Indie RPG games

Undertale

Linux - Mac - Nintendo Switch

A small child falls into the Underground, where monsters have long been banished by humans and are hunting every human that they find. The player controls the child as they try to make it back to the Surface through hostile environments, all the while engaging with a turn-based combat system with puzzle-solving and bullet hell elements, as well as other unconventional game mechanics.

Ao Oni

Hiroshi and his three friends, Takuro, Takeshi, and Mika, decide to visit an abandoned mansion that is rumored to be haunted. They come across a blue monster that chases them around the mansion.

Matryona's last night

Ib

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Ib is a freeware adventure video game with elements of psychological horror released in 2012 for Microsoft Windows by the Japanese artist kouri, running on RPG Maker 2000. Players control the titular character from a top-down perspective with the goal of escaping an eldritch art museum. The game has been credited with helping popularize its engine's use in developing games without role-playing elements.

The Witch's House

PC (Microsoft Windows)

The Witch's House falls within the tradition of Japanese horror RPGs with heavy emphasis on puzzle-solving and jump scares. Among other entries in the genre such as Ib and Ao Oni, The Witch's House surprised fans with pixel-art that conceals truly frightening horror. The Witch's House is deliberately designed with traps at almost every turn--sudden death is unpredictable and it keeps players on their toes. Anything can happen at any time.

Mogeko Castle

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Mogeko Castle is a "prosciutto adventure game" made by Deep-Sea Prisoner in RPG Maker VX Ace.

Fran Bow

Linux - Mac - Nintendo Switch

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Sally Face

Linux - Mac - Nintendo Switch

In this story-driven adventure game, players will interact with Sal's world and his nightmares. The main path typically requires casual effort. However, there are hidden surprises to be found and bonus mysteries that may invoke a bit of head-scratching for those players up to the challenge.

Omori

Mac - Nintendo 3DS - Nintendo Switch

A turn-based surreal horror RPG in which a child traverses various mundane, quirky, humourous, mysterious and horrific lands with his friends in search of a missing person while confronting his past and his fears. Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.

Harvest Festival 64

Linux - PC (Microsoft Windows)

Welcome to the town! Luckily for you just in time for the HARVEST FESTIVAL! Help your new friends with their preparations and enjoy your potentially cursed life!

Aria's Story

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Aria’s Story is a horror RPG game made using RPG Maker VX Ace. The game is focused on exploration, story and puzzles. One of the main characteristics of the game is the contrast between cute and creepy. It is inspired by the Japanese horror game Ib.

Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue

Linux - Mac - PC (Microsoft Windows)

Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

Assessment Examination

PC (Microsoft Windows) - Web browser

Thanks for applying to the Authenticity Assessment Department. We wish you luck on your upcoming examination! You will need it.

Paper Lily: Chapter 1

Linux - Mac - PC (Microsoft Windows)

Something terrible has happened. You can’t bear to think about it - but you can’t live like this anymore. You stopped attending school, you haven’t left your house in months, you have no reason to get out of bed anymore. There are no choices left. No choice except... that strange golden letter. It’s time to get your life back together. One last try.

Mad Father

Mac - Nintendo Switch - PC (Microsoft Windows)

Mad Father is a horror-puzzle game that follows the experiences of a young German girl by the name of Aya Drevis.

Misao

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Misao is a freeware horror adventure game where you explore and escape from a high school trapped in another world by a malevolent curse.

Lavender

PC (Microsoft Windows)

An alternate take on the classic fairytale of Rapunzel in the form of a puzzle game with horror elements.

Pocket Mirror

PC (Microsoft Windows)

A puzzle horror RPG set in a mysterious world.

Dreaming Mary

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Dreaming Mary is an original adventure game in a sidescrolling format, made using the free RPG Maker VX Ace Lite. It is inspired by the Japanese horror game Ib and the abstract game Yume Nikki, and is influenced by the indie platformer Eversion as well as the TV show Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. Despite these influences, Dreaming Mary is not exactly a horror game. It does contain horror elements, though they might never be encountered by a player who chooses to indulge in the dreams instead of investigating. The game's average playtime ranges from fifteen to twenty-five minutes to reach one ending, and there are four endings. In the game you are able to interact with items and NPCs. It is important to pay attention to dialogue and to your surroundings in order to proceed. Sound is vital in this game and can help the player move forward as well as provide hints to the situation Mary has found herself in.

Blood Soup

PC (Microsoft Windows)

It's the last day of school, and Moe has to confess to one of the three boys in her school. The cheerful Guro, the stoic Keith or the meek Charlie. She's then invited to pass the day at her crush's home. Curious to know more about him, Moe begins to investigate the house and finds that not everything is as it seems...

Habromania

PC (Microsoft Windows)

HABROMANIA is an offbeat, unsettlingly charming, narrative rich point-and-click game inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It follows 19-year-old, well-mannered Alice as she tumbles headfirst into Wonderland. With no memory of her past and no real allies except an enigmatic, grinning cat, Alice must outwit, outmatch, and maybe even befriend the mildly psychotic people and creatures she encounters as she tries to return to her world - with or without going mad herself.

Devil of the Mirror

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Striving to escape her futile existence, a lonely and sick girl is performing a spell upon a mirror, wishing for friends and for a better life... But she didn't know that the mirror she used was holding a demonic entity in it. Will that spell be a blessing for the girl... or a curse?