Devour

Devour does one thing and does it well. Your group completes rituals while a possessed cult leader chases you. That is the entire pitch. The lean structure means sessions are quick to start and quick to understand, which matters when you are trying to get four people into a horror game on a weeknight without a 45-minute onboarding session. The horror is chase-pressure driven rather than atmospheric, so do not expect dread to linger between objectives. Budget-friendly pricing makes it easy to convince a full group to buy in, and the additional maps give it more staying power than the one-and-done indie horror games it competes with. Not the deepest game here, but reliably delivers what it promises.

DEVOUR does one thing really well: it gets four people scared and running within the first five minutes, every time, with almost no explanation required. The objectives are readable, the chase moments are loud and immediate, and you can go from installing the game to being genuinely terrified in under ten minutes. That frictionless setup is worth more than people give it credit for at an actual event where nobody wants to spend forty minutes configuring servers. It is not the deepest horror experience on this list, and it wears out faster than Phasmophobia across multiple sessions, but as a reliable rotation pick between heavier games it is hard to beat.