Horror Hidden Gems 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 horror games.

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Introvert: A Teenager Simulator One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 02 Mar 2021
Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite Olive is trapped in school in the midst of the apocalypse! With demons slaughtering every dog in sight there's only so many left to spend time with! Will their special someone be Brownie the snack-loving corgi, Sparky the sporty husky or Patches the dalmatian bookworm? You decide!

Price -60% 1.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 16 Feb 2021
Enter The Backrooms An indie psychological horror experience about surviving infinity. Navigate an endless expanse of rooms, ascend through various levels, gather items and artifacts, avoid going insane, evade corrupted entities, and see just how deep the realm known as The Backrooms goes.

Price -40% 5.81€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Feb 2021
NUTS NUTS is a single-player walking simulator surveillance mystery. Record the squirrels, report your findings, and piece together what’s really going on in Melmoth Forest.

Price -98% 0.68€
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Feb 2021
回门 Way Back Home "Way back home" is a 2D horizontal board horror puzzle game. It takes the Republic of China period from 1905 to 1926 as the background of the times. With a large number of exquisite original paintings, rich playing methods, excellent music and dubbing, delicate script and narrative game style, it creates a strong historical...

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.8
Release 29 Jan 2021
Ghost in the pool A bizarre campus legend, take you into the traditional Japanese black-and-white comic horror story. Witness the familiar scenes and contemplate the terrifying moments.

Price -50% 1.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Jan 2021
Understanding, The Game 'Understanding, the game' it's a suspense/investigation horror indie game inspired in classic horror games! Full Game coming as soon we can! Help us grow the game!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 23 Dec 2020
Hello Guest: Hello Neighbor 2 pre-alpha Hello Guest, beloved Hello Neighbor 2 pre-alpha, a stealth horror thriller with an advanced, self-learning AI. You take the night shift as a security guard at an abandoned Golden Apple Amusement Park where a creature is hiding in the shadows. What can go wrong?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 22 Dec 2020
Hand Simulator: Horror Fear clouds the mind. Fear paralyzes the body. If your hands are shaking with fear, you will remain in this hell forever.

Price -50% 1.49€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Dec 2020
Don't Be Afraid Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Dec 2020
THE NORMAL THING THE NORMAL THING is a story about a dog who lost his memory. Sunless forests, strange gardens, weird inhabitants... Start a little journey to retrieve your memory.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 10 Dec 2020
Isolomus Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Dec 2020
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is a Horrorpunk Action RPG filled with Lovecraftian horrors and Cronenbergian gore, making it the most gruesome take on the isometric Souls-like genre yet!

Price -97% 0.89€
Rating 7.1
Release 03 Dec 2020
Self-Isolation This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.

Price -70% 1.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Dec 2020
Lighthouse Keeper This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.

Price 1.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Nov 2020
BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut Enhanced and updated for modern systems, this is the definitive edition of Rayne’s second adventure: a blood-soaked rampage of vengeance against the Cult of Kagan, a group led by Rayne's half-siblings that seek to carry out their father Kagan's legacy by creating a new era of vampire supremacy.

Price -68% 4.04€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Nov 2020
Succumate From the creator of Summer Memories comes a new game where you must look after a demon named Lilim! Now you must juggle your time to keep her happy... or else!

Price -40% 7.49€
Rating 7.9
Release 20 Nov 2020
ColdSide ColdSide is a psychological horror first-person game. It takes place in an abandoned underground laboratory that studied anomalous phenomena.

Price -80% 1.31€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Nov 2020
Siren Head: Awakening Siren Head: Awakening is a first-person horror game based on Trevor Henderson's artwork. You're stuck with your car in the middle of a dark forest with nothing but your flashlight. Seek escape by finding items necessary to survive while a terrifying monster lurks the shadows.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 30 Oct 2020
Stirring Abyss Stirring Abyss is an indie tactical squad-based game with strong RPG elements in which you uncover the ancient mysteries of the depths depicted in the classic vein of Lovecraftian horror.

Price -98% 0.60€
Rating 8.2
Release 29 Oct 2020
The Case Book of Arne A vampire and a girl... who are they? The two of them have a secret and solve a strange case... In a world where paranormal activity takes place, "Player" solves a case in which a non-human becomes a suspect. Such a "detective adventure" is coming to STEAM.

Price -40% 4.91€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Oct 2020
Dread X Collection 3 Experience 12 all-new games made exclusively for this unique horror anthology. Explore a mysterious castle that changes as you play. Keep your wits about you as the line between cute and creepy begins to blur. Uncover the next chapter in the ongoing Dread X Collection storyline.

Price -87% 1.10€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Oct 2020
Iwaihime From hit writer Ryukishi07, the creator of When They Cry, comes a story on the theme of “curses.” Strike down the dark riddle of dolls and soot in this supernatural horror visual novel.

Price -89% 2.86€
Rating 7.6
Release 23 Oct 2020
Penko Park Snap pictures of spooky-cute creatures & explore an abandoned wildlife park.

Price -75% 3.44€
Rating 9.2
Release 23 Oct 2020
G String Slip into the Standard Issue Biosuit as Myo Hyori, a gifted Korean teenage girl who must face the perils of the future. Survive many hazards, explore a seemingly endless metropolis and beyond as the world around you implodes and history marches towards its inevitable conclusion.

Price -15% 11.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Oct 2020
The Horror Of Salazar House Will you solve the mystery of the Salazar manor or will you become another permanent inhabitant? An Italian horror inspired adventure game!

Price -62% 1.26€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Oct 2020
Lucifer Within Us Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.

Price -90% 2.14€
Rating 7.2
Release 15 Oct 2020
Your amazing T-Gotchi! A cute game where you care about a green anime girl!

Price -55% 1.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 08 Oct 2020
Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Oct 2020
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight CROSSBOW: Bloodnight is a frantic score-attack arena shooter set in a world of camp horror and gore. Master the occult powers of your automatic crossbow and fight for every second of survival against a relentless demonic horde! Hunt. Die. Hunt again.

Price -91% 0.27€
Rating 7.3
Release 24 Sep 2020
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?

Price -25% 8.84€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Sep 2020
Shrine II Shrine II is a retro FPS game with a focus on atmosphere and exploration. Explore a nightmarish world and battle great bosses where the surprises never end...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Sep 2020
The Grounding If she catches you, she kills you. Smoke 6 times without getting killed.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 16 Sep 2020
MOTHER MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Aug 2020
Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story A 2.5D horror game inspired by Clock Tower and Fatal Frame, mixing cyberpunk with traditional Cantonese folklore. With careful attention to pacing, atmosphere and storytelling, Sense hopes to return the horror genre to its roots by celebrating visceral horror and the slow, fearful creep of dread.

Price -90% 1.70€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Aug 2020
The Horrorscope: Fatal Awakening You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Price -25% 1.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Aug 2020

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