Turn off the lights and scare the wits out of yourself this Hallowe’en with some of these spooky mobile horror games. Just don’t say you weren’t warned!

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● Dark Echo

Helpfully set entirely in the dark, this game lets your imagination create its own horrors. Its only visuals show sounds bouncing off surfaces to help you find your way. This all looks rather pretty, although you probably won’t notice what with all the squelching underfoot, and the many whispering fiends waiting for their chance to tear you limb from limb.

Stuff says ★★★★★

£1.49 / Android ● £1.99 / iOS

● Year Walk

Snow crunches underfoot in this fairytale horror set in a frozen Sweden. Scenes rise and fall like pages from a warped picture book as you solve cryptic puzzles that lead you deeper into a mystery. Frequently unsettling imagery and some properly petrifying jump scares await in one of mobile’s finest and most original adventure titles.

Stuff says ★★★★★

£3.99 / iOS

● Slayaway Camp

If the only horror you can deal with is the cartoon gore you find in the more degenerate South Park episodes, try this puzzler. More or less ‘Sokoban meets a 1980s VHS slasher movie’, it sees you slide about slaughtering campers, dispatching witless cops, and discovering that even for blocky cartoon dorks a woodchipper is a nasty way to go.

Stuff says ★★★★★

£2.79 / Android ● £2.99 / iOS

● The Room: Old Sins

A prominent engineer vanishes; his trail leads to a spooky attic containing a freaky doll house. One glimpse of a dead body in the moonlight and you’re sucked inside. And just in case that isn’t quite creepy enough, the tiny impossible structure is covered in satanic symbols, and appears to be a portal for Lovecraftian horrors straining to burst through.

Stuff says ★★★★★

£4.99 / Android, iOS

● Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

“Be a nightwatchman,” they said. “How hard could that be?” Well, depends whether you’re monitoring CCTV cameras to check on psychotic animatronic animal suits. If they get too near, they’ll tear your face off. Luckily, you’ve been armed with… a music box and a bear head. Thanks, corporate cutbacks.

Stuff says ★★★★★

£1.92 / Android ● £2.99 / iOS

● Zombies, Run!

In horror flicks, there’s quite a lot of abject terror combined with running. This isn’t terribly well represented in games, where you usually just hold a virtual joystick to flee – so why not let this ‘gamified exercise’ app dump you in a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland instead? It’s not so much The Walking Dead as The Running To Avoid Being Dead.

Stuff says ★★★★★

£free (IAPs) / Android, iOS