{"id":3221,"date":"2025-10-31T15:29:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:10:35","slug":"the-best-indie-horror-games-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/the-best-indie-horror-games-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The best indie horror games in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something special about the best indie horror games, isn\u2019t there? While the big names like Resident Evil and Dead By Daylight will always hold a firm place in the hearts (and nightmares) of people all over the world, there\u2019s no denying that a good hidden gem just hits different. Luckily, there are heaps of amazing handheld horror indies. In this guide, we compile some of our absolute favorites, so you can savor the spooks any time, any place.<\/p>\n<p>While many of these terrifying titles make for great Halloween games, our love for the best horror games survives year-round, as you can see from our list of\u00a0Roblox horror games and our 99 Nights in the Forest code list. So, if you\u2019re ready for a fright, you can rest assured that you\u2019re in safe hands.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on Pocket Tactics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/indie-horror-games\">The best indie horror games in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something special about the best indie horror games, isn\u2019t there? While the big names like Resident Evil and Dead By Daylight will always hold a firm place in the hearts (and nightmares) of people all over the world, there\u2019s no denying that a good hidden gem just hits different. Luckily, there are heaps of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}