10 more point-and-click horror games to enjoy this spooky season (or any time, really)

You should all know by now that I love horror games and point-and-click games, and there’s no better combination for me than when the two are added together to form something puzzling yet horrifying. There are countless horror point-and-click adventure games out there to get lost in, and my first list of this type didn’t even scratch the surface. 

Plus, as always happens in the gaming world, more are constantly being released, and some quickly become favorites, so there’s always room for another list when spooky season approaches! Maybe this will eventually become a yearly tradition of rounding up new point-and-clicks, but for now, we’re still overlooking some classics.

With that in mind, here are 10 more spooky point-and-click adventures that will take you on a wild ride.

I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream

I cannot even begin to fathom how I omitted this absolute classic from 1996 from my original list, and I feel like I have no choice but to rectify that horrifying mistake with this one. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a deeply disturbing point-and-click game based on the novella of the same name, which I highly recommend reading if you haven’t already (it takes about 30 minutes but will stay with you forever). 

In I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, you play as five different characters who each navigate different locations, solving puzzles and facing up to very grown-up and emotional issues. You’re trapped by an absolutely insane computer called AM and forced to face the trauma brought on by his torture of you for over a century. 

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is less about jump scares and more about the terrifying reality of living with trauma. With the voice of the original author, Harlan Ellison, bringing AM to life, this is potentially the definitive point-and-click horror everyone should play at least once. 

Upstairs

Upstairs is a classic point-and-click adventure game with a dark, horror-adjacent twist, though it still retains those perfect comedic moments that we’ve come to expect from the genre. You are a child who was kidnapped five years ago and kept in a cage by a deranged woman who apparently has a little too much love for Britney Spears, and you need to escape. 

Thankfully, a series of bizarre and unlikely events come together to form your ticket to freedom. You can pick up items, including a severed head that’s inexplicably kept in the fridge, and use them to solve situational puzzles that all bring you one step closer to escaping the popstar-obsessed psycho holding you hostage. 

Upstairs was developed by Karellen Games and was released on March 20, 2026. The full game takes roughly two hours to complete, and there’s a lovely little taster demo to play on Steam as well. 

Rusty Lake Hotel

Rusty Lake Hotel is possibly my favorite of the tales woven by prolific point-and-click developers Rusty Lake. It’s a tale of five dinners at a middle-of-the-lake hotel owned by Mr Owl, and it’s your job to make sure every dinner is “to die for”. That’s not just a saying in Rusty Lake Hotel, either. One meal needs deer meat, and one of the guests is a deer. I’m sure you can see where this is going. 

I have to admit, as good as I usually feel like I am at point-and-click adventure games, some of the puzzles in Rusty Lake Hotel had me stumped for a good while, and that’s definitely not a bad thing. Half of the fun comes from the challenge of figuring them out, and the secret to creating the perfect meal could be hiding in plain sight. 

Rusty Lake has a bunch of point-and-click games to play if you’re looking for something to get you hooked, including two others in the Rusty Lake series: Paradise and Roots. If Hotel leaves you wanting more, plenty more weirdness awaits. All of them are available on Steam right now. 

Riddlewood Manor

Riddlewood Manor is a more cartoonish take on the horror genre, but don’t let that fool you; between the downright spooky weirdness that you encounter as you traverse the halls of the manor and the occasional well-timed jumpscare, this point-and-click adventure is definitely deserving of a place on this list. And then there’s Suzie. She’s a possessed doll, and I don’t think there’s anything creepier than that!

Stuck inside a haunted house that’s actively trying to take you out, you travel through the manor, solving puzzles that get not only progressively more challenging to complete, but also more bizarre. From trying to figure out how to get an egg out of a chicken so that you can enter the crypt to decoding demonic codices and picking up a side quest in advanced chemistry, there’s never a dull moment in Riddlewood Manor. 

Riddlewood Manor was released in October 2025, and you can go and play the full game now, which I highly recommend. There’s also a demo available if you want to see whether the puzzles are up your alley, and I’ve also written a handy guide for that demo if you happen to get stuck along the way.

House 2

The sequel to the 2020 game House, House 2 is the continued story of Tabby, trapped inside a house that wants to kill her while a nightmarish storm rages outside the windows. Admittedly, this is more of a control-and-click than a point-and-click (your mouse is useless to you here), but thanks to the inventory system and side-scrolling gameplay, House 2 retains a lot of the things that we know and love about point-and-click games.

