Best scary Roblox horror games to play in 2025

Roblox may be colorful and lighthearted on the surface but it’s packed full of some terrifying horror games to try. 

If you prefer a spooky experience rather than an action-packed anime game, an FPS, or a relaxing simulator, you’ll find a complete rundown of the best haunting titles you can find on the platform in 2025 below.

We’ve also got a full list of non-horror recommendations for the best Roblox games in 2025 to play as well.

Additional reporting by Ava Thompson-Powell.

Scariest horror games

Whether you’re looking to scare your friends silly, or just want to see how far fan-made creations have come the picks below will be perfect. 

From games that send you to investigate some truly terrifying houses, to the scariest maze you’ll ever see and an iconic murder mystery, there’s something for everyone on this list.

The Intruder

Official_Bulderme

• Release date: November 23, 2021
• Genre: Survival, Escape
• Key features: Great experience with friends, engaging, impersonation mechanic

The Intruder takes inspiration from The Mandela Catalogue and Five Nights at Freddy’s with its simple, yet terrifying premise. You start off the game by getting told by the police department that there’s a criminal on the loose.

As suggested by the game’s title, this criminal is attempting to infiltrate whichever map you’re playing. As a player, you have to survive the encounter by checking the cameras to keep track of their every move. Hide and turn off the lights whenever you can and wait until your phone gets service.

When playing the game in multiplayer, there’s a chance that The Intruder may impersonate your friend, talking in their voice as an attempt to lure you out.

DOORS

LSPLASH

• Release date: March 14, 2021
• Genre: Survival, Escape
• Key features: Atmospheric horror, great with friends, unique mechanics

With over 6.7B user visits and regular updates, DOORS is no doubt one of the most popular horror experiences out there. The game has you and your friends progress through a plethora of different doors, with every one of them leading to a randomly generated room.

Each room has different items, hiding spots, puzzles, and even entities. The catch is that the entities can either help you out or be hostile towards you, possibly killing you if you’re unable to react in time.

They also have different mechanics, which means that you’ll need to adapt accordingly. Overall, DOORS has a great replayability due to its rogue-like experience, making it one of the best scary games on Roblox.

Pressure

Urbanshade: Hadal Division

• Release date: February 8, 2023
• Genre: Survival, Escape
• Key features: Immersive, high replay value, rich lore

Pressure is like what you would get if you mixed DOORS and submarine simulation horror game Iron Lung. This game is set in an underwater facility, where your primary goal is to survive through a series of procedurally generated rooms.

Aside from the random passageways, you’ll be encountering a wide range of creatures that have different attack patterns and behavior.

Pressure is often praised for its spooky atmosphere and lore. Additionally, since the encounters are random, it’s got a great replay value.

Traversal

Octik

• Release date: May 2, 2022
• Genre: Survival, Escape
• Key features: Thrilling, not overly long to complete, respawns upon death

Traversal is a solid game to try out if you love horror with a mix of stealth and action. The goal of this game is simple: you need to do whatever it takes to survive in a mysterious maze-like factory.

With plenty of enemies around the corner, you’ll need to use the shadows to your advantage. Although initiating combat can draw a lot of noise, it’s possible to use distractions or opt for weapons that are generally quieter to help reduce the risk.

Annabelle [HORROR]

Fat Car Studios

• Release date: May 17, 2025
• Genre: Adventure, Story
• Key features: Narrative-driven, multiple endings, multiplayer mode

Surely you’ve heard of the famous Annabelle doll at least once. Well, this game features the extremely haunted doll featured in the prequel of The Conjuring movie. Though instead of being locked in a display case, she’s now out there on the loose.

Unlike the previous titles on this list, this game has a more narrative-driven experience instead of survival or stealth. It has four different endings you can get depending on how things progress in your playthrough.

Silent Mansion

Coffee Cap

• Release date: July 24, 2024
• Genre: Adventure, Story
• Key features: Great storytelling, light puzzles, haunting environment

Silent Mansion may have one of the creepiest map atmospheres ever, but what really makes it shine is its slow-burn story to keep you hooked.

As the “chosen one,” players need to solve puzzles, use stealth to survive encounters, and perform rituals to deal with the spirits.

The sound design, combined with the game’s atmospheric horror, really does a great job in making this title one of the best horror experiences that’s a must-try.

The Butchery

chubby_baby7

• Release date: December 26, 2022
• Genre: Survival, Escape
• Key features: Immersive audio, atmospheric tension, strategic gameplay

The Butchery takes you to an old farmhouse that belongs to two mysterious and strange brothers in the American South.

As you uncover more secrets throughout the house by finding keys or items, you’ll eventually have to evade a mysterious entity as well.

