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174 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.

174 games

All horror puzzle games on steam

A pale, root-headed demonic creature crouching in a dark cave of roots as the player holds a flashlight

Paranoia Place: Escape Together

Find the way out together before the demonic killer finds you.

PC

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

PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

A summer island, a mermaid legend and seven curses to survive.

PC / Switch / iPhone / Android

Penumbra: Black Plague screenshot: a flooded, arched brick tunnel lit green, a doorway glowing at the far end

Penumbra: Black Plague

No weapons, an infected research complex and a voice in your head.

PC / Mac / Linux

Pony Island screenshot: the title screen on an old CRT, with two horned pony heads and a 1992 copyright

Pony Island

A pony game made by the devil, and you are trapped inside it.

PC / Mac / Linux

Poppy Playtime art: Huggy Wuggy, a blue furry mascot with red lips and rows of sharp teeth, grins in a red-lit factory

Poppy Playtime

Explore an abandoned toy factory where the toys are still awake.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Post Trauma key art: a bleeding yellow eye surrounded by smaller eyes in a mass of grey tendrils

Post Trauma

A train conductor wakes in the Gloom and must puzzle his way out.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Project Kat screenshot: girls holding a seance at a table in a dark pixel-art room, and a frightened girl saying Is that a ghost? We summoned a ghost

Multiple endings

Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

Follow a golden letter into your school after dark.

PC / Mac / Linux

Puppet House key art: the wooden puppet seen from behind, holding a knife, sitting in a pool of blood at the foot of the mansion's staircase

Puppet House

A detective, a ventriloquist's empty mansion, and the puppet he left behind.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Quiet is the Eyes key art: a frightened researcher in a lab coat and glasses in front of a window with a black splatter and a dripping handprint

Quiet is the Eyes

An empty lab at midnight, and something at the window always watching.

PC

Realms of the Haunting cover art: the dripping yellow title over faded, blood-red faces of the cast, one in round glasses

Realms of the Haunting

Search a haunted Cornish mansion that opens onto other realms.

PC

Resident Evil art: the grand hall of the Spencer mansion with a double staircase, columns and balconies in dim light

Resident Evil

Survive the Spencer mansion with scarce ammo, ink ribbons and the dead in the halls.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Resident Evil (1996) key art: a pale zombie with a wound in its forehead and a bloodied shirt turns toward the viewer out of black darkness

Resident Evil (1996)

The 1996 original: survive the mansion with a few bullets and fixed cameras.

PC

Resident Evil 0 key art: the empty, blood-stained passenger carriage of a luxury train, light spilling through its far door

Resident Evil 0

The night before the mansion: a zombie train, a rookie medic and a convict.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Resident Evil 2 key art: Leon in his police uniform and Claire in a red jacket aim pistols as zombies close in on a rainy street

Resident Evil 2

Survive Raccoon City's overrun police station with too few bullets and a stalker on your trail.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

Resident Evil 2 (1998) screenshot: Leon stands in the marble main hall of the Raccoon City police station, a statue and balconies above him

Resident Evil 2 (1998)

The 1998 original: survive Raccoon City's police station as Leon or Claire.

PC

Rusty Lake Hotel: the grey gothic hotel on an island in a still green lake, with mountains behind

Rusty Lake Hotel

Five guests, five dinners, and each one worth dying for.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Rusty Lake Paradise art: a beaked figure with insect wings hovers in a pale forest above a white rabbit

Rusty Lake Paradise

Lift the ten plagues from a remote island and find out how your mother died.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Rusty Lake: Roots key art: a painted valley with a lake, mountains, a castle and a church

Rusty Lake: Roots

Plant a strange seed and grow a family tree full of dark secrets.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Saint Kotar key art: a bloodied man in glasses leans on a companion before hooded figures, a church tower and crows under a full moon

Saint Kotar

Two devout men, a missing sister and a town that worships something else.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Sally Face screenshot: Sal, seen from behind with long blue hair, sits across from a therapist with a clipboard, his prosthetic face mask on the table

Sally Face

A boy with a prosthetic face investigates murders and talks to the dead.

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

Samsara Room screenshot: a room with green floral wallpaper, a telephone on a small table, a wall cabinet with a jar, and a gold mirror holding a dark figure

Samsara Room

Wake in a strange room, and look closely at what stands in the mirror.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Sanitarium key art: a single green eye staring out between strips of rough bandage

Sanitarium

Wake in an asylum with a bandaged head and no memory of why.

PC / iPhone / Android

A man in a light jacket runs through a narrow village street past a burning window, in saturated pink and orange

Saturnalia

Four strangers, one Sardinian village, a ritual night that keeps rebuilding the streets.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Scorn screenshot: a vast bone-like biomechanical palace with pipes and spires rising out of purple fog

Scorn

Lost in a living world of flesh and machinery, with no words to explain it.

