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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Japan Stigmatized Property -日本事故物件監視協会- Can you endure until morning Monitor Japan's stigmatized properties and report any paranormal activity If you miss a report or make repeated mistakes——

Price 7.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 15 Aug 2025
OFF “I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.” -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 Aug 2025
Bendy: Lone Wolf Bendy: Lone Wolf™ will tests your ability to survive against ever increasing odds. Monsters and obstacles emerge from every direction as you journey into the rubberhose halls of the world's most evil animation studio. Every day is a challenge.

Price -96% 0.72€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Aug 2025
Inkshade Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the only constant is the cruel black ink that flows within the pieces.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Aug 2025
BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION A terrifying multiplayer horror experience with social deduction elements. Trapped in the Backrooms, up to 12 players must try to work together to survive and expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer hiding among them before it’s too late. Who will you trust?

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Aug 2025
Deadzone: Rogue Deadzone: Rogue is a roguelite FPS set in space. Blast through swarms of hostile machines, combine powerful augments and elements to forge your build, and grow stronger with each run — solo or in co-op.

Price -36% 16.20€
Rating 8.0
Release 11 Aug 2025
Whisper Mountain Outbreak Escape room meets co-op survival horror. The year is 1998, and an ancient curse has been unleashed, trapping everyone on Mount Bisik. Alone or with up to 4 players, you must explore, find clues, figure out a way to escape...and survive the horror.

Price -20% 6.23€
Rating 8.2
Release 11 Aug 2025
Loan Shark The loan shark is coming for you. Catch enough fish to repay your debt before it is too late. Go fish.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 08 Aug 2025
CleanFall CleanFall is a survival rogue-lite that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.

Price -30% 10.35€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Aug 2025
Silent Cleaning Move silently. Clean thoroughly. A 3D horror action and cleaning simulation featuring Kao’s real products. Clean the villa, solve hidden puzzles, and escape while your performance affects the home’s appraisal value. A unique blend of suspense and cleaning awaits.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Aug 2025
Static Dread: The Lighthouse Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

Price -29% 9.11€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Aug 2025
Whimsical Artefacts A co-op friendslop game with a heavy focus on customization via drawing. Scavenge liminal bunkers and obtain artefacts that may or may not aid you and your friends.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 31 Jul 2025
Dead Take Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.

Price 13.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 31 Jul 2025
Heartworm Pass through the threshold and enter a world born of memories. Defend yourself with a camera while solving death’s mysteries in a reverent evolution of 90’s survival horror, integrating both fixed cameras and over the shoulder perspectives.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Jul 2025
Grounded 2 Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Jul 2025
One-Eyed Likho One-Eyed Likho is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your own evil fate.

Price -40% 11.70€
Rating 8.9
Release 28 Jul 2025
Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.9
Release 28 Jul 2025
Silent Still 2 Silent Still 2 is a first-person psychological horror that traps you in the paralyzing nightmare of sleep paralysis. Helpless and unable to escape, you’ll face unspeakable entities that watch, whisper, and move when you can’t. Blurring the line between waking and something far worse

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 24 Jul 2025
s.p.l.i.t A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.

Price -27% 2.19€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Jul 2025
Ghost Watchers Ghost Watchers is a co-op online horror game. You will explore and hunt ghosts in abandoned houses

Price -56% 5.52€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Jul 2025
Twisted Gallery 异馆 You're trapped in an endlessly looping art gallery — familiar, yet uncanny. If you can notice the changes, maybe you can find your way out.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 23 Jul 2025
Hell Clock Forge powerful builds with endless loot in this relentless combination of Roguelike and ARPG. Blast through dungeons and unleash inhuman powers in a dark fantasy twist on Brazil’s War of Canudos.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Jul 2025
Who's at the door? You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Jul 2025
The Complex: Expedition When a routine expedition into The Complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Jul 2025

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