14 Horror Game For Iphone

1. Papa Sangre

Sound always plays a key part in almost all atmospheric horror games. It enhances your scare experience. But what if a game is entirely dependent on sound and still gives you the creeps? Papa Sangre does exactly that. It gives you a unique scare experience with the help of realistic 3D audio (binaural audio for geeks).

There’s complete darkness. You may not want to venture deep into the abyss, but you will need to escape this labyrinth. You will need to listen carefully and pick the right cues to avoid obstacles and scary entities. While your ears play a key role, you will also need to make use of the touch screen. Using your fingers, you will need to simulate a run, a walk or a stealthy sneak. A scary growl or an eerie laughter might force you to run so as to avoid any contact with ghosts.

Environmental sounds add more to the scare-fest. The water splashes, surface sounds and other effects are quite immersive and scary. Papa Sangre works best when you put on your headphones. The 3D surround sound truly gives you a creepy experience.

Year Walk

2. Year Walk

Year Walk is an eerie game. It’s spooky, panic-inducing and totally weird. Inspired by a Swedish myth, the game lets you explore a mysterious forest inhabited by the strangest of creatures you have ever seen. All creatures are straight from Swedish mythos.

Roaming around the dark woods is the scariest part, as there isn’t any map to guide you back home. You will need to solve cryptic puzzles to get hints. The creatures you will encounter on your journey are quite weird. To know more about each creature and its traits, you can download an encyclopedia app called Year Walk Companion, which is developed by the same developers. The creatures listed in the application have roots in Swedish mythology.

Year Walk’s graphics are a piece of art. The lighting effects, snowy background, quasi 3D objects and characters are beautifully done. There are no gory visuals, but the environment + sound effects and the eerie dark forest will make your skin crawl. If you are looking for a spooky game with stunning graphics, then you should download this game. Note: Play this game with your headphones on, on a cold winter’s night for maximum scare-fest.

3. Kowa Oto

The Japanese horror genre of games is known for its eeriness. From movies like Ringu and The Grudge to games like Fatal Frame and Siren, J-Horror titles can scare the daylights out of you. For iPhone, there are hardly any scary J-horror games.

The one that immediately comes to mind is Kowa Oto. It is an audio-centric game, much like Papa Sangre, but includes creepy visuals. Combining realistic 3D sound effects with frightening graphics, the game guarantees enough scares to keep you awake all night.

One of the scariest characters is a petite wooden doll who follows you randomly, almost anywhere. She can wade through the sewage waters and launch a surprise attack.

In Kowa Ota, environmental sound effects and plenty of surprises make gameplay scarier than other titles. The game is a must-buy, if you are looking for something spooky this Halloween.

4. The Woods

The Woods is a psychological horror game played from a first-person perspective. It has a familiar haunted forest setting, which reminds me of movies like the Blair Witch Project. The open-world system easily makes you feel totally alone, helpless and lost inside a creepy forest.

In The Woods, you step into the shoes of a rookie paranormal investigator who’s tasked to stop demons inhabiting the forest. To stop them, you will need to help him collect the lost pages of a ritual book. But your adventure won’t be too easy as demons lurk around every corner, ready to destroy your goals. To avoid them, you will have to use a flashlight, your only weapon to shoo them away.

The Woods gameplay can be best experienced on an iPhone with retina display. The graphics look stunning on new versions of iOS devices. However, that doesn’t mean you cannot play on older devices. iPhone 4 users may try this game on their device, but the visual experience will not be as awesome as compared to the graphics on iPhone 5.

5. Ellie: Help Me Out Please

Ellie is a free horror-themed room escape puzzle game. The goal is to help a teenage girl escape from an abandoned house. In this game, you enter a scary-looking house and find a TV monitor. Upon switching it on, you see a hapless girl trapped inside a prison-like cell, seeking your help.

You will need to help her escape the cell by finding items and cracking numerical codes. There are some unsettling surprises and plenty of mind-boggling inventory-based puzzles. A must-play, if you ask me, not only for the scares, but also for the challenging puzzles it presents.

Forever Lost

6. Forever Lost

Forever Lost brings classic horror-themed point-and-click adventure game to your iPhone. The atmospheric game takes you to some of the spookiest locales, each beautifully drawn to make gameplay more immersive. The game’s unique feature is a virtual camera that lets you take pictures of clues. You can also scribble text on photos using your stylus.

Like any traditional point-and-click adventure game, Forever Lost lets you solve plenty of inventory-based cryptic puzzles. The more rooms you discover, the spookier it gets. The puzzles are smartly devised, but can be solved on a trial-and-error basis. The auto-save feature saves you from exploring rooms and solving all puzzles right from the start.

Forever Lost is one of the best adventure games to date. It shows that point-and-click adventure games haven’t died yet and have found a new home – the mobile space – to entice hardcore adventure fans.

Slenderman

7. Slenderman: Unknown Chronicles

One of the creepiest fan-made horror games on iPhone, Unknown Chronicles features the same old spooky forest, but has new game modes. The visuals are enhanced for newer versions, making it look weirder and immersive than ever before.

