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Everyone loves playing games on their mobile devices for their simplicity and convenience, but playing horror games on mobile takes it to a whole other level! If you like being terrified in public, then you have to jump on the bandwagon of the mobile horror game. If you want to try some mobile horror, but aren’t sure where to start, you’re in luck! This is a comprehensive list of the best mobile horror games ever made!

Top 8 Best Mobile Horror Games

Grandma

Grandma title screen
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The low graphics aren’t the only scary thing about this game! Despite the graphics quality, Granny is a mobile horror game that has become extremely popular in recent years. Granny is a horror game where you try to escape from ‘Granny’, the corpse-like horror in a nightgown that won’t stop killing you.

You are trapped in the house of this horrific monster for whatever reason, and you must solve puzzles and solve mysteries if you ever want to escape. The underpowered graphics help take some of the creepiness out of the game, but that’s almost a blessing given how unexpectedly creepy and tense this game is! Granny is one of the best mobile horror games on the market, and not just because this game is completely free!

Five nights at Freddy’s

Animatronic in Five Nights at Freddy's
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Everyone knows Five Nights at Freddy’s, but not everyone knows that this game was developed for mobile! Now you can take this cursed, horrible experience with you wherever you go! Five Nights at Freddy’s is so popular it almost needs no introduction, but for those of you who don’t know, the original Five Nights at Freddy’s game goes like this: you are a newly hired security guard who works the night shift at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, an animatronic themed pizza restaurant.

As you make your way through your miserable shift, you start to notice the animatronics moving on the security cameras on their own, and they’re coming for you! You can only defend yourself or die in Five Nights at Freddy’s, play the game to find out how you will react against these scary killers!

Dead in Daylight: Mobile

Dead in daylight on mobile
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Dead by Daylight is a hugely popular multiplayer horror game developed for multiple platforms, but it’s a little known fact that this game was developed for mobile too! The controls are a little different on mobile, of course, but the game still plays just as well as it does on other consoles.

Dead by Daylight is a 4v1 survival horror game, where you can play as one of the four survivors, or as the killer who hunts them! There’s nothing scarier than running from a ruthless killer in a video game, especially when that killer is played by one of your friends! Dead by Daylight is definitely one of the scariest mobile horror games you can invest in.

Fran Bow

Fran Bow Creepy Screenshot
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Fran Bow was extreme popular after its release in 2015, but it’s one of those games that you almost never hear about again, despite the good quality. Fran Bow is about a young girl named Fran, who is irrevocably traumatized by seeing her parents cut to pieces in her childhood home. Armed with only her debilitating mental illness and her cat, Mr. Midnight, Fran desperately escapes to the surrounding woods to find some answers.

However, instead of finding answers, Fran wakes up in a cramped insane asylum, with no sign of Mr. midnight! The only way to freedom and security is to escape from the shelter, Mr. Midnight and find her Aunt Grace, her only living relative. This game is truly a wild and terrifying ride from start to finish, you must play Fran Bow if you get the chance!

potato thriller

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This game is more comedic than gruesome, but it’s a nice break from all the terrifying games that take themselves too seriously. Potato Thriller is about Potato Man, the notorious serial killer who is notorious for frying his victims in boiling oil to kill them.

In the game, you’re part of a bounty hunter team that has received an anonymous tip about the whereabouts of this ruthless serial killer, so you set out to end Potato Man’s rule once and for all. Potato Thriller is one of the best comedy mobile horror games ever made, and it’s completely free, so you have no reason not to try it!

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Hello neighbour

Hello neighbor coming down the stairs
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Everyone has heard of Hello Neighbor on PC, Xbox and Playstation, but not many people have heard of this horror game on mobile. Hello Neighbor is a creepy stealth horror game that is thankfully (or sadly) just as creepy on mobile as it is on other platforms. If you’re playing this game on mobile, you’ll have to look behind your shoulder for every little noise you hear!

Hello Neighbor is a stealth-based horror game where you sneak into your freaky neighbor’s house to see what horrors he’s hiding in his basement. While you’re at his house, you’ll have to dodge your crazy neighbor (yes, he’s home while you’re snooping around) and discover all the suspicious and terrifying secrets he’s hiding. Assemble puzzles, navigate the labyrinthine house and dodge your neighbor’s creatively designed traps in this gruesome mobile experience!

limbo

Screenshot Limbo
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Limbo is less scary and more creepy/horrific. This game starts you off with an overwhelming sense of fear that only gets bigger as you progress through the game. Limbo is completely in black and white and yet has great graphics that will keep your eyes off the screen for a second!

This gripping story begins with the main character, a nameless boy, waking up in the middle of a forest on the “edge of hell”. You must defeat horrific monsters, solve frustrating puzzles and run endlessly to find your lost sister and your own peace. Throughout the game, players are given hints and clues about what happened to the boy and his sister and where they ended up. It’s certainly not a place anyone wants to stay long, so the sooner you can get out of that drab hellscape, the better!

The baby in yellow

The baby in yellow in a crib Screenshot
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Based on the title and the screenshot, you might think this game is about a harmless baby who isn’t scary at all, but you’re wrong. You’ll never look at babies (or the color yellow) the same way after playing The Baby in Yellow on mobile! In this game, you play as an unsuspecting nanny hired to care for a small baby in a modest apartment.

This situation may seem normal at first glance, but there is absolutely nothing normal about this baby! Once the baby begins to float, make demonic summoning circles appear and trap lost souls in all its toys, you begin to understand that you are not dealing with a human baby; you are dealing with a demon. It’s up to you whether you continue with your babysitting duties or put an end to this demonic nightmare once and for all!

Almost everyone has a mobile device, which is why mobile games are so important! Whether you don’t have game consoles or just want to take your games with you everywhere, mobile games are truly some of the best platformed games on the market. If you like to play games on your phone but mobile horror games are not your thing, try mobile co-op games with your friends!