Games Like Granny: 10 Free Browser Horror Games (2026)
Ten free browser takes on Granny's loop — one stalker, keys to find, one way out. We checked each listing's control notes, not its marketing copy.
Key takeaways
- This is our 2026 shortlist of ten free browser games built on Granny's formula: a stalking enemy, sound as a mechanic, and escape as a puzzle.
- The closest browser take on the original is Granny the Game — one house, a five-day timer, and a Granny who reacts to every dropped object.
- Want a bigger map? Evil Granny: Horror Village and Evil Granny: City Terror take the hunt outdoors.
- On mobile, start with Cat From Hell: Cat Simulator (tap) or Granny the Game (touch pad). Angry Granny Run: India is flagged for touch as well, though it ships no control notes.
- Tired of hiding? Evil Granny Must Die Ch2 hands you three weapons and turns the formula into a shooter.
What makes a game "like Granny"?
We looked for three ingredients. First, a persistent hunter — an enemy that patrols, reacts, and punishes noise rather than waiting in a scripted spot. Second, escape-room structure: keys, tools, and locked routes you unlock under pressure. Third, that specific dread of hiding in a wardrobe listening to footsteps get louder. Some picks below stay in the house; others move the hunt into villages, cities and schools, and one hands you the cat instead. All ten are separate browser games rather than chapters of one series, which is why the same idea arrives with different controls each time — and why the ordering below leans on those controls as much as on the scares.
What we actually found
We opened all ten embeds and read the control notes on each, and the split is less even than the genre's reputation suggests. Seven of the ten need a keyboard and mouse. Three of those — Return Of Evil Granny: The School, Evil Granny: City Terror and Evil Granny Must Die Ch2 — list an identical scheme, right down to the grenade key, the reload key and the mouse wheel that switches weapons, which is about as close as a shared template gets without the same map. Granny Chapter 3: High School is the odd one out among the armed entries: right mouse fires and there is no aim button at all, so a habit built on the other three costs you the first shot. The two village games and Horror Granny Escape are WASD plus space and shift — Evil Granny: Horror Village adds E to interact, Horror Granny Escape adds F to use, and Granny Horror Village lists no interact key at all — and none of the three gives you a weapon.
On a phone the split is narrower than the genre implies. Three listings carry a touch flag: Granny the Game (touch pad), Cat From Hell: Cat Simulator (tap) and Angry Granny Run: India — and that last one reports no control scheme at all, so the flag is the whole of what we can confirm. The remaining seven are desk games; a phone gets you a loading screen and no way to walk. One more thing worth saying plainly: everything here is free, runs in a browser tab, and arrives with its own map, art and control scheme — the shared thing is the design, not a series.
The list
1. Granny the Game
Start here. Granny the Game keeps the whole thing in one house: a five-day timer, a locked front door, and a host who reacts to sound rather than sight — knock a plate off a shelf and she is already moving toward the noise. You spend the nights between furniture and cupboards, working through drawers for whatever opens the next door. It is the template the rest of the list was built from, and still the tightest: no map to learn, just sound discipline and nerve. Play Granny the Game.
2. Evil Granny: Horror Village
The formula goes outdoors, and the open layout changes what you are afraid of: from floorboards to sightlines. Granny works the lanes between houses while you scavenge tools, force doors and pick a route across the fog. Running is the quick way to cover ground and the quickest way to be found — the same bargain the house made, at three times the scale. Play Evil Granny: Horror Village.
3. Granny Horror Village
The other village take, and it plays nothing like the first: slower, denser, more about searching than outrunning. The settlement is fogged in and the thing moving between the houses is only ever heard, never quite seen, so you end up waiting inside a cupboard for footsteps to pass before crossing an alley. If the five-day timer made the original stressful, this one trades urgency for patience — dread at walking pace. Play Granny Horror Village.
4. Return Of Evil Granny: The School
Granny has taken over a school after dark — a place that was already scary. You search classrooms and corridors for keys and puzzles, and this time you can fight back: mouse-look exploration with left-click combat gives you options beyond the wardrobe. The escalation is having something to swing with, which does not make her less dangerous — it just means you stop hiding as often as you should. Play Return Of Evil Granny: The School.
5. Granny Chapter 3: High School
Third-person survival in an abandoned school, and Granny brought company — the specters of Slendrina stalk the halls too. You hunt for classroom keys, scrounge ammo, and try to stay alive long enough to find the revolver that levels the odds. Two threats with different behaviours force you to split your attention, and the third-person camera makes every corner check a commitment. Watch the controls if you are switching in from the other shooters here: this one fires on the right mouse button, the reverse of the rest. Play Granny Chapter 3: High School.