PC / Xbox / PlayStation

Servant of the Lake screenshot: a maid in apron and cap stands in the green hallway of the Vanderboom house, beside a staircase, portraits and a cat on a pink armchair

Servant of the Lake

Serve the Vanderboom family and help with their alchemy, if you can stomach it.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Shipwrecked 64 key art: Bucky Beaver and a smiling friend in low-poly cartoon style against a pink, glitching background

Multiple endings

Shipwrecked 64

A lost 1997 cartoon game about a beaver on an island. It was pulled from sale for a reason.

PC

Extreme close-up of Elster's shadowed face with glowing red eyes against a deep red background, drawn in a pixel anime style

SIGNALIS

Classic survival horror in a retro sci-fi nightmare of lost identity.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

James stands with his back to us in the middle of a fog-filled Silent Hill street, abandoned cars and shopfronts fading into grey mist

SILENT HILL 2

Return to the fog town where the monsters are made of grief.

PC / PlayStation

SILENT HILL f art: Hinako in a sailor school uniform, half her face covered by masses of red flowers

SILENT HILL f

A fog takes a 1960s Japanese mountain town, and something blooms in it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire key art: a pale crowned vampire sleeps upright in an open coffin, wrapped in glowing red bands covered in runes

Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire

Open the coffin, disarm the traps, stake the vampire, and do not wake it.

VR / PC

SIMULACRA key art: a dark-haired woman stands before a wall of phone screens showing apps, photos and chats, with pink streaks across them

Multiple endings

SIMULACRA

A missing woman's phone, and something inside it.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Slender Threads key art: a frightened Harvey Green by a fire, hooded figures in bird masks behind him and a mustached man aiming a revolver

Slender Threads

A salesman's nightmare of his own head on a wall starts coming true.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / iPhone / Android

Smile For Me key art: a huge dark tree with a glowing grin and stars for eyes looms over tiny figures, framed by swirling flowers

Smile For Me

Nod, shake your head, and find out what Doctor Habit is hiding.

PC / Mac / Switch

Someday You'll Return key art: a small figure standing by a railing under a bare tree inside a red splash, strange symbols on a dark wall

Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut

Your daughter did not come home. Go into the Moravian woods and find her.

PC / PlayStation

Song of Horror key art: a dark robed figure with roots spreading below and two huge ink-smeared eyes above it on a pale wall

Song of Horror Complete Edition

A fixed-camera hunt by an entity you cannot fight, where every death is final.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

STASIS: BONE TOTEM key art: a woman with a scratched, bloodied face inside a diving helmet, wrapped in a pale tentacled growth

STASIS: BONE TOTEM

Salvage an abandoned oil rig and find what is buried beneath it.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Stories Untold art: a glowing red orb among 1980s computers, a radio, a camcorder and family photos

Stories Untold

Four stories on old machines, and one nightmare between them.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Strangeland key art: a huge metal skull with glowing violet eyes between two ravens, over a fiery dark

Strangeland

A nightmare carnival, a woman who keeps falling, and a Dark Thing on the roller coaster.

PC / Mac / Linux

Sucker for Love: Date to Die For key art: Rhok'zan, a goat-headed woman with curling purple hair and a gold collar, among dark leaves

Multiple endings

Sucker for Love: Date to Die For

Escape a forest cult by romancing the eldritch goat goddess they worship.

PC

A small skull-headed figure beneath a huge winged idol with a single eye, flanked by grotesque statues in grey pixel art

TAMASHII

A nameless soul in a twisted temple of flesh, idols and puzzles.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

The 7th Guest Remake key art: Stauf's Victorian mansion lit from inside under a purple, stormy sky with lightning

The 7th Guest Remake

Six guests, one toymaker's mansion, and a puzzle in every room.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

A pale, long-limbed ghost in a white dress stands in a dark storeroom beside a lit lantern

The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication

A night of filming in a haunted Taiwanese university goes wrong.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation key art: six students gathered by a stone bridge railing on a dark campus at night

The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation

Six students dare a campus ghost story, and the ghost answers.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

The Cat Lady screenshot: Susan stands in a misty doorway while a blood-spattered figure works at a kitchen table covered in red meat

The Cat Lady

A lonely woman on the edge, and five strangers who change everything.

PC

The Children of Clay screenshot: a pale clay figure with a carved face stands lit on a dark desk beside old books and a compass

The Children of Clay

Study an ancient clay figure at your desk until it starts to change.

PC / Linux

The Count Lucanor key art: Hans holding a candle in a purple night forest, a grinning blue jester-hatted kobold and a castle behind

The Count Lucanor

Guess the kobold's name, and become the new Count Lucanor.

PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch

The Dark Rites of Arkham key art: a detective in a fedora holds a revolver as huge toothed jaws and tentacles loom out of a blue night behind him

The Dark Rites of Arkham

A sealed-room ritual murder, two Arkham detectives and witches who escaped Salem.

PC

The Designer's Curse key art: a pale figure with a stitched, bloodied torso standing in a brick corridor beside the title

The Designer's Curse

Lost in a manor with the creatures you designed yourself.

PC / Mac

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