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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror
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ARGH: (A) (R)oundup of (G)ames of (H)orror @argh-games.bsky.social · Nov 22
(Pinned post instead of in bio because yk)

CW: I cover many games that broach uncomfortable subjects and feature disturbing imagery. I'll try to include content warnings individual posts - especially when an uncomfortable subject is central to the game's premise - but please proceed with caution.
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Cat Named Mojave, by Stargazers Studios
store.steampowered.com/app/3597880/...

in return for food and shelter, cursed cat-man commissions you to hunt, skin, and butcher the local anthros (and other strange creatures, like meat tentacles flagellating through steeple windows)

CW: violence and gore
looking at a sign/booth for Remy's Range. screens hang from the sign. one screen reads "HIGH SCORE 24/25 S"; the other screen shows a smug smiley face in a cowboy hat. a shotgun lies on the counter below the sign. a large sign in the desert. in the distance, we can see the aforementioned meat tentacles flopping through a church steeple. the sign used to read "Mojave Valley Estates Executive Homes; Development Starts [can't read]! $99 Reserves You A Home!" the sign is covered in graffiti, including "ECHO" over Mojave, "He's Watching", a dead x-eyes emoji, and what might be MHX over the last words of the last 2 lines you're in the titular cat... man's kitchen. he stares at you. he was in the middle of butchering a mysterious lump of meat that lies on the counter.
January 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Imaginary Friend Institution, by Nightmare Emporium
store.steampowered.com/app/3083990/...

50s-era tale of horrors perpetrated upon mentally ill children - focused on stealth, platforming, and minigames

CW: disturbing themes surrounding mental health; violence & gore
sneakin around as old Pooky - one of the titular imaginary friends, a horned jester kind of fellow. this room looks ransacked - strewn with toppled tables and bottles - and the floor is pockmarked in red oozing sores. the laundry simulator portion of Imaginary Friend Institution. our main character (a young lady named Annabelle Walker, not Pooky) blow-dries some white clothes hanging on the line. Annabelle runs up to the pinheaded-ass groundskeeper in a cemetery, the graves marked with only numbers. The Groundskeeper can't talk right now.
January 4, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol, by SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT
store.steampowered.com/app/3633250/...

has a demo

solve puzzles, set traps, and hide from Junji Ito's demented creations (including the Hanging Balloons) in this official Ito-verse survival horror game

CW: frequent violence/gore
a wooden screen covered in clown faces - with blinking lights sticking out of the top - sits in the corner of this dining room. besides clowns, the screen contains a puzzle with three hexagons to rotate, a metal crescent moon inlay, and a plaque. a wall full of photos of Tomie Kawakami - mostly her two-faced version cornered by one of the head-coveting mannequins. blood oozes from the hapless victim's (head's) eyes, mouth, and neck stump.
December 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It, by Ferry // Nopanamaman
free on store.steampowered.com/app/4122860/...

visual novel where middle schooler investigates her classmate's disappearance in Soviet Russia

7-8 hours of playtime

CW: loud noises, flickering images
Ira - the soon-to-be-missing girl - lies huddled on a windowsill, smoking a cigarette and giving Asya (our player character) bombastic side-eye. Ira says, "...Is that why you came here? To tell me that?" a faceless and monochromatic version of Ira, against a background of scattered photographs. narration says, "Do they really want to be here? Do *we* want them to be here?" talking to two more of your classmates - Marina and Vadim - in the auditorium. Marina says, "Agh, you're right! Man, I wanted her to be a bit more shocked or something."
December 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Bad Dream: Afterlife, by Desert Fox
store.steampowered.com/app/3202410/...

an empty nightmare where everyone in the city's avoiding you

the latest in Desert Fox's doodlecore point-and-click series!

