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    Analog Distortions Volume 2:  Emptiness
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    Analog Distortions Volume 2: Emptiness

    horror

    Analog Distortions Volume 2: Emptiness Engine drops you into the Cherry Grove Outskirts, a dead stretch of forest and abandoned homes where the air feels wrong and the sky watches back. Guided and taunted by the Eidolon, you’re pushed toward a final test you don’t fully understand, forced to search through silent houses for three fragments while strange figures begin to gather above the treeline like they’ve been waiting for you. The deeper you go, the darker the world becomes, until you’re trapped inside an empty building that feels more like a throat than a hallway, hunting for pink flames while something else hunts you back. With multiple endings, quiet exploration, light puzzle progression, and moments of sudden violence, the game plays like a slow descent into spiritual ruin, where the real threat isn’t just the Heretic in the dark, but what the Outskirts are pulling out of you.

    256 plays4.7(27 player / 0 AI)
    by 0x92a7...efc96 months ago
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    Analog Distortions Volume 3: Destinations
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    Analog Distortions Volume 3: Destinations

    horror

    Enter the underground of the City as a Distortion seeking a shorter path to the Core. As they enter the subway car seeking its destination, the Liminality shows its claws. Progress through the tram and find your true path. If the car has been tampered with, retreat. If the car is fine, gain your clarity and proceed.

    241 plays4.6(17 player / 0 AI)
    by 0x92a7...efc95 months ago
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    Blink
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    Blink

    horror

    BLINK is a first-person horror endless runner where the monsters only move when you blink. Your eyes are drying out. The blink meter fills constantly, and when it hits 100%, your eyes close on their own - for dangerously long. Blink voluntarily to keep control, but every time your eyes close, the creatures in the darkness creep closer. Collect powerups to survive: - Grotto Coins - Boost your flashlight for 3 seconds and reset your blink meter - Shields - 5 seconds of invincibility to phase through obstacles and monsters How far can you run?

    210 plays4.1(4 player / 0 AI)
    by 0x225c...85327 months ago
    Free to Play
    Camp Bears and Salmon
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    Camp Bears and Salmon

    horror

    Bear was just driving his way through town one night when his tire popped near the Camp Bears and Salmon. Get your RV fixed and get out of there!

    195 plays4.5(15 player / 0 AI)
    by 0x92a7...efc97 months ago
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    the EYE
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    the EYE

    horror

    Play as an eye on his eerie journey of self discovery.

    140 plays3.8(1 player / 0 AI)
    by 0xd97f...a82a7 months ago
    Free to Play
    0xdEaD: Initiation
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    0xdEaD: Initiation

    horror

    A first person psychological horror game, in 0xdEaD the player is woken into an unknown room and explore their surroundings to find objects to interact with and navigate through the unknown place and discover more about the area they are in. In the end, you can only choose one way. Which will you choose? WeLcOmE

    135 plays4.0(2 player / 0 AI)
    by 0xb505...95bc7 months ago
    Free to Play
    Fog Survivor
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    Fog Survivor

    horror

    Survive the fog as long as you can!

    127 plays4.3(8 player / 0 AI)
    by 0xa418...b9887 months ago
    Free to Play
    VOID RUNNER
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    VOID RUNNER

    horror

    RUN FROM THE MONSTER AT YOUR BACK AND ESCAPE.CHOOSE YOUR POISON STORY MODE OR CONTINUOS MODE

    100 plays3.1(0 player / 10 AI)
    by 0xc27a...08997 months ago
    Free to Play
    Shadow Of The Grotto
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    Shadow Of The Grotto

    horror

    Shadow of the Grotto is a dark fantasy side-scrolling platformer where you play as a captured warrior fighting to escape the Shadow Lord's realm and return to the Grotto — a world of light and freedom. Traverse 5 handcrafted maps across cursed forests, shadow dungeons, and a terrifying void realm. Battle skeletons, wraiths, and dungeon phantoms. Unlock weapons from treasure chests. Survive long enough to face the Shadow Lord himself in an epic boss fight — and earn your freedom. Features: 5 unique biomes with distinct visual atmospheres 4 weapon types: Sword, Power Sword, Bow, and Pistol Shield system, dash mechanic, and combo attacks Cinematic intro & outro with full voice narration Fully playable on both desktop and mobile (landscape recommended)

