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The Indie Horror Showcase 2024

The Indie Horror Showcase 2024

This year’s broadcast will feature over 60 brand-new bone-chilling trailers, including announcements, premieres, demo releases, new info, and… surprises to keep you on your toes.

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72 featured games

Featured Games(72)

Devilated

Devilated

Trunka, Neon Doctrine, Raw Fury

Devilated is an ultraviolent RPG old-school shooter where you brutalize and cannibalize your demonic foes in equal measure. Eat their face before they eat yours.

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Shooter
Kingdom of Night

Kingdom of Night

Friends of Safety, DANGEN Entertainment, Game Source Entertainment

Hunt down nightmarish demons and save the town of Miami, AZ in this 80s-themed, isometric action-RPG. With an expansive, interconnected map and open-ended quests, explore freely while unraveling the main story. Kingdom of Night is a unique blend of coming-of-age drama, cosmic horror, and true love.

ActionAdventureRPGRole-playing (RPG)
The Mortuary Assistant

The Mortuary Assistant

DarkStone Digital, DreadXP

Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.

AdventureIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulator
Gori: Cuddly Carnage

Gori: Cuddly Carnage

Angry Demon Studio, Wired Productions, CouchPlay Interactive (Greater China)

Humanity has been destroyed - and it's up to Gori, along with his deadly but wise-cracking sentient hoverboard, F.R.A.N.K, and morose AI companion, CH1-P, to shred and slay the evil Adorable Army!

ActionAdventureHack and slash/Beat 'em upIndiePlatform
Projekt Z: Beyond Order

Projekt Z: Beyond Order

314 Arts, Maximum Entertainment

Battle the undead in this thrilling First-Person Zombie Shooter with robust character progression and weapon customization. Set around World War II, take on fast-paced missions as one of four survivors, each with their own unique abilities and role in Co-Op.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGStrategy
COVEN

COVEN

Gator Shins, Hellforge Studios

COVEN is a hyper-violent retro FPS where your path of vengeance will take you across time and space. Destroy your enemies and eat their flesh.

ActionAdventureEarly AccessIndieShooter
DEAD LETTER DEPT.

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

Mike Monroe, Belief Engine

Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.

IndieSimulator
KARMA: The Dark World

KARMA: The Dark World

POLLARD STUDIO LLC, Wired Productions, Gamirror Games

KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.

AdventureIndieRPG
Haunted Lands

Haunted Lands

alevgor, Alawar

Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer. Uncover secrets, acquire powerful artifacts, and face challenging bosses in the Haunted Lands.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformShooter
Sorry We're Closed

Sorry We're Closed

à la mode games, Akupara Games

Sorry We're Closed is an eccentric story-driven survival horror game about demons, angels and what happens when both sides collide. A mix of classic fixed-camera exploration and arcade-style shooting where Michelle must use her Third Eye to see between worlds, uncover secrets and solve puzzles.

ActionAdventureIndieRole-playing (RPG)Shooter
20 Minutes Till Dawn

20 Minutes Till Dawn

flanne

20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?

ActionAdventureArcadeCasualIndieRole-playing (RPG)ShooterStrategy
Go Home Annie: An SCP Game

Go Home Annie: An SCP Game

Misfit Village, Nordcurrent Labs

A twisted psychological thriller and an original story set in the SCP universe. As an employee of the SCP Foundation, test artificially created paranormal events, solve puzzles, interact with anomalies, and uncover the secrets of the Replication Division.

ActionAdventureIndiePuzzleSimulator
Out Of Hands

Out Of Hands

Game River

Out of Hands is a bizarre card-based adventure game that blends video-collage graphics with gripping psychological horror. Will you seek the truth lurking in this wicked, warped world—and can you bear its weight? Misty memories threaten to tear you apart, contorting you into a being... Out of Hands.

AdventureCard & Board GameCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Dreamed Away

Dreamed Away

WAKE UP GAMES, Pineapple Works

Dreamed Away is an emotional action-adventure RPG with psychological horror elements. Play as Théo, a boy lost in a dark, mysterious world. Explore a unique reality, duel against darkness in a unique, fast paced combat system and mind your choices.

ActionAdventureIndiePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)
10 Dead Doves

10 Dead Doves

Duonix Studios, Mark Byram II, Sean-Michael Millard

The critically acclaimed surreal horror adventure. Two hikers, Mark and Sean, avoid monsters, survive disaster, and search Appalachia for the legend of the Ant Farm, a mythic place rumored to make your dreams come true.

AdventureIndie
The Hungry Fly

The Hungry Fly

Erupting Avocado, indie.io

Once upon a time, there was a fly. A hungry fly. A fly with razor-sharp teeth, with a taste for dead things. This is the tale of its adventure to find something dead to devour, in a swamp where nothing dies, everything is grotesque, and every choice matters, no matter how surreal.

AdventureIndie
Whisper Mountain Outbreak

Whisper Mountain Outbreak

Toge Productions

Escape room meets co-op survival horror. The year is 1998, and an ancient curse has been unleashed, trapping everyone on Mount Bisik. Alone or with up to 4 players, you must explore, find clues, figure out a way to escape...and survive the horror.

ActionAdventureEarly AccessIndieTactical
EMPTY SHELL

EMPTY SHELL

CC ARTS, Hyperstrange

EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.

ActionAdventureArcadeIndieShooter
Beneath

Beneath

Camel 101, Wired Productions

Beneath is a Lovecraft-inspired survival FPS. Scarce ammo, merciless enemies and a sense of the unknown combine in a 10+ hour, story-driven single player campaign, built for both veteran gamers and those seeking a challenging old school experience.

ActionAdventureShooter
Home Safety Hotline

Home Safety Hotline

Night Signal Entertainment

Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.

CasualIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzleSimulationSimulatorVisual Novel
oneway.exe: Module 1.0

oneway.exe: Module 1.0

Disordered Media

You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their love. How does your story end? How did it ever begin?

ActionAdventureIndiePuzzle
Sniper Killer

Sniper Killer

Black Eyed Priest, Henry Hoare, Torture Star Video

Eliminate your victims as a serial killer dubbed ‘The Sniper Killer’. Terrorize the city with your keen eye and thirst for blood while staying one step ahead of a detective hell bent on bringing you to justice.

ActionIndieShooter
Cold and Afraid

Cold and Afraid

Sunamii

In the tranquil confines of a college town, an idyllic peace is shattered by the brutal murder of a student. Shocked and alarmed, the local authorities soon uncover a chilling truth: ​this ghastly act is merely the tip of the iceberg. As a grim pattern emerges with each successive discovery of mutilated bodies, it becomes evident that a cunning serial killer is haunting the town, leaving a trail of terror in their wake.

AdventureIndie
Cabernet

Cabernet

Party for Introverts, Akupara Games

Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorVisual Novel
Dark Hours

Dark Hours

Piece of Cake studios, Kepler Ghost

Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with an evil entity. Forget your plan, your mission is to survive. Explore and cooperate to find a way out.

ActionAdventure
Bye Sweet Carole

Bye Sweet Carole

Little Sewing Machine, Maximum Entertainment

Bye Sweet Carole is a narrative-horror adventure game completely hand-drawn in the style of classic animated films. Follow the trail of missing Carole Simmons and uncover the dark secrets hidden behind her disappearance from Bunny Hall orphanage.

AdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
Clock Tower: Rewind

Clock Tower: Rewind

WayForward, Limited Run Games, SUNSOFT

The 16-bit nightmare returns. Survive, hide, and avoid the deadly Scissorman in this legendary horror classic.

AdventurePoint-and-clickPuzzle
Among Ashes

Among Ashes

Rat Cliff Games

Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿

ActionAdventureIndiePuzzle
System Purge: Hollow Point

System Purge: Hollow Point

Actual Nerds

Faced with a horrifying tragedy, you must delve into a flowering realm of memories and nightmares to save your dead lover. SYSTEM PURGE - Hollow Point is a massive expansion which adds a surreal new campaign, challenging new gamemodes, and more.

