If you’re a fan of mythology and horror, these 35 must-play mythology horror games will take you on a terrifying journey through the varying degrees of dark folklore.
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This week we are talking about all things Mythology Horror Games related.
For those of you who don’t normally play this genre, a little information. Mythology horror games blend ancient tales and legends with spine-chilling horror, creating a unique gaming experience that immerses players in worlds where gods, monsters, and ancient curses come to life. More often than not, they feature rich storytelling, atmospheric environments, and intense gameplay that leaves players on edge.
So without further ado, let’s get into these Mythology Horror Games! And if you need more horror-themed entertainment choices. Go check out-
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Mythology Horror Games
1. Beautiful and Terrifying Norse Shadows
Out of this-world design, hands down you have to play this Hellblade with headphones, it’s amazing. Dive into the mind of a Celtic warrior battling her psychosis as she ventures into Helheim to rescue her lover’s soul. Inspired by Norse mythology, this game offers a harrowing journey through physical and mental landscapes.
From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DMC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
2. Breath-Taking Ghosts of Japan
Set in a fictionalized late 1500s Japan, Sekiro blends historical elements with Japanese mythology. Play as a shinobi on a quest for revenge, battling mythological creatures and uncovering dark secrets. Expect challenging combat, stunning visuals, and a gripping story.
Game of the Year – The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 – IGN Carve your clever path to vengeance in the award-winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
3. Deceiving Cuteness And Cutting Heartbreak 
Embark on a journey through Scandinavian landscapes, solving puzzles and uncovering the emotional story of a small yarn creature. Unravel is steeped in Scandinavian folklore, offering a heartwarming yet melancholic experience. Expect beautiful visuals, engaging puzzles, and a touching narrative.
Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger-than-life adventure.
4. Spooky And Stunning Shadowed Blades
Journey through war-torn Japan as a samurai battling yokai and other mythological beings. Nioh blends historical settings with supernatural horror, offering intense combat and a deep narrative. Expect a mix of fast-paced action and rich folklore.
RELEASE DATE: Nov 7, 2017
Ready to die? Experience the newest brutal action game from Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo Games. In the age of samurai, a lone traveler lands on the shores of Japan. He must fight his way through the vicious warriors and supernatural Yokai that infest the land to find that which he seeks.
5. Wraith of Helheim
Continue Senua’s journey in this highly anticipated sequel that delves deeper into Norse mythology and the protagonist’s mental struggles. Expect stunning visuals, intense combat, and a captivating story that further explores Senua’s inner demons.
In the sequel to the award-winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Senua returns on a brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland. Intent on saving those who have fallen victim to the horrors of tyranny, Senua faces a battle of overcoming the darkness within and without.
6. Masterpiece Mythology Horror Game
Play as the sun goddess Amaterasu, reincarnated as a wolf, on a quest to restore life to a world plagued by darkness. Okami blends Japanese mythology with stunning art and innovative gameplay. Expect a vibrant world, beautiful storytelling, and unique mechanics.
Experience the critically acclaimed masterpiece with its renowned Sumi-e ink art style in breathtaking high resolution.
7. The Forgotten Mythos
Experience a young girl’s journey through sorrow in a beautifully crafted world inspired by mythological themes. Gris offers a deeply emotional experience with its art, music, and narrative. Expect stunning visuals, a haunting soundtrack, and a moving story.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
8. Tear Inducing Norse Nightmares
Embark on a journey through a fantastical world inspired by Nordic mythology, controlling two brothers on a quest to save their father. This game offers a unique co-op experience with its innovative control scheme. Expect emotional storytelling, beautiful landscapes, and engaging puzzles.
Guide two brothers on an epic journey of discovery, loss, adventure, and mystery remade for the latest generation of graphics, performance, and gameplay. Play in single-player mode or local co-op with a friend. This is one journey you will never forget.
