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525 Horror games reviewed and scored, best first.
525 reviews
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
A co-op zombie classic still Overwhelmingly Positive 17 years on, beloved for exactly what it doesn't have — no loot boxes, no unlocks, no grind — held back for the entire span of its Steam review history by one specific, remarkably persistent complaint about its Versus community.
8 / 10
A gorgeously illustrated horror life-sim RPG blending fairy-tale folklore, a sapphic dating-sim structure, and genuinely eldritch horror in a rural German setting — celebrated for its striking mixed-media art and branching narrative, but held back at launch by unforgiving, sometimes obscure puzzle and survival segments the developer has since substantially, though not fully, addressed.
8 / 10
A pixel-art survival horror RPG confined to a single apartment building where glancing out a window turns people into grotesque monsters — a genuine cult phenomenon whose storytelling and atmosphere draw some of the most passionate praise this outlet has documented all year, sitting alongside a real, specific mechanical complaint cluster about a punishing save system and RNG-heavy combat from a small but consistent share of its own reviewers.
8 / 10
A well-regarded, atmospheric post-apocalyptic shooter whose reputation was genuinely damaged by a real 2019 Epic Games Store exclusivity controversy and a cluster of specific, long-unfixed bugs — but whose negative reviews have declined sharply since, consistent with a history that's now largely settled rather than an ongoing problem.
8 / 10
A short, PSX-styled psychological horror narrative about five crew members stranded on a crashed cargo ship, told out of chronological order as guilt, denial, and complicity unravel among the survivors, whose writing and atmosphere earned it an enormous, devoted following alongside a smaller but consistent counter-current of reviewers who found its back half tedious and its themes less profound than the hype suggested.
8 / 10
Arkane Austin's 2017 immersive sim remains Very Positive across more than 54,000 Steam reviews, widely regarded as one of the genre's finest achievements — a reputation this review can confirm survived the closure of the very studio that made it, when Arkane Austin was shut down entirely by Microsoft in 2024, and a real controversy over the game's own title, which this review can confirm Bethesda forced onto an unrelated story over the objections of Arkane's own founder.
8 / 10
A turn-based extraction roguelike where every mercenary is a disposable clone, every mission can end in a single unlucky turn, and the cosmic horror waiting beneath the corporate PMC contracts is exactly as unforgiving as the combat.
8 / 10
A widely acclaimed full remake of the 1998 survival-horror classic, praised as one of the best remakes ever made — its reputation now complicated by two later, well-documented controversies: intrusive anti-modding DRM added years after launch, and a mandatory 'next-gen' update that broke mods and degraded performance for existing players.
8 / 10
A survival-horror triumph in its first half and a widely-debated tonal collapse in its second, wrapped around Capcom's biggest launch of the year — Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 100,000 Steam reviews and 8 million copies sold, while a large, detailed share of that same sample argues the game falls apart exactly when it should be building toward its climax.
8 / 10
A gorgeous, genre-blending horror-action sequel to Resident Evil 7 — beloved broadly, but facing a real, consistent identity debate from series fans who miss the tighter, scarier tone that came before it, plus a launch-week DRM performance problem that's echoed the franchise's reputation years later.
8 / 10
Bloober Team's full remake of the 2001 psychological horror classic is a genuine reputational turnaround for a studio previously known for mixed-to-poor reviews, praised by critics and players alike for its atmosphere and expanded combat — undercut for a large, persistent share of its own audience by PC stuttering that patches still hadn't fully resolved nearly two years after launch, and by a real, still-argued debate over whether clarifying the original's ambiguities helped or hurt the story.
8 / 10
A lovingly built retro CRPG that fuses Ultima-era pixel art with genuine Lovecraftian horror and tabletop-inspired tactical combat, beloved for a first half that critics call nearly flawless, held to a lower score mostly by a well-documented back-half quality drop and controller support that stayed broken after a real fix attempt.
8 / 10
A Free Fan Tribute Built on Someone Else's Web Series SSTWL - Sector Breach released on Steam on July 25, 2026, developed by the volunteer Sector Breach Team and published by B
8 / 10
Evil Trout Inc. follows The Roottrees Are Dead with a lavish remake of their own free itch.io text adventure, Type Help, adding full voice acting, hand-painted scenes, and new epilogue content to a chilling seance-machine murder mystery. The deduction is a little gentler than Obra Dinn, but the atmosphere, cast, and voice work make this an easy pick for genre fans.
8 / 10
Nippon Ichi Software's farming sim from the team behind Yomawari blends Stardew Valley- style rural life with unsettling Japanese folk horror, earning a perfect "Positive" score for its atmosphere and story, tempered at launch by a missing English localization and rough keyboard/mouse controls.
8 / 10
A cozy horror farming RPG blending Stardew Valley's daily rhythm with genuine Junji Ito-and-Lovecraft-inflected dread, released after years of anticipated demo and Patreon alpha development to overwhelming, cross-language enthusiasm, tempered by a specific, repeated complaint about tedious permanent stat debuffs and a real cluster of interface and quality-of-life rough edges.
8 / 10
A scrappy, Parasite Eve-inspired survival horror RPG from a tiny team that reviewers overwhelmingly praise for surprisingly deep combat and genuine replay value once they look past rough, store-asset presentation, undercut by a widely repeated missing-map complaint and a specific late-game difficulty spike.
8 / 10
A Gorilla, a Shotgun, and a Bar Full of Liars Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY! opens on a simple, gleefully absurd premise: the animals won. Humanity lost some unspecified war, and the wo
7.8 / 10
A Germanic Village, a Long Winter, and Something Wrong in the Woods Out of Water opens gently: Watarholt, a northern Germanic village, is finishing its harvest and settling in for
7.8 / 10
A Night Shift Spent Among the Cacti The Plant Shop drops you into the life of Silvia, a 26-year-old with a corporate day job who has decided, for reasons the game slowly unpacks, t
7.8 / 10
Resident Evil on Rails, With a Furry Cast Fright Train's pitch sounds like a mashup that shouldn't work: take the resource-scarce, over-the-shoulder survival horror of the
7.6 / 10
Two Hundred Days Since the Act of Oblivion VENERA 31 opens with a countdown that never quite explains itself: it's 2031, two hundred days since something called "the Act o
7.6 / 10
