Fear Friday is back with a new roundup of indie horror games for October 2025. Sometimes horror isn’t about haunted mansions or ancient curses — it’s about the small, familiar moments that twist just a little too far. This week’s lineup turns everyday jobs into existential nightmares: delivering pizzas, running a convenience store, and even saving a princess.
Let’s clock in for the shift.
🍕 Clown Is Hungry
Developer: Vidas Salavejus
Status: Released
🎪 Play on Steam →
You’re late. It’s dark. And you have one last pizza to deliver — to a neighborhood plastered with signs that say “Do not deliver here.”
Clown Is Hungry doesn’t care. It throws you into a surreal nightmare where slapstick meets slaughter. You play as Kat, a pizza girl who just wants to finish her shift, but every wrong step sends her deeper into the clown’s carnival world — a bizarre dreamscape of traps, minigames, and bad decisions.
What begins as a silly errand slowly warps into something unnervingly unpredictable. You’ll juggle dough, dodge horrors, and turn nearly anything you find into a slice of pizza thanks to a hilariously cursed “pizza box inventory.”
It’s colorful, chaotic, and completely deranged — the kind of horror comedy that feels like if Five Nights at Freddy’s took a summer job at a funhouse designed by David Lynch.
🍅 A pizza-based inventory that lets you turn anything into toppings
🎈 Mini-games and clown-themed challenges in a surreal circus world
🤡 A wild balance of absurd humor and genuine scares
🛒 HELLMART
Developer: GAZE IN GAMES
Status: Demo Released
🕯️ Play the Demo →
If Clown Is Hungry is chaos in motion, HELLMART is dread in slow burn.
By day, you’re just another clerk restocking shelves in a sleepy northern town. By night, you’re fortifying the doors against whatever else lives out there in the snow.
Part supermarket simulator, part psychological survival horror, HELLMART traps you behind fluorescent lights and flickering cameras as you try to meet your sales quota and stay alive through each shift. It’s a game where the simple act of greeting a customer becomes a gamble — because some of them aren’t customers at all.
The more you survive, the stranger things get. Evil learns, mimics, and adapts, turning your routine into a nightmare you can’t escape. Think Night of the Consumers meets The Thing with the slow suffocation of a corporate job that never ends.
🧍 Realistic visuals and a lonely northern setting
🛠️ Upgrade your store and manage resources to survive
🩸 Adaptive AI that mimics customers and feeds on your mistakes
🧾 Every sale might be your last
🔪 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Developer: Black Tabby Games
Status: Released
👑 Play on Steam →
You’re on a path in the woods. At the end of that path is a cabin.
And in the basement of that cabin is a princess.
You’re here to slay her.
Slay the Princess remains one of the most haunting narrative games of the past few years — a gothic fairy tale wrapped in hand-drawn beauty and existential terror. The Pristine Cut expands on the original with new chapters, endings, and art, pulling players deeper into its surreal web of identity, choice, and doom.
With award-winning illustration from Abby Howard and impeccable voice performances by Jonathan Sims and Nichole Goodnight, it’s a story that shifts every time you defy it. Each path, each doubt, and each death only leads you further into a question that has no right answer.
If HELLMART and Clown Is Hungry play with the horrors of everyday life, Slay the Princess cuts into something more primal — the horror of free will itself.
✏️ 1,200+ new hand-penciled frames and 35% more story content
🗡️ Deeply branching narrative with new routes and endings
💀 Fully voiced and illustrated, dripping with atmosphere
🌒 Psychological horror with philosophical teeth
Critical acclaim:
⭐ “An existentially horrific visual novel… One of the best narrative games of 2023.” — Voxel Smash
⭐ “A dazzling, brilliant, emotional masterpiece.” — GameSpot
⭐ “Even better than before — a perfect example of player choice done right.” — Sports Illustrated
🌾 And Don’t Forget…
If you haven’t stepped into the wheat yet — our own No One Leaves the Field demo is now live on Steam.
Explore the cursed farm where every stalk hides a secret and the scarecrow never stops watching. Solve the mystery, light the candles, and try to escape the field before you join the harvest yourself.
🕯️ Final Thoughts
From the late-night delivery gone wrong to the clerk’s shift that never ends, to the princess waiting in the dark — this week’s Fear Friday is about the horror of obligation.
Doing your job. Following orders. Finishing the task.
It’s not always monsters that get you — sometimes it’s the expectation that you’ll keep going, even when every sign says stop.
If you’re brave enough to face that feeling, these four games are waiting.
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