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Horror puzzle games on Steam

163 horror puzzle games on Steam, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Solving puzzles is a main way to play and to progress: codes, mechanisms, item combinations or logic, not just finding a key on the floor. A horror game with an occasional lock or lever puzzle between fights does not count.

163 games

All horror puzzle games on steam

Ad Infinitum key art: a screaming skeleton in a German steel helmet against a pale grey background

Ad Infinitum

Caught between your family home and the trenches of the Great War.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Alone in the Dark key art: Emily Hartwood and Edward Carnby with weapons in front of a masked, hatted figure

Alone in the Dark

Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Amanda the Adventurer key art: Wooly the Sheep, wide-eyed and frightened, his hands raised, behind VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer

Play your aunt's old cartoon tapes. Do what Amanda says.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amanda the Adventurer 2 key art: a thin, long-limbed figure with mouse-like ears hanging from a tilted bookshelf over VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer 2

The tapes lead to the town library. Amanda knows you are watching.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amanda the Adventurer 3 key art: a screaming opossum with raised claws, Wooly the Sheep and a smiling Amanda around a glowing old TV, with a clawed hand reaching over it

Amanda the Adventurer 3

The last tapes, in the empty building where the show was made.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

An English Haunting art: a medium exhaling smoke beside a pale glowing ghost in front of a dark manor

An English Haunting

Prove the dead can speak in 72 hours, with the help of a fake medium.

PC / Switch

Aooni key art: the Ao Oni's huge grinning purple face emerging from darkness

Aooni

A blue demon lives in the mansion on the edge of town.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / iPhone / Android

Bad Dream: Coma art: crows perch on cracked yellow paper that opens onto ink-drawn glimpses of a hospital bed, a house and a bloodstained floor

Bad Dream: Coma

A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox

Bad Dream: Fever screenshot: a hand-drawn public toilet splashed with dark blue ink, 'Not ready yet' and 'Come back later' scrawled on the walls and stall doors

Bad Dream: Fever

A city drowned in ink, and a fever that changes everyone it touches.

PC / Mac / Switch

Barrow Hill key art: a crow flies before a full moon as lightning strikes a ring of standing stones, with bare trees and a radio mast in silhouette

Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle

One night in the Cornish woods, and something waking under the barrow.

PC

Burnhouse Lane key art: a tall wooden house in red mist with a small figure facing a huge skeletal cat-like creature

Burnhouse Lane

A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Bye Sweet Carole art: a frightened girl in a green dress among dark thorny vines, a grinning figure in a top hat with glowing eyes looming behind her

Bye Sweet Carole

A missing friend, an orphanage, and a storybook kingdom that wants Lana gone.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Children of Silentown key art: Lucy among the black silhouettes of village children before a pale moon, with red and teal trees on either side

Children of Silentown

A village in a monster forest, where people keep disappearing.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Close To The Sun key art: a small steam boat in a storm beneath the towering gilded hull of the Helios

Close To The Sun

Board Tesla's quarantined research ship to find your sister.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Conarium key art: a pale man's face with glowing white eyes and a light shining from his forehead

Conarium

Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CONSCRIPT key art: a soldier in a gas mask and helmet with red lenses raises a spiked club amid explosions in a trench

CONSCRIPT

Survival horror in the trenches of Verdun, 1916.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Creepy Tale 3 key art: Ingrid sits on the floor of a dark cell as light from an open door throws a long, horned shadow toward her

Multiple endings

Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance

A spoiled girl falls into hell, and a sarcastic demon offers to help.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place key art: Martin in a red coat walks toward a giant skull-like face full of teeth in a dark forest

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place

A quiet fishing trip ends in a dark fairy-tale land.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Crow Country art: low-poly Mara stands by a crow-topped ticket booth between two crow mascot statues

Crow Country

Search an abandoned 1990 theme park for its missing owner.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Cube Escape Collection screenshot: a man with a crow's head, a giant green glass and a fish with human legs stand in a cardboard room

Cube Escape Collection

Nine strange rooms, one dead woman and the mystery of Rusty Lake.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Cube Escape: Paradox screenshot: a crow-headed man in a suit sits in an armchair in a green, moth-papered room under a framed painting

Cube Escape: Paradox

Wake with no memory in a strange room, and escape the game an old foe has set.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Darkness Within key art: a close-up of a terrified face with a huge dark eye and a hand pressed against it, a pale figure in a doorway behind

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

A detective chases an occult murder suspect into his own nightmares.

PC

DARQ screenshot: Lloyd, a pale boy in a striped shirt, crosses a tilted room of pipes and machines as gravity turns

DARQ: Complete Edition

Walk on the walls of a nightmare you cannot wake from, and keep out of sight.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Dead Secret key art: a white farmhouse among bare trees on the Kansas plain, with a crow spreading its wings

Multiple endings

Dead Secret

Solve a professor's murder in 1965 Kansas before his masked killer finds you.

