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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Chair F*cking Simulator Use our innovative patented funky fresh ChairF*cker simulation tech to meet the chair of your wildest dreams.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Jul 2020
Paper Dolls 2 纸人贰 Paper Dolls 2 is a first-person horror adventure game. A dark aura emanates from a Qing dynasty dwelling—the Yin Mansion. What happened to the once-famous Yin Family? Clues lead us to its second floor haunted by restless spirits. A truth, buried for over a hundred years, is waiting to be unraveled.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Jul 2020
A Place, Forbidden A Place, Forbidden is a first-person, lo-fi horror-puzzle game set in the Library of Ouroboros, a seemingly innocuous library that, rumor has it, contains knowledge not meant for the eyes of mortal man. We hope you enjoy your visit.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 25 Jun 2020
Hylics 2 A surreal RPG with a unique graphical style and droll scenario.

Price -34% 9.90€
Rating 9.3
Release 22 Jun 2020
Fatum Betula Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

Price -30% 3.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Jun 2020
The Swine Say goodbye to southern hospitality in the backwoods of rural America. The Swine is a short horror experience that explores isolation, witchcraft, and unforeseen consequences in your rural homestead.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Jun 2020
Outer Wilds Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Price -69% 7.30€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Jun 2020
Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask Follow the fear of Benedek Dohnany and Nikolay Kalyakin and play the onset of a dark and chilling narrative adventure. Make decisions and affect the events that precede a macabre series of murders, allegedly related to devil worship and witchcraft.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jun 2020
GOHOME This is a third-person horror game set in a residential area in 2000s Japan. It's the complete version of the free horror game GOHOME, which was released in 2019 and caused a boom. The map has been doubled, and six more ghosts, including hidden characters, have been added to the game.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Jun 2020
Bad Guys at School In Bad Guys at School you can play as students and revolt against school system by completing missions, or decide to become a teacher that must maintain order despite the violence and brutality in the school.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 15 Jun 2020
[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明 Missing Children | 行方不明 is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jun 2020
Unfortunate Spacemen An online multiplayer game about shapeshifting deception and betrayal! As a hapless, brave spaceman employed by The Company you'll work diligently to defend and be rescued from failing outposts, but not everyone around you is who they claim to be...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Jun 2020
Beyond Blue Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure that takes you deep into our planet’s beating blue heart. Explore the awesome wonder and unbounded mystery that exists within the world’s ocean.

Price -95% 0.96€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Jun 2020
Need for Speed™ Rivals Erase the line between single player and multiplayer in this street-racing rivalry between Cops and Racers. Seamlessly join a world where your friends are already racing and chasing

Price -78% 4.39€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Jun 2020
The Light Remake There is only you, the abandoned remains of a former life and the flourishing nature that feels great in the absence of man. This world is both gloomy and empty, but so incredibly beautiful.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Jun 2020
ANIME WAR — Modern Campaign ANIME WAR — Modern Campaign transports you along with the H.E.N.T.A.I. army to one of the hottest hotspots around the globe to take down our №1 threatening enemy.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 May 2020
Those Who Remain As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.

Price -95% 1.15€
Rating 6.5
Release 28 May 2020
Dread X Collection 10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.

Price -66% 1.97€
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2020
YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story is the visual novel medium in its purest form. Will Shinichi choose Miyuki, the beautiful queen bee of the school, or the endearingly awkward misfit Aoi? With art by Tsuji Santa, these beautifully rendered romances will stay with you forever.

Price 24.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 25 May 2020
Angels of Death Episode.Eddie "The boy made up his mind to face a cruel world." The new special edition of the psychological horror-adventure game "Angels of Death", which has also been made into an anime. The past of B4 floor master Eddie is revealed...

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 May 2020
Observation Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Price -98% 0.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 May 2020
Neversong Help little Peet hack-and-slash his way through a beautifully haunting coma. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane grown-ups, and sad children looking for their mommies.

Price -94% 1.01€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 May 2020
Left on Read It’s March of 2020; you were just sent home from college because of the coronavirus, you have a few small regrets, mainly not telling someone how you really feel.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 19 May 2020
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.

Price -96% 0.52€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 May 2020
If Found... If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.

Price -94% 0.74€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 May 2020
BEAR, VODKA, FALL OF BERLIN! 🐻 This time, Motherland sent you to fight against the Nazi forces to capture Berlin. Kill enemies to get the maximum chance of survival.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 May 2020
a new life. When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.

Price 2.39€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 May 2020
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?

Price -50% 4.93€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 May 2020
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 May 2020
Cat in the Box Cat in the Box is a horror adventure game. Help the poor girl explore the mansion and escape from unknown entities that are pursuing her. Use a variety of tools and your wits to overcome any challenges you face. At times, you'll even have to wake yourself from nightmares to survive.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 May 2020
Samsara Room You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 29 Apr 2020
Chaos Chaos is an online FPS game. Why should you play it? Destruction, lots of it, plus some explosions, oh yeah, guns! Who doesn't like guns and explosions?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 28 Apr 2020
The Test: Hypothesis Rising The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 27 Apr 2020
Locked Up The game “Locked Up" is the first project developed in 2020 by the studio EMIKA_GAMES consisting of one person.

Price 10.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 23 Apr 2020
Micro Platformer A minimalistic platformer with a 1x1 tileset. No enemies, no bullets, no lasers. Just sheer platforming.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 21 Apr 2020
No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Apr 2020

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