Best Survival Horror Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated survival horror games.

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Little Nightmares Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Price -84% 3.22€
Rating 9.3
Release 27 Apr 2017
Outlast 2 Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.

Price -96% 0.95€
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Apr 2017
Evil Tag Four teenagers have to pass the rite of student initiation. To do this, they must read a spell from the ancient book in the basement of the abandoned house and spend a night there. They thought it would be fun...

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 07 Apr 2017
White Noise 2 Enjoy a 4vs1 asymmetric horror experience like no other. Be a part of the investigator team, or take control of the creature and devour them!

Price -83% 1.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Apr 2017
Oik 2 Casual physics puzzle

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Mar 2017
Narcosis Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.

Price -95% 0.69€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Mar 2017
Rain World You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Price -90% 2.63€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 Mar 2017
Kona Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.

Price -93% 1.08€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Mar 2017
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% 4.55€
Rating 8.6
Release 09 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
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
VRChat Join our growing community as you explore, play, and help craft the future of social VR. Create worlds and custom avatars. Welcome to VRChat.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Feb 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% 10.14€
Rating 8.1
Release 31 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 -68% 6.47€
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 -65% 4.21€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jan 2017
Tattletail It’s Christmas 1998. The world’s most annoying toy just came out, and yours won’t stay in his box. Can you stop Tattletail from getting you in trouble before the bloodthirsty Mama Tattletail hunts you down? Story-driven first person horror. New DLC Included!

Price 7.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Dec 2016
Angels of Death "Please... kill me." "Help me get outta here, and I'll kill you." ~ Angels of Death is a psychological horror-adventure game, consisting of four episodes.

Price -30% 7.04€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Dec 2016
Arizona Sunshine® Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.

Price -63% 7.48€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Dec 2016
ARAYA ARAYA is a first person horror game. Players will get a new thrilling experience inside a Thai hospital. The story will be told from the perspectives of 3 different characters. Players will explore different areas of the hospital in order to piece together the mysterious murder case of Araya.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Nov 2016
Killing Floor 2 In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.

Price -97% 0.95€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Nov 2016
City Car Driving City Car Driving – realistic car driving simulator, which will help you master the basic skills of the car driving in various traffic conditions, with plunging into the environment most closely resembling the real one.

Price 23.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Nov 2016
Through the Woods Through the Woods is a third-person Norse horror adventure set in a forest on the western shores of Norway that tells the story of a mother and her missing son.

Price -94% 1.24€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Oct 2016
Yomawari: Night Alone A quiet evening stroll takes a turn for the worse as a tragic accident befalls a little girl and her dog. When her sister goes missing later in the night, the little girl decides to venture out into the eerie darkness to search for her loved ones as evil spirits haunt the alleyways and streets of her once-peaceful town.

Price -89% 2.31€
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Oct 2016
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 True Fear: Forsaken Souls takes the best of the psychological thriller, blending in fun and intuitive gameplay mechanics. Episode 1, the first in a trilogy, will long be remembered.

Price -27% 6.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 Oct 2016
Stay Close Stay Close is open-world horror game, with options for single-player and co-op. It has an unique and new gameplay approach unseen so far in any other game. You'll find yourself in a creepy and anomalous town, what is your next move?

Price 8.79€
Rating 6.1
Release 14 Oct 2016
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
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 7.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 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 -96% 0.92€
Rating 6.2
Release 06 Oct 2016
UNLOVED Based on the community award-winning Doom2 mod with the same name by the same creator, UNLOVED is reimagined in the Unreal Engine 4 to bring forth the unspeakable terror in new ways. Play coop with your friends, increase your skills, mod your weapons and face the horror that this unearthly place holds...

Price -94% 0.27€
Rating 7.1
Release 29 Sep 2016
Make America Great Again: The Trump Presidency A Pro-Donald Trump presidential simulation. Make America Rich Again through trade. Make America Safe again by Defeating ISIS. Make America Great Again!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.2
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 -50% 4.09€
Rating 9.4
Release 22 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
DEAD RISING® You are Frank West. A hard-edged photojournalist hellbent on investigating the mystery at Willamette Mall. It's swarming with zombies. You have 72 hours. Chop 'till you drop!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Sep 2016

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