Best Psychological Horror Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy 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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Shadows Peak Shadows Peak is an atmospheric, open-world horror game focused on exploration that doesn't hold your hand. You play as a writer who has decided to visit a mysterious place called Shadows Peak to gather materials for a new book about legends.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.8
Release 13 Mar 2017
2Dark 2Dark is a stealth adventure game developed by Frédérick Raynal, the pioneer of survival horror games and creator of Alone in the Dark®. Make your way through the lairs of psychopaths, unravel intrigue where madness mingles with horror, and, above all, save the kids!

Price -98% 0.70€
Rating 7.4
Release 10 Mar 2017
Dreadhalls You are trapped deep inside a massive dungeon. Explore it, survive it and find a way to escape. Your only weapons will be stealth, your own courage, and a faint light. Dreadhalls is an intense and scary experience, not for the faint of heart. You have been warned!

Price -55% 4.53€
Rating 8.6
Release 09 Mar 2017
Bad Dream: Coma Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...

Price -92% 0.73€
Rating 8.8
Release 09 Mar 2017
ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3 Marvel and Capcom join forces to deliver the most frenetic 3 vs 3 tag battles ever with Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3. This release comes fully loaded, including all previous DLC, Marvel VS. Capcom : Official Complete Works.

Price -73% 6.98€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Mar 2017
Deceit Test your instincts at trust and deception in an action-filled, multiplayer first-person shooter. You wake up in unknown surroundings to the sound of the Game Master’s unfamiliar voice, surrounded by five others. A third of your group have been infected with a virus, but who will escape?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Mar 2017
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 01 Mar 2017
Stories Untold Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Price -93% 0.73€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 Feb 2017
City Climber City Climber is a silly physics-based game about a floppy ragdoll climber, who has to save the world. Find your way through diverse hand-crafted environments and enjoy funny challenges full of falling and destruction.

Price -75% 1.29€
Rating 7.1
Release 24 Feb 2017
Night in the Woods NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.

Price -56% 8.60€
Rating 9.2
Release 21 Feb 2017
Zup! 4 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Feb 2017
FEMINAZI: The Triggering Stop straight evil white males from oppressing women and minorities and make them check their privileges!

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Feb 2017
Mahjong Play a Zen game! Rediscover the famous traditional Chinese game. Find all the matching pairs of tiles, being careful not to become blocked in, to get to the end of each level. Concentration and perceptiveness are needed to finish the gorgeous boards that we have produced for you.

Price -18% 8.22€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Feb 2017
CPU Invaders Invaders are living inside your computer. You shouldn't let that happen! Interact with your desktop while playing, watch Youtube videos, chat with your friends and more! CPU Invaders overlaps the game itself with your computer screen.

Price -99% 0.47€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Feb 2017
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

Price -90% 1.00€
Rating 7.3
Release 14 Feb 2017
Boogeyman 2 Awoken in the night by your doll. Speaking as if it possesses a mind of its own. The doll warns you of a monster that has come to take you away.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Feb 2017
Sweetest Monster A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Feb 2017
We Were Here Lost in a frozen wasteland and split up from your partner inside an abandoned castle, the only possession you have left is a walkie-talkie with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the two of you find your way out in time?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Feb 2017
Angels with Scaly Wings™ / 鱗羽の天使 You, the player, are an ambassador for Earth sent through a mysterious portal into the world of dragons. Explore a town full of secrets and the people who keep them in this compelling sci-fi visual novel with slice of life and dating sim elements.

Price -65% 3.49€
Rating 9.2
Release 31 Jan 2017
BIGFOOT You are a Bigfoot hunter with an important mission: to put an end to rumours once and for all and prove to yourself that Bigfoot is not just a myth or an invention of the mind...

Price -50% 10.06€
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Jan 2017
Fruit Arranger Fruit Arranger is a fun puzzle game where you have to place fruits on a 9x9 table. When you match 3 in a same row or column the last fruit placed will transform into another fruit. Your goal is to place as many fruits as possible without getting stuck.OVER 100 ACHIEVEMENTS to gain

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 23 Jan 2017
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.

Price -74% 5.21€
Rating 9.4
Release 23 Jan 2017
Detention Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.

Price -75% 2.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jan 2017
Criminal Girls: Invite Only You've been entrusted with the care of a crew of girls whose sins have damned their souls to Hell and an eternity of punishment... Their only hope of salvation is for you to recognize their unique histories, and to guide them along the path to redemption.

Price -82% 3.69€
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Jan 2017

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