Best Psychological Horror Steam Games on Sale

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The Evil Within 2 Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.

Price -90% 3.24€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Oct 2017
Press X to Not Die A ridiculous live-action B-movie adventure you will never forget! You wake up to find your town in chaos. Everyone has gone crazy and is just attacking each other! A cryptic message is the secret to survival-- Press X to not die!

Price -80% 0.59€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Oct 2017
The Norwood Suite Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Oct 2017
Home Sweet Home Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various.

Price -46% 8.66€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Sep 2017
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.

Price -80% 6.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 Sep 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 Coma: Recut You are Youngho, a Korean high school student trapped and relentlessly pursued by a psychotic killer in the hellish corridors of Sehwa High. Run, hide, explore, and survive while piecing together the mystery The Coma in this remastered version of the Korean cult classic.

Price -93% 0.87€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Sep 2017
ECHO After a century in stasis the girl En arrives at her destination: A Palace out of legend. Out here, using forgotten technologies, she hopes to bring back a life that shouldn’t have been lost. But nothing could prepare her for what she’ll face in the ancient halls below.

Price -96% 0.96€
Rating 7.4
Release 19 Sep 2017
HIVESWAP: ACT 1 A hand-drawn tribute to hilarious '90s adventure games (with none of the accompanying frustration). Play as Joey Claire, a puzzle-solving teen snatched out of her time (1994) and place (Earth) and stranded on a hostile alien planet on the brink of rebellion.

Price -86% 0.95€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Sep 2017
Duck Season The game of your dreams just dropped, DUCK SEASON, a hunter with ridiculous graphics. Luckily, it's summer vacation and Mom just surprised you with a one day rental of it! Unfortunately, as you binge play it becomes apparent that all is not right with Duck Season...

Price -40% 11.70€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 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
Tokyo Dark Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.

Price -84% 3.01€
Rating 8.1
Release 07 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
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.

Price -34% 11.22€
Rating 9.2
Release 31 Aug 2017
Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".

Price -40% 16.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 30 Aug 2017
Raging Loop The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?

Price -50% 14.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 23 Aug 2017
Distrust: Polar Survival DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.

Price -95% 0.72€
Rating 7.0
Release 23 Aug 2017
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School Notorious cult-classic Korean horror. Sneak into school at midnight to return your sweetheart's diary and get caught in a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Explore haunted hallways, solve classic survival horror puzzles and escape the clutches of a killer Janitor who is out for your blood.

Price -97% 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 22 Aug 2017
Darkwood Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Price -95% 0.77€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Aug 2017
Nidhogg 2 The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows, or squish their brains between your toes. The wurm cares not for chivalry.

Price -99% 0.21€
Rating 7.8
Release 15 Aug 2017
Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul AVAILABLE TO PLAY IN NON-VR (KEYBOARD/MOUSE AND CONTROLLER) VR HEADSET NO LONGER REQUIRED.“PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE LOST SOUL” immerses you in a terrifying realistic environment with haunting atmosphere, and the need to survive.

Price -85% 2.92€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Aug 2017
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?

Price -75% 4.74€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Jul 2017
Lawnmower Game Drive and cut grass first time in simulator game, with amazing lanwmower in big open world

Price -89% 0.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Jul 2017
This Strange Realm Of Mine This Strange Realm Of Mine is a First Person Shooter mixed with poetry and psychological horror. Graphic style is 3D mixed with pixel art.

Price -92% 0.78€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 Jul 2017
Hand Simulator There are many different levels where you can play with spinners, plunge into the subtleties of handling weapons, milk a cow, take part in a Mexican duel with your friends, have a good time fishing, play chess or simply chat in an anonymous club.

Price -50% 1.49€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Jul 2017
Fly Simulator You work as a waiter and lead an uphill battle for their clients. You pushing back the flies from the food, otherwise you'll never get anything. Maybe you are a hungry insect trying to increase their population? Choose the opposing side. The war is already underway.

Price -50% 1.49€
Rating 6.4
Release 16 Jul 2017
Crimson Gray John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl.

Price -50% 4.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Jul 2017
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Komaru Naegi has been imprisoned inside a mysterious apartment for over a year. Her rescue is derailed when hundreds of Monokumas suddenly attack. She teams up with Toko Fukawa to survive the rampaging Monokumas, escape the crafty Monokuma Kids, and uncover the secrets of the city.

Price -90% 2.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Jun 2017
Chess Ultra Introducing Chess Ultra; the most breathtaking chess game ever made. Experience stunning 4K visuals, seamless online multiplayer, Grandmaster approved AI and full VR compatibility.

Price -70% 3.68€
Rating 7.2
Release 21 Jun 2017
GET EVEN Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.

Price -98% 0.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Jun 2017
Kindergarten Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.

Price -75% 1.24€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Jun 2017
Passpartout: The Starving Artist Even you can become a great artist! Wrestle subjectivity as you attempt to sell your art to rude customers in order to progress in this confusing art scene. The only thing threatening you is your expensive wine and baguette addiction! Will your art end up in the Louvre or on your parents' fridge?

Price -60% 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Jun 2017
Conarium Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.

Price -95% 0.98€
Rating 7.5
Release 06 Jun 2017
Cold Waters Spiritual Successor to the Microprose Classic “Red Storm Rising”.

Price -75% 9.24€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Jun 2017
Lydia Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?

Price -50% 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Jun 2017
Perception An award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims.

Price -70% 5.03€
Rating 6.9
Release 30 May 2017

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