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The Indie Horror Showcase 2025

The Indie Horror Showcase 2025

The Indie Horror Showcase, presented by DreadXP and The MIX, and co-hosted by John Wolfe and BigGaming64, premieres on October 23rd at 10:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00 p.m. EST.

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Featured Games(72)

BrokenLore: DON’T LIE

BrokenLore: DON’T LIE

Serafini Productions, Wired Productions

BrokenLore: DON'T LIE is a Japanese psychological horror game exploring trauma, isolation, and a fractured reality where perception becomes increasingly unreliable.

ActionAdventure
System Shock

System Shock

Nightdive Studios, Atari

A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!

ActionAdventureRole-playing (RPG)ShooterSimulator
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)
Folklore Hunter

Folklore Hunter

Liquid Donkey Games

You’re a world-renowned hunter of supernatural beasts. Track down urban legends from all over the world, set traps, solve disturbing puzzles, and defeat the beasts before you succumb to their otherworldly presence.

ActionIndieShooter
Heartworm

Heartworm

Vincent Adinolfi, DreadXP

Pass through the threshold and enter a world born of memories. Defend yourself with a camera while solving death’s mysteries in a reverent evolution of 90’s survival horror, integrating both fixed cameras and over the shoulder perspectives.

ActionAdventureIndiePuzzleShooter
Scarlet Hollow

Scarlet Hollow

Black Tabby Games

Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.

AdventureCasualEarly AccessIndiePoint-and-clickRPGRole-playing (RPG)Visual Novel
Hunt the Night

Hunt the Night

Moonlight Games, DANGEN Entertainment

Hunt the Night is a retro-style action-RPG that blends fast, skillful combat with dark fantasy lore. Play as Vesper, a member of the Stalkers, and traverse the ruined world of Medhram on a mission to save humanity from a deadly cycle of annihilation.

ActionAdventureHack and slash/Beat 'em upIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Lucky Tower Ultimate

Lucky Tower Ultimate

Studio Seufz, AMC Games

Escape from an incredibly dangerous, randomly generated tower in a slapstick, roguelite adventure that looks like a cartoon and feels like a joke. Slashy slashy!

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformRPG
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
Demon Spore

Demon Spore

DinoBoss

Blast your way out of tentacle hell as a failed lab experiment gives birth to a rapidly growing viral horror in this intense action rogue-lite inspired by 80s Monster movies. Use the lab to your advantage and improvise an escape plan before this constantly evolving life form spreads out of control.

ActionIndieShooter
Fear the Spotlight

Fear the Spotlight

Cozy Game Pals, Blumhouse Games

Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…

ActionAdventureIndiePuzzle
Athanasia

Athanasia

Momentum Games LLC, Black Lantern Collective

Fight the past in Athanasia, an immersive horror FPS set in an abandoned research facility overrun with prehistoric predators. Outwit nature, delve deep and uncover the facility's mysteries.

ActionAdventureEarly AccessIndieShooter
Demonschool

Demonschool

Necrosoft Games, Mystic Systems, Ysbryd Games

Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mysterious island.

RPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTacticalTurn-based strategy (TBS)
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
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)
THE SPIRIT LIFT

THE SPIRIT LIFT

prettysmart games

A retro horror deckbuilder roguelike set in a haunted hotel in the 1990s. Choose your teens, explore and fight! If you die rewind the night!

AdventureStrategy
GHOST CAM

GHOST CAM

ARCH REBELS

Your camera sees what your eyes cannot. Explore eerie liminal spaces, capture spirits before they capture you, and unravel a haunting mystery. But beware—the deeper you go, the more the world distorts, and some ghosts will do anything to remain unseen.

AdventureIndieSimulator
RetroSpace

RetroSpace

The Wild Gentlemen, Kwalee

Immersive, disco-punk, space horror where you can be a sneaky chap or a mutant action hero as you try to survive on a space station swallowed by a black hole. A mind-bending ride with weird creatures, immersive features, time jumps, and '70s mustaches!

ActionAdventureIndieRPGShooterSimulationSimulator
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
Death In Abyss

Death In Abyss

Agelvik

Death In Abyss is an intense flight shooter that challenges you to utilize your maneuverability and explosive firepower to survive against the deep-sea hostilities. In your descent, the nightmares can only get worse.

ActionAdventureIndieShooter
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
Crisol: Theater of Idols

Crisol: Theater of Idols

Vermila Studios, Blumhouse Games

Crisol is a survival horror adventure set in a twisted version of Spain. As a soldier captured by religious dogmatism, you must use your own blood as ammunition, without draining to the point of death. Explore the cursed island of Tormentosa, uncover dark secrets, and battle horrifying enemies.

