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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TERPENIE In the gloomy atmosphere of post-Soviet everyday life, routine tasks like cleaning, cooking, and exploring your own room hide something much darker. Survive and uncover the truth before the maniac comes for you.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 17 Oct 2025
Skinfreak The city’s most disturbing serial killer is at large and has his sights set on Belle.  Can she escape this maniac’s fleshy, rotting clutches?  Or will she lose her skin to this sicko’s collection?

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Oct 2025
Sunken Engine Sunken Engine Lovecraftian Ship Repair Simulation. Restore your father’s old shipyard. Each arriving ship carries a dark mystery to be solved. Keep your customers satisfied while dealing with the strange and eerie happenings on the island.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Oct 2025
Project Unknown An online co-op horror game featuring unique playable characters and RPG mechanics. Exorcise ghosts using your special abilities and tools while surviving the supernatural onslaught

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Oct 2025
Bye Sweet Carole Bye Sweet Carole is a narrative-horror adventure game completely hand-drawn in the style of classic animated films. Follow the trail of missing Carole Simmons and uncover the dark secrets hidden behind her disappearance from Bunny Hall orphanage.

Price -64% 9.22€
Rating 6.9
Release 09 Oct 2025
Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition (Re)-Discover the dark whimsical tale of Little Nightmares, now enhanced in stunning 4K and 60 FPS. Play as Six, a lone child trapped in The Maw, a massive vessel inhabited by monstrous, distorted versions of adults. Sneak, hide, and survive in a world where your childhood fears come to life.

Price -94% 1.20€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Oct 2025
Deathground A 1-4 player co-op horror game that throws you into a desperate fight for survival against deadly dinosaurs. Run, hide and work together to complete missions and uncover the secrets buried within the abandoned AEON research facility. Can you and your friends make it out alive?

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 07 Oct 2025
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 06 Oct 2025
House of Necrosis A turn-based horror RPG with retro 32-bit 3D graphics. Survive the horrors of the mansion that changes every time you enter.

Price 11.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Oct 2025
DAIMON BLADES From the creators of E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy, a cult cyberpunk RPG. Daimon Blades is a brutal first person slasher that combines the depth of action RPGs and replayability of roguelites. Launch expeditions solo or up to 4 players, and survive the many horrors of the Daimon Realm.

Price 19.90€
Rating 6.8
Release 06 Oct 2025
CloverPit A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!

Price -61% 3.98€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Sep 2025
HOTEL BARCELONA A marshal possessed by a murderer, a hotel full of killers, and a time-bending witch? From the legendary creators of DEADLY PREMONITION + NO MORE HEROES comes a 2D Action Roguelike unlike any other. Under New Management update is free for everyone now! CHECK IN, WIPE ‘EM OUT.

Price 28.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 26 Sep 2025
SILENT HILL f Hinako's hometown is engulfed in fog, driving her to fight grotesque monsters and solve eerie puzzles. Uncover the disturbing beauty hidden in terror.

Price -70% 24.63€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Sep 2025
Baby Steps Play as Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, until one day he discovers a power he never knew he had… putting one foot in front of the other.

Price -56% 8.97€
Rating 8.7
Release 23 Sep 2025
After Long Night After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Price -17% 8.10€
Rating 7.4
Release 19 Sep 2025
Eclipsium Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.

Price -67% 4.31€
Rating 8.8
Release 19 Sep 2025
PIGFACE You wake up with an explosive headache in a pool of your own blood. You're Exit, a terrible woman whose awful past has finally caught up to her. Fulfill contracts for the people who drilled into your skull — guns-blazing, slow and tactical — it doesn’t matter. They know you’ll do whatever it takes.

Price 11.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 Sep 2025
Dying Light: The Beast BECOME THE BEAST. SURVIVE THE NIGHT. A terrifying new chapter in the Dying Light universe begins. As Kyle Crane, explore the vast and unpredictable wilderness, uncover a deadly evolution of the infected, and learn to control the beastly powers awakening inside you.

