Best Horror 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 horror games.

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Fears to Fathom® - Scratch Creek After noticing bone-chilling similarities to an episode of Fears to Fathom, Tessa and Marcus decide to share their own experience. Scratch Creek is an exclusively online co-op experience.

Price 8.15€
Rating 7.0
Release 10 Jun 2026
Burglin' Gnomes An online Co-op game about breaking into houses and causing havoc as a tiny gnome. Avoid danger, repurpose stolen household items, and complete tasks to meet the High-Gnome’s demands. Craft equipment and upgrade your home to make your missions easier and more successful.

Price -10% 8.77€
Rating 8.2
Release 10 Jun 2026
Mina the Hollower Take control of Mina, a renowned Hollower hurtled into a desperate mission to rescue a cursed island. Whip foes, burrow through the ground, and explore a pixel-perfect world in Mina the Hollower, a brand new game from the developers who brought you Shovel Knight!

Price -49% 10.56€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 May 2026
Luna Abyss Luna Abyss is a single player story driven action-adventure with fluid platforming and bullet hell combat. Follow the journey of Fawkes, a prisoner of Luna caught between a cryptic prophecy and their prison sentence.

Price -44% 16.95€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 May 2026
Subnautica 2 Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

Price 29.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 14 May 2026
MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run! In this survival horror, you're surrounded by sea and a towering gate ahead. Walk into the maze, hunt, gather, and run to survive, alone or with friends. Remember: You're not the only one starving...

Price 10.25€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 May 2026
Vultures - Scavengers of Death VULTURES is a tactical turn-based survival horror, inspired by 90's survival horror classics. As an operative, scavenge the infested metropolis for materials and information that could cure the infection plaguing the world.

Price -43% 10.04€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 May 2026
Directive 8020 Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time. 12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia crash lands on the planet, its crew soon realize they are far from being alone. In space, death takes many forms.

Price -42% 29.48€
Rating 6.2
Release 12 May 2026
NO BACKUP Escape together or die alone. A relentless creature is hunting you in this intense co-op bodycam horror experience. Communicate. Stay quiet. Survive. Every move matters. Every sound could be your last. Made by one developer.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 09 May 2026
The Coma 3: Bloodlines Welcome to the world of The Coma 3: Bloodlines. In this realm of shadows rumors and urban legends become reality, and danger lurks around every corner. If a living intruder dies here, their body will be severed from their spirit and never wake again ...

Price -51% 7.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Apr 2026
Forbidden Solitaire Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.

Price -20% 13.19€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Apr 2026
Brno Transit A short narrative-driven psychological horror game about a trainee metro driver trapped in the dampest subway east of anything that matters.

Price 8.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Apr 2026
CAPTURED 2 You're trapped in an apartment with ever-changing rooms. Capture anomalies on camera, survive deadly entities and escape an endless nightmare.

Price 8.15€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Apr 2026
Ground Zero Fight through post-apocalyptic South Korea in this retro survival horror. Uncover the truth behind the devastating meteor impact that left the country in ruins and turned every living organism into a terrifying monstrosity. Fight. Solve puzzles. Upgrade gear. Make every bullet count.

Price -40% 10.81€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Apr 2026
We Gotta Go We Gotta Go is a co-op horror comedy that’ll scare the crap out of you—literally. Team up to reach the only bathroom in a haunted mansion before your bowels betray you. Scavenge for items, fend off ghosts, and fight through cursed halls together in a desperate hunt for sweet relief.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.0
Release 14 Apr 2026
Don't Play This Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it?  A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 14 Apr 2026
DarkSwitch DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Price -55% 13.59€
Rating 7.3
Release 09 Apr 2026
Final Sentence Final Sentence is a Battle Royale typing game. Together with other players, you find yourself in a hangar, with a typewriter in front of you and a revolver loaded with a single bullet at your temple. Every mistake can be fatal. Only one will remain.

Price -45% 5.69€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Apr 2026
Dawn Break In 2039, tsunamis of varying degrees occurred all over the world, and multiple small black holes inexplicably appeared in the sky, ruthlessly devouring the world. At first, scientists believed that this phenomenon was a common natural disaster, until one day, a test report shocked the world.

Price 12.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 Apr 2026
Wasteland Bites Wasteland Bites is a horror-based food truck sim. Cooking up questionable cuisine in your post-apocalyptic food truck is tough. Fending off mutants, UFOs, rabid dogs, and things lurking in the dark? That's the real challenge. A chaotic mix of cooking and survival in a long gone world.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Apr 2026
It Has My Face IT HAS YOUR FACE. Now it wants your life. Hide, seek, and try to kill your clone in this deceptively simple first-person horror roguelite.

Price 9.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 03 Apr 2026
Voodoo Fishin' A creepy-cozy co-op fishing game for 1–4 players with proximity voice chat. Explore a haunted swamp for rare fish, sell your haul by the pound, and try to survive what hunts you in the dark.

Price 10.25€
Rating 7.8
Release 31 Mar 2026
Subliminal Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.1
Release 31 Mar 2026
The Scourge | Tai Ương Explore the nightmarish lucid dreams of Nhat Huy to solve his family's mystery. Set in 90s Saigon, navigate dilapidated corridors, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover sinister secrets. Can you survive the twisting maze and The Scourge?

Price -88% 3.00€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Mar 2026
Darkwater Darkwater is a cooperative extraction horror game for 1-4 players. Command a submarine trapped under the ice of an alien planet. Battle enemy vessels and deep sea abominations as you hunt for resources. Do what it takes to survive.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 26 Mar 2026
Dyping Escape "Let's play a typing game." Dyping Escape is a simple game where you type according to instructions from the game master, a mysterious eyeball. But be careful; everything you type becomes reality. Just be careful not to brick your computer.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Mar 2026
Lucid Blocks Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Mar 2026
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando Pick a character and team up with three friends ‘cause it’s time to save the world. Experience intense FPS action as you obliterate hordes of terrifying monsters! You may not be on the best team of mercenaries, but you are… a Toxic Commando!

Price -40% 24.37€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 Mar 2026

Price -38% 31.22€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Mar 2026
Mama's Sleeping Angels A 1 to 4 player Y2K dream-exploration game. Free your imaginary friends trapped to eternal sleep by the goddess Mama. Collect cursed items and use weapons to face the monsters in Mama's dreams.

Price -54% 4.67€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Mar 2026
HexBreaker Ⅱ A supernatural game infused with Chinese-style elements drawn from folklore. This game offers online gameplay for teams of up to 4 players. In a world ravaged by warlords and monsters, you will assume the role of a Taoist, wielding your skills to unveil truths hidden for millennia.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.4
Release 05 Mar 2026
The Walking Trade Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.

Price -25% 8.24€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Mar 2026
Resident Evil Requiem Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.

Price -49% 35.80€
Rating 9.5
Release 26 Feb 2026
Water Womb World Aqua Catholicism; Explore Man's Original Sin Under The Sea

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Feb 2026
Horripilant KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.

Price -30% 5.45€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Feb 2026
LOVE ETERNAL Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever more.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 19 Feb 2026

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