The best selling horror TTRPGs published on DriveThruRPG 2023

Following our reveals of the best selling fantasy and sci-fi TTRPGs, Geek Native and DriveThruRPG turn now to horror!

In this league table, we have RPGs and supplements published this year at DriveThruRPG, which the author or publisher rates as a horror game.

Best selling horror RPGs of 2023

1. Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum Core Rulebook by Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd.
2. Delta Green: God’s Teeth by Arc Dream Publishing.
3. Public Access by The Gauntlet.
4. Chains of Asmodeus by Wizards of the Coast.
5. Tome of the Pentacle by Onyx Path Publishing.
6. EZD6 Book of Quests by RUNEHAMMER GAMES.
7. M20 Victorian Age Mage by Onyx Path Publishing.
8. Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game by Monte Cook Games.
9. Japan – Empire of Shadows: A Call of Cthulhu sourcebook for 1920s Imperial Japan by Chaosium.
10. Whitehack Fourth Edition by WhitehackRPG.
11. Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition Core Rulebook by Renegade Game Studios.
12. SWADE Horror Companion by Pinnacle Entertainment.
13. Shadow of the Demon Lord Compendia Core for Foundry VTT by Schwalb Entertainment.
14. BLASTER Vol 05: Dead by Lead by Electi Studio.
15. The Silt Verses Roleplaying Game by The Gauntlet.
16. Monster of the Week: Codex of Worlds by Evil Hat Productions, LLC.
17. Adventure Crucible — Building Stronger Scenarios for any RPG by Tentacles Press.
18. Weird Frontiers RPG Book 2 Magic Tome by Stiff Whiskers Press.
19. Weird Frontiers RPG Core Book 1 by Stiff Whiskers Press.
20. Apocalypse Keys by Evil Hat Productions, LLC.

Congratulations to Cubicle 7 as this means the dark Warhammer 40K RPG Imperium Maledictum is both the top selling sci-fi and horror RPG. That seems like a fair call; Warhammer 40K is certainly horror at times and always sci-fi, and who here is surprised that sci-fi outsells horror?

In second place is Delta Green: God’s Teeth by Arc Dream Publishing. This adventure has a content warning.

In early 2001, a few Agents of Delta Green face an evil too cruel to ignore. They can never turn back from what they see or what they must do to stop it. A night of death leaves them scarred forever. But even as one terror fades, another awakens.

The Agents find themselves beset by a power more frightful than Delta Green itself, a force beyond that hungers for unnatural death. A force that hunts horrors like a cat stalking prey. A force that has made the Agents the instruments of its ceaseless devourings.

Written by Caleb Stokes and illustrated by Dennis Detwiller, God’s Teeth has a perfect 5/5 score after two dozen ratings on DriveThruRPG. It was only published in October.

Art credit: Hellscape: Eldritch Horror by MatatabiArt.