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Horror shooters and action horror games on Steam

59 horror shooters and action horror games on Steam, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Fighting the horror head-on with real weapons is the main way to play, in a game whose world, enemies and set pieces are built to frighten. A shooter with one spooky level, or a military shooter with zombies as a mode, does not count; a survival horror game where you are poorly armed belongs on the survival page instead.

59 games

All horror shooters and action horror games on steam

Alan Wake in a plaid shirt holding a red nail gun against a smoky orange desert sky

Alan Wake's American Nightmare

Alan Wake hunts his evil double through a night in the Arizona desert.

PC / Xbox

Alien: Rogue Incursion key art: Zula Hendricks with a rifle surrounded by Xenomorphs, a huge alien head looming above them against a starfield

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Hold the motion tracker yourself while Xenomorphs close in.

VR / PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Aliens vs. Predator key art: a Xenomorph and a Predator face each other in green light

Aliens vs. Predator

A Colonial Marine, a dark colony and a Predator in the trees.

PC / Xbox

Antarctica 88 screenshot: a flamethrower sets a long-legged spider-like creature on fire in a cave

Multiple endings

Antarctica 88: Scary Games

Something woke in the ice under an Antarctic research station.

iPhone / Android / PC / Xbox / Switch

Arizona Sunshine Remake key art: a snarling zombie with red eyes in front of desert rock formations

Arizona Sunshine VR Remake

Load your guns by hand while the dead stagger at you across the Arizona desert.

PC / VR / PlayStation

Back 4 Blood key art: four Cleaners stand in a red number 4 surrounded by a dark sea of Ridden, with a huge mutated Ridden at the edge

Back 4 Blood

Four Cleaners fight the Ridden in a co-op shooter from the makers of Left 4 Dead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

BioShock key art: a Big Daddy in a brass diving helmet with a drill arm stands in a dark art deco hall

Multiple endings

BioShock

A drowned utopia, its broken citizens and the giants that guard its children.

PC / Xbox

BioShock 2 key art: a Big Daddy with a drill arm and glowing yellow helmet carries a Little Sister on his back in a dim Rapture hall

BioShock 2

Return to Rapture inside the diving suit of a Big Daddy.

PC / Xbox

Blood West art: a cowboy with a revolver beside a skeletal undead creature with an open ribcage in a night-time frontier town

Blood West

An undead gunslinger stalks the monsters of a cursed Weird West.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

A masked killer in a plaid shirt raising a knife in a filthy brick basement, seen over the player's bloody hammer

Butcher's Creek

Snuff-tape rumours, a backwoods cabin, and a gang of killers you have to fight with a hammer.

PC

CRUEL screenshot: a bald butcher in a bloody apron charges with a chainsaw down a run-down hallway as an SMG fires at him

CRUEL

Run and gun through a building that wants to swallow you.

PC

CULTIC key art: a man opens the door of a muscle car outside a barbed-wire compound at dusk, framed by hooded cultists with an axe in red light

CULTIC

Crawl from your grave and shoot your way through a twisted cult.

PC

D'LIRIUM key art: five ponies in a dark red forest, a grey unicorn with a glowing horn standing on a red pentagram

D'LIRIUM

A gift never meant to be opened, and a mansion that turns to blood.

PC

Dead Estate art: the playable heroes with guns crowded among skulls, ghouls, a one-eyed creature and a hulking masked brute

Dead Estate

A gory roguelike shooter up the floors of a monster-filled mansion.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Death Park 2 screenshot: the clown, with glowing yellow eyes and a toothy grin, reaches for a boy in a striped shirt on a walkway lit in red

Multiple endings

Death Park 2: Scary Clown Game

Save your sister from the clown across a city of nightmares.

iPhone / Android / PC / Xbox / Switch

DOOM 3 key art: an armoured marine fighting a huge horned demon lit by orange fire

DOOM 3

A dark Mars base, a demonic invasion and a long road through hell.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Dread X Collection: The Hunt key art: a dark tower on an icy plain at night with a red light at its base, a torn fence and a hazardous materials sign

Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt

Seven horror shooters, reached from an abandoned arctic base.

PC

DreadOut 2 key art: dark silhouettes of long-haired ghouls around a tall red glowing mound against a pale sky

DreadOut 2

Linda fights back against the ghosts of Indonesian urban legend, phone in one hand and an axe…

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DUSK key art: antlered, long-limbed creatures with glowing eyes stand before a gothic cathedral under a blood-red sky

DUSK

A 90s shooter through backwater cults and the darkness under the earth.

PC / Mac / Linux

F.E.A.R. screenshot: a bloodstained office with a body on the floor as soldiers open fire through flying debris

F.E.A.R.

A special forces team, an aerospace compound, and a little girl who should not be there.

PC

F.E.A.R. 2: an armoured enemy soldier with a glowing visor raises a rifle in a dim industrial corridor

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

Alma's power is loose and the city is in ruins. Fight your way through.

PC / Xbox

F.E.A.R. 3 screenshot: Alma, a blood-soaked girl with long black hair and glowing red eyes, stands in a dark hall of shuttered shops

F.E.A.R. 3

Alma is expecting, and two brothers fight through her nightmare.

