Send shivers down your spine with these spooky, eerie, or just plain bloodthirsty Roblox experiences
What are the best horror games in Roblox?It’s October once again, so naturally our minds are turning to Halloween. There are so, so manyhorror gamesin the world to choose from, especially since it’s a genre that lends itself so well to short indie offerings. What I’m getting at here is that there are tons of scary games on Roblox, and if you fancy giving some a go this spooky season, we’ve put together a list of all-time favourites and current big trends.
The best horror games on Roblox:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that anything that is popular on the internet will get dozens of Roblox games made about it, and that goes double if the popular thing is a bit scary. So naturally Roblox has no shortage ofBackroomsgames right now. Apeirophobia (aptly meaning the fear of infinity or eternity) is one of the most-played Backrooms games on Roblox, not to mention one of the best. More focussed on exploration than survival — as any good Backrooms game needs to be, in my opinion — Apeirophobia manages to really capture all the iconic sinister empty spaces of the viral hit creepypasta video.
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You might have seen “scary corn game” trending in Roblox circles recently, and if you’re wondering why that is, it’s because no-one can spell or pronounce Kalampokiphobia — the technical name for fear of corn. This game, which originally popped up on the platform earlier this year, looks set to be the big Roblox horror trend this Halloween, egged on by TikTok and YouTube jumpscare videos that have been doing the rounds. It’s a pretty standard run-and-hide game with a truly ludicrous (but somehow still a bit creepy) stalker character pursuing you through a disorienting corn maze.
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Murder Party will be broadly familiar to you if you’ve played perennial Roblox favouriteMurder Mystery 2, or indeedAmong Us, or any of the other Werewolf-like games that have seen a surge in popularity over the past year. Events in Murder Party focus less on slow-burn social deduction and more on fast-paced objectives, however, as four teams (Murderers, Sheriffs, Hackers, and Party-Planners) vie to complete their assigned tasks before everyone else. It’s a hectic juggling act: complete your tasks and attempt to keep your role hidden, while also evading, disrupting, or downright slaughtering the opposition.
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“You can’t make an episodic horror game in Roblox, especially not one that integrates multiplayer,” they said, and often followed it up with, “You also can’t make a scary game based on Peppa Pig.” Well, whoevertheymight actually be, they were wrong, as Piggy has now wrapped up its second season and remains one of Roblox’s most popular horror experiences. There’s a genuine narrative thread to unravel as you and your fellow players seek not just to escape from Piggy, but to understand the nature of the beast.
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Roblox creators seem to be drawn towards any entertainment that features dystopian death battles (just see our recent list of thebest Squid Game experiences on Roblox), so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that one extremely popular game on the platform is based on The Purge. Unlike many games of this type, Break In isn’t PvP: players take on the roles of ordinary citizens who must survive five days of the crime-spree free-for-all while fending off attacks from NPC villains. Break In manages to be a story-driven experience, too; there are even multiple endings.
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There’s a legitimate horror niche when it comes to the idea of an IKEA turning into an inescapableEldritchlocation, and as a weirdo who quite enjoys the occasional trip to a Swedish furniture warehouse, I love that this is actually a sub-genre. Based onSCP-3008fromThe SCP Foundationcollaborative fiction project, this one can actually be quite scary to play thanks to its moody lighting and an all-too-familiar mundane setting turned horrifying. Could you survive — even make a life for yourself — in an endless IKEA? (Is it bad that I think I could?)
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“Elevators” are a popular unofficial genre on Roblox: they function sort of like wave-based combat challenges, with you travelling between floors on a titular elevator and encountering increasingly tough, numerous, and/or frightening threats the further you get without dying. This particular one is, well, scary: suspiciously familiar pop culture enemies include characters blatantly inspired by Pennywise the Clown, Slenderman,Freddy Fazbear, and Peppa Pig (presumably in reference to Piggy, above).
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If there’s one thing I love, it’s a public spook installation. Cruise ships, shopping malls, hotels… these seemingly cheerful spaces can so easily turn creepy with a little low lighting and a conspicuous absence of the usual crowds. Doors makes absolutely spectacular use of the latter location, asking a question we’ve all surely thought at some point in our lives: what’s going on behind all those closed doors in this big hotel? Season one provides the answers, but prepare for jump scares as you trial-and-error your way to the end of the story!
As a nice bonus, Doors has a pretty activecodes sceneat the moment. Unlike most Roblox codes that are purely cosmetic, Doors codes can let you do some really useful things like revive your character if you die, so be sure to check those out!
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Consider this a bonus entry, because I’m not about to take a spot on the real list away from one of Roblox’s many young, talented, and independent creators to heap praise on a corporate giant like Netflix for managing to put out a good game. But I do loveStranger Things, and it does have an official tie-in experience in Roblox. The best part is that the accompanying merch on the Avatar Shop includesthe absolute worst DemogorgonI’ve ever seen — it might be so ridiculous that it circles all the way back around to creepy again.
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That’s it for our list of the best horror games on Roblox, but if you’re looking for more Roblox recommendations, be sure to check out ourall-genre list of the best games on the platform. We also have aregularly-updated codes page, so take a look if you want to nab some cool freebies from the Avatar Shop.