ActionAdventureShooter
INDOORS: The Alston Manor

INDOORS: The Alston Manor

Estigia Softworks

May 2, 1951. The night everyone in the Alston Manor vanished without a trace. As the newest reporter of a paranormal magazine, you are sent back to the night after the happening. Make your way through the mansion, solve puzzles, find evidence and uncover the truth behind the disappearance.

AdventureIndie
Desktop Explorer

Desktop Explorer

Recurring Dream, Outersloth, indienova

Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?

AdventureIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulator
Pinnacle Point

Pinnacle Point

Ready2Run

A dark, 90s-inspired psychological/cosmic horror set on a remote island. You play as Aron, returning years after an ill-fated expedition, haunted over abandoning his brother. Uncover the secrets of the island, confront the horrors awakened, and face those who seek to control its power.

ActionAdventureIndie
Mutant Football League 2

Mutant Football League 2

Digital Dreams Entertainment

Mutant Football League 2 is a hard-hitting, arcade-style football game that combines intense gameplay, wisecracking mutants, weapons, deep strategy, and outrageous humor. Prepare yourself for the most insanely brutal football you’ll ever experience.

ActionArcadeCasualIndieSportSports
Total Chaos

Total Chaos

Trigger Happy Interactive, Apogee Entertainment

Fort Oasis is no paradise—it's a decaying nightmare where reality crumbles. The creator of Turbo Overkill unleashes survival-horror stacked with mysteries and monstrosities. Scavenge to craft weapons, while a voice on your walkie-talkie guides you into the island's depths.

ActionAdventureIndie
SLEEP AWAKE

SLEEP AWAKE

EYES OUT, LLC., Blumhouse Games

In the last known city on Earth, people are disappearing in their sleep. Those who remain exist in a crisis of reckless experiments to keep awake. From Cory Davis (Spec Ops: The Line) and Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails), SLEEP AWAKE blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination.

ActionAdventureIndieSimulation
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
Sigils of Nightfall

Sigils of Nightfall

2 Wedges, Monumental Collab

Sigils of Nightfall is a roguelike deckbuilder that combines dungeon crawling with elements of the award-winning RPG, Mörk Borg. Embark on a dark journey, improve your character, and survive the horrors that will unleash the world's end.

Card & Board GameIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Riddlewood Manor

Riddlewood Manor

Peanut Button

Riddlewood Manor is a point & click adventure set in a haunted house that will try to kill you each step of your way. Overcome eerie logic puzzles to uncover a maze of mysterious rooms filled with dark secrets, spooky encounters, and hidden pathways. Optional jump scare warning is available.

AdventureIndie
Runeomicon

Runeomicon

TLR Games, Joystick Ventures

Perform a dark ritual with your own hands under relentless pressure. Draw runes in real time, defend the ritual from enemies trying to stop it, and upgrade your skills to unleash devastating magic. Summon ancient eldritch gods in this dark fantasy game driven by skill, strategy and constant tension.

ActionCasualIndieStrategy
LURKS WITHIN WALLS

LURKS WITHIN WALLS

Here Be Monsters, 2 Wedges

LURKS WITHIN WALLS is a tense survival horror game that combines modern dungeon-crawling RPG with fast-paced turn-based combat. Explore cursed environments infested with creatures born from the haunted art of Trevor Henderson.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Terrifier: The ARTcade Game

Terrifier: The ARTcade Game

Relevo, Selecta Play

Terrifier: The ARTcade Game, a bloody retro fighting beat em up with frenetic action and a lot of fun and references to the Terrifier franchise.

ActionArcadeFightingHack and slash/Beat 'em upIndie
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
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
Eternal Haunt

Eternal Haunt

True Ronin Games

A first-person atmospheric survival horror game set in Old Japan. Explore the claustrophobic labyrinth of Yuki-Onna's home, stay warm, scavenge for items and avoid her ten ghost children. Puzzle solutions and haunting scares shift, making every playthrough unique. Can you endure the relentless cold?

ActionAdventureIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulator
Tombwater

Tombwater

Moth Atlas, Midwest Games

A Souls-Like Western full of Eldritch horrors. Explore the accursed Wild West town of Tombwater and lay bare the darkness that lies beneath. Survive blood-spilling combat in this gruesome 2D action-RPG that may just drive you to madness.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Cold Abyss

Cold Abyss

Studio [notes.], Fury Studios, Neon Doctrine

COLD ABYSS is a relaxing and atmospheric exploration game where you repair internet cables on the bottom of the ocean. There are no enemies or other forms of danger down there. Just you.