CW: verbal abuse, violence, suicide, self-harm, partial nudity, and gore
first-person scene. protagonist is walking through an alley with a fence on one side. a scarecrow (which might also be a corpse) invades the foreground. straw extrudes from its sweater sleeves, but its lacerated face gapes in horror, its eyes bleeding. an alien octopus-looking thing (labeled Strange Creature in the UI) is on the other side of the fence; it left a series of puddles behind. there is a No Smoking sign on the wall to the left. the UI and filter mimic VHS footage. the upper-right corner of the UI reads MENU. the upper-left reads "REC: 00:00:28". the lower-left features four icons; this might be your inventory. there is a broken heart, a teddy bear, a rubber duck, and a jar. the junk-strewn landing of an apartment building. graffiti around the door to the protagonist's apartment reads: "WE HATE YOU!!!" "STAY INSIDE AND DIE ALONE" "SCUMBAG" "Keep YOUR monsters to yourself" "Dumbass lives HERE" "NOBODY wants YOU HERE" and a cutout at the top of the screen shows a fish in a pond a walled-in park. to the left: a ghostly woman, eyes and mouth black and gaping, her heart broken and dripping blood. to the right: a grave flanked by dead trees. the headstone reads "YOU," dated 2013 to... nothing because the second year has chipped away.
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Metal Undergrowth, by @kenforest.bsky.social
free on kenforest.itch.io/metal-underg...

PSX-style Ludum Dare 58 submission by LiDAR Exploration Program dev

explore/escape "strange, overgrown superstructure" and collect the techno-organic creatures that dwell within
your escape pod - a gizmo reminiscent of an industrial phonebooth topped with helicopter blades inside what appears to be a silo succumbing to nature. a tree whose branches end in mushroom-shaped lights grows in the center, surrounded by lightbulb-flies. one of the techno-organic creatures - a large flying insect with a vacuum for a proboscis, a canister for a body, and red emergency lights for eyestalks
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Resurface.exe, by @jecopx.bsky.social
PWYC at jecopx.itch.io/resurface

1-bit horror story with console interface and "minimalist and claustrophobic style" set in northeastern Italy

submission for Italocurso Game Jam
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Wall of Insanity 2, by VenomizedArt
play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Beksinskian over-the-shoulder shooter - for Android and iOS???? wild

makes me want to check out the first Wall of Insanity (which is available on Steam, Switch, and mobile)
our military-dude protagonist faces off against some weirdos in a stone(?) corridor. there is one tall n lanky weirdo, and four little weirdos. all the weirdos wear grubby coats, limbs made of clusters of bones, and spiky cudgel hands. tall weirdo's face looks a bit like Max Schreck's Count Orlok with ill-define features. the small weirdos' heads are just... little balls. they're just little guys. protagonist enters a chamber lined with cave-like windows (or they're holes for bodies, idk), coming face to face with a lantern-toting floating entity with a head like a fleshy astrolabe, tattered white robes, long fingers, and candles sprouting from its shoulder a brutalist arena with branches reaching through the arcades. we look up as an entity - what looks like a flayed human with pipes knotted inside its chest cavity, twisting horns like a jester's hat, and washboards sticking out of its thighs - ascends.
October 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Connect Me, by @chaoticrobin.bsky.social and IODINE
free on logicallychaotic.itch.io/connect-me

"DO YOUR JOB, NOTHING ELSE."

werk simulator with grungy rusty color palette that switches between scribbly cubicle view and 3D isometric maps

CW: flashing lights, themes of self harm
September 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Zooparasite, by Mascot Bro Studio
store.steampowered.com/app/2954450/...

1st-person survival horror sewer delve in VHS/nightvision with lots of BUGS

BIG BUGS

BIG SPOOKY-SCARY BUGS

available on PC and consoles!

CW: if you have claustrophobia, entomophobia, or arachnophobia - beware
there is also at least one snek. a large snake slithers down a boarded-up corridor. Really Big roaches and maggots litter the floor. a dead guy in a hazmat suit is slumped against a table in the distance. another corridor, another dead guy in a hazmat suit. no glowstick needed here, thanks to one dim bulb.
September 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Face of Another, by @madbugstudio.bsky.social
store.steampowered.com/app/3272170/...

