Image Credit: Bethesda
Forgot password
Enter the email address you used when you joined and we'll send you instructions to reset your password.
If you used Apple or Google to create your account, this process will create a password for your existing account.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Reset password instructions sent. If you have an account with us, you will receive an email within a few minutes.
Something went wrong. Try again or contact support if the problem persists.
Animatronic in Five Night's at Freddy's
Image via Scott Cawthon, Scottgames, Clickteam LLC USA

Top 10 Best Mobile Horror Games

Horror games on mobile devices just hit different.

Everybody loves playing games on their mobile devices due to their simplicity and convenience, but playing horror games on mobile takes it to a whole other level! If you love being terrified in public, you need to jump on the mobile horror game bandwagon. If you’ve been wanting to get down on some mobile horror but aren’t sure where to start, you’re in luck! This is a comprehensive list of the best mobile horror games ever created!

Recommended Videos

Top 10 Best Mobile Horror Games

Granny

Granny Title Screen
Image via DVloper

The low graphics aren’t the only scary thing about this game! Despite the graphics quality, Granny is a mobile horror game that’s been gaining some major popularity in recent years. Granny is a horror game about trying to escape “Granny”, the corpse-like horror in a nightgown that won’t stop trying to kill you.

You are, for whatever reason, trapped in this gruesome monster’s house, and you must solve puzzles and piece together mysteries if you ever hope to escape. The subpar graphics help take away some of the creepiness of the game, but that’s almost a blessing given how unexpectedly creepy and tense this game is! Granny is one of the best mobile horror games on the market, and not only because this game is completely free!

Five Night’s at Freddy’s

Animatronic in Five Night's at Freddy's
Image via Scott Cawthon, Scottgames, Clickteam LLC USA

Everyone knows Five Nights at Freddy’s, but not everyone knows that this game was developed for mobile! Now you can carry this cursed, horrible experience with you everywhere you go! Five Nights at Freddy’s is so popular that it almost doesn’t need an introduction, but for those of you who are unaware, the original Five Nights at Freddy’s game goes like this: you’re a newly hired guard working the night shift at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, an animatronic-themed pizza restaurant.

As you make your way through your miserable shift, you begin to notice the animatronics moving on their own on the security cams, and they’re coming for you! You can only defend yourself or die in Five Nights at Freddy’s, play the game to discover how you’ll react against these creepy killers!

Related: Can You Play Disney Dreamlight Valley on Mobile on Touch Tap Play

Dead by Daylight: Mobile

Dead by Daylight on Mobile
Image via Behaviour Interactive

Dead by Daylight is a massively popular multiplayer horror game developed for multiple platforms, but it’s a little-known fact that this game was also developed for mobile! The controls are a little different on mobile, obviously, but the game still plays just as well as it does on other consoles.

Dead by Daylight is a 4v1 survival horror game, in which you can play as one of the four survivors, or the killer hunting them down! There’s nothing scarier than running from a ruthless killer in a video game, especially if that killer is being played by one of your friends! Dead by Daylight is definitely one of the scariest mobile horror games you can invest in.

Fran Bow

Fran Bow Creepy Screenshot
Image via Killmonday Games

Fran Bow was extremely popular after its release in 2015, but it’s one of those games that you barely ever hear of anymore, despite its good quality. Fran Bow is about a young girl named Fran, who has been irrevocably traumatized from seeing her parents dismembered in her childhood home. Armed with only her debilitating mental disorder and her cat, Mr. Midnight, Fran desperately escapes to the surrounding woods to find some answers.

Instead of finding answers, however, Fran finds herself waking up in an oppressive mental asylum, with no sign of Mr. Midnight! The only way to freedom and safety is by escaping the Asylum, finding Mr. Midnight, and finding her aunt Grace, her only living relative. This game is truly a wild and terrifying ride from start to finish, you need to play Fran Bow if you get the chance!

Potato Thriller

Potato Thriller Trailer Screenshot
Image via Samer Khatib (Snowconesolid Productions)

This game is more comedic than horrifying, but it’s a nice break from all of the terrifying games out there that take themselves too seriously. Potato Thriller is about Potato Man, the infamous serial killer that’s notorious for deep frying his victims in boiling oil to kill them.

In the game, you’re part of a bounty-hunting team that’s received an anonymous tip on the whereabouts of this ruthless serial killer, so you set out to end the reign of Potato Man once and for all. Potato Thriller is one of the best comedic mobile horror games ever created, and it’s completely free, so you have no reason not to check it out!