Indie
Vultures - Scavengers of Death

Vultures - Scavengers of Death

Team Vultures, Firesquid, Gamersky Games

VULTURES is a tactical turn-based survival horror, inspired by 90's survival horror classics. As an operative, scavenge the infested metropolis for materials and information that could cure the infection plaguing the world.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Scarred

Scarred

KOEX studio, iterco

Scarred is a first-person atmospheric horror puzzle game where you must uncover the truth about one of your schoolmates before it’s too late. Traverse a world of nightmares inspired by nostalgic Singaporean architecture as you fight to survive.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
Tom the Postgirl

Tom the Postgirl

Oopsie Daisies, ARTE France

Join Tom, the village’s new postgirl, and get to know the locals, perhaps a little too well. Her method, although controversial, is highly effective: intense, obsessive stalking.

AdventureCasualIndieVisual Novel
Dark and Deep

Dark and Deep

Walter Woods

A conspiracy podcast drags you into a hauntingly illustrated world of mystery and terror. Reveal secrets and horrors with mystical frames given to you by a strange observer. Dark and Deep is a first person cosmic horror game with a focus on puzzles and exploration.

ActionAdventureIndie
Vampires: Bloodlord Rising

Vampires: Bloodlord Rising

Mehuman Games, Toplitz Productions

In this dark, open-world adventure, you awaken as a Vampire Lord. Build and customize your castle. Hunt for blood, fight, craft, and gather. Command your loyal servants. Shapeshift into a bat to explore the night and survive the relentless Inquisition, solo or in 4-player co-op.

ActionAdventureEarly AccessRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
darkwebSTREAMER

darkwebSTREAMER

We Have Always Lived In The Forest

Become an occult streamer on a 90s dark web in this narrative roguelite horror RPG sim. Experience endless strange events in a procedurally generated world as you grow your stream, surf the web, perform rituals, make hard choices, manage stats and try to survive an increasingly haunted apartment.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Massacre At The Mirage

Massacre At The Mirage

Tainted Pact, Assemble Entertainment

For less than the price of a movie ticket, experience your very own horror-fueled slasher flick in Massacre at the Mirage. Step into The Mirage cinema and face a chilling nightmare, where staff and patrons must survive a masked killer's rampage.

ActionAdventureIndie
Life Eater

Life Eater

Strange Scaffold, Frosty Pop

If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.

IndiePoint-and-clickRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategy
The Haunting of Joni Evers

The Haunting of Joni Evers

Causeway Studios

The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.

AdventureIndieSimulator
Please Insert Disc

Please Insert Disc

Night Signal Entertainment

Please Insert Disc is a horror game about navigating the underbelly of a 2000's era gaming console to restore its functionality, but awakening something in the process. From the creators of Home Safety Hotline.

CasualIndieSimulationSimulator
Security: The Horrible Nights

Security: The Horrible Nights

Professional Villains

Every time you die, a new story begins. You are the nighttime security guard at a hospital. Your job is to monitor the hospital and fix problems when they happen. Every night, a new horror tale will unfold. If you can survive enough nights, you will learn the truth behind all the horror!

ActionAdventureCasualIndie
Blood Typers

Blood Typers

Outer Brain Studios

TYPE TO KILL in this survival horror adventure. Alone or with friends, explore a sprawling cursed film studio as its horror movies bleed into reality. Choose from a roster of characters then plan your escape from this bloody homage to old school horror. But remember... death is just a typo away.

ActionAdventureIndie
Centum

Centum

Hack The Publisher, Serenity Forge

Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.

AdventureIndiePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Murky Divers

Murky Divers

Embers

Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.

ActionAdventureIndie
Painted In Blood

Painted In Blood

MadCraft, Perp Games

Trapped in the haunting realm of an artist's twisted nightmare, engage in intense combat with grotesque enemies and monsters, experience unpredictable horror events that unfold dynamically, seamlessly blends classic retro FPS elements with modern elements.

