Psychological Horror serves as the subgenre of Psychological Fiction and Horror that relies on the emotional, mental and psychological state to disturb frighten or unsettle viewers, readers, or players. These games mix the action, mystery, suspense and drama elements and take place in the terrifying setting and bring the unsettling, unpleasant or distressing atmosphere. The primary purpose of these games to create the discomfort by exposing the scary environment, deadly creatures and uncovering the dark secret of the human psyche that most humans deny. Sometimes the genre finds to challenge the grasp of an audience of the narrative by revolving around characters who are unsure doubtful about their perceptions of reality. Psychological Horror games focus on the protagonist, who is mentally upset and suffering from nightmares. In the games, the player encounters horrible creatures who are trying to scare him and attempt to kill. The player struggles to explore the world to find the safe place where he can hide from supernatural powers. Psychological Horror video games may focus on murderers and scenes of violence while still maintaining the environment that bases on either the protagonist’s villain’s or psychological of the audience, emotional, or mental status.

13 Best Psychological Horror Games for Mac OS

#1 Caffeine Episode One

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Caffeine Episode One is an Adventure, First-person Perspective, Psychological Horror, and Single-player video game developed and published by Incandescent Imagining. The game offers a thrilling gameplay with environmental puzzles and a touch of the horror genre. It takes place in future, where the human population is addicted to coffee. In the story, the biggest corporations are struggling to create massive space stations to roam the star minerals to make a caffeine. The protagonist finds himself in a massive caffeine alone with no memory of his past. Your goal is to explore the depth of the structure to find something related to you by the interacting environment, solving puzzles and completing tasks. Each caffeine offers three episodes, and each provides a variety of problems to solve. The world is explored from the first-person perspective and can use multiple objects to progress. The game increases the level difficulty, as you gain enough experience. Caffeine Episode One offers thrilling graphics, smooth controls, and brilliant mechanics, Caffeine Episode One is the best game to play and enjoy.

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#2 Doki Doki Literature Club!

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Doki Doki Literature Club is an Adventure, Visual Novel and Single-player video game created and published by Team Salvato. The storyline focuses on a student of the male high school who recently joins the literature club and hangs out with its four female members of the group. It introduces a non-linear plot, which various scenes and multiple endings, depending on the choices taken by the player during the gameplay. The gameplay revolves around a psychological horror element that introduces the use of breaking the 4th wall. According to the story, the protagonist is invited by his childhood buddy named as Sayori to join the literature club of the high school. There the protagonist encounters other members of the club such as Natsuki, Yuri, Monika, and more. As the game advances, the player starts to participate in the activities of the club such as sharing poetry, writing, and more. It has various levels, and the player must make the decisions by selecting the choices to progress through the storyline. With superb gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and smooth controls, Doki Doki Literature Club is the best game to play.

#3 Her Story

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Her Story mixes the Psychological Horror, Adventure, Detective, Point-and-Click and Single-player video game developed and published by Sam Barlow. It is a mystery game, playing like a true crime documentary where the game enables the player go hand on with the database of police of live action footage. The game starts with a film actress named as Viva Seifert, Joe Gideon and Shark. In the game, the player takes on the role of the detective who must solve a variety of murder cases and experience a unique gameplay from start to finish. The player needs to find and collect evidence, interact with suspects, and progress through the story to solve complicated cases. It lets the player sits in front of the computer, logs into the police database to find out hundreds of video clips that covers several interviews from 1994, in which the women are interrogated about their missing husband. The player can manipulate the police database by typing words and watch the clips where the player needs to collect evidence. Her Story is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

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#4 Stories Untold

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Stories Untold mixes the Point-and-Click, Text-based, Psychological Horror, and Adventure elements created by No Code and published by Devolver Digital. It is a narrative-driven adventure game that offers the unique gameplay. The game has Single-player mode only and contains up to four unique stories takes place in the 80’s inspired world. Each story offers the unique setting, mechanics and gameplay. In the game, the player can set out himself in mind-bending text adventure, conduct experiments on artifacts and process radio transmissions. It features lots of unlockable achievements and puts the player in the psychological horror experience with tense mystery and terrifying environment. Four Unique Stories, Mind-bending Puzzles, Gorgeous Retro Graphics, 1 Nightmare, etc. are prominent features in the game. Try it out.

