11 Top horror game for android
1. Murder Room
From the creators of Ellie comes another nerve-racking game. Murder Room is a scary room escape title with plenty of frightening moments. This adventure game can be played from a first-person perspective and has some of the most complicated puzzles you have ever come across.
Japanese-inspired room escape games can be very complicated at times and Murder Room validates this notion. In this game, you are trapped in a room with a chainsaw-wielding serial killer and the only way of escape is to interact with various elements and solve mind-bending puzzles. In several occasions, the inventory-based puzzles will leave you totally confused, which leaves room for trial and error, something which most point and click puzzles games are famous for. However, the ending is totally worth the hard work done.
Gameplay mechanic is similar to most room escape games. You tap an object, examine it and may even need to use it on another object to solve a puzzle. Many puzzles are not easy to solve and since they are not in any sequence, it may leave you stranded in the middle of the game. Thankfully, a hint system is available, but one may need to buy hints using in-game coins, which a player gets for free at the start of the game. The game also has a bonus story, which can be unlocked once the player completes the first one, although he may need to spend real cash to purchase it.
Murder Room has a unique visual novel-style graphics and excellent music/sound effects. The USP of the game is its gory horror, which surely will appeal horror fans. The game’s extremely challenging, something which seasoned puzzle gamers would love to see in a point-and-click horror adventure game.
Murder Room
2. Dark Meadow: The Pact
A survival horror game inspired by Bioshock, Dark Meadow has a post apocalyptic setting with a surprising fairy tale twist. The game pits you against a witch and her minions. You will be fighting against bloodthirsty goblins roaming the dilapidated halls of an abandoned hospital, seeking warm blood of the living. More fear strikes as you encounter a witch and eliminating her is the only way to escape the hospital.
A touch-centric game, The Pact boasts gesture-based controls that allow gamers to use their fingers while operating a crossbow or a sword. The controls are easy to master and quite fun, especially when hunting down scary creatures from a distance. One of the striking features of Dark Meadow is its stunning visuals. Based on the Unreal Engine 3, the game delivers an unmatched visual fest.
Dark Meadow is an exploration-based game and has some scary surprises in store for gamers. While exploring the haunted hospital, you will uncover several secrets, puzzles and weapons. You can even use in-game money to buy items and equipments that will help you survive the goblin onslaught. With amazing visuals, deep storyline and excellent gameplay, this survival horror game does not disappoint at all.
Dark Meadow: The Pact
3. Eyes: The Horror Game
Perhaps the first independent horror title developed for Android devices, Eyes is a spooky game played from a first-person perspective. The objective is to break into an abandoned haunted house, collect money and exit the mansion. The objective may sound easy, but wait till you confront the evil lurking in the house, and the evil entity is scarier than imagined.
Finding and collecting bags of cash isn’t easy. You will need to search for them inside wooden cupboards and safes, which can be opened with a key. So before grabbing bags of cash, you will need to find the correct key within the darkened rooms. Searching for keys in a dimly light environment can get creepier if you start hearing bloodcurdling sounds. Things get even more terrifying once you catch a glimpse of the entity and if it touches you, it’s game over.
The gameplay mechanics is like Slender, but takes place in a haunted mansion. Your best strategy to avoid contact with the ghost is to run as fast as you can until the entity stops chasing you. The scariest part of the game is how to tackle the ghost and avoid falling in his line of sight. There are those panic-inducing moments where you will feel you are being watched and look for a place to avoid getting caught by the spirit.
Eyes is the creepiest horror game you may have ever played, and the dark environment, together spine-with tingling sound effects can really scare the daylights out of you.
Eyes
4. Call of Cthulhu: Wasted Land
Call of Cthulhu: Wasted land brings classic Lovecraftian horror to your Android device. Combining RPG with turn-based strategy elements, the game breathes fresh air into the horror genre. The game’s WWI setting provides a perfect scary atmosphere for a Cthulhu mythos game. Inspired by H.P. Lovercraft’s Reanimator, Wasted Land pits a group of investigators against some of Lovecraft’s scariest monsters, including popular mythos creatures, spiders and zombies.
Wasted Land’s top-down perspective makes it look more like a team-based tactical game. You can control a team of investigators armed with WWI weapons, equipments and armor. The turn-based strategy sets the game apart from other horror games on Android. You can build your own team, equip them with your choice of weapons and use strategy to eliminate monsters.
The nice strategy/RPG combo throws up plenty of combat possibilities, forcing you to plan your moves before mythos creatures kill your team mates one by one. The monster weapons range from fearful spells launched from a distance to melee attacks by spiders and creepy critters. The game’s 3D visuals are good and the animation quite smooth. I liked the way the screen shakes when a scary spider hits a character.
The game’s full 3D visuals, awesome sound effects and eerie background music enhance play value, giving you plenty reasons to play it this Halloween.
Call of Cthulhu: Wasted Land
5. Mystique Series
Horror room escape games can give those panicky moments when you have all items required to escape a dilapidated hostel or hospital, but that one all-important item can’t be found in spite of searching every nook and corner of the room.
If you are fond of Android horror themed room escape games, then you shouldn’t miss the 3-chapter Mystique series. It has all those scary “moments” and can leave you totally helpless and confused unless you find all items quickly. The ghostly rooms in each chapter are filled with strange symbols, horrific entities and some really challenging puzzles to blow your mind.
Of all three chapters, the second chapter of Mystique series is the scariest and most confusing. There is no code for the safe and the doors are locked, making you a bit claustrophobic. You cannot escape unless you get all items and crack the safe. There’s also the constant feeling that someone’s watching you. All these can really give you scary jolts if played at night.
