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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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 -75% 2.40€
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 -96% 0.78€
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% 0.48€
Rating 7.8
Release 23 Feb 2016
The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams Save your family from an ominous undersea facility!

Price 14.79€
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 -66% 2.78€
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 -50% 9.99€
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
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 -88% 2.43€
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 -76% 2.13€
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 1.99€
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 -92% 1.36€
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 -67% 6.75€
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 -77% 6.66€
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 -60% 3.94€
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 -97% 0.45€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Jan 2016
Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief Discover the truth behind the myth and save the children!

Price -86% 2.09€
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 -54% 2.31€
Rating 9.3
Release 04 Jan 2016
Dance of Death A mysterious and fascinating quest in Hidden Object genre.

Price 3.99€
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% 0.72€
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 4.99€
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 -31% 3.48€
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 -34% 6.68€
Rating 8.7
Release 05 Dec 2015

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