Hidden Psychological 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 games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Psychological games on Steam.

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The Backrooms: Survival Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.

Price -50% 4.87€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Sep 2023
I'm on Observation Duty 6 As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?

Price -20% 9.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Sep 2023
Mediterranea Inferno Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.

Price -99% 0.16€
Rating 7.7
Release 24 Aug 2023
Mandemon Decaying Japanese school buildings, a series of bizarre incidents, eerie Mandemon legends. Lies and truths intertwine, love and hate entwined in the mist. What should one do? Whom should one believe? Welcome to this cruel world filled with deception and harm —

Price -10% 2.70€
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Aug 2023
The Purge Dilemma Do you have the intuition and cunning to successfully save yourself from the purges of a paranoid dictator? Prove your loyalty to the Tyrant in this social deduction game designed for 5-10 players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 26 Jun 2023
That Which Gave Chase A first-person dog sledding thriller. Play as a sled dog musher hired to transport a scientist deep into the unforgiving wastes of the arctic.

Price -50% 2.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 23 Jun 2023
98xx The 98xx is an old computer OS from the 90s that’s recently been discovered after many years of being lost. There are still a few working files within the OS that can be explored.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 29 May 2023
The Last Case of Benedict Fox Definitive Edition Take on the last case of Benedict Fox and dive into a twisted world of secret organizations, forbidden rituals, and cold-blooded murders. Explore the memories of deceased victims as you search for clues and fight demons in this fantastical Lovecraftian Metroidvania.

Price -85% 3.67€
Rating 7.1
Release 27 Apr 2023
Strayed Lights Strayed Lights is a colourful action-adventure featuring epic boss fights and a unique parry-based combat system. Shift between colours to repel attacks and strike back. Explore a dreamlike world as you restore your light that was torn by shadows.

Price -87% 1.77€
Rating 7.6
Release 25 Apr 2023
I Did Not Buy This Ticket Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.

Price -60% 3.11€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Apr 2023
MINDHACK Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 05 Apr 2023
Loretta Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.

Price -59% 6.12€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Feb 2023
9 Childs Street This is a first-person indie horror game. In 9 Childs Street you will find the terrifying atmosphere of a recently abandoned house, and its captive inhabitants, through the eyes of a curious little boy in a red cap.

Price -40% 4.13€
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Feb 2023
Coralina A RETRO RPG about lost MEMORIES in the LIMBO! Coralina needs to solve cases, alongside a Crow with a tophat.

Price 3.00€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Jan 2023
目盲/Blind 「Sometimes what the eye can't tell, the heart can.」 《Blind》 is a light fantasy game for girls set in a modern city. After a childhood accident that left me with a strange face blindness, I was introduced to a profession called "watchman" and since then, the world has taken on a whole new dimension.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Nov 2022
Siren Head: The Horror Experience Some teenagers have gone camping in the woods far out of town after hearing an old folks tale about a monster lurking within the woods. The monster surrounds its habitat with horrifying and distorted siren noises.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 23 Nov 2022
Father's Day "Father's Day" - a psychological thriller that is a spin-off and prequel to the game "Find Yourself". The dream of living happily ever after was destroyed after Phil lost his wife and son. Obsessed with the desire to return them, he develops a plan.

Price -70% 1.70€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 Oct 2022
Ukraine War Stories Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Oct 2022
Broken Pieces Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller taking place in a french coastal village somehow outside the flow of time. Solve the mysteries by putting the pieces of the story back together by figuring out the enigma behind this mystical place.

Price -92% 0.81€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Sep 2022
a pet shop after dark PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.

Price -25% 7.31€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 Aug 2022
The Caligula Effect 2 Redo is a world without sorrow created by the virtuadoll Regret. Virtuadoll songs give Redo residents respite from their struggles. Our protagonists discover the truth and form the Go-Home Club to return to reality. Make your way home with companions bearing heavy burdens in this school-themed RPG.

Price 48.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Jun 2022
Karambola Help Karambola on his quest to rescue his emotional fruit people friends from the power of dark thoughts in this short hand-drawn point-and-click puzzle adventure.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Jun 2022
CORPSE FACTORY Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.

Price -92% 1.40€
Rating 7.8
Release 31 May 2022
I'm on Observation Duty 5 As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?

Price -20% 7.80€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 May 2022