Hidden Dark Games on Steam
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The Mildew Children: Chapter 1
Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.
EMPTY SHELL
EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
Heads Will Roll: Reforged
Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.
The Windows Are Gone
Haunted by grief and guilt after a tragic accident, you start seeing a house in your dreams. No matter what you do, you can't get its image out of your mind. You feel it calling for you, so you answer it.
Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.
I made this first-person single player ghost hunting simulation game, trying to take an authentic approach at investigating ghosts. Use essential paranormal tools to help your community alleviate their concerns and put their minds at ease.
Hellsweeper VR
DARE TO DESCEND INTO HELL? Hellsweeper VR is an intense first-person action-combat VR experience. Traverse the underworld where every step brings a challenge or a chance. Gain mastery of your weapons and elemental magic, or fall to the unrelenting onslaught of hell's twisted souls.
The Backrooms: Survival
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
Ad Infinitum
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
Untitled Ghost Game
Free multiplayer 2D ghost hunting game that you can play with friends created by a small game dev team.
Seven Nights Ghost
"Peaceful days full of curses" A heartwarming horror game about exploring in a mysterious company housing and living with a ghost for 7 days
The Lancaster Leak - Crisis At Call Center
YOU CONTROL THE FOUND FOOTAGE. Another tape has been leaked, this time a cover-up of a tragic mass casualty event.
Mediterranea Inferno
Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.
Apartament 1406: Horror
Apartment 1406 is an intense horror game, that challenges you to constantly survive in a hostile environment. Collect items to survive against limited ammo and creatures that lurk in the dark. Solve the puzzles and survive in this dark game.
Draft of Darkness
Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.
Clue/Cluedo
Experience a fresh take on the classic crime-solving board game. Step into new mysteries and use your skills of deduction to find out whodunit, with what weapon and where.
The Shell Part I: Inferno
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Granny Remake
Granny Remake is a gripping horror game where you must escape from a sinister house chased by a cunning and relentless Granny. Choose from multiple escape routes: drive away in a car, call the police, or unlock the main door
Shadows of Forbidden Gods
Take on the role of a Dark Elder God and lead your agents to bring about an apocalypse in a fantasy world. Work in the shadows, avoiding the heroes who will try to stop you, as you bring about plague and famine, ice age and volcanic destruction, madness and never ending night.
Abandoned Souls
Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.
Choo Choo Survivor
Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!
That Which Gave Chase
A first-person dog sledding thriller. Play as a sled dog musher hired to transport a scientist deep into the unforgiving wastes of the arctic.
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[Chilla's Art] Night Security | 夜間警備
Night Security | 夜間警備 is a Japanese psychological horror game about night security.
Bleak Sword DX
Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this pocket-sized action adventure.