Gameplay isn’t linear in House 2, with the story and setting changing based on your choices and actions within the game. There are multiple endings to discover and a seemingly endless time loop that’s designed to induce madness in poor Tabby. Unique deaths, of which there are many, are tracked, and there are moments of humor that break up the otherwise incredibly creepy experience. 

House 2 was released on August 28, 2026, so it’s pretty fresh and well worth playing this spooky season. There’s still a demo available to try if you want to get a feel for the world you’re about to step into, but be warned: you’ll soon get sucked in and want more!

The Girl in the Window

Another very recent release that earns a place on this list is The Girl in the Window. This delightful hand-drawn horror point-and-click is part of a collection of nine interconnected adventures by Dark Dome Studios that were all released on August 31, so there are plenty of spooky stories to keep you going if you venture down the collective Hidden Town rabbit hole. 

I could pick any of those games as the one to highlight, but The Girl in the Window is the very beginning of the tale, so I can’t recommend you start anywhere other than with this one. It takes place in a house that has apparently been abandoned for 20 years, so why is there a girl in the window? What happens kicks off a chain reaction of events and stories that overlap and twist within each other to tell the strange and wonderful tale of Hidden Town. 

Each game in the Hidden Town series is sold separately, so there’s no pressure to go through the tale in one long gameplay session. Instead, these lovely hand-drawn games are more bite-sized glimpses into a strange and confusing universe filled with puzzles and weird occurrences. 

Sanitarium

In Sanitarium, you’ve just survived a terrible car crash only to wake up in a deranged asylum with no memory of how or why you got there. It’s the definition of psychological horror, wrapped up in gorgeous pixel art, challenging riddles to solve, and a story that will have you entranced. The line between reality and madness blurs in this 1998 classic, and it’s beloved by many point-and-click fans. 

It’s hard to believe that Sanitarium is almost 30 years old (and also a horrible reminder of how old I’ve gotten), but with its 30th anniversary approaching, the game is being enhanced and rereleased for an entirely new generation. The new version has refreshed graphics, new content, controller support, and a lot of other upgrades, but the classic version remains a nostalgic experience for any point-and-click fan. 

Whether you want to play the original on Steam or wait for Sanitarium Enhanced to release at some point before the end of 2026, this is another staple of this genre blend that I think everyone should play at least once.

Slender Threads

If you’re looking for a horror point-and-click that still manages to capture the humor of classics like the Monkey Island series, then Slender Threads might be for you. With full voice acting and a gorgeously animated art style, Slender Threads is one of those point-and-click games that pulls you in and refuses to let go. 

After traveling to a small town called Villa Ventana to try to sell books he didn’t write, a struggling author called Harvey begins to uncover a strange and creepy truth about the place. The residents are either outright unkind or a little too kind; there are even strange masked people hiding in the bushes, and nothing seems to make any sense when you start to look below the surface. 

Slender Threads was released in February 2025, but it’s the perfect point-and-click for spooky season if you want something that will make you chuckle to yourself as much as it freaks you out. The full game is available on Steam, as well as a prologue you can play for free.

An English Haunting

Postmodern Adventures uses every tool in the paranormal entity rulebook to create something truly terrifying in An English Haunting, a ghost story set in 1907 England. It was a time of séances, creepy folktales being transformed into now-beloved classic tales, and endless fascination with the possible reality of the paranormal. That entire mindset has been pixelated and woven into what you see in An English Haunting. 

Despite not being a real-life location, 34 Benwell Street has become synonymous in my mind with ghosts and hauntings thanks to this point-and-click adventure. There are countless locations to explore (well, at least 60, but it’s difficult to keep track after a certain point), and well-known historical people to meet, including Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini. You can even read horror stories and dig through an archive of supernatural weirdness. 

An English Haunting is available to play in full on Steam. While you’re there, it’s worth checking out other Postmodern Adventures titles like The Dark Rites of Arkham, which is among my favorite games of all time. 

Bad Dream: Coma

Bad Dream: Coma is what would result if a sketchbook filled with questionable drawings came to life and trapped you within its pages. The deliberately minimalistic, monochromatic art style is only broken up by color when something horrible happens, making it stand out so much more inside the story as it plays out. 

Everything in Bad Dream: Coma is based on your choices and actions, with seemingly inconsequential choices early on changing the late-game story in huge ways. The story isn’t linear, either, with multiple branches, different endings, and secret content to discover along the way. When the developer says “you can’t die, but you can suffer”, they mean that in a very real and terrifying way. 

If you do go and play Bad Dream: Coma, there are two further tales in the series as well: Purgatory and Afterlife. All of them are available on Steam and waiting to leave you just a little bit more traumatized than you were before you played them.