asynchronous multiplayer mode, a third-person action game adaptation of the classic horror movie Friday the 13th. Known for the tactical simulation series Breach & Clear, Gun Media studio is the developer of the game. The key figures connected with the film series, such as Sean S. Cunningham, Kane Hodder, Tom Savini, and Harry Manfredini, have had their hand in the production.
Home
Adventure 31 August 2012
A retro-style adventure game filled with the atmosphere of horror. We are recovering consciousness in an unknown house where the murder was committed. Fighting our own fears and doubts, we make decisions that influence the finale of the story told.
Silent Hills
Adventure canceled
Another fully-fledged installment of the cult survival cycle of Silent Hill horrors. Norman Reedus and Guillermo del Toro, led by Hideo Kojima, were involved in the production. As a result of a conflict with the publisher Konami, the project was cancelled shortly after the release of its famous demo version, called P.T.
Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession
RPG 04 March 1994
A dark cRPG game set in Ravenloft - one of the worlds of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons feature system. The player-controlled team, trying to regain the priceless amulet stolen from Lord Dhelt, ends up in the land of Barovia, ruled by a ruthless prince of vampires.
Ravenloft: Stone Prophet
RPG 13 December 1995
Continuation of the first-person role-playing game, played according to the rules of the popular AD&D system. This time the team of daredevils goes to the desert land of Har'Akir suffering from the curse of Pharaoh Anhktepot. In order to liberate its inhabitants and get out of the trap, the characters will have to find a mysterious obelisk called the Stone Prophet.
Caffeine
Adventure 05 October 2015
A science fiction horror adventure game by an independent one-man studio, Incandescent Imaging. The action takes place in the future in which the eponymous caffeine is a valuable resource obtained in space with special mining ships. Aboard one of them, a young boy awakens and discovers that for some unknown reason the vessel is completely deserted. Exploring the dark interior of the ship, the protagonist learns new facts and clues that lead him to the solution of the mystery.
Heathen: The Sons of the Law
Action canceled
A multiplayer-only first-person shooter/role playing game developed by Frog Factory. The story of Heathen was inspired by The Island of Dr. Moreau, a cult-classic novel by H.G. Wells describing a mysterious island inhabited by Beast Folk, human-animal hybrids created by the aforementioned scientist. After the death of its benefactor, the island has been rediscovered by a biologist and an entrepreneur, who had picked up the research in order to create a source of cheap workforce for humanity.
Coma: Mortuary
Adventure 13 May 2014
First-person adventure game, maintained in the convention of horror and telling the story of a man who decides to commit suicide out of longing after losing his beloved. He manages to survive, but falls into a coma and ends up in a mysterious world of the dead. The character of the game changes gradually as the plot progresses, moving from a calm adventure to a dynamic survival horror.
Among The Sleep
Adventure 29 May 2014
A first-person horror adventure game. Our hero is a two years old child, with all the physical and mental traits of this age. He gets woken up from sleep by a mysterious sounds and realizes that his mother is missing, so he decides to search for her together with his teddy bear. The gameplay focuses on exploring the gloomy household distorted by the child's imagination, while solving simple puzzles and searching for a way to reach subsequent locations.
Sadness
Adventure canceled
Sadness was supposed to be an adventure in the convention of survival horror, maintained in black-and-white tone and gothic style. Unfortunately, the plans of Polish developers were taken to the head and the game never saw the light of day.
Hush
Adventure 29 July 2015
An episodic action-adventure game which is the debut project of a Portuguese developer Game Studio 78. Hush tries to approach numerous human fears and anxieties – those which human beings are subject to during their childhood, and those that we experience everyday. Each episode contains 3 chapters, focusing on a chosen phobia, e.g. darkness, ghosts, lightning, clowns, or spiders.
Mystery Case Files: Escape from Ravenhearst
Adventure 24 November 2011
Mystery Case Files: Escape from Ravenhearst is an adventure game with hidden object elements developed by Big Fish Games studio. The whole game is kept in the atmosphere of horror stories, and the game consists mainly in solving puzzles and looking for hidden objects on the screen.
Mystery of the Ancients: Lockwood Manor
Adventure 27 September 2011
Mystery of the Ancients: Lockwood Manor is a casual horror adventure developed by Mariaglorum team, enriched with hidden object elements. While playing, we explore the title residence, solve riddles and find cleverly hidden objects.
Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
Adventure 31 October 2012
Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water is a hidden object adventure developed by the Mariaglorum team. The plot was inspired by Greek myths and the game is mainly about solving riddles and finding objects.