Best Psychological 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 psychological horror games.

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Subnautica 2 Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

Price 29.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 14 May 2026
Directive 8020 Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time. 12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia crash lands on the planet, its crew soon realize they are far from being alone. In space, death takes many forms.

Price -37% 31.60€
Rating 6.1
Release 12 May 2026
NO BACKUP Escape together or die alone. In this intense co-op bodycam horror game, you and your team are hunted by a relentless creature. Communicate, stay quiet, and fight to survive. Every move counts. Every sound could be your last.

Price -10% 8.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 09 May 2026
Mixtape On their last night together, three friends embark on one final adventure. Play through a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation.

Price -48% 9.91€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 May 2026
Brno Transit A short narrative-driven psychological horror game about a trainee metro driver trapped in the dampest subway east of anything that matters.

Price -28% 6.55€
Rating 7.8
Release 23 Apr 2026
Yunyun Syndrome!? Rhythm Psychosis “Yunyun Syndrome!? Rhythm Psychosis” is a rhythm adventure game about a psychotic hikikomori girl - also an avid anonymous poster - who corrupts the world with her severe brain rot from listening to too many denpa songs. Yunyun all over this ♡♡♡♡ world with your degen otaku-posting.

Price -55% 5.54€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 Apr 2026
Into the Radius 2 Into the Radius 2 is an immersive VR survival shooter, set in a realm of surreal landscapes and deadly entities known as Pechorsk Anomaly. Arm yourself with realistic weapons and venture deeper into the mysteries that lie within, either solo or with a friend by your side.

Price -14% 33.89€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 Apr 2026
CAPTURED 2 You're trapped in an apartment with ever-changing rooms. Capture anomalies on camera, survive deadly entities and escape an endless nightmare.

Price 8.15€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Apr 2026
Don't Play This Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it?  A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 Apr 2026
Final Sentence Final Sentence is a Battle Royale typing game. Together with other players, you find yourself in a hangar, with a typewriter in front of you and a revolver loaded with a single bullet at your temple. Every mistake can be fatal. Only one will remain.

Price 10.25€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Apr 2026
Wasteland Bites Wasteland Bites is a horror-based food truck sim. Cooking up questionable cuisine in your post-apocalyptic food truck is tough. Fending off mutants, UFOs, rabid dogs, and things lurking in the dark? That's the real challenge. A chaotic mix of cooking and survival in a long gone world.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.7
Release 03 Apr 2026
It Has My Face IT HAS YOUR FACE. Now it wants your life. Hide, seek, and try to kill your clone in this deceptively simple first-person horror roguelite.

Price 9.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Apr 2026
Stiff Neck A story about the self—and about others. A toy factory, several cursed dolls, and a horror novel… This quiet seaside town throws Noele's love life into chaos and dredges up the old wounds she has tried for years to forget.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Apr 2026
Subliminal Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.0
Release 31 Mar 2026
The Scourge | Tai Ương Explore the nightmarish lucid dreams of Nhat Huy to solve his family's mystery. Set in 90s Saigon, navigate dilapidated corridors, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover sinister secrets. Can you survive the twisting maze and The Scourge?

Price -76% 5.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Mar 2026
Dyping Escape "Let's play a typing game." Dyping Escape is a simple game where you type according to instructions from the game master, a mysterious eyeball. But be careful; everything you type becomes reality. Just be careful not to brick your computer.

Price -30% 6.82€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Mar 2026
Lucid Blocks Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Mar 2026

Price -35% 32.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Mar 2026
Marathon Scavenge the lost colony of Tau Ceti IV as a bio-cybernetic Runner in a PvPvE survival extraction FPS from the creators of Halo and Destiny.

Price -43% 22.94€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Mar 2026
Eternal Afternoon Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.

Price 8.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Mar 2026
Horripilant KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Feb 2026
LOVE ETERNAL Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever more.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 19 Feb 2026
Deadly Dice: Menherarium "Let's play together… forever, okay?" Menherarium is a deck-building roguelite where you survive 7 days of blood-staked Chinchiro against a clingy menhera girl. Trapped and forced to gamble your blood daily in twisted dice games, use cheat items and overcome her changing rules to survive.

Price 8.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Feb 2026
Escape from Yandere Yandera has locked you in your house and is asking for a declaration of love. You can stay with her or try to escape. Explore the house, but be careful, Yandera can kill you.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 07 Feb 2026
Heaven Does Not Respond Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Feb 2026
MY HERO ACADEMIA: All’s Justice SMASH through your foes in MY HERO ACADEMIA: All's Justice and dive into variety of game modes where you can experience thrilling 3v3 battles, hero training, and the climactic Final War!

Price -35% 39.24€
Rating 6.2
Release 05 Feb 2026
Fear The Timeloop Sheriff James Cooper is slowly bleeding to death in an unfamiliar hospital. But the moment his life ends, everything starts over. He has fifteen minutes to break this endless cycle, uncover the truth, and find a way out before it's too late.

Price -25% 10.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 30 Jan 2026
Folklore Hunter You’re a world-renowned hunter of supernatural beasts. Track down urban legends from all over the world, set traps, solve disturbing puzzles, and defeat the beasts before you succumb to their otherworldly presence.

Price 17.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 30 Jan 2026
CODE VEIN II An epic adventure awaits, where you and your chosen partners explore a post-apocalyptic world, face fierce battles against powerful enemies, and uncover an epic story that transcends time.

Price -31% 48.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 29 Jan 2026
HELLMART Supermarket simulator meets horror. You’re a clerk at a 24-hour convenience store. During the day - serve customers and hit your sales goals. At night - beware of strange clients. Try to survive 7 days in the Far North.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 Jan 2026
Obey the Voice™ You are here to listen to The Voice, do what he says. But don't listen to other voices...

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Jan 2026
Millennium Dream Wander through dreamscapes woven from memories of the millennium. Use your camera to freeze tender fragments of days gone by, collecting lost shards of childhood. In an atmosphere where Chinese Dreamcore and Liminal Space intertwine, savor a warmth that feels both familiar and strange.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 27 Jan 2026
Roots Devour Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.

Price -46% 8.02€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 Jan 2026
Super Chipflake Ü: Quest for the Uncooked Schnitzel You're hungry. For a schnitzel. The problem is: you have to get it!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Jan 2026
SHE WAS 98 “SHE WAS 98” - you play as a grandson who returns to his elderly grandmother's home to care for her.....

Price -30% 5.45€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Jan 2026
Pathologic 3 In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.

Price -80% 7.05€
Rating 7.8
Release 09 Jan 2026

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