Best Psychological Horror Games on Steam
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        The Headliners
      
      
        Co-op horror game where you play in teams of 1 to 8 reckless journalists, ready to explore a city overrun by deadly creatures to snap spectacular footage. Your only goal: make the headlines without becoming one.
      
    
    
  
      
        DEAD LETTER DEPT.
      
      
        Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.
      
    
    
  
      
        SCP: Fragmented Minds
      
      
        You arrive at Mars Site-113, a decaying monument to the SCP Foundation's ambition—and its failures. Once the most secure facility, now a cradle of horrors calling you to uncover its secrets. Face relentless anomalies, humanity's darkest truths, and a mission that demands survival above all else.
      
    
    
  
      
        Butcher's Creek
      
      
        A first person melee horror game where you use rusty tools to brutalize a gang of serial torturers in the remote Appalachian Forest.
      
    
    
  
      
        AI2U: With You 'Til The End
      
      
        You wake up in a cute girl's home who's eager to keep you by her side! Engage with thematic stories, puzzles, and unique AI NPCs who'll go to any lengths to protect you—even when it means contradicting themselves. Bask in meet-cutes or brace for chaos if you try to escape.
      
    
    
  
      
        Dreamcore
      
      
        Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
      
    
    
  
      
        SKIBIDI GYATROOMS
      
      
        Skibidi Gyatrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror game. You and the homies just fell into the Backrooms, you must out-GYAT the Skibidi Toilet with max rizz or get flushed. Expect cursed levels, and brainrot that’ll keep you on edge.
      
    
    
  
      
        Toaster Arena
      
      
        Toaster Arena is a first person multiplayer arena shooter where players battle it out on different maps and game modes. Use Advanced movement to traverse obstacles and gain the advantage on the battlefield.
      
    
    
  
      
        Matchmaking Inc.
      
      
        A young single man returns to his hometown and takes over the family's matchmaking business. Matchmaking Inc. is a modern-themed RPG designed for men that combines gameplay elements of simulation management and text adventure.
      
    
    
  
      
        Chicken Hill
      
      
        Find 250 Genjouin of various species and hundreds of items for brother KUN. Rescue your frustrated and devastated brother KUN in the KUN space. We are the most devout believers.
      
    
    
  
      
        Cursed Digicam | 呪われたデジカメ
      
      
        You receive a cursed digital camera that captures ghosts from a strange website. The website allows you to liberate your loved ones by uploading images of their spirits using the camera. You decide to go to the nearest park where your girl was last seen.
      
    
    
  
      
        The Inn-Sanity
      
      
        Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.
      
    
    
  
      
        My Summer Car
      
      
        My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.
      
    
    
  
      
        Desktop Mate
      
      
        Customize your PC with officially licensed, super-cute characters using the next-generation desktop mascot platform, Desktop Mate. Characters roam freely on your desktop, sitting on windows and playfully interacting with your mouse. Liven up your desktop with some new friends!
      
    
    
  
      
        Make Good Choices
      
      
        You’re just trying to get home. It’s only a quarter mile. One street. What could go wrong.
      
    
    
  
      
        Winion Virus
      
      
        Winion Virus is a pixel-art visual novel horror game. It features adorable and charming graphics paired with a dark fairy-tale story full of unexpected twists. As a point-and-click adventure, your task is to fix the errors occurring within the computer.
      
    
    
  
      
        New Day
      
      
        New Day is an upcoming life simulation game where almost anything can happen! Create your own islanders, design their apartments, and get involved with their day-to-day life as they divulge into unexpected friendships, problems, and more!
      
    
    
  
      
        Office Life
      
      
        It’s a story about after graduation life of college student. We guess it is a simulation game, besides which type of game it could be? We just want to provide a true real life with you in this way.
      
    
    
  
      
        The NOexistenceN of you AND me
      
      
        Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
      
    
    
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    