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New Horror Games of 2026: The Releases Worth Playing

2026 has been a strong year for horror, from big series returns like Resident Evil Requiem and the Fatal Frame II remake to small games that players rate higher still. These are this year's releases on the site, chosen by how players and critics rate them, best first.

The games

  1. Resident Evil Requiem art: Grace Ashcroft, with pale, tousled hair and a brown leather jacket, looks sideways on a grey city street SurvivalResident Evil RequiemCapcom's mainline Resident Evil of 2026, with Grace Ashcroft and Leon Kennedy and a camera you can switch between first and third person.
  2. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake key art: the twins Mio and Mayu sit back to back on dark rocks among glowing red butterflies beside the game's logo SurvivalFATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKEA full remake of the 2003 ghost story: twin sisters in a village of vengeful spirits, fought with the Camera Obscura.
  3. REANIMAL key art: two children row a small lit boat across dark floodwater past wrecked ships and telephone poles, under a giant sheep-headed creature looming out of the stormy sky PsychologicalREANIMALFrom the team behind Little Nightmares: a brother and sister cross a flooded island of monsters, alone or in co-op.
  4. MOLE cover: the title in amber pixel letters on a red navigation grid splashed with blood, framed by a riveted porthole PsychologicalMOLEA drilling vessel with its crew gone and a Signal calling from below, run by hand through gauges and terminals.
  5. Servant of the Lake key art: the silhouettes of a horse-drawn carriage and a servant holding a covered tray before a tall house, against green patterned wallpaper PsychologicalServant of the LakeRusty Lake's 2026 game: serve the Vanderboom family in their alchemy, through unsettling rituals and puzzles; one of the year's best-rated horror games.
  6. Endacopia key art: a round-headed boy in a red cap beside a signpost with a worried face, against a starry black sky PsychologicalEndacopiaA surreal point-and-click about a boy who has lost his senses, with monsters and secrets under a cheerful surface.
  7. Pathologic 3 key art: a young man's face seen through the pieces of a shattered mirror PsychologicalPathologic 3Twelve days to save a plague town as a doctor who can rewind time to fix his mistakes.
  8. Crisol: Theater of Idols key art: a weeping, crowned statue of a woman with a skeletal ribcage, framed by blades, candles and iron gates in red and black SurvivalCrisol: Theater of IdolsSurvival horror on a cursed Spanish island where religious statues come to life and your gun fires your own blood.
  9. Key art with the title The Incident at Galley House over a dark country house on a hill at night, a 1930s car parked on the muddy track below PsychologicalThe Incident at Galley HouseReplay echoes of a 1936 massacre and work out who everyone was and how they died.
  10. LOVE ETERNAL key art: a giant red woman with raised arms looms over blue suburban houses and pine trees at night PsychologicalLOVE ETERNALA psychological horror platformer: a stolen child crosses a castle of bitter memories in a lonely god's realm.
  11. Idols of Ash key art: two pixelated red hands reaching toward each other around the white title on black PS1Idols of AshA short climbing horror game: descend thousands of metres into the dark while something huge hunts you.
  12. KLETKA key art: a gas-masked figure holding a wrench and a gas-masked creature in a cone-like hood, either side of a giant open red mouth with teeth Co-opKLETKACo-op for up to six: ride a living elevator down an endless building and keep it fed.
  13. Mama's Sleeping Angels art: four players in Y2K outfits pose in a dark graffiti alley, with red fleshy monsters behind a fence Co-opMama's Sleeping AngelsCo-op for up to four in a hungry goddess's procedurally generated dreams, bringing back cursed objects to pay your way out.
  14. The Sinking City 2 key art: a man in a fedora with a shotgun on his back stands waist-deep in floodwater under an Arkham cemetery arch, wrapped by rising tentacles SurvivalThe Sinking City 2Survival horror in a drowned 1920s Arkham, by foot and by skiff, against Lovecraftian creatures.
  15. End of Abyss key art: Cel in an old diving-style suit with a glowing cyan faceplate stands small at the bottom of a huge, misty circular metal tunnel SurvivalEnd of AbyssA sci-fi survival horror Metroidvania from former Little Nightmares developers: a technician alone in a vast underground facility of creatures that are not fully human (1 October).
  16. Key art of the cast posed over the sea, half underwater beside a mermaid's tail, with the PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse logo PsychologicalPARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's CurseSquare Enix's horror mystery sequel: curses fall on an island in Ise Bay after a diver meets his double.
  17. Iron Blight key art: a hooded man in a green coat at a wooden doorway, grabbed by pale, bloodied hands SurvivalIron BlightOld-style survival horror in a rainy Eastern Bloc town, counting every bullet on the search for a missing wife.
  18. lily's world XD key art: glitchy pastel early-2000s desktop windows with pixel icons around a pixelated photo of a dark-haired girl with a black bar over her eyes Psychologicallily's world XDA missing girl's 2004 laptop, her blog and chats, and messages that start arriving for you.
  19. MOLDRISE key art: a grinning blue-skinned hooded figure peeks in beside the title in red, fleshy, spiked letters on a dark background PsychologicalMOLDRISEA mould in your head orders you up thirty floors of an apartment block, one failed climb at a time.
