Horror games to play with friends, by how your group likes to be scared

Groups get scared in different ways. Some want to scream together, some want one player hunting everyone, some want a puzzle while the lights go out. Pick your group's style below; each list mixes PC staples and Roblox games, and the last one is horror for phones on Roam.

Scream together: everyone against the place

Lethal Company. Zeekerss, 2023. Your crew lands on abandoned moons to collect scrap for a quota, and proximity voice chat means you hear friends vanish.
R.E.P.O. semiwork, 2025. Up to six players haul valuables out of haunted places with physics that make every carry a joke.
Phasmophobia. Kinetic Games. One to four ghost hunters gather evidence to name the ghost before it hunts them.
DOORS on Roblox. Run room by room through a hotel while entities like Rush and Seek come for you. Free, and easy to start.

One hunter, everyone else runs

Dead by Daylight. Behaviour Interactive. Four survivors repair generators while one friend plays the killer.
Piggy on Roblox. Escape a map while Piggy hunts you, and in player mode one of your friends can be Piggy.
Forsaken on Roblox. Asymmetric horror: one killer, a lobby of survivors, short rounds that end in arguments.

Puzzles under pressure

The Mimic on Roblox. Story chapters of Japanese-style horror where the group solves the route together while something follows.
Dandy's World on Roblox. Clear floors and run machines while twisted toons hunt the team. Pick characters whose skills cover each other.
The Outlast Trials. Red Barrels. Up to four test subjects complete grim trials in a Cold War facility.

On phones: horror on Roam

Roam is a free iPhone app, so the group needs only phones. Time Machine Coop is a first-person co-op heist with a crew and rent due on day 3. Soak the Dead puts you on a raft in a zombie water park, and Next Stop: Ghouls keeps a train moving through stops full of ghouls. TALLOW and Hush Hour are solo first: one is a house escape, the other a school where every step makes noise. Play them, then pass the phone.

Play it on Roam

Set a horror game in your school with Roam

Describe the building, the monster and who is in it, and Roam makes it playable. Your friends can be the other survivors, not just players in a lobby.

Try: "horror in our school after dark, flashlights, my friends are the other survivors, the janitor hunts by sound, find the keys"

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Questions people ask

What scary Roblox games are good with friends?

DOORS, Piggy, The Mimic, Dandy's World and Forsaken are the usual group picks. All are free to play on Roblox.

What horror game is best for four friends on PC?

Lethal Company and Phasmophobia are the classic four-player picks. R.E.P.O. takes up to six, and The Outlast Trials up to four.

Can we play horror together on iPhone?

Yes. Roam has co-op and horror games on iPhone, and you can make a horror game set somewhere you all know and play it together.

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