Best Horror Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy 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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Tasty Blue Tasty Blue is an underwater side-scrolling eat 'em up game. You start as a small goldfish with an insatiable appetite. After being overfed by your owner, you'll escape into the ocean and eat everything that you encounter. The more you eat, the bigger you get!

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.4
Release 10 Feb 2015
SUNLESS SEA LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Price -95% 0.98€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Feb 2015
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in North America) was a breakthrough in interactive narrative. This newly remastered edition features updated textures in HD, expanded controller support, and is based on the uncut and uncensored international version of the game.

Price -95% 0.54€
Rating 7.8
Release 28 Jan 2015
The Old Tree The Old Tree is a short free-to-play cinematic puzzle game about a newborn alien baby. Witness this microscopic entity's first moments of life and help it emerge from its underground lair and ascend towards an unknown destination.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Jan 2015
Dying Light First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Price 24.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 26 Jan 2015
Resident Evil The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

Price -79% 4.26€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Jan 2015
Anoxemia Anoxemia is a story-driven exploration game that puts you in control of the scientist Dr. Bailey and his operations drone, ATMA. Search the ocean floor as you discover and extract samples from the bowels of the underwater caves. Danger lurks in each passageway.

Price 7.39€
Rating 6.1
Release 16 Jan 2015
Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~ Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~ is a visual novel game designed for female audiences. It was distributed by the publisher, Cheritz, in English, Korean, and Japanese on Nov. 11th, 2013 and now it is available on Steam.

Price 27.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Dec 2014
Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends Follow orphan Eva on a trip to mystical Prague in Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends.

Price -70% 0.61€
Rating 7.6
Release 22 Dec 2014
Dead Effect Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 17 Dec 2014
LISA: The Painful The miserable journey of a broken man...

Price -40% 11.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 15 Dec 2014
Demon Hunter: Chronicles from Beyond Discover your true identity and face a mysterious entity from another dimension!

Price -90% 1.47€
Rating 6.2
Release 04 Dec 2014
Dead State: Reanimated Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Dec 2014
The Old City: Leviathan The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

Price -90% 0.62€
Rating 6.9
Release 03 Dec 2014
Passing Pineview Forest Passing Pineview Forest is a free mini-prequel set in the universe of Pineview Drive. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 21 Nov 2014
Escape Dead Island Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak.

Price -96% 0.63€
Rating 6.1
Release 20 Nov 2014
Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.

Price -23% 6.05€
Rating 7.0
Release 13 Nov 2014
Get Off My Lawn! They came in peace, but messed with the wrong old man. Armed with a musket, 78 year old Murray Mendelson has single-handedly started an interstellar war. Shoot first and ask questions later in this endless fast paced arcade shooter. Use everything in Murray’s arsenal to keep the aliens off of his perfectly manicured lawn!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 11 Nov 2014
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Nov 2014
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.6
Release 04 Nov 2014
Depth Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding combat.

Price -70% 5.12€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Nov 2014
Sanitarium Originally released in 1998 on PC, and awarded as the Adventure Game of the Year, The timeless horror point-and-click, Sanitarium, is returning to frighten the bravest adventure game fans.

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Oct 2014
The Moon Sliver You are on a bleak, cold, windy island. And you seem to be alone... but fires and candles still burn. As you explore, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becomes obvious that something is hunting you...

Price -29% 1.43€
Rating 7.2
Release 28 Oct 2014
Dark Arcana: The Carnival Find the missing woman lost in a mysterious Carnival of Horrors.

Price -92% 1.29€
Rating 8.4
Release 28 Oct 2014

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