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259 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.

259 games

All psychological horror games on steam

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 LETTER DEPT. screenshot: a scanned photo on an old monitor while the typed line reads Tonight I watched the light leave their eyes

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

Type up the lost mail. Some of it seems to be writing back.

PC / Linux

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

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

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition key art: Price in a shirt and tie among his bosses, a couple with teacups and an old woman with a rabbit, under a looming red elephant

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

Seize an old woman's home, then pay the price for it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

Dollmare art: two baby dolls in blue shirts at either side of a black background, the left one dirty and grinning with orange eyes

Dollmare

Check every doll on the line, and keep the doors closed.

PC

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

Dread Fields key art: a pale woman with burning eyes and dark hair in front of a field of sunflowers

Dread Fields

A quiet farm in the middle of nowhere, and what its last owner buried.

PC / Mac / Linux

DREDGE key art: a small fishing boat with lit windows beside a red and white lighthouse under a dark sky, with tentacles and strange fish in the green water below

DREDGE

A quiet fishing adventure with a cosmic horror in the deep.

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

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

Father's Day screenshot: a lit carousel with a white horse in an overgrown fairground at night

Father's Day

A grieving father's plan to bring his family back, told by three people.

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

Fears to Fathom - Carson House screenshot: a grainy security camera feed of a dark hallway labelled Camera 06

Fears to Fathom - Carson House

House-sit a stranger's home for the weekend and watch the cameras.

PC

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone screenshot: a dark bedroom with a curtained window looking out at a house across the street

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone

Home alone for the weekend, Miles slowly realises he is not.

PC

Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout art: a fire lookout tower with lit windows above a dark pine forest at night

Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout

A new fire lookout, a tower in the woods, and the feeling that something is off.

PC / PlayStation

Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike artwork: a car with red tail lights parked on a dark forest road at night

Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike

A long way home at night, a lonely gas station and a motel stay.

PC

A lonely wooden gas station at night among dark pine trees, its tall price sign lit beside the road

Fears to Fathom - Scratch Creek

A couple's move goes wrong in a decrepit small town. Survive it together.

PC

A snowy small-town street at night with lit wooden houses and bare trees

Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway

A winter weekend rental with friends, told by the one who made it out.

PC

The inside of an empty subway car under fluorescent lights, with litter on the floor and an orange destination sign

Find Yourself

Walk the empty cars of a night subway, and face the fears of a childhood.

PC

A large empty room in Fingerbones lit gold by sunlight through the windows, with a table and old furniture in the haze

Fingerbones

An abandoned building, scattered notes, and a story you will wish you had not read.

PC / Mac

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

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

From The Darkness key art: a blood-smeared metal door at the end of a dark, wallpapered hall

From The Darkness

Fetch the family album from grandfather's old flat, and meet what lives in its dark.

PC

A body draped over a pile of old wheelchairs under a dark TV in a decaying asylum room, a phone held up in the foreground

GET EVEN

A girl, a chair, a bomb, and an asylum where you relive it all.

PC

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

GYLT key art: Sally, a girl in a red jacket, shields a younger boy from a huge toothed monster reaching for them with long claws

GYLT

A girl, her missing cousin and a town shaped by her fears.

PC

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

Heartworm key art: Sam stands before a fogbound house behind a chain-link fence

Heartworm

Cross into a world of memories with only a camera to fight back.

PC

Hellblade II: Senua's Saga key art: Senua's grim, dirt-streaked face surrounded by many hands reaching from the darkness to touch her head

Hellblade II: Senua's Saga

Senua's journey through the myths and horrors of Viking Iceland.

PC / Xbox / PlayStation

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice key art: Senua in silhouette stands among wildflowers before a great tree lit by golden sunlight and falling leaves

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Walk into Viking Hell with the voices in your head.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Hello Charlotte EP2 key art: Charlotte, a pale girl drawn in black and white, cries against a dark background

Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo

Steer your puppet through the House, the School and a Trial nobody escapes.

PC

Hello Charlotte EP3 key art: a white scale on a red background, one pan holding a cluster of eyed creatures and the other a small seated girl

Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End

Charlotte's story ends, and begins, in the House one last time.

PC

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

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream key art: glowing blue circuit-board lines on a black background

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Five prisoners of an insane computer, each sent through a nightmare of their own past.

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

Night-vision camera view of a kitchen and dining area with the anomaly report menu open, listing rooms and an abyss presence type

I'm on Observation Duty

Watch the cameras all night and report anything that changes.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone

Security camera view of a dim living room with a fireplace and a chessboard, the anomaly report menu open with types such as Ghost, Intruder and Object movement

I'm on Observation Duty 2

A whole house on camera this time, and Timothy is back.

PC / Mac / Linux

A dark living room with green sofas around a glass coffee table, seen from inside the house

I'm on Observation Duty 3

No cameras this time: walk the haunted house yourself and photograph what changed.

PC / Mac / Linux / VR

I'm on Observation Duty 4 screenshot: a black-and-white camera view of a dark gallery with portraits on every wall and a desk with a telephone

I'm on Observation Duty 4

Watch a house on camera all night and report everything that changes.

PC / Mac / Linux

I'm on Observation Duty 5 screenshot: a black-and-white camera view of a house entrance hall and staircase, with a timestamp and report button

I'm on Observation Duty 5

Six places, one night each, and something different every time you switch cameras.

PC / Mac / Linux

A security camera view of a lakeside cottage with a red wall, a sauna door, deck chairs and a rowing boat by a wooden dock

I'm on Observation Duty 6

Six places, one night shift, and something different on every camera.

PC / Mac / Linux

Camera view of an indoor pool with a green spiral waterslide, timestamped 01:18 and labelled Waterslide

I'm on Observation Duty 7

Six new places on camera, one night shift each, and paranoia to fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Camera view labelled Catwalk: two figures stand at the end of a dim fashion runway between rows of red seats

I'm on Observation Duty 8

A catwalk, a stable, the deep sea: six more nights on the cameras.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Ib screenshot: visitors stand around a large roped-off painting of a fanged deep-sea fish in a white gallery room, with a caption about a world where man can never stand

Ib

Escape an art gallery whose paintings have come alive.

PC / Switch / PlayStation

IMSCARED art: a thin white figure with long hair standing on a black background with large pixelated shapes

IMSCARED

A pixelated nightmare that crashes on purpose and leaves notes on your desktop.

PC / Android

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