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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Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 27 Nov 2023
Knuckle Sandwich Knuckle Sandwich is a turn-based RPG by Andy Brophy. Get a job, beat up some monsters, and solve a mystery that's plaguing Bright City.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 22 Nov 2023
In Stars And Time Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.

Price -78% 4.32€
Rating 9.4
Release 20 Nov 2023
Snail Simulator Have you ever wanted to be a snail? Now you can be! Explore the vast Snearth with snail friends! Join monthly Snail Parties! MMOS (Massive Multiplayer Online Snails)! BECOME a snail (in a simulation)!

Price -10% 4.49€
Rating 9.3
Release 20 Nov 2023
Flyout Build and fly realistic aircraft. Use free-form fuselage and wing editor tools and tune your engines to recreate aircraft from any era or design your own.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 17 Nov 2023
Pirate Fighting Simulator Pirate Fighting Simulator is a free multiplayer PVP game where you can fight friends or randoms on an island arena

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 13 Nov 2023
Love Alone Death Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 31 Oct 2023
[Chilla's Art] The Kidnap | 誘拐事件 The Kidnap | 誘拐事件 is a Japanese horror game about a kidnapping incident.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.8
Release 31 Oct 2023
You Will Die Here Tonight Immerse yourself in retro top-down visuals as you face the horrors of Breckenridge Hall through intense first-person combat. Scavenge, solve puzzles, and upgrade your gear. Do whatever it takes to survive—but remember: You Will Die Here Tonight.

Price -86% 2.78€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Oct 2023
Buried You wake up buried alive. You are running out of oxygen and you can't remember how you got here. There must be a way out, can you figure it out in time?

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 30 Oct 2023
The Devourer: Hunted Souls Play as a paranormal investigator in our hybrid between first person survival and psychological horror story game. Investigate a haunted forest with up to 5 players CO-OP, try to lift the curse, experience a tragic story and take decisions together. Will you survive or will you lose your soul?

Price -25% 7.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 26 Oct 2023
Peaks of Yore Travel around The Great Gales to climb challenging peaks in this physics-based climbing adventure set in 1887. Meet like-minded mountaineers, unlock helpful climbing gear, and become a pioneer of mountaineering.

Price 18.49€
Rating 9.3
Release 26 Oct 2023
D'LIRIUM An experimental 2D-shooter with the elements of a horror game. D'lirium brings together some mechanics back from 90s classics. Non-linear levels, search for the keys, violence and a lot of other things. Including the colourful ponies.

Price -10% 4.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Oct 2023
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

Price 17.49€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Oct 2023
Lethal Company A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.6
Release 23 Oct 2023
Dead Signal Monitor camera feeds, report valuable info, and hand-deliver shady packages. An hourly quota of reports will test your keen eye to spot the differences, while timed deliveries will force you outside unexpectedly. Until you clock out for the night almost nowhere is safe.

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Oct 2023
Lively Chair Simulator Lively Chair Simulator is an indie multiplayer game with strange controls. Let’s see if you are suitable to be a chair.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 20 Oct 2023
Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout Jack Nelson, a 24-year-old fire lookout, transferred to a new outpost. As he settled into his new home, he couldn't shake the feeling that something was off, little did he know what was transpiring down in Ironbark State Park.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Oct 2023
Purple Place - Classic Games Welcome to "Purple Place - Classic Games" a fun-filled game where you'll embark on three exciting adventures like good old times! Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of creativity and challenge.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Oct 2023
BLACK BOX LSS - The Shining Immortal Immerse yourself in a pixel-art visual novel that blends thrilling crime, romantic comedy, and the pursuit of love. This game depicts the story of a new employee pursuing his female boss.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 19 Oct 2023
TELEFORUM TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 19 Oct 2023
Lakeview Cabin 2 The ultimate 2D horror is back! Dive deep into the diverse world of horror movies! Nothing can prepare you for the R-rated challenges you will face!

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Oct 2023
WORLD OF HORROR Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 19 Oct 2023
The Mildew Children: Chapter 1 Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Oct 2023
Manny's A starving castaway on a deserted island discovers that a fast food restaurant appears once the sun goes down. As if beckoning him inside in his most desperate hour of need, this stranded soul will have to work for his meal...and for his life!

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Oct 2023
Total War: PHARAOH In Total War: PHARAOH, the newest entry in the award-winning grand strategy series, immerse yourself in ancient Egypt at the zenith of its power and experience the dramatic events that threaten its destruction.

Price -93% 3.15€
Rating 6.3
Release 11 Oct 2023
The Fabulous Fear Machine The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine's new Master, you must sow fear and expand your influence by creating Legends, harvesting resources, manipulating events, and spying on your enemies.

Price 17.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Oct 2023
Tatari: The Arrival Take the role of a detective from Tokyo who tries to solve the mysterious case of the disappearance of a young camper. You will try to follow the trail of evidence to guide you through an enigmatic and paranormal case connected with a Japanese urban legend. Can you help until the end?

Price Free to play
Rating 6.3
Release 03 Oct 2023
The Windows Are Gone Haunted by grief and guilt after a tragic accident, you start seeing a house in your dreams. No matter what you do, you can't get its image out of your mind. You feel it calling for you, so you answer it.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Oct 2023
Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. I made this first-person single player ghost hunting simulation game, trying to take an authentic approach at investigating ghosts. Use essential paranormal tools to help your community alleviate their concerns and put their minds at ease.

Price -91% 0.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Sep 2023
El Paso, Elsewhere STAKES. GUNS. SLOW-MO. Fight werewolves and vampires in a reality-shifting motel. Dive through barricades to escape the grasp of evil puppets. Destroy the villain you loved. A new, third-person love letter to classic shooters. Neo-noir never looked so good.

Price -50% 9.75€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Sep 2023
Stella of The End Jude Gray, a wandering Courier, receives a request to deliver some very special cargo. This cargo turns out to be Philia, an android girl who is unaffected by the enigmatic Singularity Machines.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.3
Release 25 Sep 2023
Demonologist Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Sep 2023
The Bunny Graveyard Skye and her Handy Pals are looking for a new pal to help them out on her lovely lil' garden! Think you're up for the job, partner?

Price -72% 1.93€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Sep 2023
The Backrooms: Survival Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.

Price -50% 4.87€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Sep 2023
Ad Infinitum When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?

Price -98% 0.80€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Sep 2023

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