9. Ugly Crying Mythology Horror Game
I am adding this one in because you are delivering souls. Play as a ferrymaster guiding spirits to the afterlife, uncovering their stories, and building relationships. Spiritfarer blends mythological themes with heartwarming storytelling. Expect beautiful visuals, emotional depth, and unique management gameplay.
Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As a ferry master to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.
10. RPG Mythology Horror Game
Explore a mysterious island filled with magic and mythological creatures, balancing diplomacy, combat, and exploration. GreedFall offers a rich narrative and deep RPG mechanics. Expect engaging storylines, diverse characters, and a beautifully crafted world.
Engage in a core roleplaying experience, and forge the destiny of a new world seeping with magic, and filled with riches, lost secrets, and fantastic creatures. With diplomacy, deception, and force, become part of a living, evolving world – influence its course and shape your story.
11. Choices Matter Mythology Horror Game
Survive a night of terror in a remote mountain lodge, uncovering dark secrets rooted in Native American mythology. Until Dawn combines interactive storytelling with intense horror. Expect branching narratives, suspenseful gameplay, and chilling moments.
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
12. The Forgotten Mythos
Explore a dark and beautiful world inspired by Nordic folklore, where a young boy must face monstrous creatures to rescue his sister. Bramble blends a rich narrative with atmospheric exploration. Expect stunning visuals, intense encounters, and a hauntingly beautiful soundtrack.
Bramble The Mountain King is a grim adventure set in a world inspired by dark, Nordic fables. Explore the beautiful yet dangerous and twisted land of Bramble in your endeavor to rescue your sister. Traverse a wondrous landscape and survive deadly encounters with Bramble’s many hideous creatures.
13. Appalachian Mythology Horror Game
Embark on a hunting adventure in the Appalachian mountains, where mythological creatures from local folklore come to life. Blue Ridge Hunting combines survival elements with a deep narrative. Expect eerie landscapes, thrilling hunts, and unexpected horrors.
Blue Ridge Hunting is a horror game where you and up to 4 friends investigate, document, and hunt cryptids in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern America. Based on real sightings, phenomena, and legends from the region.
14. Ancient Mythology Meets Modern Creepies
Enter a cursed village where ancient demonic forces have been awakened, and uncover the dark secrets hidden within. Malum blends atmospheric horror with mythological themes. Expect chilling environments, engaging puzzles, and a gripping story.
Malum is the premier C-list horror game. Run from a motley collection of bizarre demons then summon in some guns to turn the tables on them. Best enjoyed with friends.
15. The Forsaken God
Navigate a world inspired by Eastern European folklore, facing the malevolent creature Likho and other mythological beings. One-Eyed Likho offers a unique blend of horror and mythology. Expect a richly detailed world, intense encounters, and a compelling narrative.
One-Eyed Likho is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your evil fate.
16. Heavy Metal Mythology Horror
Hunt supernatural creatures in a world where myth and reality collide, using ancient weapons and modern technology. The Axis Unseen combines horror with folklore-inspired storytelling. Expect atmospheric environments, thrilling hunts, and deep lore.
The Axis Unseen is a heavy-metal horror game created by one of the developers of Skyrim, Starfield, and Fallout. Hunt nightmarish monsters from ancient folklore in a mysterious open world, collecting their enhanced sense powers and discovering elemental arrows. Beware, the hunter is also the hunted.
17. Old Gods Horror Game
Descend into a mysterious mine haunted by ancient spirits and uncover the dark history buried within. Down the Shaft blends horror with mythological elements. Expect claustrophobic environments, intense scares, and a captivating story.
Down the Shaft is a first-person horror game where you take on the duty of keeping an Elder God forever contained within the cave. To do that, you must keep the machines that maim them active. But beware, their minions are on the loose and they won’t let you do your job so easily.
18. Spooky Mythology Horror
So this one was recommended to me by friends, and I haven’t gotten to play it yet. But we won’t judge a book or a video game by its cover.
