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514 Horror games reviewed and scored, best first.
514 reviews
A card-based deckbuilder that spends its first act convincing you it's a horror-tinged roguelike, then spends the next two acts proving that was never the whole game — a genre-shifting puzzle box from Daniel Mullins Games that has held a 96.8% Overwhelmingly Positive rating across 134,000-plus Steam reviews for nearly five years, even as a consistent minority feels misled by its own store page.
9 / 10
A turn-based RPG that splits its time between a colourful dream world and a grounded, emotionally heavy reality, built around themes of grief and mental health with a level of care that's earned it one of the most devoted followings of any recent indie RPG.
9 / 10
A philosophical sci-fi horror game about consciousness, identity and what survives an underwater apocalypse — nine years on, still Overwhelmingly Positive, and still honestly criticized by a consistent minority for gameplay that some feel gets in the story's way.
9 / 10
An open-world survival game that strips out weapons almost entirely and replaces them with an oxygen gauge, a sound cue you can't place, and a lot of very dark water. Eight years after full release, it's still the best argument that dread works better than a sword.
9 / 10
roccay's surreal point-and-click psychological horror about a stranded research team on a mysterious island earns a near-perfect "Very Positive" score for its unforgettable art, dense cosmic-horror storytelling, and unsettling atmosphere, with only its occasionally obscure puzzle logic drawing real criticism.
9 / 10
A Detective Story Wrapped Around a Predatory Loan Money for Girls: Amortized casts you as a girl detective spending a sweltering summer trying to save her mother from a predatory l
8.6 / 10
A point-and-click adventure dressed as a 1996 educational CD-ROM, with something wrong underneath it. One of the highest-rated games on Steam this year at 99% positive — and its single-save-file design is the reason that number isn't higher still.
8.5 / 10
A free horror-fantasy visual novel about a messy, thirty-something friend group dragged back into the wish-granting wonderland of their childhood — remastered and re-released this July to a genuinely spotless review record.
8.5 / 10
A masterfully modernized remake of one of gaming's most influential horror games — briefly and seriously undermined in early 2026 by a new anti-piracy DRM that tanked performance on an already three-year-old game, until Capcom reversed it within a month.
8.5 / 10
A gas station job simulator where the real task is deciding, customer by customer, who's human — and living with what happens when you get it wrong in either direction.
8.5 / 10
A retro survival horror game that wears its Resident Evil and Silent Hill influences openly and still manages real originality — beloved for its atmosphere, queer storytelling and puzzle design, with one honest recurring complaint about how tedious that puzzle design gets.
8.5 / 10
An Overwhelmingly Positive branching-narrative horror visual novel with a cult following rare even by the genre's standards, whose thoughtful minority of critics raise a real, specific argument — that its time-loop structure grows repetitive and its choices funnel into fewer meaningfully distinct outcomes than the premise implies.
8.5 / 10
Checking Into Brain World Rots Snuggle Nightmare casts you as Max Brush, an independent journalist who sneaks into the shuttered Brain World Rots theme park to investigate the disa
8.2 / 10
Creative Assembly's survival-horror take on the Alien franchise builds a genuinely unpredictable Xenomorph AI and a meticulously authentic 1979-film atmosphere that reviewers consistently call among the best horror design of its generation — undercut by a specific, widely repeated structural complaint that the game runs roughly three times longer than its tension can sustain.
8 / 10
Frictional Games' boldest genre pivot yet — a tense, resource-scarce, Alien: Isolation-style stalker horror game that thrilled a large majority of reviewers, while a real and consistent minority of longtime series fans miss the puzzle-driven, story-rich horror the studio built its reputation on.
8 / 10
Frictional Games' 2010 survival horror landmark stripped combat away entirely, betting that pure powerlessness would be scarier than any weapon — a bet reviewers overwhelmingly say paid off, tempered by a specific, mechanically literate critique that its scripted monster encounters can be trivially waited out once players learn the pattern.
8 / 10
SFB Games rebuilds PS1-era survival horror with real craft and a genuinely unsettling abandoned theme park, and both critics and its own huge Steam audience agree it's one of the best tributes the genre has had in years — though a real, specific minority argues the tribute keeps the atmosphere and drops the actual survival tension that made the originals tense.
8 / 10
Recurring Dream's found-PC mystery hands players a dead relative's old computer and a fictional puzzle game buried inside it, and turns a 90s desktop metaphor into one of the year's most quietly devastating narrative puzzle games — even as its back half loses some of the precision that made its opening hours so compelling.
8 / 10
Detention sets a ghost story inside a real, specific historical horror — Taiwan's White Terror era of martial law and political persecution — and lets that history do most of the emotional work. Its reception is close to unanimous that the atmosphere and story succeed at something rare; a smaller, more specific critical thread argues the puzzle-adventure mechanics underneath never quite earn their place alongside it.
8 / 10
A fishing-and-exploration horror hybrid that reviewers rate Overwhelmingly Positive and keep recommending anyway, even while its single loudest, most consistent critique — a spectacular opening that the game never quite develops — shows up inside a striking share of its own five-star reviews.
8 / 10
Monolith Productions' genre-defining horror-FPS built its reputation on bullet-time gunfights against genuinely reactive AI, wrapped around a slow-building, Ju-On-inspired dread — reviewers still call it a peak the genre has never quite matched, and a real, well-documented 2017-2021 pricing controversy that once locked the game behind an expensive bundle appears to have since been resolved.
8 / 10
A Flute, A Dark Place, And No Hand-Holding Fugaz, released July 7, 2026 by solo developer and publisher Spheanix, is a $5.99 knowledge-gated puzzle-adventure about a wanderer trapp
8 / 10
A solo developer's early-2000s-styled horror PvP and co-op shooter, framed as a cursed childhood game whose servers mysteriously reopened — reviewed on a complete, entirely positive 25-review sample spanning English and a notably large Spanish-speaking fanbase.
8 / 10
A one-day-old arena shooter played almost entirely in the dark, where a pulsing heartbeat is your only light source — reviewed on a genuinely complete sample of its first sixteen reviews, every single one of them positive.
8 / 10
