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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Einar The player takes on the role of Einar, who is on a quest to kill the inhabitants of a Norse fishing village who are infected by a mysterious material. Use different weapons such as the bow, hammer and axe to clear the village of the monsters.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.0
Release 20 Jul 2017
Lawnmower Game Drive and cut grass first time in simulator game, with amazing lanwmower in big open world

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Jul 2017
This Strange Realm Of Mine This Strange Realm Of Mine is a First Person Shooter mixed with poetry and psychological horror. Graphic style is 3D mixed with pixel art.

Price -91% 0.90€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 Jul 2017
Aporia: Beyond The Valley CRYNEGINE Indie Game of 2017. Featuring an incredibly detailed ancient world and a breathtaking soundtrack, Aporia: Beyond the Valley takes open world storytelling to new heights of adventure.

Price -90% 1.70€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Jul 2017
Hand Simulator There are many different levels where you can play with spinners, plunge into the subtleties of handling weapons, milk a cow, take part in a Mexican duel with your friends, have a good time fishing, play chess or simply chat in an anonymous club.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Jul 2017
Fly Simulator You work as a waiter and lead an uphill battle for their clients. You pushing back the flies from the food, otherwise you'll never get anything. Maybe you are a hungry insect trying to increase their population? Choose the opposing side. The war is already underway.

Price 2.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 16 Jul 2017
Crimson Gray John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Jul 2017
Masked Forces: Zombie Survival What will you do when the zombie apocalypse comes, are you ready to tackle it right now and stay face to face with all the horrors that will appear?

Price -89% 0.54€
Rating 6.8
Release 14 Jul 2017
Brigand: Oaxaca Brigand: Oaxaca is a highly difficult post-apocalyptic RPG/FPS set in Mexico. Emphasis is on challenge, a branching story with multiple endings, and total freedom of action (kill friendly characters, rob stores, jump across roofs, etc.).

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Jul 2017
Black The Fall After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from Communism, through manipulation and scheming. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned robot. Could they solve the puzzles and flee this bleak world together?

Price -89% 1.68€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Jul 2017
√Letter - Root Letter - When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared. Travelling to her hometown, you must investigate the murder, using her past letters as clues to uncover the disturbing truth.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Jul 2017
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Komaru Naegi has been imprisoned inside a mysterious apartment for over a year. Her rescue is derailed when hundreds of Monokumas suddenly attack. She teams up with Toko Fukawa to survive the rampaging Monokumas, escape the crafty Monokuma Kids, and uncover the secrets of the city.

Price 27.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Jun 2017
GET EVEN Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.

Price -94% 1.98€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Jun 2017
Kindergarten Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Jun 2017
Zup! 5 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Jun 2017
Face It - A game to fight inner demons Carefuly crafted puzzles in a challenging 3D plaformer take the player on a surrealistic journey through a maze of feelings. In Face It, abstract concepts are shaped into gameplay: darker emotions are monsters and traps, while brighter concepts are the powers you need to beat the levels.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 09 Jun 2017
Conarium Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.

Price -97% 0.71€
Rating 7.5
Release 06 Jun 2017
Lydia Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?

Price 2.85€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Jun 2017
Perception An award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 30 May 2017
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Red Orchestra Series' take on Vietnam: 64-player MP matches; 20+ maps; US Army & Marines, PAVN/NVA, NLF/VC; Australians and ARVN forces; 50+ weapons; 4 flyable helicopters; mines, traps and tunnels; Brutal. Authentic. Gritty. Character customization. And napalm in the morning.

Price -93% 1.65€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 May 2017
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker Putrefaction 2: Void Walker is fast-paced, hardcore, arcade FPS, inspired by old-school shooters.

Price -70% 1.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 May 2017
Confess My Love The story takes place after school, when Willie decides to confess his love to the girl of his dreams, Liza. Afraid of being refused, he hesitated for a while. Should he summon up his courage and confess his love to her?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 27 May 2017
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

Price -67% 2.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 May 2017
Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt Lead the Police investigation in the afterlife!

Price -95% 0.87€
Rating 6.8
Release 18 May 2017
The Surge Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.

Price -91% 1.43€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 May 2017
OVIVO OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 May 2017
Charlie Murder It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 May 2017
The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile The followup to 2009's Dead Samurai, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is a combo-fueled, fast-paced, stylistic 2D action platformer that features the series' staple gritty, graphic novel-inspired art style, built on a new engine that allows for an even more visually gruesome experience.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 May 2017
Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea! Try and navigate your way through one of the world's most tightly controlled dictatorships, with two cute soldiers by your side. Avoid getting shot, executed, black-bagged, or tried for treason as you explore Pyongyang's most famous tourist attractions.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 May 2017
Rakuen A hospitalized Boy comes to terms with his own story by traveling with his Mom to a beautiful fantasy world; ultimately helping his fellow patients find closure by walking a mile in their shoes.

Price -58% 6.25€
Rating 9.3
Release 10 May 2017
Cat or Bread? A game about cat and bread.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 May 2017
Mass Exodus Redux Whether you’re playing the seeker (VR) or rogue android (PC), Mass Exodus is a tense and absorbing local multiplayer game. With 4 extensive maps each with unique kill methods and some creative power-ups, you need to try outsmart your friends anyway you can. Oculus Touch and HTC Vive compatible.

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 May 2017
Prey In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

Price -87% 3.98€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 May 2017
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi 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 7.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Apr 2017
Just Ignore Them One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.

Price -89% 0.46€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2017
Bendy and the Ink Machine Bendy and the Ink Machine® is the first person puzzle action horror game that will forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.

Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Apr 2017

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