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533 Horror games reviewed and scored, best first.
533 reviews
An asymmetric multiplayer horror game built on genuinely beloved 1980s cult-movie source material, from the studio behind Friday the 13th: The Game — and, according to a remarkably consistent and dated stream of reviews, following a similar trajectory of a dwindling player population, balance issues left unaddressed for over a year, and post-launch updates that lean almost entirely on paid cosmetics rather than fixes.
5 / 10
A Slay the Spire-style roguelike deckbuilder built around confronting phobias with coping-mechanism cards — a genuinely distinctive premise that a meaningful share of its own reviewers, including a reviewer identifying as a psychology lecturer, say the game doesn't earn, on top of a separate, more familiar complaint that the card system itself is too shallow to sustain repeat runs.
5 / 10
A genuinely funny asymmetric hide-and-seek party game — one hunter against a forest full of deer, some real and some human — whose appeal is real but whose thin content, rough performance, and now two years of silence from the developer have left a large share of its own fans feeling shortchanged.
5 / 10
Welcome To The Playland, Which Is Not At All A Reference To Anything Poopy's Playland released on Steam on September 18, 2026 from solo Windows developer EmilJoes Games, castin
5 / 10
An asymmetrical multiplayer shooter that lets four soldiers complete objectives while a fifth player stalks them as the Predator — a genuinely fun premise reviewers say is let down by severe balance problems, thin map variety, and a playerbase reviewers describe as having quietly withered since the developer moved on.
5 / 10
A cheap, short phobia-confrontation horror experiment built around blind blue-or-red door choices, praised by some for genuinely engaging with real phobias, but criticized by a substantial share of reviewers as a repetitive, luck-based guessing game with too little atmosphere or design behind its central gimmick.
5 / 10
Space Hulk - Deathwing Enhanced Edition puts players inside Terminator armor as an elite Dark Angels Space Marine, hunting Genestealers through the claustrophobic corridors of a derelict hulk. Its atmosphere and lore fidelity earn real praise from Warhammer 40K fans, while a large, convergent share of reviewers describe unusable AI teammates and severe, unresolved technical problems as undermining the experience.
5 / 10
A Lovecraftian narrative RPG set in an Arkham torn loose from reality, Mixed across 575 reviews for genuinely strong writing, art and sanity-driven roleplaying — undercut by clunky, dice-heavy combat and a story that a large share of reviewers say ends abruptly, roughly a third of the way through what was promised.
5 / 10
A genuinely unique co-op stealth-horror game about teenagers investigating a cult beneath their town, with a distinctive community-driven live story system — now confirmed abandoned by its developers roughly two years after launch, with the narrative left unresolved and content updates permanently ended.
5 / 10
The Late Guest sends players into an abandoned theme park stalked by a scripted watcher, and this review's tiny but detailed sample describes a short, replayable, Hello Neighbor-flavored horror game whose real multiple-ending structure is undercut by a missing save function, an external-guide-only control scheme, and enough rough edges that the developer is still actively patching a month after launch.
5 / 10
A short, Doom 3-inspired first-person horror shooter about a well-meaning man who summons hell to turn a hateful town into gentle magical ponies, with predictably horrific results, whose striking atmosphere and premise earn genuine affection from fans of developer David Szymanski's other work, undercut by a near-universal complaint that its half-hour runtime and thin enemy variety don't match his stronger releases.
5 / 10
A short, PS1-styled cozy-horror shop simulator from solo developer samuel, Very Positive across a small English review sample for well-timed jump scares and charming nostalgic presentation, with a fair, repeated complaint that it closely follows The Boba Teashop's formula without adding enough of its own.
5 / 10
A genuinely underused setting — WWI trench horror — with real atmosphere and sound design, undercut by a short, thin "collect the items while a monster hunts you" loop and a cluster of real performance bugs, despite years of continued developer support.
5 / 10
Codebros Studio, a two-person Greek development team, delivers a first-person psychological horror game about a man haunted by a house's buried history, drawing real praise for its atmosphere and jump scares alongside an unusually specific, heavily documented reviewer thread cataloguing direct scene-by-scene similarities to Visage, Outlast, Layers of Fear and other genre touchstones, plus a genuinely split reception over its price relative to a four-to-six-hour runtime.
5 / 10
A wrestling match wrapped in a ghost story "Welcome to Doll Town" is a short, PS1-styled horror game about a schoolgirl who fights possessed dolls using pro-wrestling mov
5 / 10
A fun, arcade-y co-op shooter pitting up to four players against occult Nazi zombie hordes, undermined almost universally by a DLC structure reviewers describe as locking the vast majority of the game's weapons and cosmetics behind a season-pass paywall that costs more than the base game itself.
5 / 10
The pixel-art horror series returns with gorgeous atmosphere and almost nothing to actually do in it.
4.8 / 10
This 3D horror-survival game about a discarded doll fleeing giant toys has real atmosphere and a genuinely likeable premise, but launched so rough that even a rapid string of emergency patches hasn't fully solved its core camera and guidance problems.
4.7 / 10
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A viral, streamer-bait "brainrot" horror sequel whose joke-review culture masks a real, substantive complaint underneath — no save feature at all, and a reproducible puzzle bug that can block progress outright.
4.7 / 10
A short, visually striking horror walking sim about a haunted lighthouse, whose stunning cinematography is overshadowed for many players by its heavy, inconsistently-disclosed use of AI-generated assets.
4.7 / 10
A janky, confusing Chinese indie horror game that's become a genuine cult favourite for co-op streaming with friends, undercut by real translation and puzzle-design problems reviewers say make it genuinely difficult to finish without outside guides.
4.6 / 10
ARCTIC CTHULHU is a PSX-style point-and-click walking sim about a stevedore at a remote Arctic station, and this review's evenly split, tiny sample agrees on almost everything about it — striking retro atmosphere and strong dialogue writing, wrapped around a handful of minutes of repetitive box-carrying, no achievements, no branching endings, and a runtime measured in single-digit minutes for most players.
4.5 / 10
A visually polished, atmospheric psychological horror game whose genuinely strong presentation is undermined by an extremely short runtime cross-language reviewers repeatedly describe as barely longer than a demo, a story several reviewers say ends abruptly with little resolution, and a near-total absence of horror scares or tension despite the genre framing.
4.5 / 10
A Ten-Minute Homage To Dagon Isle of Flesh, released free on Steam August 31, 2026 by the small studio Nota Art, is exactly what its own store page says it is: a short, narrative-d
4.5 / 10
