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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KARMA: The Dark World KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.

Price -19% 20.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Mar 2025
Drive Beyond Horizons Explorez, survivez et repoussez les limites de l'horizon dans un vaste monde généré procéduralement. Personnalisez votre véhicule, affrontez des événements imprévisibles, récoltez des ressources et vivez une aventure unique, seul ou jusqu'à 4 joueurs.

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Mar 2025
Look Outside Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.

Price -53% 4.71€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Mar 2025
Unpossess: Exorcism Simulator Unpossess is a 1-4 co-op exorcism simulator game set in the early 1900s. Players take on the role of exorcists responsible for addressing cases of human possession.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Mar 2025
Pathologic 3: Quarantine In this free prologue to a narrative-driven adventure, watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town. Learn what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Mar 2025
qualia Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Mar 2025
ASYLUM An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Mar 2025
That's not my Neighbor It's 1955, and for unknown reasons, doppelgangers are more common than usual. Therefore, the Department of Doppelganger Detection (D.D.D.) has taken action. You are the doorman of an apartment complex, and you must decide whether to let in those who claim to be your neighbors.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 11 Mar 2025
ORDER 13 You wake up in a dark warehouse, tasked with packing orders while something lurks in the shadows. Work fast, stay safe, and protect your cat. He’s all you’ve got.

Price -95% 0.52€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Mar 2025
The Children of Clay The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 07 Mar 2025
Nubby's Number Factory A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.

Price -50% 2.52€
Rating 9.5
Release 07 Mar 2025
Saihate Station An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 07 Mar 2025
Everhood 2 AN UNCONVENTIONAL ARPG where you battle enemies through musical encounters while being accompanied by a raven who promises to retrieve your voice if you slay the mighty Mind Dragon!🎵

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.2
Release 04 Mar 2025
R.E.P.O. An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

Price -30% 6.64€
Rating 9.5
Release 26 Feb 2025
The Test: Reality Check The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Feb 2025
Garten of Banban 0 Explore the origins of the mysterious Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the dark past of the establishment. Try to make some friends. Uncover the truth behind the place, and who you are…

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 21 Feb 2025
Peripeteia You are Marie, a cyborg mercenary dropped into the rot of a post-Soviet city of corruption and opportunity. Shoot, sneak, hack, climb or talk your way through alt-history cyberpunk Poland in an immersive sim where every problem has multiple solutions and every rooftop is reachable.

Price -56% 10.78€
Rating 8.6
Release 21 Feb 2025
BrokenLore: LOW BrokenLore: LOW is a psychological horror game set in a mist-covered, beautiful Japanese village, blending hyper-realistic graphics with low-poly elements. The main enemy is the Gashadokuro, a yokai from Japanese folklore.

Price -65% 3.09€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Feb 2025
Blood Typers TYPE TO KILL in this survival horror adventure. Alone or with friends, explore a sprawling cursed film studio as its horror movies bleed into reality. Choose from a roster of characters then plan your escape from this bloody homage to old school horror. But remember... death is just a typo away.

Price 12.30€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Feb 2025
Cabernet Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?

Price -85% 2.94€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Feb 2025
NO-SKIN Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries

Price -94% 0.45€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Feb 2025
Chained in the Backrooms Chained in the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op, mission-based horror game. Trapped in a blurry subconscious and chained together, toy bears must solve puzzles, complete challenging missions, and survive against creatures trying to destroy them.

Price 2.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 13 Feb 2025
Urban Myth Dissolution Center Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!

Price -50% 8.76€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Feb 2025
Project Hailstorm Step into the shoes of a researcher in the depths of the antarctic and uncover the mysteries behind Project Hailstorm.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Feb 2025
The Butterfly Collector investigate the evidence left by a stalker and kidnapper and track the fate of a college girl. The player advances and watches the plot by clicking to make choices for the heroine at key moments, with different choices leading to different endings.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 09 Feb 2025
A Game About Digging A Hole™ A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!

Price -87% 0.65€
Rating 8.7
Release 07 Feb 2025
Slender Threads In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Feb 2025
UNDERWARD UNDERWARD is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Investigators must carry «TEST-SUBJECT» monsters from a deadly underground abandoned hospital ward.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.8
Release 04 Feb 2025
The Headliners Co-op horror game where you play in teams of 1 to 8 reckless journalists, ready to explore a city overrun by deadly creatures to snap spectacular footage. Your only goal: make the headlines without becoming one.

Price -40% 4.74€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 Jan 2025
Hello Kitty Island Adventure Embark on a cozy, open-world adventure with Hello Kitty and Friends. Befriend beloved characters as you explore and restore a mysterious island, solve ancient puzzles, cook delicious dishes, customize yourself and your cabins, and so much more.

Price 39.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jan 2025
DEAD LETTER DEPT. Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Jan 2025
Kiosk Kiosk is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for late-night customers who visit your cozy, rain-soaked kiosk. The eerie atmosphere clashes with the mounting tension as you serve your mysterious visitors.

Price -71% 1.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 29 Jan 2025
SCP: Fragmented Minds You arrive at Mars Site-113, a decaying monument to the SCP Foundation's ambition—and its failures. Once the most secure facility, now a cradle of horrors calling you to uncover its secrets. Face relentless anomalies, humanity's darkest truths, and a mission that demands survival above all else.

Price -73% 2.59€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Jan 2025
AI2U: With You 'Til The End Kidnapped by a cute cat girlfriend, your only way out is to persuade her to let you leave! Engage with thematic stories, solve puzzles, and interact with best yandere AI NPCs in this top-rated AI game loved by millions of fans. Bask in sweet meet-cutes, or brace for chaos if you dare to escape! :3

Price -30% 10.35€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 Jan 2025
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 -61% 3.82€
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 -38% 11.48€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Jan 2025

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