VERY icky and uncanny monster

solve puzzles with your smartphone

collectible phone cases! including A F*CKING FROG

CW: social media addiction, cyberbullying, identity distortion, flashing lights
a red stage in a black void, surrounded by red flowers and red butterflies. three tendrils extrude from a center-stage bathtub, each ending in a giant smartphone. each screen shows a different shot of someone sitting on a toilet in a dingy stall. a mannequin stands off to the side, watching you. the monster (or A monster) - a stringy-haired corpse wearing a living girl's face - stumbles after you in a grimy bathroom protagonist reads conversation with Sarah on their phone. Protagonist: Why did'nt you show up at school today? P: pleaase answer.. you are scaring me Sarah: No one will remember you
September 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Bleakhour, by AzaGameStudio
azagamestudio.itch.io/bleakhour

puzzly stealthy survival horror with "randomized audio cues and binaural surround sound"

visually, reminds me of Outlast with more inspired/superior enemy designs

currently on sale for $2.44

CW: gore, flashing lights
a dead patient's room; a HAPPY BIRTHDAY banner's strung on the blood-spattered wall above their corpse face to face with one of the crazed survivors of the mysterious virus - a straitjacketed fellow with stabbies attached to his free hand, headgear holding his mouth and eyes open another survivor attacks - this one a nurse with buggy eyes and a black mask stitched to her face
August 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Office After Hours, by @gameandcode.bsky.social
store.steampowered.com/app/3207300/...

an anomaly-spotting game with a Stanley Parable sense of humor, Office After Hours knows that overtime is the true horror

anomalies running the gamut from goofy to unnerving

yummy secrets

has a demo
your boss. stupid idiot's covered in post-it notes. good. a fire-and-brimstone hellscape, as opposed to the everyday office hellscape. sign in the foreground says "Shred all documents individually and on time!" your boss - now sporting ram horns - and a giant clock loom over the distant crags a storage room with dim greenish fluorescent lighting. dinosaur mask and a mug on the nearby shelves. graph paper on an easel reads, "Your collection," referring to the objects on the shelves. "Observe the Office (next room). Notice something strange? No > walk on. Yes > search for numbers OR collectibles. Walk back." "The way to the office," plus an arrow pointing to the office.
July 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Shoggo.th, by @apehardware.bsky.social

free on apehardware.itch.io/literal-doom...

tbh i can't describe this better than the dev:
"In eldritch Twitter, time wastes YOU."

a black and piss-yellow doomscrolling/post-saving simulator "denouncing the enshittification of social media"
a four-panel introduction/tutorial screen, illustrated with doodles. Panel 1: "Some days ago, you saw certain posts. You can't fully recall them, but for some reason you want to see them again." Panel 2: "This used to be a place of joy, but now it's been twisted. Horrible posts run rampant. Scroll away from them, leave them unseen." Panel 3: "Like a post to filter posts with similar tags. But beware, the algorithm is an unknowable beast." Panel 4: "When you find the posts you are looking for, save them. Beware, saving a wrong post will cost you valuable battery life. "Let's do this." Screenshot from Spanish translation. This post features an image of police in riot gear beating up a civilian. The post reads: "Nos arrestaron a mi y la pandilla por intentar alimentar a un Dios Antiguo con immigrantes. "¡Nos obligaron a PAGAR y DISCULPARNOS! Vivimos en una dictadura. "Al gobierno Lemuriano le importan más unos refugiados Atlánticos que su gente. "¡Nos están ROBANDO la libertad!" The sidebar reads: "Find posts about: "Someone running to Lemuria "How to harm the Mi-Go machine "Internal rebellion in Deepssia" This post features an image of swirly skies above a remote building. The post reads: "Eastern Mu's president, Jabato Milanesa, claims that Typhon's attack has nothing to do with the approved corporate extractions of Hades energy. Critics of the Milanesa Administration argue that the giant monster only attacked the factory."
July 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Out of Sight, by The Gang

store.steampowered.com/app/2526310/...

help young blind girl Sophie escape a sinister mansion in this 2nd-person Little Nightmares-like

has a demo
a hallucination, an illusion, or the shade of another unfortunate child? Sophie meets a purple-eyed child-shaped shadow at a hallway intersection. Teddy watches a too-tall too-long fellow in cozy slippers approach from down the hall Sophie explores an indoor playset
June 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Out of Hands, by Game River
store.steampowered.com/app/1839810/...

