Fear Friday

A weekly spotlight on indie horror. From eerie concepts to chilling mechanics, discover unsettling games that thrive in the indie scene.

Fear Friday: The Mortuary Assistant Is a Chilling Horror Classic

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Some horror games place players inside haunted houses, abandoned hospitals, or dark forests. The Mortuary Assistant makes an ordinary night shift terrifying by trapping players inside a mortuary with several corpses—and something demonic hiding among them. Developed by DarkStone Digital and published by DreadXP, this first-person horror game combines detailed embalming procedures, occult investigation, and unpredictable supernatural encounters. Players … Read more

Fear Friday: 3 Terrifying Indie Horror Games Available Now

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This week’s Fear Friday highlights Feed The Pit, Backrooms: Collision Not Found, and Samara—three indie horror games filled with investigation, monsters, liminal spaces, and supernatural mysteries.

Fear Friday: 3 Short Horror Games Under $5

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Horror doesn’t always need a massive budget, a 20-hour campaign, or a complicated story to leave an impression. Sometimes all it takes is a dark hallway, a strange message, a bad decision, or one perfectly timed scare. For this week’s Fear Friday, we are looking at short indie horror games that all come in under $5 … Read more

Fear Friday – The Lightkeeper Brings Psychological Horror to an Isolated Island

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Some horror games chase you through hallways. Others trap you somewhere quiet and let the silence do the work. The Lightkeeper, from Darkphobia Games, falls into that second category. Set on a remote island in the 1920s, this psychological horror game puts players in the role of Arthur, a World War I veteran trying to escape … Read more

Fear Friday – Midnight Special Channels Classic Survival Horror Terror

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Fear Friday returns with another haunting indie horror experience, and this week’s spotlight dives deep into pixelated terror with Midnight Special. Developed by Scared Stupid Inc, this retro-inspired point-and-click survival horror game blends the suspense of classic ‘90s horror games with the unsettling atmosphere of ‘70s and ‘80s psychological horror cinema. Midnight Special – Retro Survival … Read more

Fear Friday: Burning Dolls, Rituals, and Ancient Evil

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This week’s Fear Friday features two very different horror experiences united by oppressive atmosphere, psychological dread, and terrifying supernatural forces. From the claustrophobic nightmare apartment of Until They Burn to the plague-ridden cursed lands of Devil of the Plague, both games explore fear through ritual, mystery, and survival against forces far beyond human understanding. Until They Burn Delivers Claustrophobic … Read more

Fear Friday: Too Well Hidden Makes a Simple Game Terrifying

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Horror is often at its most effective when it turns something familiar into something uncertain. A quiet house, a childhood game, a hallway you’ve walked before—suddenly none of it feels safe anymore. This week’s Fear Friday highlights a found-footage psychological horror experience that transforms a simple game of hide-and-seek into something deeply unsettling, along with two upcoming … Read more