Horror Games for Android: Free, Offline and Multiplayer

For a free horror game, start with Granny or Eyes. Both are rated Teen in the US, both carry Google Play’s Offline tag, and the Eyes listing says outright that you can play it alone without a connection.

If you will pay, Five Nights at Freddy’s is $2.99 and Little Nightmares is $8.49. If your phone is on its supported list, Alien: Isolation lets you play two missions before it asks for money.

Several of these games are rated for older teenagers or adults. Google Play marks seven of the seventeen in our table Mature 17+ in the US, and its Indian and Nigerian stores rate the same seven 16+ or 18+. Every game’s rating is in the table.

We read each game’s Google Play listing, and the descriptions below come from those listings.

Horror games at a glance

Google Play shows a different rating in each country. The India and Nigeria column is the rating on those two stores, which matched wherever both stores listed the game. “Tagged offline” means Google Play attaches its Offline label and the maker’s description does not mention it.

Free games to play alone

Granny

DVloper’s game locks you in a house and gives you five days to get out. Granny hears everything, so it is a game about keeping quiet and hiding in wardrobes and under beds. It is free with adverts, and its in-app purchases are $2.99.

Granny: Chapter Two and Granny 3 are free too, with adverts and no in-app purchases. Both are Teen in the US. In India and Nigeria, Chapter Two is rated 16+ and Granny 3 is 12+.

Eyes – The Horror Game

You search a mansion, a hospital and a school for bags of money while something hunts you, with a map to plan your route. The listing says you can play alone offline, team up in online co-op or compete in a versus mode.

The Baby In Yellow

A babysitting job that goes wrong over 11 chapters, with instructions to follow and puzzles to solve. The listing warns of jump scares and notes that the game began as a 48-hour game jam entry.

Hello Neighbor

tinyBuild calls this a stealth horror game. You sneak into your neighbour’s house to find out what is in his basement, and the neighbour learns from the routes you use. It has the lowest American rating here, Everyone 10+.

Paid horror games

Five Nights at Freddy’s

You are the night security guard at a pizza restaurant, watching the cameras and rationing electricity while the animatronic mascots move about. Clickteam has seven games from the series on Google Play at $2.99 each, which is $20.93 for the set. All seven are rated Teen in the US and 12+ in India and Nigeria.

The first game’s listing asks for a phone with at least 2GB of RAM.

Poppy Playtime

Chapter 1 is a puzzle adventure in an abandoned toy factory, where a gadget called the GrabPack lets you grab things from a distance and hack electrical circuits. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 are separate listings at $4.99 each, so the four come to $17.96. The later chapters are rated 16+ in India and Nigeria.

Little Nightmares

Playdigious brought this over from PC and consoles. It is a puzzle-platformer in which you help a character called Six escape a vast vessel, The Maw, by climbing, crawling and hiding. The listing asks you to be on Wi-Fi the first time you download it.

Alien: Isolation

Feral Interactive’s version of the console game puts Amanda Ripley on a space station where one alien is hunting her, and the game is about hiding and improvising. The first two missions are free. A single purchase unlocks the rest, with all seven add-ons.

It needs Android 10 and 11GB of storage, and the listing names the phones it supports. Read that list before anything else.

What the paid games cost

Local prices do not follow the dollar price. In the US and India, Little Nightmares costs less than Fran Bow. In Nigeria it costs nearly three times as much.

Story-led horror

Fran Bow

A point-and-click adventure about a girl in a children’s asylum who wants to find her cat and get home to her aunt. The listing counts more than 70 hand-painted locations. The complete game is $9.49. The five chapters are also sold one at a time at $1.99, which comes to $9.95.

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

A 2D side-scrolling psychological horror story about a young man who seizes an elderly woman’s home to get ahead at his firm, and what it costs him. The listing says it lasts around two hours. It is now published by Clickteam, like Five Nights at Freddy’s.

Sanitarium

Dotemu’s version of a 1998 PC point-and-click adventure. You wake after a car accident in an asylum with no memory of who you are. This edition adds a hint system and a choice of touch or pad controls.

Detention

Red Candle Games’ side-scrolling point-and-click is set in a school in 1960s Taiwan under martial law, and draws on Taiwanese religion and mythology. It installs free with adverts, and its in-app purchase is $4.99.

The Walking Dead

The Telltale series is now published by Skybound Game Studios. It is an adventure told in episodes, in which your choices change the story. In Season One you play Lee Everett, looking after a girl called Clementine. The first episode is free and episodes two to five are in-app purchases.

Season Two, A New Frontier and Michonne are separate listings sold the same way. All four are rated Mature 17+ in the US and 18+ in India and Nigeria.

Zombie shooters

Two games from our old list are shooters first. Dead Effect 2 is a science-fiction shooter with role-playing elements aboard a spaceship, with more than 20 hours of campaign. Google Play tags it both Horror and Offline. Into the Dead 2 is a run through a zombie outbreak across seven chapters and 60 stages, and its listing says no internet connection is required.

Both are also on our list of offline shooting games for Android.

Horror games to play with friends

Identity V

NetEase’s game sets one hunter against four survivors, who have to decode cipher machines and get out through the gate. The setting is a Victorian manor. It is free with in-app purchases and no adverts label.

India’s Google Play store returned an error page for it, so it does not appear to be offered there.

The Ghost

Up to five players work together to get out of a haunted hospital, school or apartment block, and one of them can play the ghost. The listing mentions voice chat.

Eyes, in the free section above, has online co-op as well.

What happened to our old picks

• Dead Effect 2, DISTRAINT, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Fran Bow, Into the Dead 2, Sanitarium and The Walking Dead: all still on Google Play and covered above.
• Oxenfree: the paid listing has gone. The game is on Google Play as OXENFREE: Netflix Edition, rated Teen, and its listing says it is for Netflix members only.
• Slayaway Camp: still on sale at $2.99, with a free edition that has adverts. It is a sliding-block puzzle game made as a comic tribute to 1980s horror films, and it is rated Mature 17+ in the US and 16+ in India and Nigeria.
• Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle: its listing has gone from Google Play.
• Thimbleweed Park: still on sale at $9.99 and rated Teen. It is a mystery adventure, tagged by Google Play as detective and mystery, so we have taken it off the horror list.

Which one to pick

• Free and offline: Eyes, because its listing says so, or Granny.
• The mildest ratings: Hello Neighbor at Everyone 10+ in the US, then the games rated Teen there and 12+ in India and Nigeria.
• The cheapest paid game: Five Nights at Freddy’s or Poppy Playtime Chapter 1.
• A story: Fran Bow, or Detention, which installs free.
• A console game on a phone: Alien: Isolation, if your phone is on its list.
• With friends: The Ghost, or Identity V where it is offered.

Quick answers

Which horror games for Android work offline?

Eyes and Into the Dead 2 say so in their listings. Google Play attaches its Offline tag to most of the others in our table, including Granny, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Little Nightmares and Alien: Isolation.

Which horror games are free on Android?

Granny, Eyes, The Baby In Yellow and Hello Neighbor are free with adverts. Detention, Alien: Isolation and The Walking Dead: Season One install free and have in-app purchases.

Which Android horror games are multiplayer?

Identity V and The Ghost are built for it, and Eyes has online co-op and a versus mode beside its single-player game.

Which horror game has console graphics?

Alien: Isolation is the console game itself. It needs 11GB of storage and a phone from its supported list. Little Nightmares also came from PC and consoles.

Which offline horror games are under 100MB?

The store pages will not tell us. Google Play’s web pages do not state a download size, so check the listing on your own phone before you download.

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