ActionAdventureEarly AccessIndieShooter
The Thing: Remastered

The Thing: Remastered

Nightdive Studios, Computer Artworks, Atari

The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing

ActionAdventureShooter
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut

Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut

Black Tabby Games, Serenity Forge

Slay the Princess is a choice-driven psychological horror visual novel with dramatic branching, light RPG elements, and hand-penciled art. The Pristine Cut is the definitive version of the game. It features expanded content including 3 new chapters, never-before-seen Princesses, expansions to familiar routes, a new ending, over 1,200 new hand-penciled frames, over 2,500 new lines of dialogue, and over 35% more content overall.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickRole-playing (RPG)SimulatorVisual Novel
LOVE ETERNAL

LOVE ETERNAL

brlka, Ysbryd Games, PLAYISM

Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever more.

AdventureIndiePlatform
[Bober Bros] The Hole

[Bober Bros] The Hole

BOBER BROS

[Bober Bros] The Hole is a first-person horror game that explores the cracks in domestic life. Your neighbor’s drilling starts the nightmare, but the holes reveal dark secrets far deeper than any wall could hide. No cheap scares, only disturbing reality.

ActionAdventureCasualIndie
CLICKOLDING

CLICKOLDING

Strange Scaffold, Outersloth

The man in the corner of your hotel room wants you to click something. He wants to watch you click it.

IndiePoint-and-clickRole-playing (RPG)
Monster DNA

Monster DNA

Monster DNA is a single-player psychological horror game where you create deadly monsters for mysterious clients. But beware… your creations might be the death of you. In this twisted lab, survival depends on your wits. One wrong move, and you could be their next victim.

AdventureIndieSimulator
Zero-Sum Heart

Zero-Sum Heart

Citreat Studio

"I" make a deal with the witch to give up my heart, in exchange for love— from everyone. Is it worth it if losing my heart means gaining *his*? ————————————————————————— In this short visual novel, make choices and answer the question: is love a zero-sum game?

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
RetroRealms: Halloween

RetroRealms: Halloween

WayForward Technologies, Boss Team Games

Step into the RetroRealms, a 16-bit Pixel Art world, and take control of classic horror icon Michael Myers! Fight your way across multiple levels of platformer action filled with sights and sounds inspired by the original Halloween film. Slice your way through Haddonfield, face-off in epic Boss battles against familiar faces from the movie, and overcome blood-soaked challenges in this intense retro throwback to classic arcade action!

AdventureArcadePlatform
RetroRealms: Ash vs. Evil Dead

RetroRealms: Ash vs. Evil Dead

WayForward Technologies, Boss Team Games

Step into the shoes of Ash Williams from the Starz television series Ash vs Evil Dead in a horrifying new Pixel Art platformer! Wielding both his trusty chainsaw and 12-guage shotgun, play as Ash and battle Deadite hordes across multiple levels of 16-bit gameplay filled with enemies from the Ash vs Evil Dead series. Journey into the Dark Realm to overcome additional challenges and save humanity from the Necronomicon in this groovy throwback to classic arcade action.

AdventureArcadePlatform
We Harvest Shadows

We Harvest Shadows

David Wehle

A single-player, first-person farming horror allegory. Become a recluse, build up your farm, and survive the lonely nights.

AdventureIndieSimulationSimulator
Nightmare House

Nightmare House

We Create Stuff, Black Lantern Collective

No sleeping beyond this point. Escape a waking nightmare in this classic survival horror experience. She's waiting for you.

ActionAdventureIndiePuzzle
PSYCHO DEAD

PSYCHO DEAD

MOON CATALYST CO., LTD.

A third-person survival horror game that you play as a girl with psychic power who tries to escape from a secret lab and is pursued by deadly stalkers.

ActionAdventureIndiePuzzle
Hungry Horrors

Hungry Horrors

Clumsy Bear Studio

Hungry Horrors is a card-based adventure inspired by British and Irish folklore. It blends deckbuilding and cooking with narrative, and permanent roguelite progression. Feed legendary monsters instead of killing them, satisfy their cravings, or become the next meal.

ActionAdventureCard & Board GameEarly AccessIndieRPGSimulationSportsStrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
OMUT

OMUT

Madame Cyclone, Megabit Publishing

Welcome to OMUT, a horror-filled, hardcore, 2D boss rush experience in which every battle can swiftly become a mesmerising, hypnotic nightmare. Precise action and quick thinking may be your only routes to salvation. Can you survive this brutal fever dream?

