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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Blasphemous Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

Price -96% 1.15€
Rating 8.9
Release 10 Sep 2019
Gears 5 From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.

Price -21% 23.75€
Rating 6.9
Release 09 Sep 2019
Hellsplit: Arena VR horror-slasher with physically correct combat system and dynamic battles across arenas in the dark fantasy world.

Price 20.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Sep 2019
[Chilla's Art] Okaeri | おかえり Okaeri is a VHS Japanese psychological horror game about a middle school girl and her mother who recently moved to a new house.

Price 2.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 06 Sep 2019
Blair Witch A first-person, story-driven psychological horror game based on the cinematic lore of the Blair Witch. Explore the haunted grounds of the Black Hills Forest in a harrowing investigation that forces you to confront the evil that resides deep in the woods.

Price -98% 0.69€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Aug 2019
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.

Price -90% 2.17€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 Aug 2019
Hunt: Showdown 1896 Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.

Price -81% 5.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Aug 2019
Great Toilet Simulator Great Toilet Simulator is a first-person indie horror telling you the story of a man who has his car broken on his way home, in the middle of a thick forest. What makes the situation even worse is that the main character is really in need of a toilet.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 Aug 2019
Westworld Awakening “Westworld Awakening” is a narrative-driven experience played from the perspective of Kate – a host who has attained self-awareness. To survive a dangerous underworld where no one and nothing is what it seems, you must overcome an entire world designed to destroy and enslave you.

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Aug 2019
Remnant: From the Ashes The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.

Price -95% 2.23€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Aug 2019
DARQ: Complete Edition DARQ tells the story of Lloyd, a boy who finds himself in the middle of a lucid nightmare. Unable to wake up, Lloyd has to face his fears and decipher the meaning of the dream.

Price -95% 0.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Aug 2019
The Great Perhaps The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Aug 2019
The Song of Saya Bear witness to a love that will change the world, in this classic horror romance visual novel from acclaimed writer Urobuchi Gen.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 Aug 2019
Apsulov: End of Gods In this future viking horror you awake in a sanctuary of steel and concrete, built to research and exploit the worlds of Yggdrasil, and to house an artifact, buried in the earth aeons ago.First person with a futuristic Norse mythology story. Horror adventure in the realms of Yggdrasil.

Price -80% 4.03€
Rating 8.3
Release 08 Aug 2019
Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure Crazy cultists. Cthulhu. A talking cat. Gibbous takes you on an expansive, traditionally animated, hand-painted adventure. Play as three protagonists and explore a lushly rendered Lovecraft-inspired world, unraveling ancient conspiracies. A comedy cosmic horror adventure made in Transylvania!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Aug 2019
Silver Chains Silver Chains is a first-person horror game with a strong emphasis on story and exploration. Search for clues within an old abandoned manor to unravel the truth about the terrible events which have happened.

Price -99% 0.40€
Rating 6.7
Release 06 Aug 2019
异化之恶〇Abnormal Treatment Strange events occur at a sanatorium for those with unusual abilities. Follow clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth. What will be released when all secrets are revealed? Goodness? Or… pure ”EVIL”?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Aug 2019
Dry Drowning Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.

Price -97% 0.52€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Aug 2019
HALF DEAD 2 Go through deadly rooms of multi-storey building. Team up with other players and make your way through traps with a friendly team (CO-OP)! Or take a weapon and kill them all in the PvP game mode!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Aug 2019
The Designer's Curse Chapter 2 is OUT NOW! The first chapter of an unforgettable survival horror experience. Solve puzzles and work your way through this terrifying place. You may be more familiar with it than you initially think.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Jul 2019
Don't Escape Trilogy In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology by award-winning indie developer Scriptwelder, you'll protect an unsuspecting hamlet from yourself, try to prepare for an incoming undead horde, and search a seemingly empty spaceship for answers to a gruesome mystery.

Price -86% 0.73€
Rating 9.2
Release 29 Jul 2019
Kindergarten 2 Welcome to Kindergarten 2, which takes place on Tuesday! After the events of Monday, you'll find yourself in a new school with new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.4
Release 29 Jul 2019
The Blackout Club The Blackout Club is a first-person co-op horror game centered around a group of teenage friends investigating a monstrous secret beneath the skin of their small town. 1-4 players explore procedurally-generated missions against a fearsome enemy you can only see with your eyes closed.

Price -98% 0.71€
Rating 7.5
Release 29 Jul 2019
Shark Attack Deathmatch 2 Combat in Shark Attack Deathmatch 2 is savage, gritty, and brutal. Players hunt each other down in various game modes with the constant threat of terrifying sharks joining in on the bloodshed. Tear divers apart as you take on the role as the ocean's top apex predator, The Great White.

Price -73% 1.35€
Rating 7.3
Release 26 Jul 2019
The Backrooms Game FREE Edition Nothing but the stink of old, moist carpets, the madness of mono-yellow, and the blinding light of fluorescent bulbs at maximum hum-buzz. Over 600 million sq. miles of randomly segmented rooms. God save you if you hear something wandering nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Jul 2019
60 Seconds! Reatomized The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.2
Release 25 Jul 2019
People Playground Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.8
Release 23 Jul 2019
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi 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 9.0
Release 18 Jul 2019
GORN GORN is a ludicrously violent VR gladiator simulator, made by Free Lives, the developers of Broforce and Genital Jousting.

Price -73% 5.29€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Jul 2019
Dead Frontier 2 Survival horror MMO. As one of the few survivors of the outbreak, you must scratch a living out of the decaying ruins of society. Scavenge for supplies, improve your skills, and trade with other players. All the while, keeping your eyes peeled for the infected lurking around every corner.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 15 Jul 2019
Waltz of the Wizard Waltz of the Wizard is a wizard simulator where you find yourself in a fantastical realm filled with spells, secrets and some pretty strange characters.

Price 16.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Jul 2019
Clea Clea is a jump scare free, skill-based survival horror adventure.

Price -19% 9.46€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Jul 2019
Dungeon Of Dragon Knight Dungeon of Dragon Knight is a retro dungeon crawler RPG in modern visual design. Pointed by a mysterious witch, your party will descend into a dungeon with traps and monsters in search of the evil Dragon Knight and his treasure weapon. Or, are you fooled by the witch?

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 10 Jul 2019
Monsters of Little Haven At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Jul 2019
Who Is This Man Who is This Man is an spy game with privacy and hiding. Secretly infiltrate his target's house and miss his stuff. Report them later. Buy new agent equipment

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.8
Release 28 Jun 2019
Duck Season PC An experimental first person narrative sending you back to Summer 1988 and you have a one day rental of Duck Season. Dive into the mystery and work through the hidden secrets spilling out of the cursed cartridge. The full hit VR game playable on your traditional flat screen!

Price -12% 8.64€
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Jun 2019

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