You can buy all three chapters or purchase them individually. For best results, play all three chapters starting from the first. There’s a creepy story in there and a creepier ending.
6. Dead Space Android
The Android version of Dead Space ratchets up the fear level by introducing those grotesque necromorphs to your mobile screen. It has over 5 scary environments infested with reanimated corpses. You will need to eliminate them using the most advanced weapons like the Core Extractor and Plasma Saw.
While you may have access to some of the most amazing weapons you have ever come across, there’s this constant fear of necromorphs attacking in large numbers. Using simple touch-based controls, you will need to tackle these clever monsters and be swift by simply swiping and tapping at the right moment.
Dead Space is designed for Android touch screen-based devices. The scare fest can be best experienced on a tablet device. The visuals are top-notch and the controls are smooth and easy to learn. The movie-quality sound effects and dialogues add more punch to gameplay. While playing, make sure you have put your headphones on to get the ultimate scary experience.
Dead Space Android
The Abandoned School
7. The Abandoned School
A creepy black-and-white survival horror game, The Abandoned School can get really scary if played with your headphones on. The scary background music and amazing photorealistic visuals can really send chills down your spine.
You play the role of a schoolboy desperate to solve the mystery behind the suspicious deaths of his girlfriend and brother. The point and click game mechanic allows you to explore classrooms, interact with objects, solve puzzles and unearth a shocking truth about his past memories associated with the abandoned school. The game also takes advantage of your Android device’s magnetic sensor. You can tilt or shake your phone to get past through obstacles.
The game can get really scary if you keep on wandering around the school corridors. To assist players, developers have posted a mini-walkthrough on the app page to provide some hints. However, I would recommend playing the game first and then using hints if you are really stuck. If you are into creepy room escapes, then you must play this game.
8. Bloody Mary
One of the very few, if not the only, augmented reality horror games on Android, Bloody Mary combines adventure game elements with a slick interactive novel. The game relies on your phone/tablet PC’s real-time clock to trigger events in game. A player may even catch a glimpse of a ghost if he points the phone at the right place and time. This unique gameplay feature makes your ghost-hunting experience extremely frightening.
Bloody Mary developers ensure players are glued to their phones by releasing free chapter updates. The game has multiple endings and each ending will be based on the choices made by a player. The real-time day/night cycle and the dynamic events will keep you at your toes, sometimes scaring the living daylights of you. It also has an in-game EMF sensor that lets you detect a scary entity by pointing your device at a spot in your area.
The slick graphics are all hand-drawn, giving a nice storybook look to the game. Make sure you play Bloody Mary when nobody’s around and it sure will scare the bejesus out of you.
Bloody Mary
9. Twisted Lands: Shadow Town
Twisted Lands is one of the scariest hidden object horrors I have ever played. Set in a remote town, the game teleports players to spine-chilling hidden object locales. The locations are too eerie to venture all alone and sports ghastly visuals of the dead and the unknown. The atmospheric music and sound effects complement well with each scene, giving a picture-perfect scary environment.
Unknown about the fears harbored by the island, a husband-wife duo set to explore Shadow Town, uncovering secrets and a shocking truth about the island. You will have to help the husband-wife team solve hidden object puzzles to survive the perils awaiting their doom. The game has around 80 locations and over 10 hidden object puzzles. All 80 locations have to be explored to unearth hidden clues that lead to the ultimate truth.
The Android version of Twisted Lands is designed exceptionally well for touch-screen devices. Finding objects can be fun, but it’s the mini-games that give a major twist to the game. If you like horror-themed hidden object games, then Shadow Town is the best bet.
Twisted Lands: Shadow Town
10. Into the Dead
Imagine surrounded by a bunch of zombies in a dark forest. All you can do is run or blast them using your assault rifle. Sounds scary! Into The Dead translates your deepest fears into a neat zombie survival game. The game combines endless runner mechanics with FPS and presents a scenario where you can either kill them or run for your life if the dead outnumber the bullets in your gun.
The atmospheric game puts you into the shoes of a survivor. You will need to help him escape from the zombie-infested jungles and fields. With no hope for rescue, you will need to help him get away from the infected either by running away from them or by eliminating them. Thankfully, there’s an assortment of unlockable weapons and items which you can use to your advantage to get rid of them.
Missions and mini-objectives reward coins, with which you can buy perks and weapons. The weapons reward you with some extremely gory scenes. Headshots are a treat to watch and so are special perks like exploding barrels that destroy a bunch of zombies at one go. You will find ammo while exploring (Read: running around for shelter) fields and forests.
Into The Dead is a good zombie survival game for a mobile device. The graphics and artwork are quite unique for a zombie game, with shadowy zombie artwork and gory scenes extremely well designed. A must-download if you are a fan of horror survival games.
Into the Dead
11. Elder Sign: Omens
Elder Sign brings the same old dice-based supernatural excitement to your touch screens. Due to the board game look and feel and lack of atmospheric visuals, the scare factor might be missing, but it’s an interesting game nonetheless. There are scary visuals and good, solid background music/sound effects that will send chills down the spine
Inspired by HP Lovecraft’s novelettes, the board game adaptation is set in a mysterious museum displaying arcane exhibits. Players need to don the role of an investigator and build a team to fend off the evil intentions of the ancient ones. The interactive map will help gamers explore the museum and face challenging tasks that will require intelligence and some luck. The dice-based gameplay is very reminiscent of the original board game, but there has been certain changes made to streamline and optimize mobile play.
Elder Sign Omens might not be the “scary game” you are looking for, but it can be a unique addition to your Android horror games collection. The game has an amazing depth, keeping you glued to your seats for hours.
All Screenshots, courtesy of their respective game developers. All games are available on the Google Play Store.
The Elder Signs: Omen
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