Similar to Silent Mansion, this game’s map is incredibly well-made and really captures the eerie farmhouse atmosphere.

A Wolf Or Other

• Release date: October 1, 2018
• Genre: Survival, 1 vs All
• Key features: Multiplayer, great replayability

If you’re looking for a spooky co-op experience, A Wolf Or Other is a great horror game to play with friends. In this engaging murder mystery, while one player takes on the terrifying role of a Werewolf the rest of the group are civilians who must survive the wolf’s attack by hiding once night falls. Among the group is a single Hunter, and they possess the power to kill the Werewolf. 

For the Werewolf to win the game, everybody including the Hunter must be killed. However, if the civilians can survive until morning, victory will be theirs.

A Wolf Or Other is a fun, engaging, and surprisingly challenging title that should particularly appeal to fans of games like Dead by Daylight. 

Apeirophobia

• Release date: July 19, 2022
• Genre: Adventure, Exploration
• Key features: Atmospheric Environments. Cryptic Puzzles, Menacing Entities, Twisted Narrative

Apeirophobia is an immersive and spine-chilling horror experience that plunges players into the depths of fear and uncertainty. It takes inspiration from the real-life phobia of infinity, where players are tasked with navigating through a series of haunting environments filled with eerie atmospheres and terrifying encounters.

In Apeirophobia, players must confront their deepest fears as they traverse dark corridors, solve cryptic puzzles, and evade menacing entities lurking in the shadows. The atmospheric soundtrack and unsettling visuals create a sense of dread and suspense.

Finders Keepers

ojbaby

• Release date: July 29, 2018
• Genre: Survival, Exploration
• Key features: Immersive, good sounds effects

Finding Keepers is a first-person scary survival horror game that tasks you with investigating the strange events that have been occurring at a family house. As a Paranormal Investigator, your goal is to discover the truth behind the powers that led to the family’s disappearance. 

During your investigation, you’ll need to navigate dark rooms, uncover hidden disks, and avoid the demonic entity that inhabits the house. Expect plenty of jump scares and creepy surprises as you play.

Piggy

Roblox Corporation / MiniToon

• Release date: January 23, 2020
• Genre: Survival
• Key features: A narrative thread to uncover, different maps and game modes, puzzles to complete, multiplayer, seasonal content

Originally inspired by the children’s TV show, Peppa Pig, Piggy lets players loose in one of 12 different maps and a total of 7 different modes to escape a grisly demise.

Before each round begins, players can vote on which map and mode they’d like to opt in to. While in a round, they’ll need to keep their wits about them and use their environment and survival skills to outwit Piggy, avoid traps, and survive.

Piggy: Book 2 is also playable, which serves as a sequel of sorts, and includes even more chapters and ‘Books’ to partake in. What’s more, there’s an overarching narrative to explore and uncover.

Geisha

BD Studios

• Release date: May 31, 2021
• Genre: Survival
• Key features: Solve puzzles, immersive, eerie soundtrack

Based on the Urban Legend of “Teke-Teke”, this is one of Roblox’s scariest horror games, full of terrifying experiences to freak out even the most avid horror fan. After returning to your childhood home, your family is nowhere to be seen. As the constant hum of unsettling music plays in the background and your feet tap on the wooden floor of the house as you uncover the mystery, you’ll constantly be looking over your shoulder as you try to avoid the Geisha.

Complete with a myriad of jump scares, puzzles, and the enrapturing feeling of being followed and watched, this one will, without a doubt, keep you up at night during the spooky season.

Alone in a Dark House

DarkHouseRBLX

• Release date: July 2, 2014
• Genre: Adventure, Story
• Key features: Can be played co-op or single player, story-based, lots of jump, immersive

Alone in a Dark House is similar to Finders Keepers, in that you’re tasked with investigating a house. However, instead of being a paranormal investigator, you’re a private investigator tasked with solving a brutal murder case. 

It can be enjoyed in co-op and features fully voiced characters, two unique locations, and various puzzles that you’ll need to solve.

The Mimic

Roblox Corporation / YouTube: TheMimicOfficial

• Release date: January 15, 2021
• Genre: Survival, Escape
• Key features: Can be played with up to 10 people, one of the most popular Roblox horror games, immersive, great audio and visual effects

One of the scariest games on this list, The Mimic keeps the community coming back for more with its terrifying game design.

The story sends you back to high school as you descend into a horror-filled world, attempting to search for a group of your missing friends.

It can be played with up to 10 people, and is full of spooky audio effects, lighting, and jump scares, this truly haunting world will have you reaching for a blanket in no time.

