Slasher
Christmas Massacre
Your Christmas tree says the naughty must die. Put on the Santa mask.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Horror games on Steam
The horror games on Steam worth your evening: survival horror and psychological horror, co-op scares to play with friends and short indie games. Each has a page on what frightens and how it plays, and links to its Steam page.
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Tonight's pick · Survival
Clea 2
A former maid crosses into the realms beyond, listening for what roams the halls.
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A different set every day
Survival
Night At the Gates of Hell
Headshots only: escape a seaside city overrun by Italian-style zombies.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II
Go undercover at a cursed academy where death notices come true.
PC / PlayStation / Switch
Survival
Granny
Five days to get out of Granny's house, and she hears everything.
iPhone / Android / PC
Psychological
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Become an ordinary worker in an ordinary house.
Browser / PC
Psychological
Oxenfree
A night on an island, a radio, and a rift you should not have opened.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Action horror
BioShock 2
Return to Rapture inside the diving suit of a Big Daddy.
PC / Xbox
Puzzle horror
Amanda the Adventurer 3
The last tapes, in the empty building where the show was made.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル
Walk to Japan's most notorious sealed tunnel on a VHS camcorder.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Jisatsu | 自撮
Chilla's Art's found-footage mockumentary in derelict Japanese houses.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明
A rough detective searches a Japanese town for missing children.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達
One apartment block, a stack of boxes, and someone behind you.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Night Security | 夜間警備
Lock up the building floor by floor. The last guard never came back.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Parasocial
You stream for strangers. One of them knows where you live.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Shinkansen 0 | 新幹線 0号
Ride the bullet train to car 0, and turn back when something is wrong.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件
Make the coffee, close the shop, and wonder who is watching.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
The night shift at a convenience store pays well. Now you know why.
PC / Switch
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車
A salaryman's ride home on a train that goes somewhere wrong.
PC
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Aka Manto | 赤マント
Escape an old school while the red-cloaked spirit hunts you, on one life.
PC
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Hanako | 花子さん
A schoolyard curse goes wrong and Hanako comes for the kids who cast it.
PC
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女
Rescue three children from an abandoned mountain inn, on one life.
PC
Survival
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Lead your little brother through plague-struck France, where the rats eat everything outside…
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Alien: Isolation
Hide from one alien you cannot kill on a dying space station.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Survival
Alien: Rogue Incursion
Hold the motion tracker yourself while Xenomorphs close in.
VR / PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Alisa
Escape a Victorian dollhouse of mechanized horrors, 1990s style.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Alone in the Dark
Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Take a flashlight into the dark of Shadow Island, where the creatures wait in every shadow.
PC
Psychological
Amnesia: Rebirth
Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
FNAF
Boogeyman 2
Your doll says the Boogeyman is here. Find him before he finds you.
PC / VR
FNAF
DEATH IN UNISON
Run a prison of supernatural killers with a partner you can only reach by walkie-talkie.
PC
FNAF
Five Nights at Freddy's
Five nights in a pizzeria office, watching animatronics on the cameras.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
FNAF
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
A night guard with no doors, a music box and an empty Freddy mask.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
FNAF
Five Nights at Freddy's 3
Guard a horror attraction where one of the old animatronics is real.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
FNAF
Five Nights at Freddy's 4
The animatronics have followed you home, and you only have a flashlight.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
FNAF
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted
Work the night shift at Freddy's in VR, with the animatronics inches away.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR
FNAF
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2
Work every job at the Pizzaplex, with killer animatronics an arm's length away.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR
Survival
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
Climb into a ball pit, wake in the past, and hide from the yellow rabbit.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic
Search a costume maker's dark workshop for a prototype that can become anything.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
7 Days to Die
Scavenge and build by day; hold your fort when the blood moon horde comes.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
Anomaly Company
Memorise the room, spot what changed and decide with your crew.
PC
Co-op
Arizona Sunshine VR Remake
Load your guns by hand while the dead stagger at you across the Arizona desert.
PC / VR / PlayStation
Co-op
Back 4 Blood
Four Cleaners fight the Ridden in a co-op shooter from the makers of Left 4 Dead.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Co-op
Backrooms: Escape Together
Get through the Backrooms with up to five friends, one level at a time.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Co-op
Backrooms: Extractions
Go back into the Backrooms to bring home the agents who never returned.
PC
Co-op
Barotrauma
Keep a submarine alive in the black ocean under Europa's ice.
PC / Mac / Linux
Co-op
BIGFOOT
Hunt Bigfoot in the American wilds, until it starts hunting you.
PC
Survival
Blood Typers
Type to kill your way out of a cursed horror film studio.
PC
Co-op
Boo Men
Rob the ghosts' houses, and stay in the light.
PC
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Aka Manto | 赤マント
Escape an old school while the red-cloaked spirit hunts you, on one life.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Shinkansen 0 | 新幹線 0号
Ride the bullet train to car 0, and turn back when something is wrong.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件
Make the coffee, close the shop, and wonder who is watching.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] The Kidnap | 誘拐事件
A third-grade boy, an empty home, and the day someone takes him.
PC
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女
Rescue three children from an abandoned mountain inn, on one life.
PC
Multiple endings
Antarctica 88: Scary Games
Something woke in the ice under an Antarctic research station.
iPhone / Android / PC / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
At Home Alone Final
A little girl home alone, a quiet house, and visitors who should not be there.
PC
Psychological
Bad Dream: Coma
A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.
PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox
Multiple endings
BioShock
A drowned utopia, its broken citizens and the giants that guard its children.
PC / Xbox
Psychological
Blair Witch
Lose yourself in the Black Hills Forest, with only your dog to trust.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Ad Infinitum
Caught between your family home and the trenches of the Great War.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
Alone in the Dark
Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Puzzle horror
Amanda the Adventurer
Play your aunt's old cartoon tapes. Do what Amanda says.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Puzzle horror
Amanda the Adventurer 2
The tapes lead to the town library. Amanda knows you are watching.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Puzzle horror
Amanda the Adventurer 3
The last tapes, in the empty building where the show was made.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Puzzle horror
An English Haunting
Prove the dead can speak in 72 hours, with the help of a fake medium.
PC / Switch
Puzzle horror
Aooni
A blue demon lives in the mansion on the edge of town.
PC / Switch / PlayStation / iPhone / Android
Psychological
Bad Dream: Coma
A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.
PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox
Psychological
Bad Dream: Fever
A city drowned in ink, and a fever that changes everyone it touches.
PC / Mac / Switch
Puzzle horror
Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle
One night in the Cornish woods, and something waking under the barrow.
PC
Action horror
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alan Wake hunts his evil double through a night in the Arizona desert.
PC / Xbox
Survival
Alien: Rogue Incursion
Hold the motion tracker yourself while Xenomorphs close in.
VR / PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Action horror
Aliens vs. Predator
A Colonial Marine, a dark colony and a Predator in the trees.
PC / Xbox
Multiple endings
Antarctica 88: Scary Games
Something woke in the ice under an Antarctic research station.
iPhone / Android / PC / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
Arizona Sunshine VR Remake
Load your guns by hand while the dead stagger at you across the Arizona desert.
PC / VR / PlayStation
Co-op
Back 4 Blood
Four Cleaners fight the Ridden in a co-op shooter from the makers of Left 4 Dead.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Multiple endings
BioShock
A drowned utopia, its broken citizens and the giants that guard its children.
PC / Xbox
Action horror
BioShock 2
Return to Rapture inside the diving suit of a Big Daddy.
PC / Xbox
Action horror
Blood West
An undead gunslinger stalks the monsters of a cursed Weird West.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Action horror
Butcher's Creek
Snuff-tape rumours, a backwoods cabin, and a gang of killers you have to fight with a hammer.
PC
Psychological
CHAOS;CHILD
Shibuya, 2015: the murders that terrified the city six years ago have started again.
PC / PlayStation / Switch
Psychological
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
Shibuya's serial killings, predicted by an image no one should have sent.
PC / Switch
Psychological
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Go back into Heavenly Host and see the deaths you missed, and some you can escape.
PC
Psychological
Doki Doki Literature Club!
Join a cute school poetry club in a dating sim that is not what it seems.
PC / Mac / iPhone / PlayStation / Switch / Xbox
Psychological
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
A sleepy summer village where someone dies every June.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
It gets so lonely here
Run through the forest. She will never let you go.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Lake of Voices
Cross a cursed lake by night. Not everyone can make it to the other side.
PC / Mac
Psychological
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Help a girl buy milk, as the voice inside her troubled head.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
The girl got her milk. Now help her get through the night.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
missed messages.
A stranger's phone airdrops you a photo. Accept or decline?
PC / Mac / Linux
Freshly unearthed
Haunted
Don't Knock Twice
One knock to wake her, twice to raise her from the dead.
PC / VR / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
SLEEP AWAKE
Stay awake in the last city on Earth, where sleepers vanish.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
LOVE ETERNAL
A stolen child, a lonely god, and a castle built of bitter memories.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Kona
A detective, a blizzard and a village with no one left in it.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Burnhouse Lane
A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
Back 4 Blood
Four Cleaners fight the Ridden in a co-op shooter from the makers of Left 4 Dead.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
CAPTURED
Your own home has become an endless hallway. Film what has changed to get out.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Short
The Terrible Old Man
Three robbers, one feeble old man, and a house they should not enter.
PC
More kinds of horror
- Psychological horror games248
- PS1 horror games167
- Survival horror games165
- Horror puzzle games158
- Horror games with multiple endings151
- Stealth horror games101
- Co-op and multiplayer horror games99
- Short horror games98
- Haunted house games65
- Horror shooters and action horror games59
- Horror escape games57
- Cosmic and Lovecraftian horror games55
- Analog horror games47
- Zombie games46