22sounds
Heavy Doors and Locks
Includes crest key fitted in slot, door chain falling, heavy door bolt sliding, heavy wooden door slam, key in old lock, laboratory sliding door, and more.
Library
Retro Survival Horror SFX Library
220 lo-fi survival horror sounds in the style of late-1990s console horror games: heavy doors, save rooms, inventory, puzzles, weapons, creatures, footsteps, stingers, menus and seamless loops.
- 220 sound effects
- WAV, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo
- 65 MB unzipped
- Royalty-free, no attribution
Preview
A montage drawn from across the library, at the levels the files ship at.
What is in the library
12 sections, each in its own folder.
14sounds
Save Room and Safe Haven
Includes safe room door close, save point chime, storage chest close, storage chest open, typewriter carriage return, typewriter key clack.
22sounds
Inventory and Items
Includes ammo box pickup, bandage wrap, battery insert, document paper rustle, examine item turn, handgun bullets pickup, and more.
20sounds
Puzzles and Mechanisms
Includes cage elevator arriving, clock hands set, combination dial click, hidden wall panel opening, iron crank turning, piano key note, and more.
20sounds
Lo-Fi Weapons
Includes combat knife slash, empty weapon click, grenade launcher fire, handgun shot, knife blade impact, magnum revolver shot, and more.
20sounds
Creature Sounds
Includes corpse feeding tear, corpse lunge snarl, creature death gurgle, giant spider hiss, giant worm roar, infected crow caw, and more.
20sounds
Footsteps and Movement
Includes footsteps in wet sewer, footsteps on creaky stairs, footsteps on gravel courtyard, footsteps on marble tile, footsteps on metal grate, footsteps on thick carpet, and more.
16sounds
Damage, Health and Death
Includes beast bite flesh crunch, continue screen tone, creature strike impact, critical health heartbeat, game over tragic chord, health restored shimmer, and more.
18sounds
Stingers and Jump Scares
Includes camera angle jolt, creature reveal hit, door burst scare, low brass hit, metallic clang jump, piano cluster stab, and more.
18sounds
Environment Hazards
Includes chandelier sway creak, crows takeoff flock, electrical arc zap, exterior glass shatter, floor collapse crack, fluorescent light buzz, and more.
16sounds
Menus and Interface
Includes menu cancel back, menu confirm select, menu cursor tick, option toggle switch, pause game tone, room transition door, and more.
14sounds
Lo-Fi Loops
Includes basement boiler room loop, crackling brick fireplace loop, creature lair breathing loop, distant thunderstorm rolling loop, empty city street wind loop, fluorescent fixture buzz loop, and more.
12 sections, one matched set.220 files in total
Questions
Can I use these sounds in a commercial game?
Yes. The licence is royalty-free for commercial and non-commercial projects, with no attribution required, no per-project fee and no expiry. The one restriction is that the audio files may not be resold or redistributed on their own as a sound library.
What format are the files?
WAV, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo, 220 individual files in named folders, about 65 MB unzipped.
Which game engines do they work with?
Any engine that imports WAV, including Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot and GameMaker.
How were the sounds made?
Source audio generated with ElevenLabs Sound Effects under a paid commercial licence, then screened by ear and by measurement, trimmed, faded and level-matched across the library. This is declared on every store listing.
Where to buy
The library is on itch.io at moneywithjjcom.itch.io/retro-survival-horror-library, and on the other stores listed on the store pages. The audio files are identical on every store.
Questions about the library, the licence or a custom set: [email protected].