  20. Static Dread: The Submarine key art: a captain with glowing white glasses, a submarine and red tentacles coiled around him in dark green water PsychologicalStatic Dread: The SubmarineKeep a submarine crew sane while something vast moves on the sonar, from the makers of Static Dread: The Lighthouse.
  21. I Hate This Place key art: a giant horned skull creature with glowing eyes looms over a lit wooden cabin in a dark pine forest SurvivalI Hate This PlaceIsometric survival horror from the comic series: scavenge a cursed ranch by day and hide from creatures that hunt by sound at night.
  22. ARSONATE library art: a figure in a gas mask with one red eye sits at a desk beside a radio, a chain-link fence and a forest fire behind Co-opARSONATEA first-person card game of chance in a burning fire tower against a masked host, inspired by Buckshot Roulette, with three endings.
  23. Dread Fields key art: a pale woman with glowing eyes and long dark hair before a wooden fence and a field of sunflowers, some with faces PsychologicalDread FieldsA short folk horror on an isolated farm, where the last owner's secrets rise out of the ground.
  24. The Dark Rites of Arkham key art: a detective in a fedora holds a revolver as huge toothed jaws and tentacles loom out of a blue night behind him 2D horrorThe Dark Rites of ArkhamA pixel-art detective story of a sealed-room ritual murder in Arkham and witches who escaped Salem.
  25. Angel Engine key art: the title beside a pale skull-like face and a bloodied figure strapped into a metal frame under robotic syringe arms Night shiftAngel EngineSealed in an operating room, you operate on comatose test subjects against the clock while fending off demons.
  26. Shift At Midnight key art: a grinning, wide-eyed monster with clawed hands leans over a gas station till, holding up an ID card that reads Real Human Co-opShift At MidnightServe night customers, check their IDs and shoot the ones who are not human, alone or with friends.
  27. Wicked Seed key art: Ella raises a handgun and looks over her shoulder in a dark forest framed by red flowers and thorny red branches SurvivalWicked SeedA third-person horror RPG of foggy woods, empty streets and monsters, with survival horror roots.
  28. Tormentum II key art: a pale, dark-haired woman in thorned black armour sitting cross-legged in a red-lit chamber of bone and biomechanical shapes PsychologicalTormentum IIA dark point-and-click: wake a prisoner inside the world you created.
  29. DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain key art: a flooded city under a blood-red sky and a lighthouse, divers drifting among sunken towers toward spiked sea monsters SurvivalDIVE or DIE - Children of RainDive into a drowned abyss for relics before the black rain floods the world.
  30. GRAIN ROT key art: the game's logo above three wooden puppet characters with goggles and glowing chest cores in a dark ruin Co-opGRAIN ROTTake a crew down a cursed elevator into ruins of wooden bodies, where the Rot grows worse the deeper you go.
  31. Twisted Tower key art: a man in a bloodied shirt holding a mallet before a dark carnival tower, a ferris wheel and two grinning bear mascots Action horrorTwisted TowerA shooter up an abandoned 1950s resort tower, past its twisted mascots.
  32. Buck's Gas n Go, a wooden gas station and repair shop at night among pines, its lit sign reading Out of Gas beside an old wrecked car PsychologicalFears to Fathom - Scratch CreekThe series' first two-player episode: a couple's move to a decrepit small town goes wrong.
  33. The 7th Guest Remake key art: Stauf's Victorian mansion under a purple, stormy sky, a figure standing in a lit upper window Puzzle horrorThe 7th Guest RemakeA remake of the 1993 puzzle mansion: six guests, a toymaker and a puzzle in every room.
  34. Halloween: The Game key art: Michael Myers' pale mask lit in blue against black, small figures of survivors at his chest Co-opHalloween: The GameHunt Haddonfield as Michael Myers in 1978, or try to survive him with friends; its Steam reviews are mixed.
  35. SILENT HILL: Townfall key art PsychologicalSILENT HILL: TownfallThe series in first person in a fog-bound Scottish island town; its Steam reviews are mixed.
  36. CAPTURED 2 key art: a cracked white toy telephone with a grin of sharp, bloody teeth and tentacles, in a dark blue hallway of doors PsychologicalCAPTURED 2A 2026 anomaly game players rate very highly: a looping apartment by flashlight, anomalies to photograph and creatures with rules.
  37. Directive 8020 key art: a dirt-streaked woman in a spacesuit in a dim purple corridor with fleshy growths, beside the title Co-opDirective 8020Supermassive's 2026 Dark Pictures game: a colony ship, an alien that copies its prey and choices that decide who lives.
  38. Feed The Pit key art: black silhouettes of people and a horned yellow-eyed creature falling against a red sky toward a row of black spikes Puzzle horrorFeed The PitHunt the wealthy through a dark forest for a cult's Pit, while a new monster stalks each mission; one of the year's best-rated small games.
  39. Comatose key art: a figure and a small dog on a path face a foggy village with a church steeple and bare trees, under the white title PsychologicalComatoseRetro survival horror inside a woman's unconscious, a fog-bound town of monsters and buried memories, in Early Access.
  40. Retail Hell key art: a grinning pale monster reaches out from behind the shop window toward a soda can and cash on the counter, beside the title PsychologicalRetail HellThe only clerk of a convenience store between life and death, serving grotesque dead customers on an endless shift.

