Psychological Horror Hidden Gems 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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Gray Dawn Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.

Price -72% 4.80€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Jun 2018
Trash Story Trash style kinetic novel, created by one man. Short life story with naughty jokes, memes, author made pictures and not ordinary voiceover.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 29 May 2018
Mother Simulator It’s a humorous project about a young parent's difficult weekdays. If you feel worried, irritated, you don’t understand what’s going on and what you must do next, so don’t worry. We want to give you exactly these feelings in our game.

Price -21% 1.57€
Rating 7.8
Release 22 May 2018
Wolf Tails "Wolf Tails" is a visual novel where you take care of two wolf-girls. There's Mirari, a kindhearted girl who is running away from her duties to her pack, and Fuyu, a brash and loud-mouthed girl who is wary of human culture and its "influences".

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 04 May 2018
Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ Springtime. The season of the cherry blossoms, and a time of new beginnings, new encounters, and new people. For Aoba Kyousuke, this new season marks the start of his second year in high school, and also the year he resolved himself to finally fulfill his long-cherished dream: finding a girlfriend.

Price -52% 13.91€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 May 2018
Signal Simulator Game inspired by SETI. Take the role of a scientist to find an extraterrestrial signal .Control massive Radio Antennas by using interactive control in your Observatory. Detect , download and decode unknown or story telling signals. Manage and Maintain an electrical system to improve your systems and make it more efficient.

Price -50% 8.00€
Rating 7.7
Release 29 Apr 2018
Sarcophag Casual game for attentiveness

Price -56% 0.44€
Rating 6.8
Release 05 Apr 2018
Ria's Hook Ria's journey to the strange storm...

Price -50% 1.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Apr 2018
Putin VS ISIS You play for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and you need to save Syria from terrorists, for this you must fly and drop bombs on the terrorists.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 02 Apr 2018
Traum Traum is a short, story-driven adventure about a man with a dream. Can even the best of plans be shattered by unexpected news?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Mar 2018
The Long Reach At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it’s a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a skeptical view on the human psyche.

Price -93% 1.06€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Mar 2018
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case In the bayside area of Kanto, a murder with unknown motivations sets off a series of seemingly random events bringing together peculiar individuals, one of whom is detective Tokio Morishima. When their ambitions begin to collide, a truly shocking pattern emerges…

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 13 Mar 2018
Hatsune Miku VR World-famous virtual singer Hatsune Miku invites you to join her on stage in in this VR music game! Aim for a perfect score as she sings and dances to some of her most iconic songs.

Price -50% 12.25€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 Mar 2018
Keep in Mind: Remastered Keep in Mind follows Jonas, a man haunted by alcoholism, depression, and grief. One night, he awakens to a shadowy mirror world where beasts lurk and stars don't shine. Lost and scared, Jonas must face the twisted beasts if he ever wishes to return home and learn the truth about his darkness.

Price -80% 0.40€
Rating 7.2
Release 08 Mar 2018
Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kokoro A short love story with a twist: the love of your life is 50% human, and 50% grasshopper.

Price -77% 0.70€
Rating 7.2
Release 02 Mar 2018
Rise of Insanity In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.

Price -89% 1.16€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Mar 2018
4D Minesweeper 4D Minesweeper brings the classic mechanics of Minesweeper into the fourth dimension and adds some new features to it.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Feb 2018
Bear With Me - Collector's Edition The Bear With Me - Collector's Edition contains all three episodes, telling the whole story of Amber and Ted. It also includes the original soundtrack, a digital art book and full puzzle and script design documents.

Price -74% 2.61€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Feb 2018
Indecision. A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.

Price -84% 0.48€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Feb 2018
The Sand Man “I’ll tell you a scary story. It’s so scary you might not be able to take it. It’s the story of the Sand Man...” This is the second title in the Strange Man series, developed by Uri Games. Unable to sleep and exhausted, Sophie wanders into a town where everything sleeps. That is where the terror begins...

Price -50% 1.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 29 Jan 2018
Rapid Tap Enjoy a fun, grid tapping game that gets faster the more you play. See how long you can last tapping the flashing buttons. Now with a bunch of fun skins!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Jan 2018
Gay World 2 Minigames - In 1 mode you play as a officer Gaypolice who must arrest all straight people. In 2 modes you play as a straight person, travelling to GAYLAG, where you need to squat on bottles.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 18 Jan 2018
Abasralsa Find out the story of a simple crazy Vlad who lies on his bed imagines a crazy journey.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 12 Jan 2018
Sakura no Mori † Dreamers Who is the one hiding deeply in abyss? The Devil? The Killer? or—Yourself?

Price -70% 5.39€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Dec 2017
Richie's Plank Experience You're on a plank, 80 stories high. Knees shaky, palms sweaty. You have a choice. Do you walk or do you freeze? Richie's Plank is the only VR experience that lets you clone any real-world plank into the virtual world for 2X the immersion.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Dec 2017
Loot Box Quest The spiritual successor to DLC Quest! Earn that sense of pride and accomplishment in the way that only repetitive clicking can deliver. It's a clicker game, so chill out, have a few chuckles, and watch numbers get bigger while the industry burns around us all.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Dec 2017
Emily Wants to Play Too No one believed the pizza guy. They kept the dolls. A sandwich delivery guy is on his way to Central Evidence. He is not ready for what he finds. Emily and the dolls are back with new friends, scares and more. Use stealth and strategy to survive their unique games in this survival horror.

Price -80% 1.55€
Rating 7.7
Release 13 Dec 2017
Ukrainian ball in search of gas You play as a man turned into a ball and you need to steal all the gas from the forest at all costs.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 08 Dec 2017
Umineko: Golden Fantasia The tag-team fighting game based on the original "Umineko When They Cry" series, finally released on Steam, in English and with improved rollback netplay!

Price -40% 13.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 Dec 2017
Piggy Poggy Pog Piggy Poggy Pog - is quite a complex, nice-looking 2D platformer in which you must escape from the farm playing for a pig named Poggy . In this game you go through the levels, collecting a certain number of acorns.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Nov 2017
Need For Drink “Need For Drink” is a casual multiplayer game about competition between the spouses: a drunkard husband and his brawler wife.

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Nov 2017
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows The dark is no place to be alone. After a beautiful show of summer fireworks, two young girls begin to make their way home. However, a mysterious attacker separates them, and both must brave the haunting night filled with unspeakable terrors and survive the darkness.

Price -88% 2.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Oct 2017
Organ Quarter Organ Quarter is a VR survival horror game built from the ground-up for hand-tracked virtual reality. Explore labyrinthine environments, engage in tense combat, carefully manage your resources and solve horrifying puzzles in this homage to the slow, methodical survival horror experiences of the '90s

Price -50% 12.25€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Oct 2017
Caligo Caligo is the darkness everyone descends into one way or another, and to each of us it's something different. For some it's a short but exciting adventure, some will see it as a place to relax. Yet others will be reminded of their worst nightmare, while for a few, it might come as a revelation.

Price -88% 0.70€
Rating 7.2
Release 22 Sep 2017
The Land of Pain The Land of Pain is a Lovecraftian horror adventure. After something strange appears in the woods, you'll have to learn how to survive as you fend off a dark and disturbing evil. Flee from an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and unravel the ancient mystery that's befallen this land.

Price -80% 2.39€
Rating 7.2
Release 13 Sep 2017
Don't Knock Twice Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!

Price -90% 2.19€
Rating 6.9
Release 05 Sep 2017

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