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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Bendy and the Ink Machine Bendy and the Ink Machine® is the first person puzzle action horror game that will forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.

Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Apr 2017
Grisaia Phantom Trigger Vol.1 "Grisaia: Phantom Trigger" is a visual novel, specifically a kinetic novel (without branching routes). Returning character artist Akio Watanabe and writer Ryuta Fujisaki bring you the latest installment in the acclaimed Grisaia series.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 27 Apr 2017
Under Leaves Journey into the forest, the jungle or the depths of the deep blue sea. Find chestnuts for the pigs, a caterpillar for the crocodile or a starfish one, two three. A color-filled hidden object game from the world of animals.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 27 Apr 2017
Little Nightmares Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Price -85% 3.03€
Rating 9.3
Release 27 Apr 2017
Westboro 2039. Water is no longer environmentally sustainable supply. The complicated and unstable situation resulted in violent uprisings among themiddle-class across the globe. The world approaches its first week in state of emergency...

Price 3.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 27 Apr 2017
What Remains of Edith Finch What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Price -86% 2.70€
Rating 9.4
Release 24 Apr 2017
Outlast 2 Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.

Price -95% 1.08€
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Apr 2017
Pinstripe An ex-minister ventures through the frozen depths of Hell in search of his kidnapped daughter.

Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Apr 2017
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption Inhabiting the World of Darkness, you must face a series of brutal confrontations with your nemesis Vukodlak, a powerful vampire lord.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Apr 2017
Gloom Afflicted by severe amnesia, you drift deep into the Common Dream. You scour for the lost pages of the Necronomicon, while clinging on to any little purpose you have left. Faced with mad dreamers, horrible abominations and eldritch deities, you feel drawn to the dark Abyss deep within.

Price -95% 0.53€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Apr 2017
Fibrillation HD Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 11 Apr 2017
The Sexy Brutale The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...

Price -88% 2.44€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Apr 2017
Fausts Alptraum Fausts Alptraum is an single player, puzzle game created by LabORat Studio, an indie game team from Taiwan. The story based on Goethe's Faust. Players will play as a troubled girl wandering around in a crayon-drawn world. Players will have to find the relevance between dreams and reality by collecting clues.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 08 Apr 2017
Demonheart Discover the secrets of the witches and demons in this dark fantasy romance game, featuring a female protagonist whose personality is completely up to the player thanks to extensive dialog choices.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2017
Shadows Peak Shadows Peak is an atmospheric, open-world horror game focused on exploration that doesn't hold your hand. You play as a writer who has decided to visit a mysterious place called Shadows Peak to gather materials for a new book about legends.

Price -75% 2.43€
Rating 6.8
Release 13 Mar 2017
2Dark 2Dark is a stealth adventure game developed by Frédérick Raynal, the pioneer of survival horror games and creator of Alone in the Dark®. Make your way through the lairs of psychopaths, unravel intrigue where madness mingles with horror, and, above all, save the kids!

Price -98% 0.63€
Rating 7.4
Release 10 Mar 2017
Bad Dream: Coma Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...

Price -95% 0.45€
Rating 8.8
Release 09 Mar 2017
Sweetest Monster A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Feb 2017
We Were Here Lost in a frozen wasteland and split up from your partner inside an abandoned castle, the only possession you have left is a walkie-talkie with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the two of you find your way out in time?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Feb 2017
A House of Many Doors Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.

Price -93% 0.80€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Feb 2017
Detention Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.

Price -66% 4.09€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jan 2017
Tattletail It’s Christmas 1998. The world’s most annoying toy just came out, and yours won’t stay in his box. Can you stop Tattletail from getting you in trouble before the bloodthirsty Mama Tattletail hunts you down? Story-driven first person horror. New DLC Included!

Price 7.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Dec 2016
Castle of no Escape 2 Explore 6 x 6 x 6 = 216 rooms of randomly generated hazards and enemies while collecting the necessary artefacts. Hundreds of monsters are roaming inside, guarding the sword shards — the last known thing to be capable of defeating the demonic castle owner.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 21 Dec 2016
Angels of Death "Please... kill me." "Help me get outta here, and I'll kill you." ~ Angels of Death is a psychological horror-adventure game, consisting of four episodes.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Dec 2016
Sally Face - Episode One Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 14 Dec 2016
Gods and Idols Take the role of a newly ascended deity in Gods and Idols. Carve your place among the stars in an open, dynamic, and massive MMORTS universe. Command the powers of the cosmos, form alliances, and use your worshipers as instruments to further your goals.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 12 Dec 2016
Coffin of Ashes Delilah is an ordinary school girl who accidentally discovers an old mansion on a rainy night. As her exploration in the mansion continues, she finds many mysterious phenomena that can't be explained. In this mansion covered by ashes, what's the secret hidden deep underground?

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Dec 2016
Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel The hit crossover 2D fighter finally makes its way to PC, updated to the latest arcade version for character balancing, added background animations and additional winning poses. It also includes all DLC from the console release, such as additional fighters Homura and Heart, in a single value package.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 Dec 2016
Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 21 Nov 2016
Killing Floor 2 In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.

Price -98% 0.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Nov 2016
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.

Price -99% 0.56€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Nov 2016
Yesterday Origins John Yesterday becomes immortal following an occult ritual. However, not everything goes to plan. He and his girlfriend Pauline must embark on an investigation to try to reproduce the immortality ritual. But his former acquaintances have other plans for him...

Price -97% 0.55€
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Nov 2016
Beholder You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Price -97% 0.52€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Nov 2016
The Survey In the end, everybody gets what they deserve. The sins of the past always manifest within the minds of the sinners. An eternity of suffering awaits, welcome to The Survey.

Price -61% 1.98€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Oct 2016
Through the Woods Through the Woods is a third-person Norse horror adventure set in a forest on the western shores of Norway that tells the story of a mother and her missing son.

Price -97% 0.60€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Oct 2016
Rusty Lake: Roots Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.

Price -88% 0.49€
Rating 9.4
Release 20 Oct 2016

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