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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Fuga: Melodies of Steel Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.

Price -28% 28.91€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Jul 2021
Beside Myself You have to play as the historian-journalist Michael, plunge into the atmosphere of darkness of an abandoned hospital, where you will need to unravel the secrets of the past and try to get out in order to tell the whole world about those terrible events.

Price -49% 2.55€
Rating 6.5
Release 27 Jul 2021
Night Book Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.

Price -96% 0.73€
Rating 6.7
Release 27 Jul 2021
Summer of '58 In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.

Price -53% 3.47€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jul 2021
Paint Drying Simulator This is literally a game about watch paint drying for 6 hours, so.. ..do you feel like wasting money and time? XD

Price 0.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Jul 2021
Reminiscence You've only precious moments before time collapses onto itself to save your family. Warp, jump and rewind through time and space - and pray that whatever lives between it doesn't notice you.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 11 Jul 2021
Airtight City 密闭之城1.0 This is a TPS, horror-type action shooting game. The game will draw players into a terrifying dark world with detailed atmosphere rendering and weird story. Here, you are not defenseless, but even with a gun, you can't suppress the trembling from the heart. Game revenue is used for 2.0 development.

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.9
Release 08 Jul 2021
Fears to Fathom - Home Alone Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Jul 2021
GAME.exe You bought a PC that belonged to a suicidal developer, do you dare to run "Game.exe"?

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 02 Jul 2021
Billionaire Lovers You’re a broke college graduate. Your rich, distant uncle has just shown up and given you 100 million dollars! And right at this moment, four handsome men come into your life. Could this be… the romance you’ve been waiting for!? But wait, there’s something behind their smiles that says otherwise…

Price 2.39€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Jul 2021
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.

Price -25% 11.24€
Rating 9.5
Release 30 Jun 2021
Cruelty Squad An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.5
Release 15 Jun 2021
WTF Is Wrong With You? Have you ever wondered WTF Is Wrong With You? Well, so have we... Let's find out together, shall we?

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Jun 2021
Scarlet Hollow Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.

Price -29% 15.74€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Jun 2021
Class of '09 This is the anti-visual novel. Instead of playing as some guy magically able to score with beautiful anime girls, YOU play the anime girl and create mass chaos in the lives of your potential "suitors". Earnest comedy, social accuracy, and late 2000's aesthetic await you in Class of '09!

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Jun 2021
Chicory: A Colorful Tale A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.

Price -88% 2.37€
Rating 9.4
Release 10 Jun 2021
[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達 Night Delivery | 例外配達 is a psychological Japanese horror adventure game.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Jun 2021
Critters for Sale Experience death from the comfort of your seat.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 Jun 2021
Save Me, Sakuya-san! She's here to help! Let Sakuya Izayoi from the Touhou Project comfort you after encountering some hardships in this beautiful visual novel that aims to heal your troubles away!

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Jun 2021
Chased by Darkness Chased by Darkness is a 1-4 players co-op survival horror. Your mission is to face supernatural entities and banish them to the spiritual plane. Explore, fight enemies and don't let the darkness reach you.

Price 3.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 01 Jun 2021
Kaigrad Kaigrad - is a non-linear visual novel in the genre of dark fantasy. The action takes place in a world where Light comes only from people, animals and all living things. The darkness is near. You have to find out what happened here, who is to blame for this and try to fix it!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 26 May 2021
Erica Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 May 2021
Strangeland You wake in a surreal carnival, where a woman cries out to you before leaping to her death. Can either of you be saved? The denizens and devices of Strangeland answer with riddles, puzzles, and warnings of a Dark Thing lurking at the park’s peak. A new adventure from the creators of Primordia.

Price -85% 1.98€
Rating 8.8
Release 25 May 2021
Have a Nice Dream A story about dreams. Explore a weird house and find the truth. A short game with mild puzzles and some psychological horror elements.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 24 May 2021
Chair Simulator Buy chairs. Sit down. Accumulate Sit Points through the all-new Sit Point System. Spend your Sit Points on new chairs! The possibilities are endless. Chair Simulator has all your favorite chairs, from Eames, Starcke, Bertoli, Corbusier, Thonet, Emeco, Panton, Jensen, Breuer, Van Der Rohe and more!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 14 May 2021
Hog Hunter 2021 Hog hunter is a short atmospheric game about catching hogs out in the wild, be careful though not everything in the woods is safe...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 07 May 2021
The Invisible Hand Want to get rich, quick? Welcome to FERIOS, where you’ll be empowered to pursue wealth and success as a mid-level stockbroker! Your wildest dreams of wealth can come true… at the cost of everything else.

Price -97% 0.46€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 May 2021
Resident Evil Village Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.

Price -83% 6.83€
Rating 9.4
Release 06 May 2021
7Days Origins 7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.

Price -69% 2.33€
Rating 8.0
Release 02 May 2021
Slow and Steady Slow and Steady is a game where you make the slowest tortoise ever reach the finish line.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Apr 2021
Cognition Method: Initiation Free demo for Cognition Method - a story-driven, first-person puzzle game inspired by Space Odyssey 2001 and Solaris. Discover an innovative mechanics of altering gravity and dive into the surreal setting. Find your way within a mysterious artifact and unveal a non-ordinary story.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 22 Apr 2021
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion Play as an adorable yet trouble-making turnip. Avoid paying taxes, solve plantastic puzzles, harvest crops and battle massive beasts all in a journey to tear down a corrupt vegetable government!

Price -96% 0.50€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Apr 2021
Tree Simulator 2022 It's exactly what it sounds like, but now with 100% more multiplayer. You are the tree and so is everyone else! You are equaled by no other, except maybe the forest... Relax and be the best tree you can be.

Price 5.89€
Rating 9.2
Release 16 Apr 2021
Exit From Exit From - is a first-person horror-stealth game with quest and procedural generation elements where you have to get out of the old Soviet house, which changes every new game.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Apr 2021
Lunch Lady Lunch Lady is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. The school final exams are coming up and the best idea you and your friends had was to steal the test answers. Find all 10 pages and don't get caught by the murderous Lunch Lady!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Apr 2021
He Needs His Medicine You have been dispatched for a 911 call. From the moment you step inside the apartment, you realize something is really wrong with the place. You are gonna make Him the last dosage. He needs his medicine.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Apr 2021

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