The big releases first. Resident Evil Requiem is Capcom's mainline game of the year, with Grace Ashcroft and Leon Kennedy and a camera you can switch between first and third person, and it is one of the best-reviewed horror games on Steam this year. The FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly remake rebuilds the 2003 ghost story of twin sisters in a village of vengeful spirits, and REANIMAL, from the team behind Little Nightmares, sends a brother and sister across a flooded island of monsters, alone or in co-op. SILENT HILL: Townfall moved the series to first person in a Scottish island town; its Steam reviews are mixed, with praise for the setting and complaints about pacing. Directive 8020, the new Dark Pictures game from Supermassive, crash-lands a colony crew on an alien world where something copies their faces; its Steam reviews are mixed too, but it can be played with up to five on one sofa.

Some of the year's most loved horror is small. MOLE puts you at the controls of a drilling vessel whose crew has vanished, working its gauges by hand as a Signal calls from below. Endacopia is a surreal point-and-click about a boy who has lost his senses, and Idols of Ash is a short climbing game down into the dark with something huge behind you. The Incident at Galley House, from the makers of The Roottrees are Dead, is a deduction game about a 1936 massacre.

Rusty Lake's Servant of the Lake is one of the best-rated games of the year: you serve the Vanderboom family in their alchemy, through the studio's unsettling rituals and puzzles. The Dark Rites of Arkham is a pixel-art detective story of a sealed-room ritual murder and witches who escaped Salem, and Tormentum II is a dark point-and-click in which you wake a prisoner inside a world you made.

LOVE ETERNAL is a psychological horror platformer about a child stolen by a lonely god, crossing more than a hundred screens of traps in a castle built of bitter memories, and Angel Engine seals you in an operating room in a ruined future, working on comatose test subjects against the clock while demons come for you.

