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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Zup! 2 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Dec 2016
Lara Croft GO Lara Croft GO is a turn based puzzle-adventure set in a long-forgotten world. Explore the ruins of an ancient civilization, discover well-kept secrets and face deadly challenges as you uncover the myth of the Queen of Venom.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Dec 2016
Radiation Island Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Nov 2016
ARAYA ARAYA is a first person horror game. Players will get a new thrilling experience inside a Thai hospital. The story will be told from the perspectives of 3 different characters. Players will explore different areas of the hospital in order to piece together the mysterious murder case of Araya.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Nov 2016
Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 21 Nov 2016
Alicemare Alicemare is a somehow familiar yet totally unique adventure game infused with subtle hints of horror, created by △○□× (Miwashiba) using the WOLF RPG Editor.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Nov 2016
Brief Karate Foolish Here comes a new epic of live action fighting game!! With 60fps smooth action, sexy and deadly guys fly into air and bounces their flab!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Nov 2016
Killing Floor 2 In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.

Price -97% 0.87€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Nov 2016
Rencounter Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.

Price -96% 0.25€
Rating 6.8
Release 04 Nov 2016
City Car Driving City Car Driving – realistic car driving simulator, which will help you master the basic skills of the car driving in various traffic conditions, with plunging into the environment most closely resembling the real one.

Price 23.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Nov 2016
Ghost Town Mine Ride & Shootin' Gallery Explore an abandoned tourist attraction, test your shot at the Shootin' Gallery, then board the mine cart ride for a descent into Hell! A thrilling new horror experience for the HTC Vive. Can you make it out Alive?

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Oct 2016
The Survey In the end, everybody gets what they deserve. The sins of the past always manifest within the minds of the sinners. An eternity of suffering awaits, welcome to The Survey.

Price -57% 2.18€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Oct 2016
Through the Woods Through the Woods is a third-person Norse horror adventure set in a forest on the western shores of Norway that tells the story of a mother and her missing son.

Price -92% 1.65€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Oct 2016
Slayaway Camp A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror.

Price -73% 2.05€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Oct 2016
Yomawari: Night Alone A quiet evening stroll takes a turn for the worse as a tragic accident befalls a little girl and her dog. When her sister goes missing later in the night, the little girl decides to venture out into the eerie darkness to search for her loved ones as evil spirits haunt the alleyways and streets of her once-peaceful town.

Price -85% 3.19€
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Oct 2016
Awkward Dimensions Redux They may be awkward dimensions, but they're my dreams...

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Oct 2016
Off-Peak You're stranded at a cathedral-like train station in the near future, searching for a ticket out of town. Explore the secret passageways, interact with strangers, dig for records, and get hypnotized by the soundtrack – a batch of original music courtesy of the band, Archie Pelago.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 21 Oct 2016
Rusty Lake: Roots Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.

Price -86% 0.58€
Rating 9.4
Release 20 Oct 2016
Killing Room Rogue-like FPS with strong RPG elements set in a 22nd century reality-show parody. Win a fortune or die, but never disappoint your audience. And audience is virtual or real with revolutionary but optional features for streamers and their fans.

Price -66% 5.15€
Rating 6.7
Release 20 Oct 2016
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 True Fear: Forsaken Souls takes the best of the psychological thriller, blending in fun and intuitive gameplay mechanics. Episode 1, the first in a trilogy, will long be remembered.

Price -33% 5.89€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 Oct 2016
Accounting (Legacy) The modern field of Accountancy is a serious and honorable profession. Many human beings have spent their lives toiling over the hard science of numbers. Thousands have died so that we may get to the level of understanding that we have today. Thousands have died.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Oct 2016
Stay Close Stay Close is open-world horror game, with options for single-player and co-op. It has an unique and new gameplay approach unseen so far in any other game. You'll find yourself in a creepy and anomalous town, what is your next move?

Price 8.79€
Rating 6.1
Release 14 Oct 2016
Escape the Game Kevin is fed up with his game. Follow him in this atmospheric, dark and funny journey and fulfil his dreams. Is it even possible to escape?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Oct 2016
Blameless Blameless is a mysterious first-person adventure with primary focus on puzzle solving and short story. The player will appear in a role of an architect trying to investigate strange happenings, after discovering evidence of an act of violence.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Oct 2016
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.4 Himatsubushi 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 5.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Oct 2016
Eventide 2: The Sorcerers Mirror Discover the magic of slavdom!

Price -82% 2.72€
Rating 7.4
Release 13 Oct 2016
Thumper Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.

Price -97% 0.74€
Rating 8.8
Release 10 Oct 2016
KUBOOM Cross-platform hurricane online 3D Shooter

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 07 Oct 2016
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Oct 2016
Adam Wolfe Acting as Adam Wolfe, an investigator of the paranormal, you will discover a hidden world under the modern San Francisco. In this city, ghosts, artifacts, secret orders and curses are just some of the things that Adam will come across working on his most important case.

Price -93% 0.43€
Rating 8.7
Release 07 Oct 2016
The Silver Case The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Oct 2016
Syndrome Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.

Price -96% 0.89€
Rating 6.2
Release 06 Oct 2016
Doorways: Old Prototype An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 05 Oct 2016
Disturbed Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Oct 2016
Zombie Defense A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense. Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own. Order supplies, throw grenades, order airstrikes and many more... Perfect mix of strategy, tactics and micromanagement.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Sep 2016
UNLOVED Based on the community award-winning Doom2 mod with the same name by the same creator, UNLOVED is reimagined in the Unreal Engine 4 to bring forth the unspeakable terror in new ways. Play coop with your friends, increase your skills, mod your weapons and face the horror that this unearthly place holds...

Price -90% 0.42€
Rating 7.1
Release 29 Sep 2016

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