Games That Interested Me During The Horror Game Awards 2025 Summer Showcase
Upcoming horror games to sink your teeth into
You can tell it’s showcase season right now, with how many are going on, how many games each one are showing, and how you don’t know that one happened until after they happened. Well guys, it’s going to be a busy week for me. As always, I’ll be linking to the showcase so you can check it out too. I’ll try to keep out duplicates too.
The Horror Game Awards 2025 Summer Showcase
High School Dirty Secrets is a horror/puzzle adventure where Kasuga wakes up locked inside her high school with no memory of how she got there. As she searches for a way out, strange and unsettling events unfold, leading her to uncover dark secrets hidden within the school’s walls.
Bye Sweet Carole is a chilling narrative-horror game inspired by classic animation movies and created by Chris Darril (Remothered series). Follow the last known whereabouts of Carole Simmons to uncover the dark truth behind the Bunny Hall orphanage.
SSR Wives: The Murder of my Winter Crush
SSR Wives: The Murder Of My Winter Crush Is an upcoming Retro Survival Horror experience that takes inspiration from iconic staples of the genre with the charming narrative intrigue of a Sound Novel. Atmospheric exploration, Challenging Puzzles, and Horrifying Combat encounters await!
Demo Available
The 18th Attic is a psychological horror game where you play as a man trapped in a loop, armed with an instant picture camera. Hunt down paranormal anomalies lurking around by taking their pictures and detecting their presence to unravel secrets of your past. Each photo unlocks a new memory.
Iris Dissolution is a classic survival horror game where you explore increasingly surreal places, manage scarce resources, and fight for your life against horrid creatures as you struggle to come to terms with loss.
Crawl down a suffocating cave system using only your arms in this punishing physics-horror adventure. What morbid force is calling you deeper into the heart of the caves?
Demo Available
Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!
Demo Available
Below, Rusted Gods is a narrative-driven horror game where you are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.
Coming June 12, 2025
After a long time in isolation, something appears inside your fridge. Satisfy the meat, or resist it.
Demo Available
This is the story of a girl who, by the will of fate, faced the beast – and in order to become free, she was forced to study its nature. A story-driven shooter with aggressive gunfights and terrifying monsters awaits you. How far can you go in the fight for your freedom?
Coming August 11, 2025 | Demo Available
Escape room meets co-op survival horror. The year is 1998, and an ancient curse has been unleashed, trapping everyone on Mount Bisik. Alone or with up to 4 players, you must explore, find clues, figure out a way to escape…and survive the horror.
Demo Available
You’ve Changed is like scary “spot the difference”. Observe changes in the environment and catch enemies before they attack in this retro-inspired, anomaly horror game! You’ve Changed features hand-animated rotoscoped enemy graphics and finely-tuned gameplay balance.
Demo Available
Welcome to Postal Sector 7. As the Night Shift Package Inspector, your job is simple: assess parcels and reject anything not up to code. Stay alert for anomalous dangers and survive long enough to meet your quota by 6AM.
Take on the role of a merciless torturer. Earn money from video transmissions of your torments and then buy new victims and torture tools to expand your prison.
Available Now
Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks.
Demo Available
Bad Cheese is a psychological horror inspired by the eerie charm of 1920s animation. Step into the tiny paws of a mouse spending the weekend at home with a dysfunctional Dad while Mom’s away. Be on your best behavior and KEEP DADDY HAPPY.
Can you survive your teacher in this psychological horror game? With only candles for light and trapped in her home, you have to uncover her family’s dark secrets. Solve puzzles, connect the dots and escape. But beware: There is someone else playing games with you, and someone who needs your help.
Demo Available
When a grocery list becomes a struggle to survive against cosmic horrors, will you make it through the door? Stay alive, solve the mystery and make your offerings – or end up on a missing person poster in this first-person, non-linear nightmare. But you’d better hurry, the store’s closing soon.
Demo Available
Devastated by a family tragedy, Sara and her son, Tom, seek a new start at Jagged Shore Cliff. However, their worst fear is waiting for them there.
Demo Available
Get immersed into a deep sci-fi psychological horror experience, where you’ll have to fight through your memories and emotions while reality blurs when you try to understand the disappearance of your wife 20 years ago, and the current whereabouts of your daughter.
True Nightmare – Roadside Cafe
Coming July 21, 2025 | Demo Available
Immerse yourself in an atmospheric psychological horror with a haunting VHS aesthetic. As a night-shift waitress at a secluded roadside café, serve strange patrons and feel mounting dread. Each night, the nightmare becomes more real, and someone is watching from the darkness. Can you survive?
Classic Survival Horror. Drawn to Ashen Point by a cryptic voicemail, Lyra returns to the island where her band’s story ended in tragedy. Shrouded in fog and prowled by horrors, confront deadly creatures, explore the desolate town, and reveal the truth behind the night that changed everything.
Stay With Me! Alien Abduction Story
Demo Available
In 1999, a young woman disappears in a nearby forest. Her whereabouts remain unknown to this day. The only trace of her is a VHS recording. Relive the last hours of her in an adventure of psychological terror, the decisions we make can have different results
The Occultist is a first-person narrative thriller. You play as Alan Rebels, a paranormal investigator who travels to an abandoned British island after his father’s disappearance. Explore GodStone island, face supernatural entities, and uncover long-buried occult rituals.
In the last known city on Earth, people are disappearing in their sleep. Those who remain exist in a crisis of reckless experiments to keep awake. You must navigate depraved death cults, otherworldly forces, and the ever-present horror of The HUSH, to save yourself and those who rely upon you.
Crisol: Theater of Idols is a first-person horror/action game set in Hispania, a twisted version of Spain. Play as Gabriel, a soldier who uses blood as both weapon and lifeline. Explore the cursed island of Tormentosa, uncover dark secrets, and battle horrifying enemies. Will you survive?
Grave Seasons is a narrative farming sim with a terrifying twist – someone in the town is a supernatural serial killer. Farm, romance, and investigate your way through the unsettling town of Ashenridge.
Demo Available
Tenebris Somnia is a 2D survival horror adventure game with live action cutscenes. Unveil the depths of a disturbing story by solving puzzles and fighting horrible creatures.
Coming July 17, 2025
A Pulp Adventure Thriller – A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point ‘n click thrill-ride.
Demo Available
LURKS WITHIN WALLS is a tense survival horror game that combines modern dungeon-crawling RPG with fast-paced turn-based combat. Explore cursed environments infested with creatures born from the haunted art of Trevor Henderson.
Disco-punk space horror where you can be a sneaky chap or a mutant action hero as you try to survive on a space station swallowed by a black hole. A mind-bending ride with weird creatures, immersive features, time jumps, and ’70s mustaches!
Darkbound is a survival horror game where you play as a cat. Avoid the darkness, solve puzzles and help other survivors to escape the hospital.
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