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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Greetings Explore what is around every corner in hopes for answers to where you're going and why.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 24 Aug 2018
Bean Battles A unique take on the popular genre of battle royales. Multiple fast pace rounds that rewards kills just as much as being the last alive. Team up, take revenge, and be the last bean standing.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Aug 2018
Lucah: Born of a Dream FOR THE POWER AND GLORY; NOW AND FOREVER

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Aug 2018
ShadowSide ShadowSide is a First Person Exploration game. A policeman Alex Carter has been watching over the tranquility in the town for many years. He protects the people from robbery and crime. Nothing but a routine.

Price -73% 2.72€
Rating 6.1
Release 17 Aug 2018
Scorch It's been 30 years since a terrible arson attack erased an entire family. Until today the culprit has been on the loose. You are sent to investigate a similar incident in this narrative exploration game.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Aug 2018
Mist Survival MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Price -31% 6.27€
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Aug 2018
The Walking Dead: The Final Season A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.

Price -90% 2.05€
Rating 9.3
Release 13 Aug 2018
We Happy Few From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.

Price -75% 14.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Aug 2018
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass One day, Jimmy looked inside.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 07 Aug 2018
Return. Take the lost soul to its home.

Price -26% 0.81€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Aug 2018
PUSS! Insane, absurd and intense avoid-'em up game about a cat!

Price -18% 7.41€
Rating 8.4
Release 02 Aug 2018
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition The VR Edition of the critically acclaimed BAFTA award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness.

Price -86% 4.98€
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Jul 2018
Hotel Remorse Wander long creepy corridors in search for answers in this short and jumpscare filled game.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Jul 2018
FROSTBITE: Deadly Climate Survive the arctic research base simply known as Base 75, or die from the freezing cold or by the horrors that lurk within the halls?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Jul 2018
The Miskatonic Explore the most prestigious occult school in North America, The Miskatonic University, in a hilarious dark comedy set after the Lovecraft canon, in which the greatest threat to mankind is its own ambitions.

Price 0.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 19 Jul 2018
Mary Skelter: Nightmares The "Jail" suddenly appeared a number of years ago, sinking the city deep into the ground. There, this impenetrable living prison 666 metres beneath the surface, held power over eerie creatures called "Marchens." Within the prison was a boy named Jack - living a life of suffering...

Price 20.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Jul 2018
Lynne Lynne is a short story about the scariest thing in the world: being a teenager.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Jul 2018
Earthfall NOW AVAILABLE! When the Earth falls to an extra-terrestrial invasion, humanity becomes an endangered species. Earthfall is a four-player cooperative shooter that challenges players to survive hordes of ruthless alien drones and their inscrutable masters.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.3
Release 12 Jul 2018
Depression The Game Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?

Price 2.00€
Rating 6.6
Release 07 Jul 2018
GARAGE: Bad Trip Drug dealer Butch slays hordes of living dead to save a girl. Garage is a bloody topdown shooter inspired by VHS era B-movies.

Price -98% 0.37€
Rating 6.4
Release 06 Jul 2018
DERE EVIL EXE DERE EVIL EXE is both a terrifying thriller with a gripping meta horror story and a retro 16-bit pixel platformer with unique puzzles and obstacles.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Jul 2018
Animyst Explore a strange and dark afterlife as the Undead. Inhabit the body of a Skeleton or Fleshy Corpse and build a new life in The Droughts, a giant desert of ancient ruins and occult monsters. Craft powerful spells and befriend or battle other players in a single open online world...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Jul 2018
CONCLUSE Concluse is an atmospheric horror game which features puzzles, outstanding cutscenes, and something a little twisted..

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 29 Jun 2018
Ultimate Custom Night Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 27 Jun 2018
OK/NORMAL OK/NORMAL is a short, experimental third-person horror experience, inspired by early 3D console games of the 90's. Journey through a dark, disjointed, dreamlike dimension with your cloud companion! Remember a good diet, take your medicine, and you should be fine!

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Jun 2018
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi 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 9.2
Release 14 Jun 2018
Budget Cuts Budget Cuts is a VR stealth game where you dexterously zip, sneak or rambo your way forward through thrilling, oil-splatter filled combat!

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Jun 2018
Gray Dawn Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.

Price -72% 4.78€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Jun 2018
SG/ZH: School Girl/Zombie Hunter Lose the clothes, save your life! This is a survival story of 5 high school girls happened in the world of "Onechanbara"!

Price -93% 2.49€
Rating 6.5
Release 05 Jun 2018
Vampyr London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.

Price -88% 4.96€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Jun 2018
Kid,napper: Gosh, I'm Kidnapped by a Pupil I had to admit, the only thing that is more scary than a murder weapon, is that girl, who is not even supposed to hold it

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 31 May 2018
Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition is a First-Person Shooter based on Games Workshop’s cult classic board game set in Warhammer 40,000 universe. Expanding upon the original game, and featuring a host of new content, new features and a richer multiplayer mode.

Price -92% 2.67€
Rating 7.1
Release 22 May 2018
Mother Simulator It’s a humorous project about a young parent's difficult weekdays. If you feel worried, irritated, you don’t understand what’s going on and what you must do next, so don’t worry. We want to give you exactly these feelings in our game.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 22 May 2018
The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence "A Requiem for Innocence" is a companion to the visual novel "The House in Fata Morgana." It tells the tale of a young man dragged down by his ambitions and a girl both worshiped as a saint and maligned as a witch. For them, there is no happily ever after.

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.2
Release 17 May 2018
STAY Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

Price -68% 3.95€
Rating 6.6
Release 16 May 2018
MachiaVillain Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

Price -77% 4.71€
Rating 6.4
Release 16 May 2018

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