Best Dark Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated dark games.

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The Sand Man “I’ll tell you a scary story. It’s so scary you might not be able to take it. It’s the story of the Sand Man...” This is the second title in the Strange Man series, developed by Uri Games. Unable to sleep and exhausted, Sophie wanders into a town where everything sleeps. That is where the terror begins...

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 29 Jan 2018
Play With Me: Escape Room See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question – will you dare to Play with Me?

Price 3.15€
Rating 6.1
Release 17 Jan 2018
The Crooked Man There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile... This is the first title in the series known as The Strange Man, developed by Uri Games. Experience the myriad horrors awaiting David as he moves into his new house.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 16 Jan 2018
Rusty Lake Paradise Rusty Lake Paradise is set on a small remote island which is cursed by the ten plagues of Egypt. Solve all the mysteries of this dark, macabre puzzle adventure. Paradise builds upon the distinctive atmosphere and excitement from the Rusty Lake series.

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 11 Jan 2018
Yume Nikki This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 09 Jan 2018
Rumu Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Dec 2017
Our End of the World Filled with puzzles, the story between she and me at the end of the world. English Subtitle Released on 2018/11/22!

Price -40% 5.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 02 Nov 2017
SIMULACRA An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Price -91% 0.42€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Oct 2017
Misao - 2024 HD Remaster Explore a school plagued by unnatural phenomena in this horror-adventure game revolving around the missing girl Misao. Improving upon 2017's "Definitive Edition" with refreshed graphics and support for HD resolutions, you can now experience the terror in a new form.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 25 Oct 2017
A Mortician's Tale A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.

Price -94% 0.50€
Rating 6.9
Release 18 Oct 2017
The Evil Within 2 Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.

Price -93% 2.27€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Oct 2017
Doki Doki Literature Club! The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 06 Oct 2017
HEADLINER Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.

Price -35% 3.24€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Oct 2017
Home Sweet Home Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various.

Price -58% 6.74€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Sep 2017
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.

Price 33.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 Sep 2017
Caligo Caligo is the darkness everyone descends into one way or another, and to each of us it's something different. For some it's a short but exciting adventure, some will see it as a place to relax. Yet others will be reminded of their worst nightmare, while for a few, it might come as a revelation.

Price 6.15€
Rating 7.2
Release 22 Sep 2017
Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ From the award-winning developers at Arkane® Studios comes Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider, the next standalone adventure in the critically-acclaimed Dishonored® series.

Price -91% 2.84€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Sep 2017
The Land of Pain Something strange appears in the woods. Lost in a dark and unknown place, survive an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and uncover the ancient mystery that’s befallen this land in this Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror adventure.

Price -94% 0.80€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Sep 2017
Pixel Gladiator Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Sep 2017
Super Blood Hockey Create and manage your team in a violent, dystopic world of no-rules, fast-paced, arcade-style, ice hockey action. Adjust training regimens, control diets, administer black market pharmaceuticals, and provide healthcare (or not) to a ragtag team of convicts at the mercy of your underhanded tactics.

Price -72% 4.19€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Aug 2017
Darkwood Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Price -95% 0.86€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Aug 2017
Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.

Price -94% 0.96€
Rating 8.9
Release 08 Aug 2017
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.

Price -85% 4.64€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Aug 2017
Immortal Planet Immortal Planet is an action RPG with challenging combat that rewards patience and punishes recklessness. Explore the crumbling remains of a society of immortals trapped in endless cycles of rebirth. Fight your way to discover the planet's mystery and escape its curse.

Price -88% 1.83€
Rating 6.1
Release 27 Jul 2017
This Strange Realm Of Mine This Strange Realm Of Mine is a First Person Shooter mixed with poetry and psychological horror. Graphic style is 3D mixed with pixel art.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 Jul 2017
The End Is Nigh The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Jul 2017
Black The Fall After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from Communism, through manipulation and scheming. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned robot. Could they solve the puzzles and flee this bleak world together?

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Jul 2017
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Komaru Naegi has been imprisoned inside a mysterious apartment for over a year. Her rescue is derailed when hundreds of Monokumas suddenly attack. She teams up with Toko Fukawa to survive the rampaging Monokumas, escape the crafty Monokuma Kids, and uncover the secrets of the city.

Price 27.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Jun 2017
GET EVEN Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.

Price -94% 1.98€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Jun 2017
Lydia Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?

Price 2.85€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Jun 2017
Perception An award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 30 May 2017
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

Price -67% 2.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 May 2017
OVIVO OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 May 2017
Mass Exodus Redux Whether you’re playing the seeker (VR) or rogue android (PC), Mass Exodus is a tense and absorbing local multiplayer game. With 4 extensive maps each with unique kill methods and some creative power-ups, you need to try outsmart your friends anyway you can. Oculus Touch and HTC Vive compatible.

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 May 2017
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Apr 2017
Just Ignore Them One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.

Price -84% 0.67€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2017

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