AdventureIndieSimulationSimulator
The Dropouts

The Dropouts

Naraven Games

A spooky choices-matter mystery set in 2004 Switzerland. Many students have disappeared in Noirmont High over the past century. You're Lou, you just transferred here, and weird stuff immediately starts happening... will you be the next dropout?

AdventureCasualIndie
Am I Nima

Am I Nima

HO! Games, Outersloth

Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickVisual Novel
Flesh Made Fear

Flesh Made Fear

Tainted Pact, Assemble Entertainment

Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.

ActionIndie
Eyes of Hellfire

Eyes of Hellfire

Gambrinous, Blumhouse Games

Eyes of Hellfire is a co-op gothic horror game inspired by tabletop games, but with a twist - the insidious Host can manipulate your sense of reality

Early AccessRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
MEGANAUT

MEGANAUT

Rubeki Games

A 3rd person narrative horror game with modernized retro 3D graphics, and unique floating mechanics. Travel past The Habitat walls into the deep megastructure in search of your missing friend Seija, and find out why he left.

AdventureIndie
Amanda the Adventurer 3

Amanda the Adventurer 3

MANGLEDmaw Games, DreadXP

In the thrilling conclusion of the Amanda the Adventurer trilogy, follow Riley as they uncover the ultimate secrets behind Amanda, Hameln, and mysteries that have plagued Kensdale for decades.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
MISERY

MISERY

Platypus Entertainment, Ytopia

MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

ActionAdventureIndieMassively MultiplayerShooterSimulationSimulator
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

Brigada Games, Devolver Digital

Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.

IndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Besmirch

Besmirch

Gangru Games, 2 Left Thumbs

The town of Besmirch starves. Stave off the hunger as the latest farmhand in this survival horror farming sim, earning the trust of paranoid townsfolk under the thumb of the corrupt Baron. Tend to both your farm and the town while avoiding unholy terrors that come in the night.

AdventureEarly AccessFree To PlayIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
The Cave Diver

The Cave Diver

Ovsko

A brutally challenging physics-horror caving game. Using only your hands, drag yourself down a suffocating cave system where every hold pulls you further into the darkness. Equal parts rage-game, claustrophobic nightmare, and descent into a forgotten folktale...

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePlatformStrategy
EMPTY SHELL 2

EMPTY SHELL 2

CC ARTS

Take on the roles of expendable volunteers sent to a forsaken facility on a remote Japanese island. Recover lost data, scavenge for resources, manage your inventory, and endure unspeakable cosmic horrors. In this top-down extraction survival horror, every expedition is a journey back from madness.

ActionAdventureIndieShooter
Beatdown City Survivors

Beatdown City Survivors

NuChallenger

Eradicate hordes of monsters in this survivors style roguelite set in a rotting, destructible city that hates you. Start fires, blow stuff up, electrify water, you name it. Upgrade & craft an arsenal of oddball weapons including pigeons riding boots. Unlock & upgrade offbeat characters & SURVIVE!

ActionAdventureIndieRole-playing (RPG)
The 18th Attic - Paranormal Anomaly Hunting Game

The 18th Attic - Paranormal Anomaly Hunting Game

Steelkrill Studio

The 18th Attic is a psychological horror game where you play as a man trapped in the attic with your cat companion, armed only with a camera. Hunt down paranormal anomalies by taking their pictures and detecting their presence to unravel secrets of your past. Each photo unlocks a new memory.

ActionAdventureIndieMassively MultiplayerSimulationSimulator
Shadow Sacrament: The Roots of Evil

Shadow Sacrament: The Roots of Evil

Eldritch House

Shadow Sacrament is a horrorvania where you play as a tormented detective who must investigate the secrets of an ancient, horrific monastery. Explore hidden chambers, solve intricate puzzles and face terrifying nightmares that lurk in its shadowy halls. Hunt the Haunt.

ActionAdventure
A Story of Questions

A Story of Questions

Under the Bridge Games by Tim Hertel

You are trapped, unable to walk, only a desk in front of you. The voice you hear is that of a woman on a speaker. Solve puzzles, interact with your surroundings, and make weighty decisions as you uncover a strange and disturbing story in this supernatural single-player horror mystery.

