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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Lucid Blocks
Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.
FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE
Together, always.
Eternal Afternoon
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
Horripilant
KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Obey the Voice™
You are here to listen to The Voice, do what he says. But don't listen to other voices...
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.
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.
Super Chipflake Ü: Quest for the Uncooked Schnitzel
You're hungry. For a schnitzel. The problem is: you have to get it!
SHE WAS 98
“SHE WAS 98” - you play as a grandson who returns to his elderly grandmother's home to care for her.....
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.
Anomalous Coffee Machine 2
In this game, meet a mysterious girl who demands you use an "Anomalous Coffee Machine". Type any word to create a drink, then choose who drinks: her or you. Some cups whisper, some scream, some change what you are. She watches quietly, like she already knows what you’ll choose. Now it's your turn!
[Bober Bros] No Means Nothing
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR // ANTI-DATING SIM about learning to say NO.
Pro Soccer Online
Pro Soccer Online is a 1st/3rd person, highly skill based, online multiplayer soccer game. It offers a sports game experience unlike any other with smooth, physics based, input driven gameplay that is competitive and rewarding with no pay to win mechanics.
Tiny Bunny
Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.