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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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 1.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Jul 2020
Paper Dolls 2 纸人贰 Paper Dolls 2 is a first-person horror adventure game. A dark aura emanates from a Qing dynasty dwelling—the Yin Mansion. What happened to the once-famous Yin Family? Clues lead us to its second floor haunted by restless spirits. A truth, buried for over a hundred years, is waiting to be unraveled.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 02 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 4.99€
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 -50% 0.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Jun 2020
Dead Space™ 3 Journey across space to the icy planet of Tau Volantis with Isaac Clarke and Sgt. John Carver to discover and destroy the source of the Necromorph outbreak.

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 18 Jun 2020
West of Dead Descend into the grim and gritty world of Purgatory in this cover-based shooter which combines the fluidity of twin-stick controls and tactical cover usage. Dodge behind cover as you try to outgun your enemies in the unknown procedurally generated hunting grounds.

Price -97% 0.77€
Rating 7.0
Release 18 Jun 2020
Beyond: Two Souls A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.

Price -98% 0.54€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Jun 2020
Outer Wilds Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Price -64% 8.33€
Rating 9.4
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 1.09€
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 2.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jun 2020
Unfortunate Spacemen An online multiplayer game about shapeshifting deception and betrayal! As a hapless, brave spaceman employed by The Company you'll work diligently to defend and be rescued from failing outposts, but not everyone around you is who they claim to be...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Jun 2020
Baldi's Basics Plus Baldi's Basics® Plus is an active stealth roguelike that parodies cheap '90s edutainment with a subtle horror twist! Play Hide & Seek with Baldi as he chases you through procedurally generated levels while using your surroundings, items, and game knowledge to shift chaos in your favor.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Jun 2020
Sea of Solitude When humans get too lonely, they turn into monsters… Set sail across a beautiful and evolving world of darkness and light, and discover what it means to be human.

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 Jun 2020
The Light Remake There is only you, the abandoned remains of a former life and the flourishing nature that feels great in the absence of man. This world is both gloomy and empty, but so incredibly beautiful.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 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
Those Who Remain As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.

Price -95% 1.04€
Rating 6.5
Release 28 May 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 -71% 1.69€
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2020
YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story is the visual novel medium in its purest form. Will Shinichi choose Miyuki, the beautiful queen bee of the school, or the endearingly awkward misfit Aoi? With art by Tsuji Santa, these beautifully rendered romances will stay with you forever.

Price -40% 14.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 25 May 2020
Estranged: The Departure Estranged: The Departure follows the story of a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Little does he know his adventure has just begun, and the island is home to more than it first seems.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 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 5.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 May 2020
Seed Hunter 猎源 Seed Hunter is a 2D Platformer with Roguelite element. You’re the alien finding the missing source around universe, but you get into some trouble on the planet of Earth.

Price -88% 0.88€
Rating 6.5
Release 21 May 2020
Observation Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Price -98% 0.49€
Rating 7.6
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 -97% 0.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 May 2020
Left on Read It’s March of 2020; you were just sent home from college because of the coronavirus, you have a few small regrets, mainly not telling someone how you really feel.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 19 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 -90% 1.13€
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 1.99€
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 6.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 May 2020
Deep Rock Galactic Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Price -81% 5.86€
Rating 9.6
Release 13 May 2020
Enemy On Board Online (6v2) social deduction game that will ruin your friendships. 6 crew members, 2 murderous shape-shifting aliens. Trust No One.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 08 May 2020
Adventure Escape Mysteries Play a story-driven room escape game with unique puzzles enjoyed by tens of millions of players. Solve mysteries, puzzle through escape rooms, and find the clue that will crack the case in a critically acclaimed puzzle adventure game!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 05 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 -95% 1.04€
Rating 7.1
Release 05 May 2020

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