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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Butcher's Creek A first person melee horror game where you use rusty tools to brutalize a gang of serial torturers in the remote Appalachian Forest.

Price -54% 4.58€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Jan 2025
Dreamcore Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?

Price -62% 5.70€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Jan 2025
The Shell Part III: Paradiso The coiling chains of obsession that began with The Shell now threaten to strangle Detective Reiji Tokisaka in the third and final entry in the trilogy. As old friends and foes rise up for one last confrontation, can anyone break the cycle—and can Reiji's heart ever be set free?

Price -47% 10.46€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Jan 2025
SKIBIDI GYATROOMS Skibidi Gyatrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror game. You and the homies just fell into the Backrooms, you must out-GYAT the Skibidi Toilet with max rizz or get flushed. Expect cursed levels, and brainrot that’ll keep you on edge.

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Jan 2025
MISTERY A multiplayer game of survival and social deduction. You work with others to collect materials, survive the dangers, and complete tasks. Beware of monsters, but more of the alternates disguising as your teammates. They can change into supernatural monsters and attack you at any time.

Price 11.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 20 Jan 2025
CRUEL A fast run and gun horror shooter with roguelike elements

Price -10% 8.77€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Jan 2025
The Inn-Sanity Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.

Price 7.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 09 Jan 2025
Amenti A photographer enters the Great Pyramids to photograph Pharaoh Rudamon’s remains, but is soon overwhelmed by a sinister curse, as the ancient tomb awakens dark forces that claw at his sanity.

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Jan 2025
Subterror Explore abandoned biospheres at the bottom of the ocean, alone or with up to 4 friends.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 03 Jan 2025
Winion Virus Winion Virus is a pixel-art visual novel horror game. It features adorable and charming graphics paired with a dark fairy-tale story full of unexpected twists. As a point-and-click adventure, your task is to fix the errors occurring within the computer.

Price -83% 1.92€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 Dec 2024
Fishing The Abyss This is a relaxing atmospheric game where you simply watch a robot catch creatures. Place it at the edge of your screen like a vertical desktop accessory and observe the ecosystem. It’s neither an idle game with mountains of stats nor an exciting fishing game.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.7
Release 16 Dec 2024
Awaria Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 16 Dec 2024
The Cabin Factory Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Dec 2024
Murky Divers Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.

Price -94% 0.56€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Dec 2024
There Exists Nobody You arrive at a deserted street that feels familiar yet is filled with unease. Pick up your camera, capture the hidden anomalies, and break this endless loop.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 11 Dec 2024
MiSide Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?

Price -53% 7.09€
Rating 9.7
Release 10 Dec 2024
Go Home Annie: An SCP Game A twisted psychological thriller and an original story set in the SCP universe. As an employee of the SCP Foundation, test artificially created paranormal events, solve puzzles, interact with anomalies, and uncover the secrets of the Replication Division.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 10 Dec 2024
Among Ashes Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Dec 2024
SchoolBoy Runaway “You little rascal! Go study your lessons right now!” said the angry parents, grounding you. Try to outsmart them and find a way to have fun with your friends.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 07 Dec 2024
Zort Zort is an action, adventure, and horror game that can be played with up to 4 people. Explore maps with your friends and have fun while escaping from various creatures. Experience a realistic horror experience with in-game voice chat with your friends!

Price 4.00€
Rating 9.0
Release 07 Dec 2024
Scauage Scauage is a short horror experience where you play as a scavenger looting an abandoned house, uncovering its dark secrets and collecting hidden treasures while facing what lurks within.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Dec 2024
Granny: Escape Together This is a creepy co-op horror game. In which you find yourself locked in a crazy Granny's house. But Granny is not the only danger that awaits you in the house, someone else creepy lives in the basement. You have five days to get out of the house!

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 06 Dec 2024
Path of Exile 2 Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.

Price 27.75€
Rating 7.0
Release 06 Dec 2024
[Bober Bros] The Hole [Bober Bros] The Hole is a first-person horror game that explores the cracks in domestic life. Your neighbor’s drilling starts the nightmare, but the holes reveal dark secrets far deeper than any wall could hide. No cheap scares, only disturbing reality.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Dec 2024
The Thing: Remastered The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing

Price -71% 8.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Dec 2024
Priest Simulator: Vampire Show A mockumental action game. Go forth and rock in the absolute weirdest and most messed up simulator in the history of sandbox shooters. Fully unprofessional English language version. This dub will have you in stitches.

Price -71% 5.86€
Rating 8.9
Release 05 Dec 2024
Ruined Nurse Explore the hospital by Thwarting the creatures that are trying to stop you and solving puzzles. Successfully install the internet and surprise customer...

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.7
Release 02 Dec 2024
your wife Feeling that your computer desktop is too plain? Want to find a cute girl to keep you company? Then try this desktop pet wife!

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 28 Nov 2024
HOLE Casual & Hard FPS. Be careful with jam.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Nov 2024
PockeDate! - Pocket Dating Simulator Your Pocket-Sized Dating Simulator! Every launch brings a new date with unique dialogues! Spend endless hours with your adorable, love-struck virtual girlfriend.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 27 Nov 2024
Mindlock - The Apartment Colin’s apartment maze has puzzles, dialogues, and some dry humor waiting for you. A surreal adventure of a special kind.

Price -46% 8.00€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 Nov 2024
Follow the meaning Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 22 Nov 2024
Five Nights at Roner's: Remastered You are an ambitious paranormal investigator searching for his big break. When you're presented the opportunity of a lifetime--$25.99, to be exact, you jump at the offer. But everything comes with a catch, and Roner and his friends are keen to teach you that...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Nov 2024
The Anomaly Project Your goal is simple, spot anomalies to escape. Play alone or together with up to 8 players in online co-op. Make the right decisions to advance to the next level, or risk being reset to the beginning!

Price 7.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Nov 2024
Mercury Abbey In a mansion surrounded by mist, as the curse made by the Alchemist and Fairy reappears, the danger is quietly lurking in the darkness, awaiting its visitors.Follow Harrod and Willie to unravel an incredible story in Mercury Abbey, and go on an adventure that you would only find in mystery novels.

Price -57% 7.58€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Nov 2024
The Devil Within: Satgat Join Kim Rip, a Royal Guard whose humanity is gradually slipping away, on a thrilling 2.5D action-adventure platforming journey in 'The Devil Within: Satgat'. Uncover the mysteries of a desolate realm as you engage in stylish battles against formidable foes.

Price -98% 0.68€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Nov 2024

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