Manage a hotel and hire employees including Death, a dragon, a Demon-Slayer, and a bioroid maid. Build your wealth through various means and refine your strategies based on the predictions of Oracles. Your choices will determine which employees become enamored with you.
19. Merry Mythology Horror Games
Navigate a post-apocalyptic world where ancient Norse gods have returned, bringing chaos and destruction. No More Snow blends mythology with survival horror. Expect atmospheric environments, intense gameplay, and a captivating story.
You control Santa Claus & Mrs. Santa as they fight against Krampus and his mischievous minions. The game features a co-op mode, 10 unique levels, an army of monsters, and challenging boss fights. Can you and your partner save Christmas and bring peace to the North Pole?
20. Storyrich Mythology Horror Games
Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of Finnish folklore, facing mythological creatures and uncovering ancient secrets. AITTA offers a unique blend of horror and cultural storytelling. Expect beautiful visuals, engaging puzzles, and a deep narrative.
Explore and experience the old, lost Finnish folk stories.
21. New World Mythology Horror game
Play as a banisher tasked with hunting down malevolent spirits and uncovering dark secrets in a world filled with mythological elements. Banishers blends horror with deep storytelling. Expect atmospheric environments, intense combat, and a compelling narrative.
Hunt ghosts as two memorable characters in a story-driven Action-RPG where your decisions carry dramatic consequences. Torn between honoring your oath to the living and saving your departed partner, how far will you go for love?
22. Coming Soon Horror Game
Explore a haunted house filled with dark secrets and mythological horrors, uncovering the truth behind the supernatural occurrences. My Pretty Closet combines psychological horror with deep lore. Expect eerie environments, engaging puzzles, and a gripping story.
Embark on a forest stroll with your grandfather, only to awaken alone in an eerie cabin. Unveil buried memories, revealing parental secrets. Confront inner demons of depression and anxiety and seek answers and peace in this unsettling yet serene psychological horror game.
23. Southwestern Mythology Horror
Navigate a surreal world inspired by Southwestern folklore and mythology, facing supernatural creatures and uncovering hidden truths. El Paso Elsewhere blends horror with rich storytelling. Expect atmospheric environments, intense encounters, and a captivating narrative.
STAKES. GUNS. SLOW-MO. Fight werewolves and vampires in a reality-shifting motel. Dive through barricades to escape the grasp of evil puppets. Destroy the villain you loved. A new, third-person love letter to classic shooters. Neo-noir never looked so good.
24. Deep and Creepy Mythology Horror
Enter a world where eroticism and horror collide, inspired by Lovecraftian and mythological themes. Lust from Beyond: M Edition offers a unique blend of psychological horror and mature storytelling. Expect unsettling environments, engaging puzzles, and a deep narrative.
Descend into madness in a first-person survival horror inspired by Lovecraft and Giger. Solve the mystery of esoteric cults. Cross the gate to the blasphemous land of Lusst’ghaa. Play the new M-rated cut of the fan-favorite Lust from Beyond.
25. Indie Mythology Horror Game
Embark on a journey to a desolate island to defeat giant mythological creatures and uncover ancient secrets. Praey for the Gods blends action adventure with survival horror. Expect stunning landscapes, epic battles, and a gripping story.
Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open-world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never-ending winter. Grapple, glide, and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.
26. Nightmare Fuel Mythology Horror
Investigate the disappearance of a writer in a world plagued by an ancient evil force. Song of Horror blends psychological horror with mythological elements. Expect atmospheric environments, challenging gameplay, and a deeply immersive narrative.
A 3rd person, fixed-camera survival horror adventure. Fear the Presence, a mysterious entity you cannot fight: stay alert, hide, breathe slowly… Explore cursed places where unseen spirits and lost souls linger in a true horror story for the ages.
27. Remake Mythology Horror Game
Revisit the classic horror game that blends Lovecraftian horror with mythological themes. Alone in the Dark offers a rich narrative and atmospheric exploration. Expect eerie environments, intense scares, and a gripping story.
