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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TIS-100 TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Price -95% 0.40€
Rating 9.3
Release 20 Jul 2015
Anna's Quest With her telekinesis, unorthodox use of torture instruments, a knack for improvisation and the help of a shady fox she makes her way from the peaks of Glass Mountain to the deepest dungeon.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 8.4
Release 02 Jul 2015
Her Story A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.

Price -60% 3.98€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Jun 2015
SpaceCorn You're a unicorn in an alien planet. Now what?

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.0
Release 23 Jun 2015
Kholat The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.

Price -94% 1.16€
Rating 6.6
Release 09 Jun 2015
Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Jun 2015
Hatred Hatred is a violent twin-stick shooter, in which you take the role of The Antagonist fighting against all of humanity.

Price -91% 0.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Jun 2015
Gaokao.Love.100Days Getting a girl-friend before National College Entrance Exam, I know it's crazy, but from today, we will face everything together.

Price -43% 5.69€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 May 2015
The Silent Age Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 May 2015
The Fruit of Grisaia SIX FRUITS BARE THEIR FANGS AT THE WORLD. --The academy was their orchard. In this place of learning, protected by high walls from the outside world, there arrived a single young man who'd lost his purpose in life. He'd lost sight of what he wanted to protect.

Price 39.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 May 2015
Homesick Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 May 2015
Magnetic: Cage Closed Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.

Price -90% 1.56€
Rating 6.4
Release 26 May 2015
Monstrum Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.

Price -97% 0.48€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 May 2015
Love at First Sight After falling in love at first sight with the shy Sachi Usui, an injury-ridden, single-eyed high school girl, the protagonist tries to win over her lonely and isolated heart. A pure, heart-warming romance game where the apple of your eye only has one eye!

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 May 2015
The Music Machine A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.

Price -37% 3.18€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 May 2015
Snakebird Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.

Price -93% 0.55€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 May 2015
Tea Party Simulator 2015™ Ever wanted to be a tea party extraordinaire? Well now you can. Each new level brings it's own challenges you must overcome on your quest to become the ultimate tea party master. Comes with the original Tea Party Mode and now a Mode 2 (after beating all the levels), for a whole new experience!

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.6
Release 23 Apr 2015
The Charnel House Trilogy Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak. Three thrilling, horrifying adventure games in one, from the depths of the Sepulchre, starring Madeleine Roux, Peter Willington, Jonathan Grier, Jim Sterling, and Ben Chandler as Grub.

Price -70% 1.54€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 Apr 2015
Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today A dying reality, a universe that’s fading away. A merciless world thatgets sick and vanishes. No past, no present, no future; only the impending moment of “dead synchronicity” ahead. Will you be able to stop it?Because, otherwise... what will you do when Time dissolves itself?

Price -95% 0.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 Apr 2015
Lakeview Cabin Collection Delve into the diverse world of horror movies in this 2D action puzzler. Nothing can prepare you for the R-rated challenges you will face!

Price -72% 2.84€
Rating 8.8
Release 09 Apr 2015
Please, Don’t Touch Anything A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Mar 2015
Spirits of Xanadu At the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.

Price -72% 1.46€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Mar 2015
Hektor Experience terrors only madness can conjure in HEKTOR, a psychological horror game set in a world that literally moves with your every twist and turn.

Price -90% 1.00€
Rating 6.1
Release 13 Mar 2015
Plug & Play Run, hit, switch, fall, love, plug, pull. And push.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Mar 2015
Tormentum - Dark Sorrow TORMENTUM is a dark Point & Click adventure game.The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by works of painters H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed.

Price -50% 4.95€
Rating 9.0
Release 04 Mar 2015
White Night The dark will reveal all!Explore the macabre past of an old mansion in the 1930's and solve puzzles of light and shadows in this fully black & white survival horror! Players are trapped in this nightmare where darkness is a constant threat!

Price -95% 0.65€
Rating 7.0
Release 03 Mar 2015
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great l

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Mar 2015
BLACKHOLE BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition out now!

Price -91% 0.82€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Feb 2015
Decay: The Mare Sam is an addict who ends up in an institution named “Reaching Dreams”, hoping to kick his drug problem and sort out his miserable life. But during the first night, something goes horribly wrong and he gets stuck in an endless nightmare…

Price -94% 0.34€
Rating 7.4
Release 13 Feb 2015
Lucius II Lucius is taken to the psychiatric ward of St. Benedict’s Hospital by unsuspecting caretakers. The Book of Revelation predicts the birth of a child that would end up ruling the world with an iron rod. The first part of this prophecy has been fulfilled. It is time to take care of the rest.

Price -77% 4.63€
Rating 6.1
Release 13 Feb 2015
Cat Goes Fishing Start out on an island with a basic rod. Progress into a radar-wielding master fisher-cat scouring the sea for the biggest and baddest fish. Each fish has unique behaviors that you will learn to exploit as you tailor your arsenal of fishing rods to suit your style of play. Mrrrow!

Price 6.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Jan 2015
Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~ Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~ is a visual novel game designed for female audiences. It was distributed by the publisher, Cheritz, in English, Korean, and Japanese on Nov. 11th, 2013 and now it is available on Steam.

Price 27.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Dec 2014
Geometry Dash Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 22 Dec 2014
Verde Station What do you trust most — what you see, what you're told, or your instincts? On a year long solo mission aboard Verde Station, you will test your wits and question everything, but you may not find answers. Welcome to solitude.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Dec 2014
LISA: The Painful The miserable journey of a broken man...

Price -94% 1.20€
Rating 9.3
Release 15 Dec 2014
Passing Pineview Forest Passing Pineview Forest is a free mini-prequel set in the universe of Pineview Drive. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 21 Nov 2014

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