Penance Review
A Rhythm-Driven Pilgrimage Through Guilt and Faith Penance casts you as Elías, a monk sent on a pilgrimage to uncover the truth behind his mentor Severinus's death, purifying f
6.5 / 10
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PLAGUN – The Plague Goes On
Talkinguns, a small collective that grew from a solo developer's alias, delivers a grotesque, wave-based roguelike shooter about a plague-mutated doctor fighting for survival in a rotting kingdom, earning genuine praise for its atmosphere and fast, build-driven runs even as a thin but specific and consistent thread of its reviews flags bugs, input softlocks and limited content variety.
6.5 / 10
Push Pray Devote
Push Pray Devote is a short, text-free horror game from Japanese developers Actor and Nakamura Syuto that strips its "mysterious facility" premise down to a single repeated gesture — push a button, then pray — and this review's sample, gentle achievement data, and language-independent design all point to a small, deliberately unintimidating horror experience that delivers exactly what it promises.
6.5 / 10
R.A.T#200
R.A.T#200 is a free student-made stealth puzzle game about escaping a lab as an experimental rat, and its Very Positive review sample repeatedly praises a tense 15-to-40-minute escape built on genuine, if occasionally inconsistent, hide-and-seek tension.
6.5 / 10
Resident Evil 3
A tense, visually stunning remake of the 1999 survival horror classic that nearly every reviewer enjoys playing, undermined almost universally by a campaign reviewers describe as too short and too stripped of the original's content to justify a full-price purchase.
6.5 / 10
Resident Evil (1996) Review
Capcom finally brings the original 1996 Resident Evil to Steam in its most complete PC form yet, complete with restored uncut gore, but a new anti-tamper DRM layer undercuts what should have been a flawless victory lap.
6.5 / 10
Reverse T-gotchi
A first-person psychological horror game that flips the Tamagotchi premise so the player is the pet, earning a small but unanimously positive launch reception for its striking concept and genuine scares, tempered by one reviewer's honest note that the localisation feels rough.
6.5 / 10
Saint of Chains
A retro-inspired first-person psychological horror game from MystiveDev drawing heavily on Silent Hill and Cry of Fear, Very Positive across its English review sample for atmosphere and a surprisingly personal story, with fair, widely repeated complaints about derivative writing and thin melee combat.
6.5 / 10
Scarlet Deer Inn Review: A Hand-Embroidered Dark Fairy Tale With a Rough Second Act
Attu Games' debut is one of the most visually distinctive indies of the year — every character sprite is literally embroidered by hand — wrapped around a Slavic folk-horror story about a mother searching for her missing children. The presentation is close to flawless; the platforming, torch-lit cave sections, and launch-week bugs are where it stumbles.
6.5 / 10
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Servant of the Lake
A prequel entry in Rusty Lake's long-running point-and-click puzzle series, set at the Vanderboom estate in 1839, that lands as polished and newcomer-friendly enough to draw broad praise from its huge review sample while facing a specific, well-documented backlash from longtime fans who feel its puzzles and atmosphere have been smoothed over.
6.5 / 10
Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure
A budget-priced, GUI-driven text adventure about a writer and his blind father moving into a small town with a Twin Peaks-shaped secret — long on atmosphere and prose, short on how much your choices actually change.
6.5 / 10
SHOCKFACE Review
The Job Interview From Hell, Literally SHOCKFACE is a $6.99 indie survival horror game from developers adrenak and approximi that commits fully to a specific, beloved throwback: 90
6.5 / 10
SILVARN Review
A Solo Dev's Chainsaw-Chase Horror Through An Elevator That Goes Nowhere Good SILVARN, from solo developer and publisher Etnabyte Games, released on Steam on June 12, 2026, at
6.5 / 10
SIMULACRA
SIMULACRA hands players a dead woman's smartphone and asks them to piece together what happened to her through texts, photos, and a growing sense that something in the device itself isn't right. Its found-footage premise still earns real, specific praise years later, even as a consistent, detailed thread of criticism targets the writing, localization, and branching-choice logic underneath it.
6.5 / 10
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl
A visually stunning, atmospheric return to the Zone whose biggest problem is the one thing longtime fans wanted most — its signature "A-Life" living-world simulation shipped broken or absent, according to a majority of this review's negative sample, and persistent performance problems have outlasted more than a year of patches.
6.5 / 10
STAMPED
A psychological-horror bureaucracy sim that asks you to cross-check contradictory paperwork against a company terminal and stamp APPROVED or REJECTED — Papers, Please's mechanic wearing a haunted-office coat, from a developer who shipped two other small horror games the same fortnight.
6.5 / 10
Tape 101: Liminal Descent Review
A Backrooms Game That Knows It's A Backrooms Game Tape 101: Liminal Descent is a $9.99 psychological horror walking sim from solo-flavored studio 2H-Productions, published alon
6.5 / 10
The Bunker Notes - Horror/Drama Visual Novel
A short, atmospheric pandemic-bunker horror/drama visual novel from solo studio Synthetic Domain, based on a short story by film director Kim Sung Chan, praised in a thin but largely positive English review sample for its quiet, paranoia-driven atmosphere, tempered by a fair, corroborated complaint about English-language localization desync bugs.
6.5 / 10
the cabin game Review
A Card-Driven Haunted Cabin You Build Room By Room, Released Into Early Access With Real Rough Edges the cabin game, developed and published by Twisted Corridor, entered Steam Earl
6.5 / 10
The December Job
A free-to-play, PSX-styled horror stealth game about breaking into Santa's workshop to reclaim the presents you were never given, praised for its funny elf dialogue and genuinely tense chase sequences despite a punishingly difficult escape once Santa spots you.
6.5 / 10
The Family Trip
A short first-person psychological horror game from solo studio Fear Scape about a family cabin getaway that turns violent, praised in a mostly positive English review sample for its tense "fears to fathom"-style atmosphere and surprising length, tempered by fair complaints about unpolished visuals and a thin, walking-heavy middle stretch.
6.5 / 10
The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood
Pale Grin returns, and brings a bigger story with him The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood picks up six years after the events of its predecessor, resurrecting mass killer John
6.5 / 10
The Medium
A dual-reality psychological horror adventure from Bloober Team featuring music from Akira Yamaoka, Very Positive across nearly 4,000 reviews for its atmosphere and presentation — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that it plays mostly as a walking simulator with minimal real challenge, a well-corroborated complaint about poor technical performance at launch, and a short runtime that many reviewers feel doesn't justify its full asking price.
6.5 / 10
The Quarry
A star-studded branching horror anthology from the Until Dawn team that splits its own reviewers on story quality and delivers far less mechanical agency than its "your choices matter" framing implies, launched alongside a broken multiplayer promise and now caught up in the same 2K Terms of Service controversy documented independently on the publisher's other 2022 release.
6.5 / 10