#5 The Bunker

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The Bunker is an Adventure, Psychological Horror and Single-player video game developed by Splendy Games and published by Wales Interactive. The story revolves around the protagonist, who has been lost his memory. It takes place in the fictional world and puts you in the role of John, the protagonist. Your ultimate task is to follow the daily routine of the protagonist when an alarm is triggered. Explore the area around the bunker and attempts to recover the memories of the protagonist and unearth the mysteries of the Bunker. The game is a mix of Adventure and Point and Click elements and using the first and third-person perspective while manipulating the world. It offers the protagonist with live action throughout a variety of levels and allows you engage yourself in adventure gameplay experience. The Bunker offers prominent features such as an Incredible Cast, Hidden Secrets, Live Action, fantastic Soundtrack and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

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#6 Anna: Extended Edition

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Anna: Extended Edition is a Psychological Horror video game takes place in the abandoned sawmill in the mountains of Italian. It mixes the elements of First-person Perspective, Puzzle, and Exploration. The story revolves around the protagonist who dreams of a mountain near his village. He attempts to go on an adventure to locate its connection to his missing memories and a strange woman known as Anna, who seems in his dreams and calling out for him. The protagonist enters in the house where he has to solve complex puzzles by finding clues in the garden and soon he comes to know that the house is haunted after a horrific event. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, and as the player start exploring the world, he hears strange voices which are belonging to him and the Anna. Anna assigned the task to the player to unearth the horrific clues and solve complex puzzles by using them related to the protagonist’s past. The behavior of the player doesn’t affect only his mental health but can change locations and reveal new mysteries leading to one of eight ending. Anna: Extended Edition offers core features such as Physics-based Environment, Enhanced Graphics, a Haunting Tale Terror, Eight different Ends, and more. Try it out to enjoy.

#7 Anna

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Anna is a Puzzle, Psychological Horror, and Single-player video game created by Dreampainters Software and published by Kalypso Media. One day the protagonist woke up and find himself in a haunted called Sawmill situated in the North of Italy. The game casts you in the role of the protagonist, and your main task is to explore the horrific world, find clues and solve a series of complex puzzles to find a way out. The game world filled with spirits, ghosts, and other deadly creatures and can raise your heartbeat. Explore the game world, unearth its secrets, interact with objects and NPCs and progress through the game to unlock further content. It features multiple ends depends on your decisions during the gameplay. Other unveil environment unlocks as you fulfill the game’s requirements. Anna offers core features such as a Hunting Tale, Physics-based Environment, Eight Endings, New Environments, Puzzles, Heart pumping Sounds, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#8 The Darkness 2

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The Darkness 2 is a wonderful FPS, RPG and Psychological Horror-Survival video game by Digital Extremes. You’ll have to control the character of Jackie Estacado, the leader of the Franchetti Criminal Family. Your task is to act as Jackie Estacado, use your Dark powers against the rival gang that recently attacked you, eliminate them and enjoy engaging yourself into amazingly haunting and psychological horror filled game-play. Exploration, artifacts and items collection, amazingly blasting enemy encounters and the deep prowess of dark powers makes this game more and more involving as you further flow with the story-line. With a great dark setting, unbelievably stressing situations, and your ability to cater with the problems, hardcore encounters with the bizarre creatures and enemies, loads of cool weapons to shoot down the enemies, super fine and dramatic event depictions, eye-catching visuals and a brilliant story, The Darkness 2 is one amazing game to play and enjoy.

