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Horror visual novels on Steam

38 horror visual novels on Steam, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. The story is told mainly through text over character art and backgrounds, as a visual novel or sound novel, with reading and choices as the main way to play. A horror game with some dialogue scenes between exploration, puzzles or fights is not one.

38 games

All horror visual novels on steam

Banebush screenshot: a hooded man stands before a wooden village house under a blood-red sky, with Look around and Enter choices

Multiple endings

Banebush

Hide in your childhood village, where grandmother's scary tales come true.

PC / Mac / Linux

CHAOS;CHILD key art: the main cast in school uniforms against a spray of black and brown shards

CHAOS;CHILD

Shibuya, 2015: the murders that terrified the city six years ago have started again.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH key art: Rimi, a pink-haired schoolgirl holding a large glowing sword, beside Takumi on a cracked grey pavement

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH

Shibuya's serial killings, predicted by an image no one should have sent.

PC / Switch

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows key art: a schoolboy in a sailor-collar uniform looks out from behind bars beside a girl with her eyes closed and head tilted back

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows

Go back into Heavenly Host and see the deaths you missed, and some you can escape.

PC

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus art: Sayori waving, Yuri with a book, Natsuki with folded arms and Monika with a sheet of paper on a pink background

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

Higurashi Ch.1 screenshot: Satoko, Rena and Rika standing at a village festival stall

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi

A sleepy summer village where someone dies every June.

PC / Mac / Linux

It gets so lonely here key art: a girl in a school uniform with a red ribbon covers her face with her hands in a dark forest

It gets so lonely here

Run through the forest. She will never let you go.

PC / Mac / Linux

Lake of Voices key art: a wooden bridge winding across a misty, dark lake between black trees

Lake of Voices

Cross a cursed lake by night. Not everyone can make it to the other side.

PC / Mac

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk key art: a close-up of the girl's wide eyes in purple and dark red pixels

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

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk screenshot: the red-eyed girl in a black sweater looks worried in her dark apartment, with red windows behind her

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

missed messages. screenshot: May, a girl with pink hair and freckles, smiles from a doorway beside a speech bubble thanking you for being her friend

missed messages.

A stranger's phone airdrops you a photo. Accept or decline?

PC / Mac / Linux

Mothmen 1966 key art: a pulp book cover on a table with playing cards and coffee, showing four characters beneath a red-eyed winged creature

Mothmen 1966

A roadside gas station, a meteor shower and something with wings on the roof.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Mycopsychosys: Remastered: Silvia, an officer in a gas mask and cap, stands on the porch of a black-and-white street with red spores in the air

Mycopsychosys: Remastered

A spore storm is coming. Stay inside, and decide who you let in.

PC / Mac

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

PARANORMASIGHT key art: the cast of cursed characters crowded under a pale-faced ghost with long dark hair

PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

Cursed strangers hunt each other through Showa-era Tokyo to raise the dead.

PC / Switch / iPhone / Android

PROJECT: Halloween art: Leena, a girl with a halo, small horns, one angel wing and one bat wing, before a dark red and purple city

PROJECT: Halloween

An AI made to ensure everyone enjoys Halloween. At all costs.

PC / Mac / Linux

Pumpkin Eater watercolour art: the son's carved jack-o'-lantern head slumped against a dark green sofa

Pumpkin Eater

A family cares for their pumpkin-headed son, and keeps smiling.

PC / Mac / Linux

Raging Loop key art: three characters before a crimson sky, with a dark wolf's shape behind them

Raging Loop

A mist-bound village, a werewolf among the villagers, and a death you keep coming back from.

PC

Scarlet Hollow: a grey, hand-inked creature with a swollen face rears up in the dark, something sharp sliding from its open mouth

Scarlet Hollow

Survive a week in a mountain town where something preys on more than livestock.

PC / Mac / Linux

Slay the Princess key art: a pencil-drawn princess kneels in chains on the floor of a dim stone basement under a barred window

Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut

A voice tells you to slay the princess. She says otherwise. Choose who to believe.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark art: a man in a suit with a face overgrown by red flowers lunges out of the dark

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

Bear the Mark, hunt the spirit that cursed you, or die within days.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II art: a spirit with many eyes and insects crawling over its face grabs at a man in a coat in a dark brick corridor

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II

Go undercover at a cursed academy where death notices come true.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Spirit Hunter: NG key art: a young man in a dark jacket and a girl with a bow on a deserted night street by a station

Spirit Hunter: NG

The urban legends are real, and they have followed you home.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Sucker for Love: Crush Landing key art: Hheily, a woman with a green face, swirling rainbow body and a wide black hat, stands in a night-time apartment above the city

Multiple endings

Sucker for Love: Crush Landing

A comet crashes into your apartment, and she is hungry.

PC

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

Sucker for Love: First Date key art: Ln'eta, a green Cthulhu-like girl with pink hair and bat wings, beside the masked Estir in a yellow dress under cherry blossoms

Multiple endings

Sucker for Love: First Date

Put the love in Lovecraft, one ritual at a time.

PC / Switch

TELEFORUM key art: the widow sits in shadow in an armchair beside a lamp, a side table and a bookcase, in a dark wallpapered room

TELEFORUM

A widow, an interview, and the tape you really came for.

PC / Mac

The Chrono Jotter key art: two schoolgirls in dark uniforms mirrored inside an ornate clock-like frame

The Chrono Jotter

Rewind time after every murder at a derelict forest school.

PC

The House in Fata Morgana key art: the dark-haired Maid holds a pale white-haired girl close while a red, ghostly hand reaches over her head

The House in Fata Morgana

A cursed mansion, a Maid with jade eyes, and a thousand years of tragedy behind its doors.

PC / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

The Letter screenshot: a sheet of paper covered in the words Help Me written in blood, with a frightened Isabella below

Multiple endings

The Letter - Horror Visual Novel

Seven people, one letter, and a curse that has waited centuries.

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

The Song of Saya key art: Saya, a girl with long dark green hair in a white dress, with pale glowing wings against a starry sky

The Song of Saya

A love story told through the eyes of a man who sees only flesh.

PC

Tiny Bunny key art: a frightened girl with pale hair clutches her blanket while a dark shape with glowing eyes watches from the window behind her

Tiny Bunny

A snowbound forest town where the children keep going missing.

PC / Mac

Umineko Answer Arcs screenshot: a man in a red coat and a woman in a dark gown, with the line He'll be reported missing

Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs

Back to Rokkenjima for the second half of the witch's murders.

PC / Mac / Linux

Beatrice, a blonde woman in an ornate black and orange gown, holding a long pipe in a dark purple-lit mansion room

Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs

An island, eighteen relatives, a fortune in gold, and a witch who may be the killer.

PC / Mac / Linux

Winion Virus screenshot: a masked figure with a single red eye stands in a red pit surrounded by crowds of grey creatures

Winion Virus

Raise cute creatures inside your computer, then find what the bug really is.

PC / Mac

Without a Dawn key art: a dim sun setting over dark water, drawn in tiny brown text characters

Without a Dawn

A remote cabin, a sleepless night, and a silence that takes shape.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Your Turn To Die key art: Sara in a blue school blazer stands in front of the other ten captives, drawn in manga style

Multiple endings

Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-

Eleven captives, one vote, and someone has to die.

PC

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games key art: Junpei and Sigma in anime style beside the hooded, gas-masked figure of Zero

Multiple endings

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

Nine strangers, nine doors, and a masked kidnapper's game of life and death.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox