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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Mythic Wonders: The Philosopher's Stone Find the Philosopher's Stone!

Price -90% 1.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2016
Don't Starve Together Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Price -56% 6.74€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Apr 2016
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.

Price -90% 1.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Apr 2016
Deer Man Deer Man is a short Interactive Storytelling experience. You play as Jacob's memory, where you will have an incredible encounter with Deer Man & the dark side of his love for the wildlife. If you love animals, this is for you!

Price 0.79€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Apr 2016
Lucid9: Inciting Incident Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 14 Apr 2016
Goetia Goetia is a point & click adventure where you play the ghost of a young lady. You are Abigail. Abigail Blackwood.

Price -87% 2.04€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Apr 2016
Soda Drinker Pro The world's most advanced soda drinking simulator.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Apr 2016
The Cubicle. The Cubicle is a short VR experience about your regular everyday job in an office, or is it?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Apr 2016
A grande bagunça espacial - The big space mess Hello everyone! Welcome to the craziest adventure of your lives! The fearless Waldisglédson will face creatures from space and find allies on his journey!

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 05 Apr 2016
Job Simulator In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Apr 2016
CHKN Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Apr 2016
A Chair in a Room : Greenwater Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Mar 2016
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition In Season 2 of The Last Door, the search for his missing client will bring psychiatrist John Wakefield deeper into a conspiracy of darkness and closer to the heart of madness than ever before.

Price -72% 2.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Mar 2016
Dead Secret Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .

Price -82% 2.70€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Mar 2016
The Deer "The Deer" is an educational inter­ac­tive expe­ri­ence for children. You'll be an ancient Deer during the Pleistocene (Ice Age) epoch and you'll discover everything about this marvelous era. Unfortunately there were no T-Rex during this age since they were already extinct millions of years before.

Price -46% 0.49€
Rating 6.1
Release 28 Mar 2016
Lost girl`s [diary] A group of girls are having their vacation, alone. What would a group of girls do on a dark Christmas night? Of course, fortunetelling! Unfortunately for them, their boyfriends are not about to leave them alone and their sudden visit totally ruins their plans for fortune telling, turning it into a scary story contest.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 24 Mar 2016
DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark is a new standalone horror game that takes place in the DreadOut universe. In this missing chapter, you will help Linda face the challenges of the DreadOut world with even more dangers lurking within.

Price -88% 0.89€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Mar 2016
Slain: Back from Hell Slain: Back from Hell. A heavy metal inspired arcade combat with puzzle elements and gore galore. Stunning visuals and true old school gameplay accompanied by the most metal soundtrack you've ever heard.

Price -97% 0.47€
Rating 6.9
Release 24 Mar 2016
The Descendant In THE DESCENDANT, the end of the world is only the start. With what remains of humanity protected in underground Ark facilities, your mission is to keep survivors alive, while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within Ark-01.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2016
Sophie's Curse You got a job, which is to take care of an old man during the night in a recently purchased house; this house does not have electricity and you have to rely on some kind of hand crank generators to light the place up, but there is something in the darkness draining their power, don’t let it happen!

Price -55% 2.29€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Mar 2016
Black Rose Equipped with a flashlight, investigate an abandoned funeral home that's said to be haunted. Find out what really happened to the people who once worked there, and hope that this dark, eerie building doesn't become your final resting place.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 15 Mar 2016
Sheltered Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Price -94% 0.83€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Mar 2016
DEADBOLT DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.

Price -9% 9.17€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Mar 2016
The Secret Order 3: Ancient Times Find a way to destroy the ancient artifacts!

Price -95% 0.75€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Mar 2016
The Guest 'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.

Price -91% 0.97€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Mar 2016
CUPID - A free to play Visual Novel "Love is both poison and cure, both knife and remedy." Set in 18th Century France, this is a gothic romance tale about loss, revenge and the different faces of love.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Mar 2016
The Bottom of the Well Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Mar 2016
The Count Lucanor Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.

Price -80% 1.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Mar 2016
The Town of Light 12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.

Price -97% 0.66€
Rating 7.7
Release 26 Feb 2016
Bear Simulator It's a game where you play as a bear and explore stuff.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Feb 2016
The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries stars the iconic, blade-wielding character from Robert Kirkman's best-selling comic books.

Price -97% 0.52€
Rating 7.8
Release 23 Feb 2016
The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams Save your family from an ominous undersea facility!

Price -95% 0.84€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Feb 2016
Devil Daggers Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.

Price -72% 2.27€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 Feb 2016
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.

Price -60% 7.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Feb 2016
Medusa's Labyrinth Medusa’s Labyrinth is a very short mythological first-person horror game set in ancient Greece. It takes myths and legends that have stayed with us for over 2000 years and mix them together with modern gameplay. The game let's you explore murky catacombs and follow along a classic, tragic story.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Feb 2016
We Know the Devil WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a visual novel about teens reluctantly fighting the devil at summer camp. Follow meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus as they get to know each other--but one always gets left out.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Feb 2016

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