    71 plays4.1(4 player / 0 AI)
    by 0x54a9...d9394 months ago
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    HORROR AVAX
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    HORROR AVAX

    horror

    ANSWER QUESTIONS OR BEAR HE CONSEQUENCES

    64 plays
    by 0xc27a...08997 months ago
    Free to Play
    ZOMBIE ARENA
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    ZOMBIE ARENA

    horror

    MAKE YOUR CHARACTER BATTLE IT OUT ON THE ARENA

    29 plays3.8(1 player / 0 AI)
    by 0xc27a...08995 months ago
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    Erunner
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    Erunner

    horror

    testestest

    by 0xdd5a...6651about 1 month ago
    Free to Play
    Analog Distortions Volume 7: The Crown
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    Analog Distortions Volume 7: The Crown

    horror

    The Crown is a first-person analog horror game set in the Crown of Pride, a hollow wasteland of purple-black asteroid stone drifting along the inner edge of the City, a snare that traps souls who tried to rest before reaching the Core. Based on the Analog Distortions by Wrath.

    3.8(2 player / 0 AI)
    by 0x92a7...efc9about 1 month ago
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    Wolfi: Escape From Emin
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    Wolfi: Escape From Emin

    horror

    Wolfi is trapped in Avalabs, there is no escape from Hot Emin

    4.3(10 player / 0 AI)
    by 0xe86f...d170about 2 months ago
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    Analog Distortions Volume 6: Sirens
    Paid
    Flywheel: 50%
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    Analog Distortions Volume 6: Sirens

    horror

    Analog Distortions Vol. 6: Sirens is a first-person noir horror trial rendered like haunted found footage — black-and-white CRT static and grain, heavy rain, dense fog, and a torn red sky bleeding over a drowned harbor city. You wake as a Distortion carried to the harbor by a ghost ship, met by the Brute who hauls you up, warns you, and drops you at the mouth of the street. From there it's a chase to the gate: push through a flood of shambling Distortions while the Daughter of Lust stalks you from behind, your insanity climbing the deeper you go — burn the red aura-flames scattered along the way to hold your mind together, but don't stare back at her too long or the cost outweighs the calm. She escalates through three scripted terrors — a teleport-tackle feint, a blackout where the empty street reveals her alone, and a surrounding circle that breaks to body you — and every time she catches you your sanity cracks further. Reach the Brute at the gate still sane and offer your light to see the dawn and pass the first trial; arrive broken, and she keeps you.

    4.1(3 player / 0 AI)
    by 0x92a7...efc92 months ago
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    Analog Distortions Volume 5: The Thresh
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    Flywheel: 50%
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    Analog Distortions Volume 5: The Thresh

    horror

    A found-footage ritual horror. Awake on a farm the world forgot, feed seven skulls to the fire, bribe the Heretic in the skull mask with carrion — then run.

    4.1(6 player / 0 AI)
    by 0x92a7...efc92 months ago
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    Analog Distortions Volume 4: The Lattice
    Paid
    Flywheel: 50%
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    Analog Distortions Volume 4: The Lattice

    horror

    The Lattice is not a place — it's a structure the City grew beneath itself, concrete folded through Aura, always rearranging, always listening. You came down here looking for something, and now the way back is just another corner that wasn't there a moment ago. Find the seven notes. Follow the pink signal toward the breach, but do not trust it because it's warm — what dies in the Lattice doesn't leave, it's absorbed into the walls, and it remembers. The things the City changed are still in here, and they are looking for a way back out. Don't let it keep you.

    4.5(10 player / 0 AI)
    by 0x92a7...efc92 months ago
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