The Maze

HyperSlica

• Release date: April 9, 2017
• Genre: Survival, Escape
• Key features: Can be played with up to 12 people, able to explore, engaging soundtrack and audio effects, immersive

If the idea of being thrown into a cavernous maze with nothing but a flashlight and a camera to your name sounds like fun, then this scary Roblox horror game could be for you. Unlike traditional mazes, this one is located deep underground. 

Not only does this help to completely disorientate the player, but it also makes things even freakier when your flashlight inevitably runs out of batteries. The Maze is also stalked by a host of creepy creatures. Team up with up to 12 players and see if you have what it takes to escape.

Murder Mystery 2

Dexerto

• Release date: January 18, 2014
• Genre: Survival, 1 vs All
• Key features: Great experience with friends, can play as different characters (Sheriff, Murderer, Innocents), immersive

Everyone likes a classic murder mystery and it seems Roblox fans do too. After all, this game has been played a whopping four billion times. Murder Mystery 2 is a social deduction game where 12 players work together to catch the culprit. Each match has one sheriff, who’s in charge of eliminating the murderer. 

It’s a game of deception and trickery, so you’ll need your wits about you if you wish to survive the trials ahead. Murder Mystery 2 may not be as scary as the other things on this list, but it can still get your heart racing.

Dead Silence

DoomX10

• Release date: January 26, 2011
• Genre: Survival, Escape
• Key features: Great sound design, full of puzzles, highly immersive

Dead Silence is undoubtedly one of the most popular spooky Roblox titles and it’s not hard to see why. Calling itself the “#1 Scariest game on Roblox”, it’s based on the Dead Silence supernatural horror film as players must investigate the disappearance of Mary Shaw, a murdered ventriloquist who haunts the local town. 

Its excellent sound and level design are what make it stand out. Simply walking down one of the dimly lit corridors is an incredibly eerie experience. Doors will squeak and floorboards will creak, but it’s the ventriloquist you should really be worried about.

Breaking Point

Roblox

• Release date: February 8, 2017
• Genre: Party & Casual, Minigame
• Key features: Great sound design, immersive, one of the most popular Roblox horror games, highly engaging

Breaking Point offers a thrilling and frightening experience. It’s essentially a spooky Battle Royale where players are selected at random and tasked with killing off others. This process continues until there are just two left.

The remaining survivors then have to face off in a knife-only duel. The last one standing takes home the victory. If you love Fortnite but want a bit more horror, we’d recommend giving this a go.

Insane Elevator

• Release date: October 12, 2019
• Genre: Survival
• Key features: Unique horror experience, great range, immersive

This unique experience challenges players to climb into the Insane Elevator and survive all the floors. On your perilous journey, you’ll come face to face with some scary foes including Pennywise the Clown, Jeff the Killer, and Piggy to name a few.

Just how many floors will you survive when you step into the Insane Elevator?

Nanny

• Release date: July 29, 2021
• Genre: Survival, Escape
• Key features: Highly immersive, Effective jumpscares

Nanny is another spooky title with a maze in Roblox. You’ll need to avoid the nanny by crawling your way around the house to find the exit as quickly as possible! There’s a handful of jump scares along the way, so make sure you’re fast on your feet.

Stranger Things: Starcourt Mall by Netflix

Netflix

• Release date: October 21, 2020
• Genre: N/A
• Key features: Exciting daily quests, four unique minigames, plenty of creepy characters and monsters

While it may be one of the more professional horror games on the platform, this one still contains all the same scary and loveable aspects the more independent creations hold.

Ultimately, any fan of Stranger Things will adore this combination and likely feel the same thrills and fears they experienced in the hit Netflix TV show.

The Exit 8!

DBS The Exit

• Release date: March 27, 2024
• Genre: Survival
• Key features: Secret ending to find, Unique anomalies

This spooky walking sim takes place in the endless underground passages of an eerie subway station. You’ll need to navigate your surroundings carefully to reach The Exit 8 and get to safety.

On your journey, you’ll encounter anomalies and it’s vital to not overlook them. If you do notice any, turn around and run away. This isn’t the game to try and put up a fight in.

The True Backrooms

Kord_K

• Release date: May 28, 2019
• Genre: Adventure, Exploration
• Key features: 20 liminal spaces to explore, multiplayer, dreamcore and kenopsia concepts

The True Backrooms places you in one of many liminal spaces armed with only a flashlight. You can either explore alone or in multiplayer with friends but your goal of escape is always the same.

Not only are the spaces compelling to discover but there are plenty of horrors lurking in the dark that you’ll run into.

Those are all our picks for the best horror games on Roblox in 2025. You can also check out the best song IDs, how to see your favorite items, how to get free Robux, and our voice chat guide.