Fear Friday

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

Shift at Midnight Makes Every Customer a Terrifying Suspect

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Shift at Midnight mixes gas station management with co-op detective horror as players investigate customers, expose doppelgangers, and survive the consequences of one mistake.

Fear Friday: Dread Neighbor Is an Apartment Nightmare

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Some places feel wrong before anything actually happens. Dread Neighbor, developed by Ghostcase, is a first-person psychological horror game inspired by modern Chinese horror. It follows a young woman who moves into an unusually inexpensive apartment while living and working alone in the city. The low rent quickly becomes less appealing as the building’s silence, narrow … Read more

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