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Psychological horror games on Steam

256 psychological horror games on Steam, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. The fear comes mainly from the mind: dread, unreliable perception, guilt, isolation or a reality that comes apart, rather than from fighting monsters. A game with one such scene in an action game does not count.

256 games

All psychological horror games on steam

Inunaki Tunnel key art: the arched tunnel mouth blocked with graffiti-covered concrete blocks, seen through VHS noise

[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル

Walk to Japan's most notorious sealed tunnel on a VHS camcorder.

PC

Jisatsu key art: a camcorder resting on old wooden stairs, a pair of bare legs standing in the dark at the top

[Chilla's Art] Jisatsu | 自撮

Chilla's Art's found-footage mockumentary in derelict Japanese houses.

PC

Missing Children key art: an empty red playground swing hanging over dark wet ground at night

[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明

A rough detective searches a Japanese town for missing children.

PC

Night Delivery key art: a dark apartment doorway beside a staircase, washed in purple VHS light

[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達

One apartment block, a stack of boxes, and someone behind you.

PC

Night Security key art: a guard's silhouette in a lit office window, with a red glow in the dark beside it

[Chilla's Art] Night Security | 夜間警備

Lock up the building floor by floor. The last guard never came back.

PC

Parasocial key art: a streamer in headphones and a hoodie sits at her glowing monitor by a window over a night city

[Chilla's Art] Parasocial

You stream for strangers. One of them knows where you live.

PC

An attendant with a snack trolley walks down a dim bullet-train car between rows of brown seats

[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

The Closing Shift key art: the Chilla's Coffee shop sign at night, with a barista in a green apron looking back over her shoulder

[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件

Make the coffee, close the shop, and wonder who is watching.

PC

The Convenience Store key art: a Japanese convenience store glowing under its white sign on a dark night street

[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

The Ghost Train key art: the inside of a Japanese commuter train with pink seats and a few passengers in dim light

[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車

A salaryman's ride home on a train that goes somewhere wrong.

PC

The Kidnap key art: a small white van on a wet road through a misty cedar forest

[Chilla's Art] The Kidnap | 誘拐事件

A third-grade boy, an empty home, and the day someone takes him.

PC

A grey, misty swamp with hanging moss and dark tree trunks

A Chair in a Room: Greenwater

Wake in the Greenwater Institute with no memory, and dig through your own past in VR.

PC / VR / PlayStation

A fenced garden in an autumn forest, the trees glowing red and orange in low sunlight

A Wolf in Autumn

A locked shed, a lovely autumn forest, and wolves howling closer.

PC

A.I.L.A screenshot: a tall figure with a skull face and a crown of branches stands among dark trees at night

A.I.L.A

Test an AI that builds horror games out of your fears.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

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

Akai Onna key art: the pale woman in a red dress standing in a dark apartment doorway, face in shadow, with a VHS grain

Akai Onna

You passed a woman in red on the way home. Now someone is always watching.

PC

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

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs key art: a painted Victorian engine room of brass pipes, gauges and a ladder beside a red armchair, with a round hatch smeared with blood

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Descend into the infernal machine beneath an industrialist's factory.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: Rebirth key art: Tasi holds up a lit match, a pale clawed creature lurking in the dark beside her

Amnesia: Rebirth

Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent art: a pale green stone hall in Brennenburg Castle with a carved fountain at its centre

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Among Ashes key art: a pale girl with closed eyes in a dark sweater surrounded by huge orange-lit hands reaching from the dark, with glitched pixels

Among Ashes

A cursed horror game found online, and it is playing you back.

PC

Among the Sleep key art: a toddler in starry pyjamas hugs a teddy bear on a crescent moon that drips into a shadow with glowing eyes

Among the Sleep

Crawl through a nightmare house as a toddler searching for your mother.

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

Angels of Death key art: blonde Ray in a striped top beside bandaged Zack in a bloodstained hooded coat, grinning in a dark corridor

Angels of Death

A girl and a killer make a promise to escape a sealed building together.

PC

Anomaly Company art: two crew members in orange hazmat suits, one in a gas mask, inside a blue-lit field hut

Anomaly Company

Memorise the room, spot what changed and decide with your crew.

PC

Anthology Of The Killer key art: BB, a small pink-haired girl, stands at the end of a line of grotesque cartoon characters, some covered in blood

Anthology Of The Killer

A zine writer, a city of serial killers and a world that runs on dream logic.

PC / Linux

At Home Alone Final key art: a pale girl holding a black crow, drawn over the pink pixel-art living room

At Home Alone Final

A little girl home alone, a quiet house, and visitors who should not be there.

PC

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

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face key art: a low-poly woman with a frightened face stands by a bed in a dim room with patterned wallpaper

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face

The bedtime figure who rewards good children has come to Ron's apartment.

PC

Blair Witch key art: the silhouette of a man and his dog walking into a forest washed in red, a stick-figure shape formed by the branches above, a wrecked truck and a tent nearby

Blair Witch

Lose yourself in the Black Hills Forest, with only your dog to trust.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

blank_01 cover: the title in thin capitals above a single large cartoon eye on a white background

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Become an ordinary worker in an ordinary house.

Browser / 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

Call of Cthulhu screenshot: robed cultists and candles around a tall crystal in a dark cave, with a strange figure in the foreground

Call of Cthulhu

A 1924 investigation on a whaling island, where the truth costs you your mind.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CAPTURED key art: a dark figure with small white eyes and a grin peers around a doorway, with tentacles curling in the grainy camcorder light

CAPTURED

Your own home has become an endless hallway. Film what has changed to get out.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

CAPTURED 2 camera view framing a glowing grandfather clock in a dim office as an anomaly to capture

CAPTURED 2

Trapped in a home that loops, with a camera and a flashlight.

PC

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

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

Corpse Party: Blood Drive screenshot: Ayumi holds a light in a gore-smeared school corridor as a shadow with red eyes waits behind her

Corpse Party: Blood Drive

Go back into Heavenly Host for the book that might bring the dead back.

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

Crimson Snow key art: a pale red-haired woman with blood running from a wide smile, beside a snowbound house at night

Crimson Snow

Christmas night in a house where your obsessed ex is waiting.

PC

CROWDED. FOLLOWED. key art: a painted crowd of grey figures in a station, with a burst of red light at its centre

CROWDED. FOLLOWED.

Keep the briefcase away from something that could be anyone in the crowd.

PC

Cry of Fear screenshot: a young man in a white hoodie stands under a street lamp on a dark town street with a police car behind him

Cry of Fear

A free psychological horror game in a nightmarish Scandinavian town at night.

PC

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

Dagon screenshot: dark tentacles rise from a black, fish-strewn mud flat beside a half-sunken ship hull

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

Walk through Lovecraft's Dagon, from a morphine addict's room to the sea floor.

PC / VR

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

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