Best Horror Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy 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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Seven Nights Ghost "Peaceful days full of curses" A heartwarming horror game about exploring in a mysterious company housing and living with a ghost for 7 days

Price 11.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Aug 2023
Myths of Rules This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2023
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is a third-person story-driven survival horror game prequel to the critically acclaimed Daymare: 1998. Step into the shoes of agent Dalila Reyes, a former government spy now in the service of H.A.D.E.S. unit and prepare to face the true horror.

Price -60% 12.00€
Rating 7.1
Release 30 Aug 2023
The Lancaster Leak - Crisis At Call Center YOU CONTROL THE FOUND FOOTAGE. Another tape has been leaked, this time a cover-up of a tragic mass casualty event.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Aug 2023
SWOLLEN TO BURSTING UNTIL I AM DISAPPEARING ON PURPOSE SWOLLEN TO BURSTING is a weirdo RPG in which something is very wrong. A flying saucer has crash landed in town, but it's Thursday so you have to go to work at the post office.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 28 Aug 2023
Under The Waves Stan, a professional diver in the North Sea, is struggling to overcome a life-changing loss during an extended mission underwater. Stuck in his self-imposed solitude, he starts to experience strange events and will have to make the most significant choice of his life...

Price -97% 1.05€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 Aug 2023
[Chilla's Art] Parasocial | パラソーシャル Parasocial | パラソーシャル is a Japanese horror game about a live streamer.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Aug 2023
Apartament 1406: Horror Apartment 1406 is an intense horror game, that challenges you to constantly survive in a hostile environment. Collect items to survive against limited ammo and creatures that lurk in the dark. Solve the puzzles and survive in this dark game.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 24 Aug 2023
Blasphemous 2 The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.

Price -94% 3.11€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Aug 2023
Mediterranea Inferno Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.

Price -99% 0.26€
Rating 7.7
Release 24 Aug 2023
Clue/Cluedo Experience a fresh take on the classic crime-solving board game. Step into new mysteries and use your skills of deduction to find out whodunit, with what weapon and where.

Price -83% 2.67€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Aug 2023
Draft of Darkness Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 Aug 2023
ghostpia Season One "In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Aug 2023
Orbo's Odyssey Hop into Orbo's shoes! Run, jump and drill around your boss's office, make some new friends, and uncover terrifying secrets about the company you work for in this comedically surreal 3D platformer!

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 20 Aug 2023
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Take on the role of one of the notorious Slaughter family, or their victims, in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a third-person asymmetrical horror experience based on the groundbreaking and iconic 1974 horror film. Experience the mad and macabre for yourself in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Price -52% 9.44€
Rating 6.6
Release 18 Aug 2023
Labyrinthine A co-op horror game like no other... Play with 1-8 players online as you solve puzzles, collect items and run from the horrors that lie within. Follow in the footsteps of Joan in the story mode or tackle procedurally generated maps that scale with your level and bring a fresh experience each game..

Price -23% 7.01€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Aug 2023
Garten of Banban 4 Explore the abandoned levels of Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the residents of the establishment that was left suspiciously empty. Uncover the truth behind the place, and find the whereabouts of your missing child…

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Aug 2023
Lilith Wants to Buy Your Soul Take a personality test with a definitely-not-clingy demon girl.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 08 Aug 2023
Welcome to Kowloon This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Aug 2023
Mandemon Decaying Japanese school buildings, a series of bizarre incidents, eerie Mandemon legends. Lies and truths intertwine, love and hate entwined in the mist. What should one do? Whom should one believe? Welcome to this cruel world filled with deception and harm —

Price 3.00€
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Aug 2023
Unsorted Horror A collection of 5 short first-person horror games, that revolve around detailed machinery and dread.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Aug 2023
Disfigure Disfigure is a grim-dark rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 26 Jul 2023
REMNANT II® REMNANT II® pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds. Play solo or co-op with two other friends to explore the depths of the unknown to stop an evil from destroying reality itself.

Price -84% 8.03€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 Jul 2023
Granny Remake Granny Remake is a gripping horror game where you must escape from a sinister house chased by a cunning and relentless Granny. Choose from multiple escape routes: drive away in a car, call the police, or unlock the main door

Price 7.79€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Jul 2023

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