Like most Slenderman games, Unknown Chronicles has a random setting ready for you each time you play a new game. The procedural engine is revamped, giving you jump-scares of the lifetime.

Played from a first-person perspective, this game drops you inside a bunker, where you struggle hard to keep your torch alight. But the battery keeps running low and you will need to venture out into the dark to find an energy source. The objective is to collect batteries by exploring the procedurally-generated forest and quickly return to your bunker, but make sure you don’t bump into a tall, faceless guy.

8. Dead Runner

Dead Runner is inspired by Cannabalt, but it’s scarier than the original. You will need to run as fast as you can, while avoiding trees. Death is inevitable if you hit a tree. The spooky forest setting adds more scariness to the entire run-fest. As you run a few kilometers, the game automatically increases the difficulty, and the forest becomes denser, making it difficult for you to avoid branches.

Using iPhone’s accelerometer, you will need to tilt your phone at the right moment to avoid hitting trees. The game can really be quite fast-paced, giving you minor heart-attacks as you race past trees in a never-ending journey.

Dead Runner has two game modes – one gives you points for the farthest you run and another is a free-form mode that rewards you for avoiding trees. The game does not have any creatures, monsters, but it

9. Fallen Ep 1

Fallen (Episode 1) is one of the best survival horror games on iPhone. If you like Resident Evil-style games, then you should not miss this horror title. The 2.5 D horror title presents some of the scariest enemies to fight against. The dark prison setting looks like a slaughter arena and the unforgiving enemies ready to slay anyone who gets trapped inside.

Fallen EP 1 takes advantage of every iPhone feature, including touch screen and the accelerometer. There are accelerometer-based puzzles as well as challenging inventory-based puzzles à la Resident Evil. Plenty of scary moments can make your skin crawl. For a better scare experience, make sure you have a pair of earphones.

10. Hysteria Project 2

Hysteria Project 2 is an iPhone adventure horror game with photo-realistic visuals. It utilizes the phone’s motion sensor, giving you a full 360 degree view of your surroundings. HP 2 is more of a psychological horror than traditional horror. You not only have to encounter scary characters, but also have to pass through laser traps and flame snares.

Solving environmental-based puzzles is a part of the game as they play a key role in helping you uncover a deep secret hidden within the haunted hospital premises. With plenty of mysteries, puzzles and strange characters to meet, Hysteria Project offers many nail-biting moments.

11. Prisoner 84

Prisoner 84 is a thrilling prison escape game for iOS devices. The game combines survival horror elements with action and adventure. You step into the shoes of a prison inmate desperate to escape the heavily guarded Tryton prison. You will need to avoid all obstacles, fight insane inmates, solve puzzles and get through the world' most heavily-guarded security.

The game gets challenging when you cannot find the right items to unlock prison doors or find it difficult to get the right code combinations for cracking password-protected doors. While Prisoner 84 isn’t a typical horror game, it can really give those jump-scare moments you would expect from an action-packed prison escape movie.

12. NY Zombies

NY Zombies will remind you of classic arcade shooter games like The House of the Dead and Vampire Night. The game has a fixed-screen view; allowing players to rotate the screen using the device’s accelerometer when zombies rush in to attack you. Taking advantage of the touch screen, players need to tap on a zombie to eliminate it.

The game has a nice assortment of weapons that will help you get rid off the undead. But things can get creepier when a large wave of zombies charge at you. You will need to be quick in eliminating them and at the same time be good in managing weapons and items. Dark places will require you to light a flare to get a clear view of incoming zombies.

Lighting a flare, using the right weapon to eliminate the undead and bullet management are important survival tactics needed to get rid of all zombies. You will also need to save survivors, and all these aspects really enhance Ny Zombies’ play value. A must-buy, if you are a shooter/survival horror fan.

13. Soul

Soul's simple hand-drawn visuals and frightening sound effects can give you Goosebumps. You will need to guide a dead man’s orb-shaped soul through challenging mazes. There are plenty of scary places to visit, including a moratorium, treacherous seas, stormy places and scary underground sewers.

The game might look like a simple maze title, but the creepy sounds at the background can really make your skin crawl. Soul takes advantage of the accelerometer, ensuring a fun tilt-based gameplay. While it isn’t quite as scary as other iPhone horror games mentioned in this list, it is pretty spooky, especially if played after dark.

14. Silent Hill: The Escape

The dark corridor is one of the scariest aspects of the original Silent Hill game. There’s only a flickering torchlight to guide you, but all of a sudden you hear the static sound, indicating some scary entity nearby. All these can be experienced on your iPhone. The same eerie darkness, flickering torchlight and the creepy static radio sound is something to look for in Silent Hill: The Escape.

Developers have really tried their best to recreate the Silent Hill experience on a mobile phone. And they have done exceptionally well. But since the processing speed and other aspects of a mobile cannot be compared to a game console or a high-end PC, there are some limitations.

Silent Hill: Escape is shooter-centric, which means there isn’t any object interaction or inventory-based puzzles. Of course, there’s the same corridor maze (yep the one that really made you claustrophobic in the original game), but many aspects are missing. Still, at the price of $0.99, this game is a steal and an excellent pastime to look forward to this Halloween.