i'm a big big sucker for nightmarish collage imagery - started with Nightmare Ned as an impressionable yunglad, reinforced by Madoka Magica

card-based RPG where you have a face made out of hands OH SHIT THAT'S THE TITLE OF THE
world maps have sketchy ballpoint pen art style. this level is Campus In Memory, a school and its grounds. UI to the right reads Nightmare Level (10), Moon Coins (344), Inclination (a triangle with a blue dot in the lower left corner), Current Deck (17), and Max HP (25). a battle. you're on the bottom; your face (made of hands) is in the lower left, next to the cards in your hand. player is fighting False Goddess Venus, a broken stone head with black hands reaching out of the hole. player is attacking with Yellow Cup. hub is protagonist's apartment, with stop motion art style. protagonist - a person bandaged head to toe, wearing a bathrobe - is slumped in a chair. options include "Mirror of Faces," "Card Collection," "Achievements," and "Favorite Songs." more options available to the left and right, indicated by arrows.
May 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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in which i Extensively Yap about @shudder.com original THE DEAD THING
May 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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In Full Bloom, by @obleakgames.bsky.social
PWYC on obleakgames.itch.io/in-full-bloom

grimsical grayscale Tamagotchi with an eldritch horror

nurture "the mouth". watch it grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and

(this is a proof of concept; a full version is in development)
awww what a cute little mound-of-flesh-with-only-a-mouth-and-nothing-else growing in my garden next to my carrots and Large Gourds a sleepy little island town in the middle of some mountains that look a lot like tongues the mouth - now sporting two rows of teeth - has grown so large, it towers over those tongue-shaped mountains
May 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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OYASUMII, by @neoproject-st.bsky.social
store.steampowered.com/app/3033520/...

another knockout horror-explorer (although more first-person platformer than walking simulator) that dropped last month

PSX/N64 nostalgia trip set in Dream Quest Online, a game within a game
an underwater city inside a giant stone chamber a foggy hedge(?) maze with some blocky abstract architecture to jump on. message at the bottom of the screen says, "The art department needs to deliver the textures." looking through the window of a facility, you see a black void with rows and rows of eerie white masks
April 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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ENA: Dream BBQ, by ENA Team
first chapter free on store.steampowered.com/app/2134320/...

first game in Joel G's ENA series

looks like Gekidan Inu Curry's brains exploded and the mess squished into the shape of a first-person Yume Nikki-like - and I mean all that in the best way possible
a city beneath a sky of giant paving stones. a creature(?) floats above the street, attached to a crumbling building by giant veins (or maybe it's destroying the building, I'm not sure). the creature is like a giant lavender beaker with a hippo head instead of a neck, and the beaker body is wrapped in ribs and veins, and it uses the veins like tentacles. backstage. a matryoshka doll hangs from a hook. ENA's talking to... a little house with a giant thumbs-upping noodle arm snaking out of the front door. The house/arm says, "They can't kidnap our free will to go to the bathroom."
April 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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MROI, by @dosogy.bsky.social
free on dosogy.itch.io/mroi

originally an #lsdjam 2024 submission

3D Yume Nikki-like (or you know, LSD: Dream Emulator-like, hence LSDJam) meets 90s dementia anime (getting Serial Experiments Lain vibes)
the handy-dandy UI informs us we are dreaming, and this place is "fleshcity." protagonist is face-to-face with an androgynous angelic humanoid with red eyes, covered in electrodes. "THE PLACE IS: abandoned1" sure is. we're walking through a decrepit, abandoned, foggy city "THE PLACE IS: flesh" protagonist is inside a meatcave, face to face with an otherwise normal person whose face is a shadow full of eyes
April 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Look Outside, by @frankiepixel.bsky.social
store.steampowered.com/app/3373660/...

survival (emphasis on 'survival' - resource management aplenty) horror RPG with fantastic creature design - LOTS of icky monsters (over 150!) and multiple endings

stoked this got a full release!

CW: violence/gore
#me #mood #relatable (our exhausted protagonist stares at themselves in the mirror, preparing to brush their teeth) our protagonist out in the field, scrounging. about to run into one of Look Outside's more surreal monsters - a sort of centipede with "legs" and "feelers" made of human fingers, arms, and legs Look Outside's monsters lean towards surreal or ickynasty body horror. this monster falls into the latter camp - a man whose head has turned into an oozy toothy tumor (accompanied by his friends, other oozy toothy tumors).
April 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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America.
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In Lafayette, Indiana, a MAGA terrorist attempted to intimidate peaceful USians demonstrating against fascism. When his efforts failed, he returned with an AR rifle, threatening a massacre. He was briefly arrested and then released back into the community.
April 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Hey, do me a favour and get super excited about this please

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Get Ready for Liquid Steel
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April 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM