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New Horror Games of 2026: The Releases Worth Playing

2026 has been a strong year for horror, from big series returns like Resident Evil Requiem and the Fatal Frame II remake to small games that players rate higher still. These are this year's releases on the site, chosen by how players and critics rate them, best first.

The games

  1. Resident Evil Requiem art: a woman with pale, tousled hair in a dark red jacket looks sideways on a grey, ruined city street SurvivalResident Evil RequiemCapcom's mainline Resident Evil of 2026, with Grace Ashcroft and Leon Kennedy and a camera you can switch between first and third person.
  2. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake key art: a dark wooden hall hung with paper charms and glowing lanterns, leading to a candlelit altar SurvivalFATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKEA full remake of the 2003 ghost story: twin sisters in a village of vengeful spirits, fought with the Camera Obscura.
  3. REANIMAL key art: two children row a small lit boat across dark floodwater past wrecked ships and telephone poles, under a giant sheep-headed creature looming out of the stormy sky PsychologicalREANIMALFrom the team behind Little Nightmares: a brother and sister cross a flooded island of monsters, alone or in co-op.
  4. MOLE screenshot: the drilling vessel's cockpit of gauges, dials and an amber radar screen PsychologicalMOLEA drilling vessel with its crew gone and a Signal calling from below, run by hand through gauges and terminals.
  5. Endacopia key art: a round-headed boy in a red cap beside a sign with a worried face, against a starry black sky PsychologicalEndacopiaA surreal point-and-click about a boy who has lost his senses, with monsters and secrets under a cheerful surface.
  6. Pathologic 3 screenshot: a hooded, masked figure in rags holds out its hands in a foggy street as a man in the background aims a pistol PsychologicalPathologic 3Twelve days to save a plague town as a doctor who can rewind time to fix his mistakes.
  7. Crisol: Theater of Idols key art: a weeping, crowned statue of a woman with a skeletal ribcage, framed by blades, candles and iron gates in red and black SurvivalCrisol: Theater of IdolsSurvival horror on a cursed Spanish island where religious statues come to life and your gun fires your own blood.
  8. Illustrated scene of a 1930s car with its headlights on in the rain outside a large country house at night, a man and a woman standing beside it PsychologicalThe Incident at Galley HouseReplay echoes of a 1936 massacre and work out who everyone was and how they died.
  9. Idols of Ash screenshot: a vast underground chamber lit orange, ringed by rows of rough standing stone idols ShortIdols of AshA short climbing horror game: descend thousands of metres into the dark while something huge hunts you.
  10. KLETKA key art: a gas-masked figure with a wrench and a gas-masked creature on a red background of giant teeth Co-opKLETKACo-op for up to six: ride a living elevator down an endless building and keep it fed.
  11. The Sinking City 2 key art: a man in a fedora with a shotgun on his back stands waist-deep in floodwater under an Arkham cemetery arch, wrapped by rising tentacles SurvivalThe Sinking City 2Survival horror in a drowned 1920s Arkham, by foot and by skiff, against Lovecraftian creatures.
  12. Two women at an old phone booth, one holding the receiver as a voice warns that the island will become a bloodbath unless she takes the last ferry alone PsychologicalPARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's CurseSquare Enix's horror mystery sequel: curses fall on an island in Ise Bay after a diver meets his double.
  13. First-person view aiming a scoped rifle at a figure in a dark, leaf-strewn courtyard while a bloodied, pale creature lunges in from the right SurvivalIron BlightOld-style survival horror in a rainy Eastern Bloc town, counting every bullet on the search for a missing wife.
  14. lily's world XD key art: pastel early-2000s computer windows around a pixelated photo of a dark-haired girl with a black bar over her eyes Psychologicallily's world XDA missing girl's 2004 laptop, her blog and chats, and messages that start arriving for you.
  15. MOLDRISE: a grimy tiled lobby under a single ceiling light, with rows of mailboxes and a glowing vending machine PsychologicalMOLDRISEA mould in your head orders you up thirty floors of an apartment block, one failed climb at a time.
  16. Static Dread: The Submarine art: a stern naval officer with glowing round glasses, a submarine and red tentacles behind him in green water PsychologicalStatic Dread: The SubmarineKeep a submarine crew sane while something vast moves on the sonar, from the makers of Static Dread: The Lighthouse.
  17. Dread Fields key art: a pale woman with burning eyes and dark hair in front of a field of sunflowers PsychologicalDread FieldsA short folk horror on an isolated farm, where the last owner's secrets rise out of the ground.
  18. SILENT HILL: Townfall screenshot: Simon walks toward a stone monument in a foggy square hung with protest banners PsychologicalSILENT HILL: TownfallThe series in first person in a fog-bound Scottish island town; its Steam reviews are mixed.

The big releases first. Resident Evil Requiem is Capcom's mainline game of the year, with Grace Ashcroft and Leon Kennedy and a camera you can switch between first and third person, and it is one of the best-reviewed horror games on Steam this year. The FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly remake rebuilds the 2003 ghost story of twin sisters in a village of vengeful spirits, and REANIMAL, from the team behind Little Nightmares, sends a brother and sister across a flooded island of monsters, alone or in co-op. SILENT HILL: Townfall moved the series to first person in a Scottish island town; its Steam reviews are mixed, with praise for the setting and complaints about pacing.

Some of the year's most loved horror is small. MOLE puts you at the controls of a drilling vessel whose crew has vanished, working its gauges by hand as a Signal calls from below. Endacopia is a surreal point-and-click about a boy who has lost his senses, and Idols of Ash is a short climbing game down into the dark with something huge behind you. The Incident at Galley House, from the makers of The Roottrees are Dead, is a deduction game about a 1936 massacre.

For longer games, Pathologic 3 gives you twelve days to save a plague town and the power to rewind time, The Sinking City 2 is survival horror in a drowned 1920s Arkham, and Crisol: Theater of Idols arms you with a gun that fires your own blood on a cursed Spanish island. Iron Blight is the pick for fans of old-style survival horror.

For something different, KLETKA is co-op for up to six in a hungry elevator, lily's world XD is a missing girl's 2004 laptop, MOLDRISE is a climb up an apartment block driven by a mould in your head, and Static Dread: The Submarine keeps a crew sane under the sea.

If you play one, play Resident Evil Requiem; if you want something smaller and stranger, start with MOLE or Endacopia.

Questions

What is the best-reviewed horror game of 2026?

Among big releases, Resident Evil Requiem, with 96% positive from over 180,000 Steam reviews. Among smaller games, Endacopia and MOLE are rated even higher by players.

Are there new co-op horror games in 2026?

Yes: KLETKA for up to six players, and REANIMAL for two.

Is there a new Silent Hill in 2026?

Yes. SILENT HILL: Townfall came out in 2026, a first-person story set in a Scottish island town in 1996; its Steam reviews are mixed.

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