Short Horror Games for a Single Unsettling Night

One evening, one complete unsettling experience. These compact horror games offer everything from quiet architectural dread to sharp scares and emotionally bruising stories. The estimates are approximate first-run planning ranges, allowing for some reading, puzzles and retries, rather than speedrun targets or every achievement. Most fit in a few hours; the longer choices say so. Where later sections or returns matter, keep going beyond the first apparent finish. Choose by the flavour of fear and the content notes, then leave a little time afterwards to put the lights back on.