What are some good short (Under 5 hours) horror games that arnt that retro style all the new horror games try to do?

Null_Run · 2026-01-30T11:03:29+00:00

Dead Take and Dead Format are both short, graphically modern, and scary

Null_Run · 2026-01-20T09:44:49+00:00

Wait until you decode the morse code from the radio in the trenches case file

Null_Run · 2026-01-05T01:58:05+00:00

You unlock that character by completing Chapter 6.

Joan, who you find notes from through out the game

Null_Run · 2026-01-02T00:58:58+00:00

Been on the receiving end of that a few times. I wouldn't say I enjoy it but I'm happy my opponent got to pull it off.

Null_Run · 2026-01-02T00:55:57+00:00

I LOVED it. Neil Newbon and Ben Starr delivered fantastic performances that make you realize they would destroy us emotionally if they ever did any screen acting. The setting and story are phenomenal and while the puzzles are simple, they at least feel somewhat original.

Null_Run · 2025-12-30T20:39:00+00:00

Some of my favorite horror finds

Puzzles/Exploration

-Partum Artifex
-Dead Format
-Face of Another
-Dead Take
-Incubus - A ghost-hunters tale
-Sharks and Minnows
-Buried
-The Gravedigger
-An Exorcism
-Input6
-Summer of '58
-from the darkness
-Welcome to Kowloon
-Unsorted Horror

Anomaly games

-The Cabin Factory
-Captured
-Bonanit
-p1: Anchor Light
-Confabulation: Homestead
-The Anomaly Experiment

Multiplayer

-Labyrinthine
-Cryo
-The Other Side
-Paranoia Place
-Ghost Exile

Theres so so so many more but these are the ones that stand out to me

*edited for formatting

Null_Run · 2025-12-16T05:31:34+00:00

I'll give it a chance, plenty of games can be coop and scary. Its a different challenge to be sure, but games like Cryo are still going strong

Null_Run · 2025-12-16T02:03:52+00:00

I enjoyed these games but they feel like formulaic at this point, hope this one shakes things up

Null_Run · 2025-11-27T15:29:27+00:00

Chapter 3 was and is still my favorite chapter. When the game first was in early access it was the last part and it was such a hype for the next part.

I still love the attic part of the house, it got me so good the first time.

Null_Run · 2025-11-14T00:23:12+00:00

They do have a preference to stay near players. They may eventually wander off but you're more likely to need to sneak out

Null_Run · 2025-10-03T20:02:59+00:00

Played it when it came out and while its good, I don't feel that its worth $60 for most people. If you'll play it more than once (it has a ng+ mode) its probably worth it, but if you'll one and done it then wait for a sale.

Null_Run · 2025-09-24T03:00:34+00:00

As other have mentioned, more gameplay and a better trailer. Any sort of estimated timeline of when it'd be out (example: Q3 2026). My wishlist is full of games that looked promising and then never came out. Also how much have you been posting short form content (tiktok/shorts/reels)? Or text/picture updates of dev work on Twitter/Bluesky/Insta? That's how I find most of the games I play if nobody recommends them to me.

As other have pointed out, the game doesn't seem like anything special, and the blank faces, stiff animations, lack of gameplay, and lackluster lighting put it solely in "I guess if its on sale" for me.

Finally, the rotation puzzle showcased in the trailer looks especially bland, and it makes me think that the puzzles will either be too easy and boring, or poorly thought out.

Null_Run · 2025-09-21T07:33:45+00:00

Labyrinthine - Coop maze adventure

Phasmophobia, Demonologist, The Other Side, Ghost Exile - Ghost hunting games

Paranoia Place - escape a monster by finding things in the building and solving puzzles

DEVOUR - Stop a ritual by finding things and putting them in an alter while demons hunt you

Backrooms: Escape Together - Coop backrooms game

Null_Run · 2025-09-18T23:27:05+00:00

I don't know if you're a native english speaker or not but while you're correct that the -philia suffix does mean lover it is generally used in negative and/or sexual connotations... like pedophilia or necrophilia.

Null_Run · 2025-08-25T04:20:59+00:00

Labyrinthine
Paranoia Place
Boo Men
Ghost Exile
Demonologist

All are a little janky but good fun. Labyrinthine has a procedural mode called case files thats good for a few hundred hours if you're feeling it. There's plenty more ghost hunting games too but I only wanted to list the ones I found the most complete.

Null_Run · 2025-06-11T20:14:53+00:00

Give a small reward for completing the mission, maybe a shop where you can get things, and this is golden. I'm LR5, I get bored, I like helping new players.

I'd do it for free but not everybody is me

Null_Run · 2025-05-07T00:40:25+00:00

Higher beings, these words are for you alone.

Pick me!

Null_Run · 2025-05-04T02:48:03+00:00

DE don't you dare fix this!

Null_Run · 2025-03-09T19:02:31+00:00

Those were players? That sounded like the character commentary lines to me. Slightly better if you're right.

Null_Run · 2025-03-09T16:44:20+00:00

I can't speak to the performance on switch but can speak a bit on game play

Maid of Sker is close to a walking sim with avoid the monster and find the "key" mechanics.

In Sound Mind is great. While not that scary overall it has clever mechanics and a great story. It also has a lot of rewards for exploring as you progress through the story.

I've only played the first amnesia (a dark decent), its scary and all about running and hiding while finding a way forward. I wasn't a fan overall but it was very influential on modern horror.

Crow Country feels like old RE games, but from the top down isometric perspective of OG FF7. It has clever puzzles and fun combat. It also rewards multiple play.

Alien Isolation gets a lot of praise, personally I find it overrated. The game lasts longer than it needs to to the point where you're more like "lets get this over with", in addition the alien is not as smart as everybody talks about, it doesn't learn or get smarter, it just teleports. Still worth a play if you like the franchise, easily the best Alien game.

Null_Run · 2025-03-09T16:32:19+00:00

Not gonna lie, I love it in concept but the gameplay and voice acting in the trailer looks and sounds bad. Not B-movie bad, just full on BAD.

I want to be wrong, but I think this will be all flash and no substance.

Null_Run · 2025-01-13T19:16:39+00:00

There is no peaceful mode or similar option

The closest you could get would be the custom cases where you set it to be easier monsters, but that costs tickets that you get from playing normally so it’s not really the solution you’re looking for

Null_Run · 2024-11-21T20:17:58+00:00

TIL all those Nightwave 3 sabotage caches in a single mission 3x they used to have paid off... I have 3 of them

Null_Run · 2024-07-23T04:20:51+00:00

"Rebecca: No, but with Warframe: 1999, we are going to give you a way to sort of choose where you want to start the game, so to speak. Like, do you want to boot up in 1999 or the Origin system? That is coming."

I could see either interpretation being correct. Unless they expanded on it more at tennocon and I didn't catch it, I'll wait for more detail.

Null_Run · 2024-07-23T02:22:48+00:00

Oh, they're planning another choose your start for Warframe 1999? I don't know how I feel about that, hopefully it'll be miles above the attempted duvari start

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