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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Cursed Her future, as well as of the whole world depends on her ingenuity and bravery. The path to her fiancé is blocked by ghosts, dragons, demons and other creatures from beyond. Will she overcome her fears? Will she find her beloved? Play "Cursed" and find out!

Price -81% 0.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Jun 2016
SWARMRIDERS SWARMRIDERS is a FREE "endless runner"+"twin stick shooter" ARCADE mashup. A "machine gun swarm surfing minigame" made as a bonus content for the UBERMOSH community.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 15 Jun 2016
Grim Legends 3: The Dark City Hunt monsters in the gothic city!

Price -93% 1.17€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Jun 2016
Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. A strange and repelling madness took hold of the servants roaming the halls, and they will attack on sight, for their madness is one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance.

Price -95% 0.52€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 May 2016
Madness Cubed Online shooter with a variety of game modes and a huge arsenal of weapons. Fight with other players, or team up with them to defeat hordes of zombies and mutants!

Price 1.59€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 May 2016
HordeZ If you are looking for a on-rails arcade experience that blends between classics like Doom, Left 4 dead and House of the Dead then we got you covered! Fast and simple gameplay that will bring you into a creepy world of zombies and demons. Show your skills to the world through our global leadboard system!

Price -48% 8.83€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Apr 2016
Left Alone Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?

Price -80% 1.37€
Rating 7.1
Release 28 Apr 2016
Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition Rescue squad captain Watase Kasasagi wakes up without his memories in the middle of his most critical mission yet-- a nuclear meltdown at a research facility. In an unfamiliar place and without his years of training, he must rescue the survivors and escape...

Price -70% 10.19€
Rating 8.5
Release 27 Apr 2016
Mythic Wonders: The Philosopher's Stone Find the Philosopher's Stone!

Price -90% 1.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2016
Deer Man Deer Man is a short Interactive Storytelling experience. You play as Jacob's memory, where you will have an incredible encounter with Deer Man & the dark side of his love for the wildlife. If you love animals, this is for you!

Price 0.79€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Apr 2016
Lucid9: Inciting Incident Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 14 Apr 2016
Goetia Goetia is a point & click adventure where you play the ghost of a young lady. You are Abigail. Abigail Blackwood.

Price -90% 1.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Apr 2016
Soda Drinker Pro The world's most advanced soda drinking simulator.

Price -50% 2.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Apr 2016
A Chair in a Room : Greenwater Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.

Price -60% 9.19€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Mar 2016
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition In Season 2 of The Last Door, the search for his missing client will bring psychiatrist John Wakefield deeper into a conspiracy of darkness and closer to the heart of madness than ever before.

Price -67% 3.30€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Mar 2016
Dead Secret Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .

Price -82% 2.70€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Mar 2016
Lost girl`s [diary] A group of girls are having their vacation, alone. What would a group of girls do on a dark Christmas night? Of course, fortunetelling! Unfortunately for them, their boyfriends are not about to leave them alone and their sudden visit totally ruins their plans for fortune telling, turning it into a scary story contest.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 24 Mar 2016
Sophie's Curse You got a job, which is to take care of an old man during the night in a recently purchased house; this house does not have electricity and you have to rely on some kind of hand crank generators to light the place up, but there is something in the darkness draining their power, don’t let it happen!

Price -55% 2.29€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Mar 2016
The Secret Order 3: Ancient Times Find a way to destroy the ancient artifacts!

Price -95% 0.76€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Mar 2016
The Guest 'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.

Price -91% 0.97€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Mar 2016
The Bottom of the Well Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Mar 2016
Bear Simulator It's a game where you play as a bear and explore stuff.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Feb 2016
The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams Save your family from an ominous undersea facility!

Price -95% 0.81€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Feb 2016
We Know the Devil WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a visual novel about teens reluctantly fighting the devil at summer camp. Follow meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus as they get to know each other--but one always gets left out.

Price -67% 1.87€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Feb 2016
CALENDULA How to play a game that doesn't want to be played? Calendula is an experimental meta game about trying to play a game. Use your logic to thrive against conventions and get surrounded by a dark atmosphere.

Price 6.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 02 Feb 2016
Eventide: Slavic Fable Explore the exciting world of slavic legends!

Price -96% 0.70€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Jan 2016
Wick Wick is a survival horror game where ghost stories are brought to life. Explore a local legend about the long lost children in the woods who can still be seen... but only by those who dare to enter alone by candlelight.

Price -88% 0.76€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Dec 2015
Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star The loveable birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are back in the remastered holiday-themed sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star!

Price -33% 6.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 05 Dec 2015
Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova Discover the source of dreadful evil!

Price -97% 0.54€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Dec 2015
BAD END It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Price -85% 0.92€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Nov 2015
The Consuming Shadow The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 20 Nov 2015
Cinderella Escape! R12 Cinderella is locked in the dungeon. What happened to her? Can she escape the dungeon? Cinderella needs your help!

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Nov 2015
The Secret Order 2: Masked Intent Become the wayfarer through the past to force back the evil power!

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Nov 2015
Boogeyman Live your childhood nightmare and try to survive against the Boogeyman. Equipped with only your flashlight, survive each night until the morning light.

Price -50% 2.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Nov 2015
The Last NightMary - A Lenda do Cabeça de Cuia Escape through maze forest searching for a shelter, because the cursed beast is after you ... And if there was a chance to reverse the curse, would you run away or would you try to find answers? It is better think fast, because the monster is in a hurry, the beast is starved.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Nov 2015
Sound of Drop - fall into poison - Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.

Price -80% 2.59€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Oct 2015

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