AdventureIndie
In Hope Voiden

In Hope Voiden

Stilbruch Games

A forbidden warzone. Twelve soldiers. One life each. In this first person survival horror, death is permanent and the world remembers. Explore a surreal, trench-ridden hellscape where every action matters—and every death uncovers a new piece of a haunting mystery.

ActionAdventureIndie
Shark Dentist

Shark Dentist

Alice Games

Shark Dentist is a unique horror roguelike where you play as a shark dentist. Your task is to treat the teeth of giant predators in a dark clinic while avoiding their deadly aggression. Balance tactics, luck, and limited resources to heal your patient without losing your own life.

IndieSimulationSimulator
Frieda is Changing

Frieda is Changing

Mucks! Games

A fun-horror point & click adventure following Frieda, a 14-year-old girl, determined to uncover the mystery of her sister's disappearance. Explore an expansive village, solve puzzles, unlock memories, and discover monsters where you least expect them.

IndiePoint-and-click
The Secret of Weepstone

The Secret of Weepstone

Talesworth Game Studio, DreadXP

In a hand-drawn black and white dungeon crawler RPG inspired by classic D&D of the 80’s - Roll Dice, Fight Monsters, Loot Dungeons, Embrace Death, and unravel The Secret of Weepstone.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
GRINDWORM

GRINDWORM

Snail Bite

A short horror game where you're buried alive in a collapsed underground mine, and your only hope for survival is an old mining machine.

AdventureIndie
Ultrasound

Ultrasound

Walter Woods

A sci-fi horror 3D point&click game. Use an ultrasound machine to diagnose and do surgery on a grotesque infection spreading aboard a space freighter. Craft meds, upgrade your machine, find new surgical tools, and restore ship systems before you collide with a star. Soon, something will be born.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickSimulationSimulator
Paragnosia: Museum

Paragnosia: Museum

Sine Coda

Uncover a disturbing mystery in a haunted museum. Track and exorcise restless spirits using your rail-mounted camera, spot up to 130 anomalies, and photograph them before they take over, with you along.

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationSimulator
LIVING HELL

LIVING HELL

Joe Fender

A co-op horror where you must retrieve specimens before sunrise, as solar radiation twists animals and humans into terrifying mutations.

ActionIndieShooter
Echograph

Echograph

Pappy's Pipe Dream

photograph ghosts, crack environmental puzzles, manage limited resources, and unravel the mystery behind a generational family curse in this classic survival horror experience.

ActionAdventureIndie
BUTLER GUILLOTINE

BUTLER GUILLOTINE

GOODBYE STATIC, NECRONOMISOFT

Butler Guillotine is an absurdist point & click horror about flesh filled puppets in a mishapen hotel. Follow different characters' intertiwining paths and unearth forgotten events from a time long gone. Bring the ceremony to a halt.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-click
God Help Us All

God Help Us All

RetroGig

God Help Us All is a fixed-camera survival horror game that merges the suffocating dread of classic horror with the brutal grit of the Wild West.

ActionAdventureIndie
Your Forever Friend

Your Forever Friend

Le Clown De La Classe, Abiding Bridge

Your Forever Friend™ is the solution to never feeling alone again! Play video games, listen to music together, reminisce about buried memories... And there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. NOTHING ! <3

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickSimulation
the Nobody Woods : Lucy

the Nobody Woods : Lucy

tinynap

The Nobody Woods: Lucy is an adventure game set in Nobody Woods, a place on the border between life and death. Escape from those who want to take Lucy's life, explore the forest, solve puzzles, and meet new friends.

AdventureIndieSimulationSimulator
The Hambagu Shop

The Hambagu Shop

Mike Ten, Serafini Productions

The Hambagu Shop is a cozy horror narrative simulator where you work in a Japanese Hamburg Steak Shop. Cook Hamburg, serve customers, and upgrade your shop for more menu items.

AdventureIndieSimulationSimulator
Crathos Deep

Crathos Deep

Hitbox Games

Descend down the arctic depths in Crathos Deep, a cosmic horror narrative adventure. Explore the vast abyss with your submarine and utilize your expeditionary drone to reach the dark corners of the ocean. Investigate a lost research institute to unravel the unsettling mystery of its downfall.

Adventure
Devour: The Carnival

Devour: The Carnival

Paranormal Activity: Threshold

Paranormal Activity: Threshold

DarkStone Digital, DreadXP

Pierce the veil… Play multiple timelines, communicate with entities, end the nightmare.

AdventureIndiePuzzle