25 Best Mobile Horror Games: Top Scary Games on iPhone and Android

Our 25 Best Mobile Horror Games list will help you find something scary to play as we approach Halloween. We’ll include games from a range of different genres to suit different needs, so not everything on this list will shower …

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Our 25 Best Mobile Horror Games list will help you find something scary to play as we approach Halloween. We’ll include games from a range of different genres to suit different needs, so not everything on this list will shower you with jump scares. Some of them might just have horror themes.

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Bendy and the Ink Machine is a terrifying first person horror puzzle experience in which you play as retired animator Henry, who revisits his old studio to find that one of his characters, Bendy, has returned to life.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Corpse Party

Corpse Party is a terrifying survival horror franchise that takes place in a high school, offering lengthy horrifying adventures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKCN73o8Js4\u0026t=8s

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Dead Effect 2

Dead Effect 2 is a first person shooter in which you’ll take out hordes of zombies with a wide variety of weapons.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Distraint

Distraint is a terrifying point and click adventure that challenges you to solve a bunch of puzzles in a variety of horrifying environments.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Don’t Starve

Don’t Starve isn’t strictly a horror game, but try not to feel scared when striving to survive a single night in this dark world. We dare you.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

DOOM

The original DOOM is on mobile now, and it’s not strictly scary. Still, if you fancy murdering a bunch of demons it doesn’t get better than this.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Five Nights at Freddy’s

If you really want to experience fear, you simply have to download Five Nights at Freddy’s. It’s got some of the scariest jump scares in the industry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPONdZBh6s\u0026t=6s

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Granny

Granny is like a free Hello Neighbour. You have to survive in her house by avoiding her, hiding in wardrobes or under the bed. Scary stuff.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Hello Neighbour

Hello Neighbour challenges you to sneak around your murderous neighbour’s house without getting caught, trying to find evidence of any wrongdoings.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Home

Home is a pixelated horror adventure that changes based on your decisions. That makes this one of the most replayable options on this list.

Get it on the App Store.

Identity V

Identity V is a multiplayer horror game in which four players play as the survivors, and one as the murderer. It’s pretty self-explanatory what happens next.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Inside

Inside is the unsettling latest game by Limbo developer Playdead. These guys are the masters of unnerving adventures.

Get it on the App Store.

Into the Dead 2

Into the Dead 2 does exactly what it says on the tin, challenging you to charge headfirst into hordes of the undead as you strive to survive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SxSFPYvSS0\u0026t=4s

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Layers of Fear: Solitude

Layers of Fear: Solitude is a first person adventure that’s also available on PS4, so if you fancy something highly polished, this is the one for you.

Get it on Google Play.

Limbo

If you haven’t played Limbo yet, you should really correct that. This unsettling adventure was one of the first big games to really kick off the new indie game trend.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Lost Within

Lost Within is yet another first person survival horror adventure, but this one was built from the ground up for mobile by Amazon itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXTJrYuBPC0

Get it on the App Store.

Night Terrors

Night Terrors uses the power of AR to shove terrifying ghosts and the like into the real world. Good luck playing it without weeing your pants.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Oxenfree

Oxenfree is a Stranger Things-esque horror adventure in which you play a group of kids who accidentally unleash horrors into the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAhrOoNR4ng\u0026t=25s

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Rest in Pieces

Rest in Pieces is the horror equivalent of an endless runner. You have to swing a porcelain figure back and forth as you strive to avoid a bunch of horrifying creatures.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Rusty Lake

Rusty Lake might look cute, but it’s actually really unsettling stuff. If you like point and click adventures and horror games, this is the choice for you.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Slayaway Camp

Slayaway Camp lets you take charge of your favourite horror movie murderers as you strive to kill innocent civilians puzzle-style.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

The Room

The Room is one of the finest mobile puzzling franchises of all time, and it includes horror elements.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is a narrative adventure that takes place in the hit graphic novel universe.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Unkilled

Unkilled is an online zombie shooter by Madfinger. If you like shooting zombies alongside other players, check it out.

Get it on the App Store or Google Play.

Year Walk

Year Walk makes great use of the mobile platform to tell a horrifying story chock full of puzzles to solve.

Get it on the App Store.

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Glen has over a decade's worth of experience in gaming journalism, writing for Pocket Gamer, Pocket Tactics, Nintendo Life, and Gfinity. When he's not badgering everyone about the dangers of passive text, you can probably find him playing Wild Rift.