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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Blood and Bacon This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Feb 2016
Rusty Lake Hotel Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 29 Jan 2016
INFRA INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.

Price -80% 5.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Jan 2016
Oxenfree Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Price -59% 4.00€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Jan 2016
Sora From Orange Juice comes a shoot'em'up starring the lone enhanced human, Sora. The sequel of the high-speed shoot'em'up "Suguri", with improved game system and graphics.

Price -60% 3.60€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Jan 2016
Pony Island Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Price -76% 1.20€
Rating 9.3
Release 04 Jan 2016
Gnomes Garden Dry summer withered the king’s beloved garden and the surrounding gardens of the kingdom alike. The ruler has fallen ill and the kingdom is in danger. Help the princess save the gardens and make the king better again.

Price -91% 1.40€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Dec 2015
Wick Wick is a survival horror game where ghost stories are brought to life. Explore a local legend about the long lost children in the woods who can still be seen... but only by those who dare to enter alone by candlelight.

Price -64% 2.20€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Dec 2015
Emily Wants To Play It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.

Price -47% 2.68€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Dec 2015
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Dec 2015
Mayjasmine Episode01 - What is God? Ho Yu-Chen received his friend Wan Zi-Jin's invitation, and set on to leave the familiar Taiwan to start a new life with Wan's daughter, Wan Yu-Qing, as an accountant, in Indonesia. Yet with the addition of the mysterious girl, Cocoa, what kinds of events shall turn out to be?

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Dec 2015
Carpe Diem Seize the day

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 30 Nov 2015
BAD END It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Price -85% 0.92€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Nov 2015
CLANNAD From the world renowned visual novel studio Key, the highly rated story of CLANNAD is now available on Steam! Improved visuals, achievement integration, and Dangopedia make this the best version of CLANNAD to date.

Price -12% 38.90€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Nov 2015
The Consuming Shadow The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 20 Nov 2015
Cinderella Escape! R12 Cinderella is locked in the dungeon. What happened to her? Can she escape the dungeon? Cinderella needs your help!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Nov 2015
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi 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 -1% 7.95€
Rating 9.2
Release 13 Nov 2015
THE GAME OF LIFE THE GAME OF LIFE showcases a beautifully rendered digital game board, cards and spinner that capture the fun of the Classic game full of adventure & surprises! THE GAME OF LIFE will take players on a journey where fortunes can be won…and lost!

Price -94% 0.45€
Rating 7.1
Release 03 Nov 2015
Boogeyman Live your childhood nightmare and try to survive against the Boogeyman. Equipped with only your flashlight, survive each night until the morning light.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Nov 2015
Sonic Lost World When the Deadly Six threaten to destroy his world, Sonic’s new moves & power-ups are the only way to defeat them before it’s too late!

Price -87% 3.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 02 Nov 2015
Sound of Drop - fall into poison - Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.

Price -80% 2.68€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Oct 2015
Bulb Boy One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. Gather the courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves.

Price -83% 1.54€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Oct 2015
Pathologic Classic HD Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.

Price -95% 0.67€
Rating 8.5
Release 29 Oct 2015
Morphine An independent story-based cinematic FPS game describing the drama of a student 's. Story is based on experienced emotions.

Price -74% 0.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 28 Oct 2015

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