PC / Mac / VR / PlayStation

Dead Take key art: a bald man seen from behind, sitting alone in a dark cinema before a glowing screen

Dead Take

Find your missing friend in a Hollywood mansion, one corrupted clip at a time.

PC

Decarnation key art: a woman with dark hair that flows into a mass of flesh, organs and strange creatures

Decarnation

A cabaret dancer's life and nightmares, in surreal pixel art.

PC / Switch

Deep Sleep Trilogy key art: a skeleton lies on a filthy, moss-stained bed under a dark sky in grainy pixel art

Deep Sleep Trilogy

You cannot run from your dreams, only go deeper.

PC

Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken key art: Amy with a flashlight among twisted trees set with clock faces, dark figures in the archways behind her

Multiple endings

Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken

Your brother's dream journals lead somewhere you should not go.

PC

Detention key art: a schoolgirl in a white uniform holds a picture frame as chairs, desks and papers fly around her

Detention

Trapped in a haunted school in 1960s Taiwan under martial law.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

DISTRAINT 2 screenshot: Price stands in a rotting room by a glowing old TV, dark growths hanging from the ceiling and a skull-faced figure in a chair beside him

DISTRAINT 2

A side-scrolling nightmare about a man's guilt and what he sold to get ahead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Downfall screenshot: Joe and a woman stand in a hotel lounge under the words Devil Came Through Here written in blood on the wall

Downfall

A getaway to save a marriage, in a hotel where it all goes wrong.

PC

DreadOut key art: a long-haired ghost with white eyes and an open mouth hanging upside down against a stained, scratched wall

DreadOut

Photograph the ghosts of an abandoned Indonesian town before they reach you.

PC / Linux

The girl in a hospital gown crouches behind an office partition as a red-faced creature walks past a blood-splattered wall

DYSTHANASIA

Wake in a bloody morgue and slip past the things that hunt the halls.

PC

Eclipsium key art: a hooded figure with one huge round eye in a red cave, a robed figure holding up a glowing orb behind

Eclipsium

Follow a fading light through a world of flesh, and give up your body to reach her.

PC

Endacopia key art: a round-headed boy in a red cap beside a sign with a worried face, against a starry black sky

Endacopia

A boy with no senses, a cheerful world, and horrors if you go looking.

PC

Enigma of Fear key art: Mia with a flashlight and pistol, her dog Lupi and the Ordo Realitas agents before a dark house under huge glowing eyes

Multiple endings

Enigma of Fear

Find your missing father in a place that does not exist, and keep your sanity.

PC

Evil Nun: The Broken Mask key art: Sister Madeline with a red-eyed grin and a giant hammer under a blue spotlight

Multiple endings

Evil Nun: The Broken Mask

A summer camp that is really a prison, and a nun with a giant hammer.

PC

Fausts Alptraum key art: an orange-haired girl in a green dress holds a candle among crayon scribbles, beside a pale-haired figure in a red coat standing in water

Fausts Alptraum

A grieving girl, her father's old house and a demon who knows the way out.

PC

Fear the Spotlight art: a shadowy long-haired figure with glowing eyes looms over two girls standing in flames

Fear the Spotlight

A séance at school goes wrong, and something with a spotlight walks the halls.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Firework screenshot: two policemen in a dark green-lit alley beside a brick wall painted with Believe in science, not superstition

Firework

Reopen a village massacre case where the dead may not have been killed by the living.

PC / Switch

Flesh Made Fear key art: a red-tinted face in a surgical mask between rotting skulls and monsters

Flesh Made Fear

Tank controls, fixed cameras and a mad scientist's monsters in a PSX-style survival horror.

PC / PlayStation

Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel key art: a figure in a dark gas mask with one green lens stands in a red-lit hotel corridor

Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel

Investigate a Brazilian hotel through a camera that sees other times.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Forest Escape: Last Train art: three prisoners in orange jumpsuits and sack and wooden masks stand in a misty forest beside a steam locomotive

Forest Escape: Last Train

Keep the locomotive running through a mad Warden's nightmare forest.

PC

Fran Bow key art: Fran holding her black cat Mr. Midnight in front of a red-eyed monster, with skeletal and masked characters on the left

Fran Bow

A girl escapes an asylum while her pills show her a world of blood and monsters.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Gray Dawn: an old 1920s car abandoned among ferns and wildflowers in a misty pine forest

Gray Dawn

A priest blamed for a lost altar boy walks through visions of blood and faith.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Ground Zero key art: Seo-Yeon in a red beret and goggles holds a pistol before a burning red cloud over a ruined Korean street

Ground Zero

Fixed cameras, short ammunition and mutants in the ruins of a meteor-struck Busan.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Harvester key art: a hooded figure with glowing red eyes raises a scythe against a red night sky over a domed building

Harvester

Wake in a 1950s town of strangers and a cult that wants you to kill.

PC / Linux

Heaven Dust 2 key art: Steve with a shotgun and a young woman back to back above a crowd of zombies, helicopters behind

Heaven Dust 2

Wake from a cryogenic pod in a research base full of zombies.

PC / Switch / PlayStation

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