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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Dread X Collection 2 Explore 12 horror games made in 10 days connected by a meta narrative experience you didn't expect. Step into a world of darkness and discover the secrets you didn't know were right beneath the surface. Find the tapes and unlock the mystery inside the Dread X Collection 2.

Price -87% 1.09€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Aug 2020
Eternal Hope Eternal Hope is a puzzle platformer game that follows the story of Ti’bi – a boy who must embark on a journey of love and hope to find his beloved’s soul.

Price -93% 0.76€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Aug 2020
Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star A visual novel about an abusive relationship, idealization, and intimacy. Live a summer of dysfunctional love through branching storylines, twists, sudden changes, and an innovative mechanic where you choose which senses to use with your boyfriend.

Price -95% 0.82€
Rating 7.4
Release 13 Aug 2020
Flicker of Hope Flicker of Hope is a suspense thriller where you play as a small candle in the ruins of a dark cathedral. Though the halls are littered with victims of a mysterious plague, you are not the only soul left. Use the properties of a candle, and a trusty douter to prevent yourself from being discovered.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Aug 2020
Handy Harry's Haunted House Services Team up with up to 8 friends online to explore the haunted, randomly generated depths of these dusty attics. Find and repair the objectives, flip the master switch and escape before the ghastly ghoul that lurks in the darkness catches up to you. Play through the career mode or explore free play!

Price -20% 3.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 31 Jul 2020
Venge Get ready to explore a movie studio that vanished into thin air, only to find yourself trapped in a twisted, alternate dimension where creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to ensure you never see the light of day again...

Price -75% 1.24€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Jul 2020
THE IMPOSSIBLE THE IMPOSSIBLE is a minimal perspective illusion puzzle game. You control a small square in the IMPOSSIBLE world and remember: nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.

Price -86% 0.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 Jul 2020
[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 is a psychological train horror game.

Price -20% 2.39€
Rating 7.5
Release 23 Jul 2020
Death Come True Everything rides on your choices in this new wave interactive movie game. Experience a thrilling science fiction mystery in full-length live-action format—from genius creator of the "Danganronpa" series, Kazutaka Kodaka!

Price -30% 9.30€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Jul 2020
The Call of Karen The Call of Karen is a PC simulation comedy game about a 1950s suburban housewife whose home is being invaded by Cthulhu. Keep up appearances in the face of an unhappy marriage, ungrateful child, and eldritch madness!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 16 Jul 2020
Escape the Clinic A first-person puzzle horror game. Solve clues, find hints, discover keys, and use passwords to navigate the haunted Clinic and find a way out.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 07 Jul 2020
Chair F*cking Simulator Use our innovative patented funky fresh ChairF*cker simulation tech to meet the chair of your wildest dreams.

Price -20% 1.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Jul 2020
Don't Be Afraid - The First Toy Don't Be Afraid - The First Toy, is an introduction to the dramatic story of a boy kidnapped by a psychopath. Exploring the giant house of your torturer you will soon discover things worse than your childish nightmares. Take on the role of Jamie and see what phrase “The First Toy” actually means.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Jul 2020
Ginkgo Ginkgo is a single player 3D horror game inspired by East Asian horror. Armed with a magic needle that can sew parts of the world together, solve puzzles and outsmart monsters as you explore a surreal world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Jun 2020
A Place, Forbidden A Place, Forbidden is a first-person, lo-fi horror-puzzle game set in the Library of Ouroboros, a seemingly innocuous library that, rumor has it, contains knowledge not meant for the eyes of mortal man. We hope you enjoy your visit.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 25 Jun 2020
Fatum Betula Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

Price -20% 3.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Jun 2020
The Swine Say goodbye to southern hospitality in the backwoods of rural America. The Swine is a short horror experience that explores isolation, witchcraft, and unforeseen consequences in your rural homestead.

Price -65% 0.69€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Jun 2020
Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask Follow the fear of Benedek Dohnany and Nikolay Kalyakin and play the onset of a dark and chilling narrative adventure. Make decisions and affect the events that precede a macabre series of murders, allegedly related to devil worship and witchcraft.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jun 2020
GOHOME This is a third-person horror game set in a residential area in 2000s Japan. It's the complete version of the free horror game GOHOME, which was released in 2019 and caused a boom. The map has been doubled, and six more ghosts, including hidden characters, have been added to the game.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Jun 2020
[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明 Missing Children | 行方不明 is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.

Price -20% 2.39€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jun 2020
The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier The Walking Fish returns, this time in space, in an all-new fish comedy horror experience. Stuck on a space station, you have to solve the mystery of the Walking Fish, and escape its terror.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Jun 2020
Dread X Collection 10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.

Price -70% 1.70€
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2020
Angels of Death Episode.Eddie "The boy made up his mind to face a cruel world." The new special edition of the psychological horror-adventure game "Angels of Death", which has also been made into an anime. The past of B4 floor master Eddie is revealed...

Price -40% 3.41€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 May 2020
Neversong Help little Peet hack-and-slash his way through a beautifully haunting coma. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane grown-ups, and sad children looking for their mommies.

Price -93% 1.09€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 May 2020
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.

Price -95% 0.56€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 May 2020
The Confession Ever wondered how much of a kinky pervert you are? Ever wanted to know what your fate entails for being such a kinky pervert? Answer a series of disgustingly hilarious, immoral questions to reveal ridiculous scenarios & unlock the answers you seek...

Price -25% 1.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 18 May 2020
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi 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 -35% 4.28€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 May 2020
Close To The Sun Deep in international waters, Tesla’s Helios stands still. An unbound utopia for scientific research, Rose Archer steps aboard in search of her sister, quickly to discover not all is as it seems. A single word covers the entrance… QUARANTINE!

Price -96% 0.96€
Rating 7.1
Release 05 May 2020
Lucid Dream Lucid Dream is Point and Click horror game. The girl dream of being trapped in a weird place even though you fell asleep as always. Collect the item and Find clues! Escape and wake up from the dream!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 04 May 2020
Knock Harder The only way to wake up is to die. The player must decide for himself whether he is inside a dream or is in reality.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Apr 2020
The Shattering The Shattering is a first-person, story-driven, psychological thriller. Its defining features are the dynamic environments, beautiful aesthetic and intriguing story. The gameplay is meant to submerge you in the mind of John, as you take each step forward into the twisted mystery of what happened.

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 21 Apr 2020
Shrine Shrine is a retro FPS game about a skinless dude killing eldritch monstrosities with his nightmarish arsenal.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 03 Apr 2020
ZomDay As zombie crisis broke out around the world,you will play one of the warrior of S.E.A.T(Special Event Action Team)to fight against the zombies all over the world.ZomDay is a fast pace VR shooting game contains multi-player mod,exciting Boss fight,character perk and hardcore weapon system.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 27 Mar 2020
I'm on Observation Duty 2 Your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies in the monitored rooms. Anomalies range from furniture movement to otherworldly intruders. When you spot an anomaly you have to file a report to fix it. You will need sharp eyes and good memory to survive the entire night.

Price -20% 2.39€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Mar 2020
Without a Voice In the depths of a forest, an exiled princess whiles her time in solitude. One day, a mysterious, beautiful maiden appears, throwing her world out of its alignment. A dark fantasy visual novel following the intertwining paths of these two women. In seven days, the wheel of fate will splinter...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 20 Mar 2020
SiN Gold SiN: Gold has returned! Free update for original owners!

Price -80% 1.63€
Rating 7.4
Release 18 Mar 2020

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