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
28. Norwegian Mythology Horror
Navigate a dark forest inspired by Norwegian folklore, searching for a missing son and uncovering ancient secrets. Through the Woods blends atmospheric horror with rich storytelling. Expect beautiful landscapes, intense encounters, and a haunting narrative.
Through the Woods is a third-person Norse horror adventure set in a forest on the western shores of Norway that tells the story of a mother and her missing son.
29. Viking Horror Game
Explore a world where Norse mythology and futuristic technology collide, uncovering dark secrets and facing ancient gods. Apsulov blends horror with sci-fi elements. Expect stunning visuals, engaging gameplay, and a deep narrative.
In this future Viking horror, you awake in a sanctuary of steel and concrete, built to research and exploit the worlds of Yggdrasil, and to house an artifact, buried in the earth eons ago. First-person with a futuristic Norse mythology story. Horror adventure in the realms of Yggdrasil.
30. Vampire Mythology Horror
Play as a doctor-turned-vampire in post-World War I London, navigating a world filled with mythological creatures and dark secrets. Vampyr blends action, exploration, and deep storytelling. Expect atmospheric environments, moral choices, and a gripping narrative.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
31. Iceland Mythology Horror Game
Explore a mystical island inspired by Icelandic folklore, uncovering ancient secrets and facing mythological creatures. Island of Winds blends atmospheric exploration with rich storytelling. Expect beautiful landscapes, engaging puzzles, and a deep narrative.
Island of Winds is an adventure game set in a fantastical world inspired by 17th-century Iceland and folklore. Experience the story of Brynhildur, a Balance Keeper who embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Core gameplay involves intriguing puzzles, spellcasting, and a focus on empathy encounters.
32. Dark Mythology Horror Games
Navigate a world inspired by Japanese folklore, facing supernatural entities and uncovering dark secrets. Ikai blends psychological horror with cultural storytelling. Expect eerie environments, intense gameplay, and a gripping narrative.
Fear and anxiety prevail after the darkest tales from Japanese folklore come to life in this first-person psychological horror game. Set in a feudal era, Ikai revolves around the priestess of a shrine struggling to defeat the spirits of her past and her present.
33. Atmospheric Mythology Horror
Enter a haunted house inspired by Japanese horror and folklore, facing malevolent spirits and uncovering dark truths. Onryo blends atmospheric horror with deep storytelling. Expect unsettling environments, engaging puzzles, and a gripping narrative.
Onryo | 怨霊 is a survival action horror game set in Japan. Your mission is to lift the curse of a haunted house using your exorcistic camera. As you explore the house and uncover its secrets, you will face enemies and puzzles.
34. Test Your Hunting Skills Horror Game
Hunt mythical creatures in a dense forest filled with ancient legends and dark secrets. Folklore Hunter blends survival horror with folklore-inspired storytelling. Expect atmospheric environments, thrilling hunts, and a captivating narrative.
You are a hunter, world-renowned for slaying supernatural beasts. Take on contracts and track down cryptids from all over the world. Gather resources, set traps, prepare your equipment, use your hunter instincts, and hunt down the beast, before it hunts you.
35. Visual Novel Mythology Horror
Explore a mysterious forest filled with ancient legends and supernatural beings, uncovering the dark secrets hidden within. The Secrets of Timberland blends horror with rich folklore. Expect atmospheric environments, engaging puzzles, and a captivating narrative.
The Secret of Timberland is an adventure horror novel that will immerse you in a dark world full of mysteries and dangers. You have to unravel all of the secrets that Timberland hides and save the main characters from mortal danger. But… can you do it?
Well there you have it, my list of mythology horror games that’ll leave you battling eldritch gods, uncovering dark secrets, or navigating haunted landscapes! Mythology horror games offer a unique and immersive experience that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Now, go on, go play something!
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