ActionAdventureIndieShooter
Paragnosia

Paragnosia

Sine Coda

Observe every corner of your apartment by moving your camera along a rail that runs through the rooms. Find and take pictures of paranormal anomalies to exorcise them. Locked in your surveillance room, will you survive tonight's 8 rounds?

AdventureCasualIndiePoint-and-clickSimulationSimulator
Project Songbird

Project Songbird

FYRE Games, Conner Rush

Project Songbird is a cinematic first-person narrative horror game set in the Appalachian forest. Take on the role of Dakota, a musician who must record their new album in a remote log cabin amidst a writer's block. Take caution, however. These woods were never empty...

ActionAdventureIndie
Deck of Haunts

Deck of Haunts

Mantis, DANGEN Entertainment, Game Source Entertainment

Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.

AdventureIndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Escape from Mutation Station

Escape from Mutation Station

Jay Marksman

A short, unconventional escape room experience. You are the candidate. You must find a way out of this room. Things are not as they seem.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
My Last Friday

My Last Friday

Gadan Digital

My Last Friday is a first-person horror-adventure game with a disturbing atmosphere, clever puzzles, body horror, and tense combat. Explore a twisted world, confront terrifying enemies, and endure the nightmarish challenges ahead.

AdventureIndie
The Victor Initiative

The Victor Initiative

Spacepiano Games

The Initiative was a Welsh government facility that was mysteriously abandoned in the 60s, with rumours of terrifying supernatural threats lurking inside. Will you take the plunge?

Early AccessIndie
Satanic

Satanic

Silent Moon

Satanic is a first-person survival horror game about escaping a satanic cult's bunker network. Hunted by a relentless demon that responds to your actions, you must navigate your way out of an ex-soviet missile silo deep below the surface.

ActionAdventureIndie
White Knuckle

White Knuckle

Dark Machine Games, DreadXP

White Knuckle is a first-person roguelite speed-climbing game. Ascend through the guts of SUB-STRUCTURE 17 using precision movement mechanics. Sharp reflexes and resource management will bring you out from under ten thousand meters of concrete and decay.

AdventureEarly AccessIndiePlatform
Deathbound: Accepted by Death

Deathbound: Accepted by Death

Trialforge Studio, Tate Multimedia

Enter the mysterious liminal space between Life and Death a floating rock in the void. In this epic DLC you must release the great essences of the 5 bosses representing five stages of grief – Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance – before unlocking Path to Death for the final showdown with Grief – The Purifier – the mightiest of them all.

AdventureFightingIndieRole-playing (RPG)
Blind Exposure

Blind Exposure

Shy Games

Navigate through claustrophobic, completely dark world illuminated only by scans you manage to create; listen carefully to sounds coming from the darkness, and don’t let dread and paranoia get to you.

ActionAdventureIndie
Mircea

Mircea

Lonely House

Mircea is a short spooky adventure game. Explore a subway infested by mysterious, bug-like beings. Investigate and understand the monsters to capture them... before they capture you.

AdventureIndie
VILE: Director's Cut

VILE: Director's Cut

Final Girl Games, Dread XP

A game about misogynistic entitlement. Browse an old computer's files to uncover information about adult film actress Candy Corpse, and her recent departure from the industry.

AdventureIndie
Nightmare House: The Original Mod

Nightmare House: The Original Mod

We Create Stuff

Wake up, it’s time for the real nightmare to begin. Make your way through a terrorizing house, uncover the secrets of a haunted hospital, fight through hordes of the undead, and try to escape Nightmare House.

ActionAdventureFree To PlayIndieShooter
PAPERHEAD EP.0

PAPERHEAD EP.0

Paperhead te4m, HypeTrain Digital

In this cute cardboard world, something went horribly wrong... You wake up in a prison cell. A strange voice calls to you from the depths of dark corridors covered in runic symbols and blood. Reload your trusty shotgun and find out... WHY WOULD CARDBOARD... BLEED?

ActionAdventureFree To PlayIndieShooter