Price -27% 44.29€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Sep 2025
Moros Protocol Face the darkness in Moros Protocol, a pixel-painted sci-fi FPS roguelite. Survive the nightmare alone or with allies as you navigate the decaying warship, stalked by horrors and guided by a voice you don’t recognize. Adapt, upgrade, and push forward. You may be outnumbered, but not outmatched.

Price -76% 5.98€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Sep 2025
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum Embody the ultimate cybernetic corporate agent. Master deadly gunplay, time manipulation, and supernatural abilities. Hack computers, people, even the individual bullets flying at you. Confront the future, and die trying.

Price 10.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 Sep 2025
No, I'm not a Human WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

Price -71% 4.39€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Sep 2025
Dead Reset Trapped in a terrifying death-loop, surgeon Cole Mason is kidnapped and brought to an underwater facility, forced to operate on a patient to extract an evolving parasitic horror. Dead Reset is a blood-soaked interactive horror, where each death brings you closer to the truth.

Price -35% 9.61€
Rating 8.3
Release 11 Sep 2025
The Bleakest Keep The Bleakest Keep is a challenging action horror roguelike. Survive the horrors of the Keep, upgrade your gear, and earn ranks as you ascend the tower and save the world!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Sep 2025
The Lightkeeper Alone on a remote island, you're tasked with keeping a lighthouse. But the horrific events that claimed the lives of previous keepers still whisper through the air. Each day, the line between reality and delusion fades and something in the dark is waiting for the last keeper

Price 7.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 07 Sep 2025
Cronos: The New Dawn A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.

Price -62% 22.92€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Sep 2025
Trench Face Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Sep 2025
Bad Cheese Bad Cheese is a psychological horror inspired by the eerie charm of 1920s animation. Step into the tiny paws of a mouse spending the weekend at home with a dysfunctional Dad while Mom's away. Be on your best behavior and KEEP DADDY HAPPY.

Price -50% 6.39€
Rating 6.8
Release 01 Sep 2025
Sinister Night 2 Nine Streamers enter an ancient Chinese mansion, hoping to attract a huge following and become famous through livestreaming. However, two of them are tragically possessed by evil spirits. These possessed will slaughter their companions, and complete a malevolent ritual of a ghostly wedding.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 31 Aug 2025
Mortal Sin Mortal Sin is a chaotic, blood-soaked roguelike where skill is power, and overconfidence is death. Carve through procedurally generated nightmares with brutal melee and flashy, satisfying combos.

Price -76% 5.88€
Rating 9.2
Release 29 Aug 2025
Garten of Banban 8: Anti Devil Explore the most obscure levels of Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the new deceives and mysteries that await you. Uncover the truth behind the place, and find the whereabouts of your missing child…

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Aug 2025
INCISION Ultraviolent, fast-paced, merciless retro FPS action. Slaughter your way through nightmarish industrial mazes, transformed cityscapes, and surreal alien structures to cut down the Growth.

Price -96% 0.59€
Rating 8.5
Release 28 Aug 2025
Caput Mortum Travel back to 16th-century France and delve into the mysterious depths of a seemingly abandoned alchemist's tower. Do you dare brave the horrors that beckon you below... deeper still?

Price -59% 4.90€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Aug 2025
Haunted Room : 205 To save money, you rent an unusually cheap apartment, believing you could coexist with “them” as you always have. But you soon discover that the disturbances here run far deeper—and are far more dangerous—than anything you’ve encountered before.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Aug 2025
Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken What dreams are made of is the stuff of nightmares in this new point-and-click adventure. Delve deep into realms both fantastical and terrifying, and use the power of lucid dreaming to solve puzzles, explore, and contend with eerie adversaries in your search for the brother you thought had died.

Price -88% 2.49€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Aug 2025
Wolf Mate Escape from the locked school by solving puzzles while running away from Freya.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Aug 2025
Vigil Vigil is a short Narrative Horror Game that takes place in an unsettling underground facility. Your job is to dispose of boxes, however, you’re not alone. A terrifying automaton roams the facility, moving only when you look away or when you blink in real life.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Aug 2025

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