#9 Amnesia

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Amnesia is a fantastic series of Horror Survival video games. All of the games in the series are published by the Frictional Games and offer a similar type of gameplay but different storylines, characters, and gameplays. Amnesia offers three main games in the series including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Amnesia: Justine (an expansion to Amnesia: The Dark Descent), and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (Sequel to Amnesia: The Dark Descent). Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is the most recent game in the series released back in 2013. With a variety of gameplay, fantastic mechanics, and characters throughout the series, Amnesia offers a truly realistic approach to the environments presented in the games. All the Horror, Thrill and Dark themes of the games are enough to scare the players to the edge of a breakdown. Playing the games of Amnesia series literally feels like being part of the game world and that actually makes all the games in the series more entertaining and thrilling at the same time. Another significant aspect of the Series is that it offers all the stories from the past. In Amnesia: The Dark Descent the game is about the protagonist named as Daniel, who struggles to know about his past while being haunted by the unknown entities. In Amnesia Justine, the protagonist is a Female named as Justine who finds herself in a competitive environment, helps and saves the homeless people, and pursues the only antagonist Dr. Victor Fournier, kills him and the game concludes. In Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, the Protagonist is Oswald Mandus, the grand nephew of Daniel who is an explorer and goes on various expeditions, creates a massive machine that builds Manpigs and other disastrous Swine monstrosities. Betrayed by an Engineer Oswald gets in trouble when the engineer takes control of the machine and unleashes the said monsters into the open. Oswald struggles to save his family and all the other in the game. Considering all the fantastic inclusions to the series, Amnesia is an excellent combination of highly addictive and engaging games. Try any one of the games and enjoy an amazingly immersive experience of Horror and Survival elements.

#10 Amnesia: The Dark Descent

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a Horror Survival and Action-Adventure video game produced in the studios of Frictional Games. The game is about a man named Daniel who finds himself in an asylum like castle and has absolutely no memory of his past. He gets up, picks up the notes with strange writings scattered all around the place, and starts finding his way out of the haunted castle. While walking down the corridors, he feels the presence of an unknown entity who keeps on following him wherever he goes. Haunted by the fear and bizarre happenings and voices all around him, he struggles to remember his past and get rid of the unearthly being following him. Your task is to get into the character of Daniel, start exploring the Asylum. collect all the notes and objects necessary to plan your escape. Amnesia: The Dark Descent offers beautifully created visuals, a great storyline and an addictive gameplay to enjoy.

#11 The 7th Guest

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The 7th Guest is an Adventure, Puzzle and Interactive Drama video game by Trilobyte and Virgin Interactive. The game offers a horror story, revolving around the protagonist, an amnesiac. The mansion of Henry Stauf has been abandoned. Stauf was a toy maker, make amazing and mind-bending puzzles and his home was his beautiful creation. The house of Stauf stands empty, and nothing can live in this house. Suddenly, you as the protagonist wake up in the house, and your ultimate task is to manipulate the house from door to door, fell the terror and solve a variety of puzzles to progress. The mansion comprises up to twenty-two surprising rooms awaits in the navigable haunted mansion. The game becomes terrifying and challenging to play, as you advanced. The 7th Guest offers core features such as Virtual Environment, Solve Puzzles, 22 Levels, Extensive Gameplay, Original Music and more. The 7th Guest is the excellent game to play and enjoy.

#12 Haunted Memories

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Haunted Memories is an Episodic, Action-Adventure, Shooter and Horror-Survival video game. The game kicks off with an amnesiac man waking up in the woods nearing a power station. You are allowed to set yourself up into the character of that amnesiac man, explore the world around you, collect items and weapons, fight and kill the enemies. Your worst fear is that you are continuously being hunted by Mark Slender a giant paranormal entity with no face, black suit and lots of tentacles. You must find out the map, explore the surroundings and find out the way out of the woods before that Slender creature captures you. Haunted Memories is an episodic video game that allows you to experience the game in different environments, settings and with different objectives. With a mystic nature, a lot of enemies to fight with, six different episodes, an amazingly horror and creepy game-play, this game is quite fun to play and enjoy. Play it out and you’ll love every bit of this brilliant game.

#13 Spec Ops: The Line

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Spec Ops: The Line is a Military themed Tactical and Third Person Shooter video game developed by Yager Development and published by 2k games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming consoles. The story of the game follows the protagonist Captain Martin Walker who goes to the catastrophic Dubai to investigate about the dead American soldiers. This is the point when the mission changes and Walker along with his Elite Delta Force team starts searching for the survivors and engages into battle with the terrorists who kidnapped and killed the soldiers. The game lets you lead your team and engage in battles in a war like environment using state of the art weapons like futuristic rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers etc. To eliminate the enemies and free the hostages. Spec Ops: The Line offers four different game endings and allows you to mold the events and happenings and end the game with an ending you want. Spec Ops: The Line is a great Tactical Third-person Shooter video game, and you will definitely like playing it.