Dark Hidden Gems on Steam

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Bionic Bay A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.

Price -90% 2.07€
Rating 8.3
Release 16 Apr 2025
Stygian: Outer Gods Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?

Price -61% 9.93€
Rating 8.0
Release 14 Apr 2025
Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors Embark on an epic saga in Asgard's Fall, a norse Survivors-like Roguelite. Fight your way through hordes of creatures and let the gods feel your relentless wrath. How will your saga unfold?

Price -59% 2.88€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Apr 2025
Gnomes Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 04 Apr 2025
The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood He is back. Once again take control of mass serial killer John Wade. Six years later, the infamous Pale Grin resurrects from the grave to terrorize the broken town of Happyhills. This time he has more on his mind than simple killing.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 03 Apr 2025
Emissary Zero Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.

Price 8.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 28 Mar 2025
Metal Garden Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game.

Price 5.89€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 Mar 2025
Unpossess: Exorcism Simulator Unpossess is a 1-4 co-op exorcism simulator game set in the early 1900s. Players take on the role of exorcists responsible for addressing cases of human possession.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Mar 2025
ASYLUM An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Mar 2025
ORDER 13 You wake up in a dark warehouse, tasked with packing orders while something lurks in the shadows. Work fast, stay safe, and protect your cat. He’s all you’ve got.

Price -95% 0.49€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Mar 2025
Do No Harm Lovecraftian Doctor Simulator. Diagnose patients by analyzing unsettling symptoms and treat them using your Book of Medicine. Make moral choices — decide who to save or kill, discover whom to trust, and unlock multiple endings! Can you endure 30 days of perilous decisions?

Price 15.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 Mar 2025
Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings Train unique samurai, embark on missions, and play the cards dealt each run on an epic roguelite adventure in the Legend of the Five Rings universe. Each defeat opens new strategic skill tree options and more powerful cards to face the growing threat in the Shadowlands.

Price -74% 6.52€
Rating 7.2
Release 04 Mar 2025
BrokenLore: LOW BrokenLore: LOW is a psychological horror game set in a mist-covered, beautiful Japanese village, blending hyper-realistic graphics with low-poly elements. The main enemy is the Gashadokuro, a yokai from Japanese folklore.

Price -72% 2.48€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Feb 2025
The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game The Backrooms: 1998 is a first-person found footage psychological horror survival game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Feb 2025
Pale Abyss - Prototype Descend into the Pale Abyss, a cursed chasm where the forgotten truths of a dying world fester in its depths. Inspired by games such as King’s Field and Shadow Tower, Pale Abyss is a first-person action RPG about exploration and adventure. Currently it's just a demo with about 1 h of playtime.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Feb 2025
Cradle of Nightmare : Flowers to you Cradle of Nightmares: Flowers for You is an ATB turn-based game based on combat adventures made by RPGMaker. Players will take on the role of a high school student named Yue Qing, who will fall into the dark and gloomy "second world" and embark on a journey to end the filthy fate of mankind.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Feb 2025
Dawnfolk Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Feb 2025
Project Hailstorm Step into the shoes of a researcher in the depths of the antarctic and uncover the mysteries behind Project Hailstorm.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Feb 2025
Slender Threads In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.

Price -6% 18.38€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Feb 2025
DEAD LETTER DEPT. Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Jan 2025
Dreamcore Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?

Price -62% 5.66€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Jan 2025
Few Nights More Few Nights More is a roguelike turn-based RPG based in a world where Vampire Lords seek to conquer lost territories and their place in the world. Design and defend your stronghold, slay your enemies with traps, fulfill your Lord’s true potential, slowly conquering what is rightfully yours.

Price -89% 1.70€
Rating 7.8
Release 22 Jan 2025
The Shell Part III: Paradiso The coiling chains of obsession that began with The Shell now threaten to strangle Detective Reiji Tokisaka in the third and final entry in the trilogy. As old friends and foes rise up for one last confrontation, can anyone break the cycle—and can Reiji's heart ever be set free?

Price -47% 10.43€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Jan 2025
Tyrant's Realm Tyrant's Realm is a roguelite action-adventure inspired by classic PS1 visuals. Explore procedurally generated dark fantasy worlds, battling through dangers that evolve with each run. Death is not the end, as the night is still young.

Price -76% 2.40€
Rating 8.2
Release 16 Jan 2025
Winion Virus Winion Virus is a pixel-art visual novel horror game. It features adorable and charming graphics paired with a dark fairy-tale story full of unexpected twists. As a point-and-click adventure, your task is to fix the errors occurring within the computer.

Price -86% 1.61€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 Dec 2024
Fishing The Abyss This is a relaxing atmospheric game where you simply watch a robot catch creatures. Place it at the edge of your screen like a vertical desktop accessory and observe the ecosystem. It’s neither an idle game with mountains of stats nor an exciting fishing game.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.7
Release 16 Dec 2024
Go Home Annie: An SCP Game A twisted psychological thriller and an original story set in the SCP universe. As an employee of the SCP Foundation, test artificially created paranormal events, solve puzzles, interact with anomalies, and uncover the secrets of the Replication Division.

Price -40% 11.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 10 Dec 2024
Among Ashes Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Dec 2024
Scauage Scauage is a short horror experience where you play as a scavenger looting an abandoned house, uncovering its dark secrets and collecting hidden treasures while facing what lurks within.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Dec 2024
[Bober Bros] The Hole [Bober Bros] The Hole is a first-person horror game that explores the cracks in domestic life. Your neighbor’s drilling starts the nightmare, but the holes reveal dark secrets far deeper than any wall could hide. No cheap scares, only disturbing reality.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Dec 2024
Ruined Nurse Explore the hospital by Thwarting the creatures that are trying to stop you and solving puzzles. Successfully install the internet and surprise customer...

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.7
Release 02 Dec 2024
Follow the meaning Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 22 Nov 2024
The Devil Within: Satgat Join Kim Rip, a Royal Guard whose humanity is gradually slipping away, on a thrilling 2.5D action-adventure platforming journey in 'The Devil Within: Satgat'. Uncover the mysteries of a desolate realm as you engage in stylish battles against formidable foes.

Price -98% 0.60€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Nov 2024
THRESHOLD In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 19 Nov 2024
Dungeons of Blood and Dream Play as a mighty Blood Wizard on a quest to escape a death-loop of psychedelic dungeons. Slay disgusting creatures using a large array of bladed weapons and unnerving spells, harness the power of cursed rings, find mysterious treasures, and learn the secrets of the universe you are trapped in.

Price 18.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 11 Nov 2024
Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered Shadows of the Damned, an action-adventure road trip through hell, has been remastered at last! Get ready for a story about rock, love, and just a little bit of demon slaying.

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 30 Oct 2024

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