6. Evil Granny: City Terror
The series stretched until the map is a district rather than a building: streets, corners, and no room you can call safe. The trade is atmosphere for exposure — the claustrophobia that made the house work is gone, replaced by long sightlines and the certainty that whatever is hunting you can arrive from any direction. You are armed here, and you will need to be. Play it once the village already feels small. Play Evil Granny: City Terror.
7. Evil Granny Must Die Ch2
The most weapon-heavy entry: you're alone in a park, you need six keys, and this time the goal is right in the title — Evil Granny must die. She has help, so you'll need all three weapons (lead pipe, Colt .45, shotgun) and the big map's worth of jumpscares and horror setpieces. It keeps the key-hunt skeleton of Granny but rebuilds the body as a shooter. Cathartic after hours of hiding. Play Evil Granny Must Die Ch2.
8. Horror Granny Escape
Granny with the chase taken out: the puzzle core and very little else. You start locked in a room and somewhere there is a key — search the furniture, study the drawers, get used to it, because there are many such rooms in this house. Methodical and quiet, and the pick if your favourite part was never the running but the search under pressure. Play Horror Granny Escape.
9. Angry Granny Run: India
The genre flips into a runner: Grandma has escaped the psychiatric hospital, she's fast, and speed is both your weapon and your problem — too much of it and you can't steer around the obstacles filling these urban Indian streets, from elephants on up. It's the comedy relief entry, but the "Granny cannot be stopped, only managed" energy is oddly faithful to the source. Play Angry Granny Run: India.
10. Cat From Hell: Cat Simulator
The role reversal: this time you're not escaping Granny's house — you're the reason she can't have nice things. Play the troublemaking cat, knock over plates, smash fish tanks, throw balls through her peace and quiet, then escape before she catches you. It's mischievous rather than terrifying, but it takes the original's sound-as-danger rule from the other side: every crash you make is a dinner bell. Play Cat From Hell: Cat Simulator.
Why the Granny formula refuses to die
Granny distilled horror to a loop anyone can parse in ten seconds: hide, search, don't make a sound, get out. That loop scales from a single house to villages and cities without losing what makes it tick, because the real enemy was never the old woman — it's the noise you might make. That's why the genre keeps mutating into schools, shooters and cat sims while the original stays the one everybody is copying.
How they compare
| Game | Scare level | Play time | Multiplayer | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granny the Game | High | Medium | No | Purists — the original hide-and-escape loop |
| Evil Granny: Horror Village | High | Medium | No | Open-map fog and sightline tension |
| Granny Horror Village | Medium | Medium | No | Slower, search-focused dread |
| Return Of Evil Granny: The School | High | Medium | No | Players who want to fight back |
| Granny Chapter 3: High School | High | Medium | No | Two-threat survival with a revolver endgame |
| Evil Granny: City Terror | High | Long | No | Big-map urban paranoia |
| Evil Granny Must Die Ch2 | Medium | Long | No | Shooter catharsis after hours of hiding |
| Horror Granny Escape | Medium | Short | No | Pure escape-room puzzle pressure |
| Angry Granny Run: India | Low | Short | No | Comedy runner relief between scares |
| Cat From Hell: Cat Simulator | Low | Short | No | Mobile mischief — you play the monster |
Which one should you start with?
If you've never played the original, start with Granny the Game — it's the template everything else riffs on. If the house felt too small, jump straight to Evil Granny: City Terror for the widest map on the list. And if you're on a phone or just want a laugh, Cat From Hell: Cat Simulator is the one built for tapping; Granny the Game carries a touch pad as well, if you want to test the flagship loop on a bus.
More scares
Still hiding? The Granny games hub has the complete collection. If you want the same stalker tension with different villains, try the That's Not My Neighbor collection or the FNAF games hub. For broader rankings, check our top 10 no-download horror games of 2026, the games like That's Not My Neighbor list, or the best zombie games in your browser. And for animatronic dread, don't miss our best FNAF games online in 2026 ranking.
FAQ
What games are like Granny but free?
All ten games in this list are free and run in your browser with no download or signup — including Granny the Game itself. For the full shelf, browse the Granny games hub.
Which game is most like the original Granny?
Granny the Game is the closest browser take on the original's loop: one house, one Granny who reacts to noise, five days to get out. If you want the same idea with a new map, try Granny Horror Village.
Does Granny work on mobile?
Partly. Three listings carry a touch flag — Granny the Game (touch pad), Cat From Hell: Cat Simulator (tap) and Angry Granny Run: India, which reports no control notes at all. The other seven need WASD and a mouse, so treat them as desktop games.
Are there Granny games where you can fight back?
Yes. Return Of Evil Granny: The School gives you melee combat, Granny Chapter 3: High School lets you find a revolver, and Evil Granny Must Die Ch2 hands you three weapons outright.
What Granny game should I play first?
Start with Granny the Game to learn the formula, then move to Evil Granny: Horror Village once the house feels too small. Both are free and load in seconds.