End of Abyss, released on 1 October by a studio founded by former Little Nightmares developers, is a sci-fi survival horror Metroidvania in a vast underground facility, on PlayStation, Xbox and the Epic Games Store. I Hate This Place turns the comic series into isometric survival horror where creatures hunt by sound after dark.

For longer games, Pathologic 3 gives you twelve days to save a plague town and the power to rewind time, The Sinking City 2 is survival horror in a drowned 1920s Arkham, and Crisol: Theater of Idols arms you with a gun that fires your own blood on a cursed Spanish island. Iron Blight is the pick for fans of old-style survival horror. Wicked Seed is a third-person horror RPG of foggy woods and empty streets with survival horror roots, and DIVE or DIE: Children of Rain sends you down into a drowned abyss for relics before the black rain floods everything.

For something different, KLETKA is co-op for up to six in a hungry elevator, lily's world XD is a missing girl's 2004 laptop, MOLDRISE is a climb up an apartment block driven by a mould in your head, Static Dread: The Submarine keeps a crew sane under the sea, and ARSONATE is a card game of chance in a fire tower against a host in a gas mask, where every card you flip spreads the forest fire towards you. CAPTURED 2 is one of the year's best-rated anomaly games, a looping late-90s apartment you search by flashlight and photograph.

With friends, Shift At Midnight has you serving night customers at a store, checking their IDs and shooting the ones who are not human, and it is among the most reviewed horror games of the year. GRAIN ROT takes a crew down a cursed elevator into ruins of wooden bodies, Fears to Fathom: Scratch Creek is the series' first two-player episode, and Halloween: The Game lets one player hunt Haddonfield as Michael Myers while the others try to survive him; its Steam reviews are mixed. Mama's Sleeping Angels takes up to four friends through a hungry goddess's dreams.

Two more for one player: Twisted Tower is a shooter up an abandoned 1950s resort tower full of twisted mascots, and The 7th Guest Remake rebuilds the 1993 puzzle mansion of a toymaker and his six guests.

More of the year's small, well-rated horror: Feed The Pit sends you into a dark forest to hunt the wealthy for a cult while a new monster stalks every mission, and Comatose, in Early Access, is retro survival horror inside a woman's unconscious mind. Retail Hell makes you the only clerk of a convenience store between life and death, Photomaly hands you your late father's photo studio and the wrong things in its prints, and [HERROR] Gas Station Case is a 1999 night shift at a remote gas station as people vanish in the woods. Heaven Does Not Respond is analog horror on a dead man's corrupted desktop, and The Skin Stapler a PSX-style grindhouse hunt for a serial killer.

Several of the year's small releases are rated almost perfectly by the players who found them. Ritus Exorcismus sends a medieval priest from village to village to drive out possessions with a rite book and holy relics, in pixel art. Project Looking Glass projects a grieving woman into the astral plane for a 1963 government programme, seen through the glow of a Cold War monitor. Subversive Memories is retro survival horror in an abandoned military base from Brazil's dictatorship, and HR: Human Remains makes you an office clerk filling in tasks for the demons who won the war. Mycelium: The Silent Contract is co-op extraction horror in an ever-changing forest, in Early Access. Touch of Madness is 1-bit 2D survival horror inside a man's nightmare, Fugaz has you play a flute to find a way out of a place the darkness is eating, InVein, free, ties you to an IV stand in a decaying hospital at night, and Camp Whittlewood is a short pixel-art RPG about a campfire story that starts to come true.

If you play one, play Resident Evil Requiem; if you want something smaller and stranger, start with MOLE, Endacopia or Servant of the Lake.

Questions

What is the best-reviewed horror game of 2026?

Among big releases, Resident Evil Requiem, with 96% positive from over 180,000 Steam reviews. Among smaller games, Endacopia and MOLE are rated even higher by players.

Are there new co-op horror games in 2026?

Yes: KLETKA for up to six players, REANIMAL for two, Shift At Midnight and GRAIN ROT for groups online, and Halloween: The Game, where one player is Michael Myers.

Is there a new Silent Hill in 2026?

Yes. SILENT HILL: Townfall came out on 24 September 2026 on PS5 and PC, a first-person story set in a Scottish island town in 1996; its Steam reviews are mixed.

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