PC / Xbox

Forgive Me Father 2 screenshot: two swollen, bloodied men in shirts and braces lurch toward the player's pistol on a foggy night street of old cars

Forgive Me Father 2

Shoot your way through Lovecraftian madness in a dark comic book world.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Fright Train art: two lit train windows in a blizzard, with frozen teddy-bear monsters with glowing eyes pressed behind the glass

Fright Train

Keep a monster-filled train running through an Antarctic blizzard.

PC

Golden Light art: a monster with a screen for a head showing a mouth full of teeth, beside a cluster of pink eyeballs in a dark room

Golden Light

A meat-filled roguelike shooter where the props hunt you.

PC

GTFO key art: four prisoners' face masks and helmets against a red background

GTFO

Four prisoners, a dark underground complex, and creatures you must not wake.

PC

HROT screenshot: a gas-masked figure raises a barrel overhead in a blood-spattered industrial yard as the player aims a shotgun

HROT

Prague, 1986: put on your gas mask and defend the socialist homeland from strange intruders.

PC

Hunt: Showdown 1896 key art: three hunters with a rifle, revolver and shotgun stand in a foggy swamp forest as monstrous figures shamble behind them

Hunt: Showdown 1896

Hunt monsters in the corrupted frontier, then get out alive with the bounty.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Killing Floor 2 key art: mercenaries fight a crowd of Zeds led by a glowing, armoured Fleshpound

Killing Floor 2

Hold the line with five friends against waves of mutant clones.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Killing Time: Resurrected key art: a grinning zombie butler holding a knife and a plate, a zombie and a polka-dot clown on an orange and red swirl

Killing Time: Resurrected

Shoot your way through a cursed 1930s estate full of ghosts and monsters.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Left 4 Dead: two survivors with an assault rifle and a shotgun advancing down a bloodied hospital corridor

Left 4 Dead

Four survivors fight through a city overrun by the infected.

PC

Left 4 Dead 2 art: a survivor in a white suit fires a pistol at a crowd of the infected, including a clown, in a dark carnival

Left 4 Dead 2

Four survivors fight from safe room to safe room through the zombie South.

PC / Linux

Lovecraft's Untold Stories key art: pixel-art Great Old Ones, among them a tentacled Cthulhu and a horned goddess, wrapped around the Earth in a starry sky

Lovecraft's Untold Stories

A top-down roguelite through Lovecraft's stories, where knowledge keeps you sane.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox / PlayStation

Metro 2033 Redux key art: a soldier in a gas mask and helmet shielding his eyes in a ruined Moscow street

Metro 2033 Redux

Cross the tunnels of a post-nuclear Moscow metro with a gas mask and few bullets.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Metro: Last Light Redux key art: a ranger in a gas mask with a rifle and a shield in front of ruined Moscow

Multiple endings

Metro: Last Light Redux

Return to the Moscow metro as its stations slide into civil war.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Nightmare House: first-person view holding an axe in a burning basement as two undead workers in hard hats shamble closer

Nightmare House: The Original Mod

Fight your way out of a haunted house and the hospital called Never Lose Hope.

PC

Nightmare of Decay key art: three bloodied, low-poly zombies with pale eyes and open mouths against a dark red background

Nightmare of Decay

Wake in a nightmare manor full of zombies, cultists and too few bullets.

PC

A pale vampire lies with crossed hands in an open coffin on a stone crypt floor

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

Your family is locked in a vampire's castle, and its rooms change every game.

PC

Prey key art: Morgan Yu in a red suit and glowing helmet stands beneath a huge black, smoke-like alien shape that holds the Moon and the Talos I station

Prey

Survive a moon-orbiting space station where the aliens can look like anything.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Resident Evil 4 key art: a close-up of Leon Kennedy's face beside a dark foggy forest with a figure standing by wooden crosses

Resident Evil 4

Leon walks into a hostile village to find the president's daughter, and almost everyone wants…

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Mac / iPhone / VR

Resident Evil 5 key art: Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar back to back with a pistol and a shotgun

Resident Evil 5

Chris Redfield and a partner against a parasite outbreak in Africa, built for two.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Resident Evil 6 key art: Leon, Chris, Jake, Sherry, Helena, Ada and Piers standing in a ruined, snowy city

Resident Evil 6

Four co-op campaigns across three continents against the C-virus.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Shrine key art: a double-barrelled shotgun held up among gravestones and crosses in a dark pine forest

Shrine

A skinless monster with a shotgun against the eldritch horde.

PC / Linux

Shrine II key art: a bloody hand holds a cross before a crucified figure on a heap of bodies, robed monsters around it in a gothic square

Shrine II

Tusk returns to the Elder World, with more guns, more horrors and six bosses.

PC / Linux

Polly in an orange jacket aims a pistol at a tall shadowy creature with a hooked blade and red eyes in a dark, cluttered room

Silly Polly Beast

Shoot your way out of the underworld, one pact and one monster at a time.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Sinister Halloween screenshot: a haunted house attraction at night with a green skeleton beside an Enter Here sign and jack-o'-lanterns

Sinister Halloween

Go trick-or-treating in a festival town where the Halloween monsters are real.

PC / VR

Sker Ritual key art: a masked man in a bowler hat leads a crowd of monsters out of red smoke under a fiery bird emblem

Sker Ritual

Hold Sker Island against endless waves of the Quiet Ones.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

A pale antlered creature with a deer skull for a head stands by a campfire in a night forest, facing the hunter's scoped rifle

Skinwalker Hunt

Track a skinwalker through night-black forests and try to come back alive.

PC