horror rpgs

Mad Father

Aya Drevis is a young girl living in an isolated mansion in northern Germany. Since her mother's passing, she's felt lonely living with just her father and his assistant Maria. What's more, having heard the screams from the basement, she knows her father's secret...

Mad Father takes place in northern Germany, where the 11-year-old protagonist Aya Drevis lives with her father Alfred and their maid Maria. Aya is a shy girl who never goes outside. Her mother, Monika Drevis, was incredibly ill, and presumably died of illness before the occurrence of the game. Her father performs secret research in his laboratory in the house's basement, with the assistance of Maria. Aya is aware that Alfred experiments on and kills humans in the basement, as well as the fact that he is involved in an extramarital affair with the younger Maria, a former homeless woman he had taken off the street some years prior.

On the anniversary of Monika's death, the very beginning of the game, Aya awakens at midnight to find herself surrounded by test subjects that escaped from the laboratory. Fleeing back into her room, Aya encounters the mysterious salesman Ogre, who offers her the task of solving puzzles to break into her father's laboratory and uncover his secret. Aya discovers that her father had intended to perform taxidermy on her and convert her into a doll, as he had done to numerous other children, having been enamored with preserving humans after having killed his own mother as a youth. Aya soon discovers that her father killed her mother in fear of her mother taking Aya away to prevent him from performing taxidermy on her.

Ib

A young girl named Ib visits an art gallery with her parents. While observing the many exhibits, she suddenly realizes she is alone. And in her search for others, she finds things awry in the gallery...

Ib is visiting an art gallery with her parents when a sudden power outage ensues, the gallery's doors lock, and other visitors, including her parents disappear. Guided by a trail of paint splatters, she is lured inside another painting and finds herself within a surreal painting-like "fabricated world". Making her way through the otherworldy realm, she comes across a collapsed figure on the ground. After successfully reviving him, the figure introduces himself as Garry. Like her, he is also trapped inside the gallery, and the two resolve to escape together.

Later on, they encounter Mary, an eccentric girl around Ib's age, who joins the group. Soon after, the group gets separated by an emerging wall of vines, leaving Garry isolated. The player's perspective alternates between Garry and the duo, and the former uncovers the true nature of Mary as a painting and the game's antagonist. As Garry finally catches up with the pair, Mary turns hostile but is fought off, and the other two escape.

Misao

It's been three months since the mysterious disappearance of Misao. No one has any idea where she could have gone, but many believe she's dead by now. And when paranormal events crop up around the school, rumors spread that she's out for revenge..

Three months ago, Aki's classmate, Misao, disappeared. She was very calm and reclusive, often the target of bullying. One day during school, Aki starts to hear Misao's voice in the middle of class, scaring her classmates; Aki's best friend Ayaka, mature and reserved student Kudoh, the school jock Tohma, Tohma's girlfriend Saotome, leader of the bullies Yoshino, and popular teacher Sohta.

Then, the school starts shaking and Aki loses consciousness. When she awakens, she finds out from student council president "Onigawara" (who is actually Ogre from Mad Father) that the school has been dragged into another dimension by Misao's spirit, and that demons are terrorizing and killing the students. Onigawara enlists Aki in solving Misao's death by finding her scattered body parts throughout the school to perform a ritual and confronting her classmates.

OFF

In "OFF" you take control of a mysterious person called "The Batter", who is described to be on an important mission. The Batter, and yourself as his controller, are dropped off in zone 0, the first of 4 zones in a perplexing, unknown world about which you slowly find out more and more in the process of the game.

The player (who is referred to directly) assumes control of the Batter, a man in a baseball uniform on a "sacred mission" to "purify the world". After receiving guidance from a talking cat called The Judge, The Batter begins to make his way through four locations known as Zones, killing malevolent ghost-like creatures called "spectres" in order to "purify" the Zone. Each Zone is under the direct administration of a Zone Guardian, Dedan (Zone 1), Japhet (Zone 2), and Enoch (Zone 3). In order to purify the Zone, the Batter kills the Guardians as he progresses. After the purification of each Zone, scenes of a sick boy named Hugo are shown, who continues to grow weaker as The Batter progresses.

Throughout The Batter's quest for purification, he interacts with the game's mask-wearing merchant, Zacharie, who provides the Judge and The Batter with cryptic hints. The Batter's only companions throughout the game are three circular entities known as "Add-Ons," each of them named after a Greek letter (Alpha, Omega, Epsilon) who also have character classes that correspond to the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit respectively).

Yume Nikki

A young girl is stuck in her room, unable to access support, with nothing but a dream world for company that turns increasingly hostile towards her, and yet conquering the dream leads only to her apparent demise.

The game begins inside her apartment, which the player is initially unable to leave. The player can save their progress by sitting at Madotsuki's desk and writing in her dream diary. Sleeping in her bed causes Madotsuki to start dreaming.

Her dream begins in a room closely resembling her apartment. On leaving the room, Madotsuki enters an area commonly referred to as the Nexus, which contains a series of new doors. Each door leads to a different area in the dream world, with areas having distinct environments and designs. The player's objective is to explore these areas and collect 24 different Effects, which change Madotsuki's appearance or equipment when used.