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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Layers of Fear (2016) A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.

Price -86% 2.94€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Feb 2016
Downfall There is nothing Joe wouldn't do for his wife. But as they try to save their marriage with a romantic getaway, things go from bad to worse, and from worse... to insanity...

Price -92% 0.74€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Feb 2016
Doors Doors is a short, atmospheric first person logic game created by a one-man-team. Taking inspiration from Limbo and The Stanley Parable, Doors attempts to bring something new to the puzzle genre.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 12 Feb 2016
Firewatch Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 09 Feb 2016
IMSCARED "I need a Heart in order to open it"

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 Feb 2016
CALENDULA How to play a game that doesn't want to be played? Calendula is an experimental meta game about trying to play a game. Use your logic to thrive against conventions and get surrounded by a dark atmosphere.

Price 6.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 02 Feb 2016
Blood and Bacon This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Feb 2016
Rusty Lake Hotel Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Price -68% 0.64€
Rating 9.3
Release 29 Jan 2016
Eventide: Slavic Fable Explore the exciting world of slavic legends!

Price -96% 0.70€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Jan 2016
Subterrain Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 7.3
Release 21 Jan 2016
Resident Evil 0 Before the mansion, before the destruction of Raccoon City, there was Resident Evil 0. Now remastered with improved visuals and sounds, as well as the all-new Wesker Mode, there's never been a better time to experience the origins of the Resident Evil story.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Jan 2016
Darkest Dungeon® Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Price -96% 1.01€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Jan 2016
INFRA INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Jan 2016
Oxenfree Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Price -56% 4.30€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Jan 2016
Tharsis Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.

Price -93% 1.18€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Jan 2016
Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief Discover the truth behind the myth and save the children!

Price -95% 0.76€
Rating 6.3
Release 07 Jan 2016
Suits: A Business RPG Corporations control the entire global government. Injustice has inspired a revolution in Suits City. Follow the journey of a businessman's descent into corruption...

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Jan 2016
Pony Island Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Price -61% 1.98€
Rating 9.3
Release 04 Jan 2016
Dance of Death A mysterious and fascinating quest in Hidden Object genre.

Price -79% 0.83€
Rating 6.1
Release 21 Dec 2015
Wick Wick is a survival horror game where ghost stories are brought to life. Explore a local legend about the long lost children in the woods who can still be seen... but only by those who dare to enter alone by candlelight.

Price -88% 0.76€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Dec 2015
Project Pulsation Project Pulsation - a sci-fi first person shooter with elements of horror and stealth. The distant space station 'Complex' located nearby Thanatos Asteroid keeps a valuable Artifact. Fight your way through turrets, unknown creatures and mysterious ghosts, survive and try to get back.

Price -85% 0.78€
Rating 6.7
Release 15 Dec 2015
Emily Wants To Play It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Dec 2015
Ben and Ed Ben and Ed is a 3D platformer, in which the player controls Ed the Zombie, who is forced to participate in a grotesque game show called "Rundead". Will he beat all obstacles Hans Showmaster confronts him with, to save his best friend Ben?

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Dec 2015
Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star The loveable birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are back in the remastered holiday-themed sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star!

Price -33% 6.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 05 Dec 2015
Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova Discover the source of dreadful evil!

Price -97% 0.54€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Dec 2015
Mayjasmine Episode01 - What is God? Ho Yu-Chen received his friend Wan Zi-Jin's invitation, and set on to leave the familiar Taiwan to start a new life with Wan's daughter, Wan Yu-Qing, as an accountant, in Indonesia. Yet with the addition of the mysterious girl, Cocoa, what kinds of events shall turn out to be?

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Dec 2015
The Isle Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 01 Dec 2015
BAD END It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Price -84% 0.96€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Nov 2015
The Consuming Shadow The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 20 Nov 2015
Hard West When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions

Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Nov 2015
Cinderella Escape! R12 Cinderella is locked in the dungeon. What happened to her? Can she escape the dungeon? Cinderella needs your help!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Nov 2015
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi 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 9.2
Release 13 Nov 2015
The Secret Order 2: Masked Intent Become the wayfarer through the past to force back the evil power!

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Nov 2015
Boogeyman Live your childhood nightmare and try to survive against the Boogeyman. Equipped with only your flashlight, survive each night until the morning light.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Nov 2015
The Last NightMary - A Lenda do Cabeça de Cuia Escape through maze forest searching for a shelter, because the cursed beast is after you ... And if there was a chance to reverse the curse, would you run away or would you try to find answers? It is better think fast, because the monster is in a hurry, the beast is starved.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Nov 2015
Sound of Drop - fall into poison - Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.

Price -77% 2.98€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Oct 2015

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