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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Gray Dawn Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.

Price -72% 4.80€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Jun 2018
Mother Simulator It’s a humorous project about a young parent's difficult weekdays. If you feel worried, irritated, you don’t understand what’s going on and what you must do next, so don’t worry. We want to give you exactly these feelings in our game.

Price -21% 1.57€
Rating 7.8
Release 22 May 2018
【SCP】器関ノ彷徨 -The will of a single Tale-【DEMOver.】 -"Do you believe the actuality now?" When the SCP Foundation moves, you will be a witness of {Project MA-13}.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 04 May 2018
Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ Springtime. The season of the cherry blossoms, and a time of new beginnings, new encounters, and new people. For Aoba Kyousuke, this new season marks the start of his second year in high school, and also the year he resolved himself to finally fulfill his long-cherished dream: finding a girlfriend.

Price -52% 13.91€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 May 2018
Signal Simulator Game inspired by SETI. Take the role of a scientist to find an extraterrestrial signal .Control massive Radio Antennas by using interactive control in your Observatory. Detect , download and decode unknown or story telling signals. Manage and Maintain an electrical system to improve your systems and make it more efficient.

Price -50% 8.00€
Rating 7.7
Release 29 Apr 2018
Sarcophag Casual game for attentiveness

Price -56% 0.44€
Rating 6.8
Release 05 Apr 2018
Ria's Hook Ria's journey to the strange storm...

Price -50% 1.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Apr 2018
Wolf & Rabbit Our hero, an injured wolf boy, encountered a rabbit in red picking up flowers on his way escaping from a forest. The kind rabbit girl invited the wolf boy to her grandma's house for a treatment, yet... Standing in front of the house, the wolf boy felt... somehow, uneasy.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Apr 2018
Her Lie I Tried To Believe Her Lie I Tried To Believe is a short kinetic novel about the persisting hatred of a boy throughout his life, the destructive relationship that was born from it, and the consequences he had to face as a direct result.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 02 Apr 2018
Traum Traum is a short, story-driven adventure about a man with a dream. Can even the best of plans be shattered by unexpected news?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Mar 2018
The Long Reach At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it’s a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a skeptical view on the human psyche.

Price -93% 1.06€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Mar 2018
Keep in Mind: Remastered Keep in Mind follows Jonas, a man haunted by alcoholism, depression, and grief. One night, he awakens to a shadowy mirror world where beasts lurk and stars don't shine. Lost and scared, Jonas must face the twisted beasts if he ever wishes to return home and learn the truth about his darkness.

Price -80% 0.40€
Rating 7.2
Release 08 Mar 2018
Omen Exitio: Plague Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 8.1
Release 05 Mar 2018
Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kokoro A short love story with a twist: the love of your life is 50% human, and 50% grasshopper.

Price -77% 0.70€
Rating 7.2
Release 02 Mar 2018
Rise of Insanity In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.

Price -89% 1.16€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Mar 2018
Apocalipsis Apocalipsis is a point-and-click adventure game, in the vain of Samorost and Machinarium, where all puzzles have a hidden meaning. With a unique artstyle inspired by 15th century engravings it tells a story about heartbreak, redemption and, quite literally, the end of the world.

Price -93% 0.52€
Rating 6.8
Release 28 Feb 2018
Gleaner Heights Experience the old-school charm of classic farming games with the suburban gothic atmosphere of certain 90's TV shows, along with contemporary game mechanics. Farming, crafting, combat, romantic relationships and mysterious events await!

Price -50% 4.87€
Rating 7.0
Release 21 Feb 2018
The Station The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Feb 2018
In Celebration of Violence A fantasy action roguelike of exploration and murder. Live, kill, die, improve, live again.

Price -61% 3.15€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Feb 2018
4D Minesweeper 4D Minesweeper brings the classic mechanics of Minesweeper into the fourth dimension and adds some new features to it.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Feb 2018
Speed Dating for Ghosts Branching dialogue! Hard choices! A cemetery's worth of phantoms, wraiths, and poltergeists lookin' for love in all the blight places.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Feb 2018
Scavenger SV-4 Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 31 Jan 2018
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 -50% 1.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 29 Jan 2018
Rapid Tap Enjoy a fun, grid tapping game that gets faster the more you play. See how long you can last tapping the flashing buttons. Now with a bunch of fun skins!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Jan 2018
Walking Zombie: Shooter The Walking Zombie is a stationary FPS with an online co-op mode in a world full of zombies to kill. Buy and upgrade your weapons, kill all enemies in 200 levels and destroy mighty boss monsters before they eat you alive!

Price -60% 1.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Jan 2018
Abasralsa Find out the story of a simple crazy Vlad who lies on his bed imagines a crazy journey.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 12 Jan 2018
Corridor Z Be quick or be undead! Ordinary high school, zombie outbreak and the bunch of survivors in a run for life.

Price -95% 0.40€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Jan 2018
Sakura no Mori † Dreamers Who is the one hiding deeply in abyss? The Devil? The Killer? or—Yourself?

Price -70% 5.39€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Dec 2017
Richie's Plank Experience You're on a plank, 80 stories high. Knees shaky, palms sweaty. You have a choice. Do you walk or do you freeze? Richie's Plank is the only VR experience that lets you clone any real-world plank into the virtual world for 2X the immersion.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Dec 2017
Loot Box Quest The spiritual successor to DLC Quest! Earn that sense of pride and accomplishment in the way that only repetitive clicking can deliver. It's a clicker game, so chill out, have a few chuckles, and watch numbers get bigger while the industry burns around us all.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Dec 2017
Emily Wants to Play Too No one believed the pizza guy. They kept the dolls. A sandwich delivery guy is on his way to Central Evidence. He is not ready for what he finds. Emily and the dolls are back with new friends, scares and more. Use stealth and strategy to survive their unique games in this survival horror.

Price -80% 1.55€
Rating 7.7
Release 13 Dec 2017
Irony Of Nightmare In the Irony of Nightmare things aren't always as they seem. Those who decide to solve all puzzles of the game, not only will unravel true secret of house, but also will open completely different ending of the story.

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Dec 2017
Ukrainian ball in search of gas You play as a man turned into a ball and you need to steal all the gas from the forest at all costs.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 08 Dec 2017
Piggy Poggy Pog Piggy Poggy Pog - is quite a complex, nice-looking 2D platformer in which you must escape from the farm playing for a pig named Poggy . In this game you go through the levels, collecting a certain number of acorns.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Nov 2017
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Price -96% 0.33€
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Nov 2017
Perceptions of the Dead Follow three stories set in a world where the dead linger, and things far worse wait beyond the veil.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 31 Oct 2017

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