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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SPOOKWARE Play through loads of hand-crafted fast-paced microgames based on horror tropes, explore the world of the afterlife and help the skelebros live their death to the fullest.

Price -43% 2.88€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Aug 2021
Ann Ann, an art student finds herself trapped in the school when she accidentally broke one of the school's rules. With the help of the school's security guard, help Ann navigate her way out and uncover the secrets of the school before she becomes a permanent resident of the school.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 26 Aug 2021
Tormented Souls Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.

Price -96% 0.94€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Aug 2021
The Chrono Jotter Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.

Price -52% 4.89€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Aug 2021
Somewhere in the Shadow Woke up in strange dark spot. Who has done it with you? And why? Try to get out from that scary place and stay alive...

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 23 Aug 2021
Aliens: Fireteam Elite Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.

Price -80% 6.27€
Rating 7.8
Release 23 Aug 2021
SuperCupOnline Online Football Game

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Aug 2021
Granny 3 You have to escape Granny and Grandpa...You have five days...

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Aug 2021
Northern Journey A norwegian happysad game set in a northern land! Adventure through a beautiful and very varied wilderness. Dive, fly, use ziplines and find different weapons to aid your journey to reach the cold mountains and below. Encounter over 50 unique bosses and enemy types!

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Aug 2021
Mortal Shell Their Flesh is Your Armor. Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. Survival demands superior awareness, precision, and instincts. Possess lost warriors, track down hidden sanctums of the devout, and face formidable foes.

Price -55% 11.38€
Rating 6.8
Release 18 Aug 2021
Chasing Tails ~A Promise in the Snow~ Trying to get away from trouble, June moves to a small town... to find even more trouble! A yuri comedy/horror visual novel, featuring a haunted house, fox-girls, and GxG love ❤︎.

Price -90% 0.65€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Aug 2021
Tsugunohi One of the most terrifying J-horror games of all time is coming to Steam at long last. What's more, all you have to do is make the player walk to the left!? This collection includes the seven initial works of the popular Tsugunohi series, as well as an entirely new episode.

Price -76% 2.63€
Rating 6.9
Release 12 Aug 2021
Library Of Ruina "May you find your book in this place." Combat between the guests and the librarians breaks out as if it were on a stage. Defeated guests turn into books, and the Library grows onward. And eventually, get your hands on… The one singular, perfect book.

Price 24.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Aug 2021
When The Night Comes When The Night Comes is a queer, narrative-driven, supernatural visual novel.

Price 12.00€
Rating 8.6
Release 09 Aug 2021
Jupiter Hell True Roguelike. Turn-based shooter. Permadeath. Tribute to the sci-fi classics of the Golden VHS era. Successor to DRL. Just you and your gun against hordes of horrors and monstrosities. Give them hell to the rhythm of heavy metal.

Price -95% 1.15€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Aug 2021
BEACHED A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 04 Aug 2021
EVERSLAUGHT Traverse an ancient city with randomly generated dungeons, discover rare loot, upgrade your gear, level up your skills and engage in visceral combat with completely unrestricted VR movement!

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.1
Release 31 Jul 2021
Vomitoreum Vomitoreum is an FPS Metroidvania with a focus on atmosphere and horror, inspired by the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Jul 2021
HORROR TALES: The Wine Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D

Price 11.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Jul 2021
Chernobylite Complete Edition Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.

Price -94% 1.90€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Jul 2021
Beside Myself You have to play as the historian-journalist Michael, plunge into the atmosphere of darkness of an abandoned hospital, where you will need to unravel the secrets of the past and try to get out in order to tell the whole world about those terrible events.

Price -51% 2.48€
Rating 6.5
Release 27 Jul 2021
Night Book Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.

Price -95% 0.85€
Rating 6.7
Release 27 Jul 2021
Summer of '58 In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.

Price -53% 3.47€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jul 2021
Project H Project H is a horror escape room game. Solve various puzzles while being haunted by a spirit that would prefer you not to leave.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Jul 2021

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