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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Blameless Blameless is a mysterious first-person adventure with primary focus on puzzle solving and short story. The player will appear in a role of an architect trying to investigate strange happenings, after discovering evidence of an act of violence.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Oct 2016
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.4 Himatsubushi 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 5.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Oct 2016
Mr.President! Mr.President! Can you take a bullet for the soon to be President of the United States of America?! You play as Dick “Rock-Hard” Johnson a bulletproof man, the best bodyguard money can buy. He is sworn to protect the most hated presidential candidate of all time Ronald Rump.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Oct 2016
Thumper Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.

Price -97% 0.74€
Rating 8.8
Release 10 Oct 2016
KUBOOM Cross-platform hurricane online 3D Shooter

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 07 Oct 2016
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment.

Price -8% 7.41€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Oct 2016
The Silver Case The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Oct 2016
Syndrome Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.

Price -83% 3.45€
Rating 6.2
Release 06 Oct 2016
Doorways: Old Prototype An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 05 Oct 2016
Zup! Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Oct 2016
Disturbed Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Oct 2016
Trick & Treat Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 26 Sep 2016
Mad Father Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.4
Release 22 Sep 2016
The Bunker The Bunker is an award-winning interactive psychological horror movie. You are John, born underground the day the bombs fell, now alone and trying to survive. But when an alarm goes off, a catastrophic chain of events begins. Unlock the dark secrets of your past as you try to escape The Bunker.

Price -89% 1.75€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Sep 2016
Cockroach Simulator This game is about the hard life in the kitchen. In this unusual place many interests intertwine. But the only war between humans and cockroaches is truly epic and destructive.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Sep 2016
PRICE The hero Ivry wakes up from a nightmare and finds himself in a weird room. To escape from fear and darkness, he has to search and explore on his own until he discovers the truth and finds his sister Iva.A puzzle game 《PRICE》

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Sep 2016
Calm Down, Stalin Calm Down, Stalin is a game where you directly control your hands to threaten your enemies with nuclear weapons by moving your finger closer to The Button while signing important state papers, answering phone, dealing with your subordinates and fighting the stress of your job by smoking your pipe!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Sep 2016
STEINS;GATE Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.

Price -70% 8.09€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 Sep 2016
Mother Russia Bleeds An old-fashioned beat 'em up with big doses of adrenaline and trippiness, somewhere between the classic style of Streets of Rage and the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Set in a cold, ruthless Soviet Union, Mother Russia Bleeds aims to conjure up anxiety, unease, and drug-addled frenzy.

Price -93% 1.18€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Sep 2016
The Underground Man Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Sep 2016
Minds Eyes You venture through your mind, trying desperately to wake up from your nightmares. Will you make it out?

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 31 Aug 2016
The Turing Test The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

Price -87% 2.77€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2016
Phantasmagoria Master storyteller Roberta Williams challenges you to experience the ultimate interactive nightmare.

Price -46% 5.48€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Aug 2016
Attack on Titan / A.O.T. Wings of Freedom An international hit anime "Attack on Titan" has come to Steam®! Battle is joined between the man-eating Titans and Eren and his companions. Experience the illusion of being in the anime, and controlling the flow of the story. The story from the anime, with a few original twists, is yours to experience!

Price 39.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Aug 2016

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