Short horror games on Steam | Horror Games to Play

Aka Manto key art: a figure in a red hood and white mask raising a knife beside the title in Japanese, a red school classroom behind

Survival

[Chilla's Art] Aka Manto | 赤マント

Escape an old school while the red-cloaked spirit hunts you, on one life.

PC

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

Psychological

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

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

PC

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

Psychological

[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

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達

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

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

Psychological

[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

Psychological

[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

Psychological

[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

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] The Kidnap | 誘拐事件

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

PC

Yuki Onna key art: the pale hand of a woman in a white kimono reaching out in the dark

Survival

[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女

Rescue three children from an abandoned mountain inn, on one life.

PC

Clap Clap art: a two-storey suburban house at night with a lit porch, a red-lit upstairs window and a street lamp

Short

[Nightmare Files] Clap Clap

House-sit a dark 1980s home where the lights only come on when you clap.

PC

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

Psychological

A Wolf in Autumn

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

PC

Puzzle horror

Amanda the Adventurer

Play your aunt's old cartoon tapes. Do what Amanda says.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Short

Andy's Apple Farm

A cheerful 1980s farm game that starts to glitch.

PC

Anemoiapolis key art: a lone green tree on a grassy field under a blue sky that looks like crumpled paper

Short

Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1

Lost in an empty mall and endless pools, with no way out but forward.

PC

Psychological

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face

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

PC

Short

Befriended Curse

A summer job in a house in the woods, a missing employer and an old woman among the trees.

PC

Psychological

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Become an ordinary worker in an ordinary house.

Browser / PC

A man in a tuxedo with a blank white mask and red eyes standing in the aisle of a grimy night bus

Short

Bloodwash

A pregnant student, a killer loose in the city, and a late-night trip to the laundromat.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Co-op

Buckshot Roulette

Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun, against The Dealer or your friends.

PC / Linux / Xbox

CARIMARA: a heron standing in a moonlit pond at the end of an overgrown garden path, with a stone frog in the foreground

Short

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

A mute little sorcerer, a murmuring house and the questions you should not ask.

PC / Mac

Survival

Choo-Choo Charles

Ride an old engine around a foggy island hunted by a spider-legged train.

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

Multiple endings

Clock Tower: Rewind

The 1995 point-and-click classic: run and hide from the Scissorman.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Short

CONCRETE BURIAL

A knight, a gun that drinks her blood, and a crypt that watches.

PC

Short

Crawlspace

Crawl under a house in VR to fetch dolls that do not want to come back.

PC / VR

Psychological

CROWDED. FOLLOWED.

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

PC

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

Psychological

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

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

PC / VR

Psychological

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

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

PC / Linux

Psychological

DISTRAINT 2

A side-scrolling nightmare about a man's guilt and what he sold to get ahead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

Dread Fields

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

PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone

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

PC

Psychological

Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout

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

PC / PlayStation

Psychological

Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike

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

PC

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

Psychological

Find Yourself

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

PC

Psychological

Fingerbones

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

PC / Mac

FNAF

Five Nights at Freddy's

Five nights in a pizzeria office, watching animatronics on the cameras.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Psychological

From The Darkness

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

PC

Short

Greed Stays Home

Another day, another empty house in a village where people disappeared.

PC

Short

Home Safety Hotline

Answer the phones at a 1990s pest hotline. Some pests are not pests.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

Psychological

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

Psychological

I'm on Observation Duty 2

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

PC / Mac / Linux

Short

Idols of Ash

Climb down into the dark while something huge climbs after you.

PC / Mac / Linux

Indigo Park key art: Rambley the cartoon raccoon in a red scarf waving beside the dark, blue-lit entrance of the park

Puzzle horror

Indigo Park: Chapter 1

Explore a closed theme park with its cartoon guide, and run from what shut it.

PC

Short

Invasion of The Halloween Fiends

Answer the door on Halloween night. Not every trick-or-treater is friendly.

PC

Psychological

Iron Lung

Pilot a windowless submarine through an ocean of blood, photographing what you cannot see.

PC / PlayStation / Switch / Android

Multiple endings

Jake's Halloween Night

October 31: get Jake ready for a killer Halloween party.

Browser / PC

Psychological

KinitoPET

A friendly desktop pet from the early 2000s that wants to be your only friend.

PC

Psychological

Krypta FM

Photograph the traces of a cryptid around a dark Polish village in 2006.

PC

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[Chilla's Art] Aka Manto | 赤マント

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

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

[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達

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

[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件

[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車

[Chilla's Art] The Kidnap | 誘拐事件

[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女

[Nightmare Files] Clap Clap

A Wolf in Autumn

Amanda the Adventurer

Andy's Apple Farm

Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face

Befriended Curse

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Bloodwash

Buckshot Roulette

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

Choo-Choo Charles

Clock Tower: Rewind

CONCRETE BURIAL

Crawlspace

CROWDED. FOLLOWED.

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

DISTRAINT 2

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

Dread Fields

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone

Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout

Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike

Find Yourself

Fingerbones

Five Nights at Freddy's

From The Darkness

Greed Stays Home

Home Safety Hotline

I'm on Observation Duty

I'm on Observation Duty 2

Idols of Ash

Indigo Park: Chapter 1

Invasion of The Halloween Fiends

Iron Lung

Jake's Halloween Night

KinitoPET

Krypta FM

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