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Bored? Looking for something that will scare you? Without even having to pay for it? Well, luckily for you, we have a list of 10 free indie horror games that you can all finish in one sitting!
All of these games have a unique concept and might scare you in unusual ways you may have never experienced before. We'll tell you how long it will take you to play them and, most importantly, where to find them. | © PureIceBlue
Lily's Well
Developers: PureIceBlue
Run time: ~2h 30min for the main story
Play the game: Lily's Well
In what is by far the longest game on this list, you play Lily, a little girl who's already supposed to be asleep. After all, your father tucked you into bed and left the house – but you're far from tired because you just heard a weird noise coming from the well outside.
So, you search for things that will help you climb down the well... and die. Over and over. Basically, your mission is to eventually reach the end of the well but until you've managed to do this, Lily will die in a different way every time and then you'll have to start all over again.
And in order to uncover the full story of what happened (or is happening?) at the bottom of the well, you'll need to find both the ten objects with which you can safely climb down, and every way in which Lily can die along the way. | © PureIceBlue
The Open House
Developers: corpsepile
Run time: ~15min
Play the game: The Open House
In this game, you consider buying a house, so you do a house viewing. Thanks to the newest technology, you don't even have to be there in person – you can just control a drone and have a digital real estate agent!
...Unfortunately, this still doesn't protect you from the horrors in this house, though. As you see weirder and weirder things with your drone and your "real estate agent" becomes progressively scarier, you realize that you can't just leave anymore. | © corpsepile
Slide in the Woods
Developers: Jonny's Games
Run time: ~10min
Play the game: Slide in the Woods
Pretty much what it sounds like, a slide in the woods – except that every time you use it, the environment around the slide changes, becoming progressively more unsettling. And suddenly, sliding down seems to take you much longer than it did the previous times... Will you ever get to the bottom again? | © Jonny's Games
DIA
Developers: Vidas Games
Run time: ~10min
Play the game: DIA
"There is nothing scary ahead. No sudden noises. No flashing images. No one will follow you. Welcome to Dia."
This game has a super simple and yet terrifying concept. You walk through an abandoned city that has one special feature: It has monitors where the town's population count is portrayed.
But, as mentioned, the city is abandoned. You're the only one walking through it, so of course the population count is 1... until it suddenly jumps up to 2... | © Vidas Games
Burger & Frights
Developers: Donitz
Run time: ~10min
Play the game: Burger & Frights
You just got some nice fast food and just want to ride home on your bike and eat it, nothing out of the ordinary. Until you find a random bike lying in your way. What happened here? An accident?
Before you can think about it, you're suddenly in front of the fast food place again. Was it all just a weird day dream? You ride home again. But wait, the bike is there again – and this time, there's blood next to it... and suddenly, you're in front of the fast food place again.
Will you ever reach your house or find out what happened as every attempt to ride home gets more and more terrifying? | © Donitz
Leftovers
Developers: Realmpact, Skekarin
Run time: ~15min
Play the game: Leftovers
Your mum is in the kitchen, cooking up a feast. But when she sees the overwhelming amount of leftovers, she refuses to let them go to waste.
Instead, she gives you the dreaded task of handing them out to the neighbours. The same you who has been warned countless times not to talk to strangers. Yet, saying no isn’t an option.
With barely any social skills, you must navigate through a neighborhood full of quirky and unsettling characters – delivering food before your mum loses her patience... | © Realmpact
How Fish Is Made
Developers: Wrong Organ, Johanna Kasurinen, Jeffrey Tomec, Martin Halldin
Run time: ~20min
Play the game: How Fish Is Made
A game by the same developers as the viral indie horror game Mouthwashing. In what is basically Mouthwashing's predecessor, you play a sardine in a machine. As you flop around and get further inside, you meet fellow fish and ponder on the meaning of life.
But the real question in this surprisingly philosophical game (that contains an even more surprising musical number) is: Do you want to go UP or DOWN? | © Wrong Organ, Critical Reflex
Teleforum
Developers: Monumental Collab
Run time: ~40min
Play the game: Teleforum
Do you know those found footage horror films where a group of reporters goes to an abandoned place and gets themselves in danger? Well, this time, instead of sitting in front of your TV shaking your head at the characters' dumb decisions, you're the one making said dumb decisions yourself!
Journalist Walter Martins took his own life live on air during the broadcast of the TV program TELEFORUM, which has since been canceled.
You, playing the cameraman accompanying the aspiring young journalist Juliana, find yourself at the apartment of his widow – offering comfort to a grieving woman, hoping to piece together the tragedy that unfolded... or are you just there for some sensational material? | © Monumental Collab, Critical Reflex
Discover My Body
Developers: Yames
Run time: ~10min
Play the game: Discovered My Body
It's 2040 and human loneliness is becoming a progressively bigger problem. In their desperation, some people are taking extreme measures... such as this groundbreaking new technology that has just emerged:
A lab-engineered fungus with extraordinary psychic properties, able to fuse its users' consciousness together. As a medical student at the local university, you've been selected to study its effects on a human host…
But the deeper you delve into the experiment, the more unsettling the truth becomes – and the more horrifying your subject starts to look... | © Yames
A Date In The Park
Developers: Cloak and Dagger Games
Run time: ~30min
Play the game: A Date in the Park
Have you already had enough of dating? Well, after this game, you probably will.
You play as Lou, freshly settled in Lisbon, Portugal, ready to embrace a new job and a fresh start. Just days after arriving, you cross paths with the captivating Catarina at a bar. The evening is magical, and before parting ways, she invites you to meet her the next day at her favorite park.
The sun is shining, the park is breathtaking, and your expectations are high. But something feels... off. Your date is nowhere to be found. | © Cloak and Dagger Games
