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Regardless of which games on this list take your fancy, they’ll not disappoint when it comes to creating a suitably spooky atmosphere this Halloween. Horror TRPGs have evolved a lot over the last 40 years or so, but we’ve made sure to cover a wide variety of games that date back to the very beginning of the genre, as well as some more recent examples. The horror RPGs featured on this list range from games about surviving the undead to experiments in writing disturbing fiction, but they’re all fundamentally about terror.

Trail of Cthulhu: Become detectives on the search for clues surrounding the impending awakening of the Old Ones.

The Machine: A solo RPG where the player writes about a machine they cannot stop building.

Alien: The Roleplaying Game: Based on one of the most important horror films ever made, this is a surprisingly good game.

Bluebeard’s Bride: This experimental roleplaying game twists a fairytale into an unsettling story of a twisted labyrinth and the man who controls it.

Kult: Divinity Lost: A revival of a ‘90s horror RPG that presents a hidden world of demons and immoral deities.

Zombie World: Far from being another generic zombie game, this RPG mixes cards with storytelling.

My Life with Master: An indie RPG that has players becoming minions to an evil overlord.

Vampire: The Masquerade: The latest edition of a classic roleplaying game featuring vampires that stalk the streets of LA.

Ten Candles: A one-shot style RPG that answers the question of ‘What do people actually do when the world is ending?’.

Call of Cthulhu: One of the very first horror roleplaying games translates the writings of HP Lovecraft into an RPG that continues to endure.

The best horror RPGs are the ones that set out to imbue their players with the feeling of terror - whether that’s terror over what’s happening to their character or what their character is doing to other people. Some roleplaying games have horror elements within them, such as Dungeons & Dragons 5E adventure Curse of Strahd or the setting of Weird West RPG Deadlands, but a true horror TRPG will provide more than scary monsters to fight or haunted houses to explore. If the answer to that question is ‘not very much at all’ then horror roleplaying games are the perfect compromise. Which tension-filled activity you engage in really depends on how close you like being to the threshold of danger. It’s why people ride roller coasters or do extreme sports they live for the adrenaline and the possibility of danger. The audience gets to experience that intoxicating feeling of imagining something terrible happening - while remaining aware that they’re actually in no real danger at all. Horror roleplaying is intrinsically tied to what makes scary films, books and games so engaging.