Related: Top 5 Best Weird Dating Sims

Hello Neighbor

Hello Neighbor Coming Down the Stairs
Image via Dynamic Pixels

Everyone’s heard of Hello Neighbor on PC, Xbox, and Playstation, but not many have heard about this horror game on mobile. Hello Neighbor is a creepy stealth horror game that’s just as creepy on mobile as it is on other platforms, thankfully (or unthankfully). Playing this game on mobile will have you checking behind your shoulder for every little noise you hear!

Hello Neighbor is a stealth-based horror game that’s about sneaking into your freaky neighbor’s house to see what horrors he’s hiding in his basement. While you’re in his house, you have to avoid your crazy neighbor (yes, he’s home while you’re snooping) and discover all the suspicious and terrifying secrets he’s hiding. Put together puzzles, navigate through the labyrinthine home, and avoid creatively laid traps set by your neighbor in this horrifying mobile experience!

Limbo

Limbo Screenshot
Image via Playdead Studios

Limbo is less scary and more creepy/horrifying. This game starts you off with an overwhelming sense of dread that only grows the further you get in the game. Limbo is entirely in black and white and, despite this, has amazing graphics that won’t let you tear your eyes away from the screen for even a second!

This gripping story begins with the protagonist, a nameless boy, waking up in the middle of a forest at the “edge of hell”. You have to defeat horrifying monsters, solve frustrating puzzles, and endlessly walk to find your lost sister and your own peace. Throughout the game, players are given hints and clues as to what happened to the boy and his sister, and what place they’ve ended up in. It’s definitely not a place anyone wants to stick around in for long, so the sooner you can get out of that colorless hellscape, the better!

The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land

The Walking Dead No Man's Land
Image via Next Games

If you’re a fan of the popular TV series The Walking Dead, then you’ll love this mobile horror game! The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land is an official Walking Dead video game that was created based on the TV show. Not only is this nightmarish experience a horror game, but it’s also a survival and action game as well, so it’s the perfect choice for those who find themselves bored with most mainstream horror games!

Survival is much more difficult in this game than in other horror games; not only will you have to worry about surviving the apocalypse, but you’ll also have to worry about surviving constant attacks from zombies, mother nature, and even other fellow survivors! The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land isn’t an easy game by any means, but it is definitely worth playing if you’re up to the challenge.

The Baby in Yellow

The Baby in Yellow in a Crib Screenshot
Image via Team Terrible

Based on the title and the screenshot, you may think this game is about a harmless baby who is in no way scary, but you’d be wrong. You’ll never look at babies (or the color yellow) the same way ever again after playing The Baby in Yellow on mobile! In this game, you play as an unsuspecting babysitter who has been hired to take care of a small baby in an unassuming apartment.

This situation may seem normal on the surface, but there is definitely nothing normal about this baby! Once the baby starts levitating, making demonic summoning circles appear, and trapping lost souls into all of his toys, you begin to understand that you’re not dealing with a human baby; you’re dealing with a demon. It’s up to you whether you carry on with your babysitting duties regardless, or if you put an end to this demonic nightmare once and for all!

Slaughter Horse

Slaughter Horse Title Screen
Screenshot via Catsmeat Studios

Slaughter Horse is an incredibly unique, criminally underrated horror game that honestly doesn’t get enough credit. Slaughter Horse has a bit of an admittedly silly premise, but the game’s immersive detective elements and the flawless execution of the plot make you forget about the silly premise entirely. This delightfully horrible mobile game is a murder mystery game that features animated ponies! Slaughter Horse is the My Little Pony horror game that no one asked for but was blessed with anyways!

In Slaughter Horse, you play as Captain Silvermane, a brave pony sent by the Princess of the Sun herself to a remote village to investigate terrifying reports of murder and dark magic. Once you get there, however, you realize that the situation is much direr than first suspected; nearly all of the towns-ponies are already dead, and it’ll be nearly impossible to figure out which ponies are innocent, and which are guilty. It’s up to you to get to the bottom of this grizzly mystery before it’s too late!

Almost everybody has a mobile device, which is why mobile games are so important! Whether you don’t have any gaming consoles or you just like to carry your games with you everywhere, mobile games are truly some of the most well-platformed games on the market. If you love playing games on your phone but mobile horror games aren’t your thing, try playing mobile co-op games with your friends!

Author
Image of Allysen Pierce
Allysen Pierce
Allysen Pierce is a freelance writer with a passion for gaming who has been a part of the Gamer Journalist team since May 2022. Her main passions are horror games and dating sims (especially combinations of the two), but she has been known to play literally anything that is put in front of her. Her current favorite games include Skyrim, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Cult of the Lamb, Slaughter Horse, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. When she's not playing games (or writing about them), she can be found reading, baking, watching horror movies, or playing with her cat.