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525 Horror games reviewed and scored, best first.
525 reviews
A voxel zombie survival game built entirely around a scheduled siege that arrives on a known clock and gets worse every time. Eleven years in Early Access ended in July 2024 — the core loop is still one of the smartest in the genre, but the years show in how it looks, runs and argues with its own community about what it used to be.
7.5 / 10
A horror-themed survivor-like that adds active, twin-stick-style aiming to the Vampire Survivors formula, widely credited as the genre's first genuine evolution — held back by a persistent, heavily-reported visibility complaint over its monochrome palette and flashing effects, and a build-variety complaint the developer began addressing but appears to have folded into a separate, newer game instead.
7.5 / 10
Power Wash Simulator, but the walls are watching Backrooms Cleanup Crew tasks you and your crew with scrubbing up after a previous exploration team's disastrous trip into the B
7.5 / 10
A submarine survival-horror sim where the alien monsters outside are rarely the reason a run ends badly — its own review corpus is unusually consistent that the biggest threat is the crew, whether through griefing, incompetence, or seven years of accumulated engine jank.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely bizarre, endlessly quotable first-person incremental game about growing berries and sacrificing them to a sentient hole — Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 8,000 reviews and driven to virality by a streamer discovery, with an honest, consistent minority complaint that its horror-tinged mystery and mid-game unlock tree don't live up to the strength of its opening hook.
7.5 / 10
A beloved, wildly funny comedy-horror sequel that deepens an already-adored cast, held back for a real, well-corroborated share of reviewers by frequent softlocking bugs, an awkward conversation-and-door control conflict, and pacing that drags in its middle stretch.
7.5 / 10
A Seville studio's Kickstarter-funded Metroidvania built from Spanish Holy Week processions and Goya paintings -- still Very Positive on Steam seven years and three free expansions later, with the exact same critic-and-player split that greeted it at launch: some of the best pixel art and atmosphere in the genre, wrapped around movement and combat feel a real share of players never warm to.
7.5 / 10
A Nordic dark-fairytale adventure whose art, music and folklore draw close to unanimous praise — repeated inside its own top positive review, which admits to hand cramps from "tedious" trial-and-error platforming — while Steam's own data shows nearly half of buyers still see it through to the end.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely varied, unanimously well-received collection of seven short horror stories about radio and conspiracy theories from different independent developers, with one entry, COW EXPORT, repeatedly singled out as an outright standout, held back by the inherent quality inconsistency of an anthology format, a specific narratively-thin entry, missing achievements, and a launcher reviewers describe as rough around the edges.
7.5 / 10
Butler Guillotine is a solo-developer surreal point-and-click horror game set in an impossible hotel, and this review's sample of reviewers, overwhelmingly enthusiastic, keeps reaching for the same comparisons — Twin Peaks, David Lynch, a "fractured stage play" — to describe a short, theatrical experience most found genuinely unforgettable.
7.5 / 10
Gambling With Your Life at the Crimson Casino Casino Casualty takes the FNAF formula of being trapped overnight with hostile animatronics and swaps the usual security-office surviv
7.5 / 10
A psychological horror entry in the card-and-choice Choice of Life series, where an elevator descends through the endless, warping floors of the protagonist's own home and mind, drawing a Positive reception praising its illustrated art, dark Eastern European atmosphere and new mental-health mechanic, tempered by an unfamiliar early stat system and a short overall runtime.
7.5 / 10
A Decade-Later Sequel to a Beloved Free Mod Codename CURE II launched on Steam on July 24, 2026, from a two-person team, developer Raptor Byte and publisher indie.io, and like its
7.5 / 10
Scoop, serve, survive Coney's puts you behind the counter of an ice cream parlor that specializes in cones, and asks you to bake, scoop, and serve with a smile while something
7.5 / 10
Red Hook rebuilt Darkest Dungeon as a roguelite road trip instead of a long campaign, and three years later the review corpus still splits almost exactly down that line — not a launch controversy that faded, but a genre identity change some fans never made peace with.
7.5 / 10
A js13k 2022 top-down survival shooter, in the vein of Vampire Survivors, that ships a genuine dual-virtual-stick mobile control scheme alongside WASD-and-mouse — both tested here and both work exactly as the developers' own instructions describe.
7.5 / 10
Surgent Studios' FMV-infused psychological horror sends a struggling actor into a producer's mansion to find his missing rival, earning a "Very Positive" score for its star-studded performances and unsettling atmosphere, held back by uneven pacing and a divisive second half.
7.5 / 10
A Corporate Gas Leak, a Lot of Zombies, and Something Much Older Underneath Deep Sheol drops you into the boots of Special Agent Seth, sent to investigate why a corporate mining fa
7.5 / 10
Doki Doki Literature Club! spends its opening hours doing everything a cute high-school dating sim is supposed to do, then spends the rest of it doing almost nothing a dating sim is supposed to do. Nearly a decade after it became one of the most talked-about indie releases of its era, its own small Steam review sample is still arguing about whether the subversion is a genuine achievement or a mean-spirited trick played on an unsuspecting audience.
7.5 / 10
A Reality Show You Can't Vote Yourself Off Of Dolls: The Hunt drops up to four players into a warped, surreal world where contestants in an inescapable reality show are hunted
7.5 / 10
A horror roguelike bento-builder that channels the CloverPit-style slot-machine roguelite craze into a genuinely addictive food-assembly puzzle, earning strong praise for its charm and multiplier tension even as some reviewers flag it as more derivative than distinctive.
7.5 / 10
DUSK helped kickstart the retro "boomer shooter" revival, channeling Quake and Blood through three fast, blood-soaked campaign episodes. Its atmosphere and gunplay earn overwhelming praise, while a specific, recurring set of complaints targets particular enemies, a difficulty spike late in its second episode, and a save system some reviewers call genuinely frustrating.
7.5 / 10
Techland's return to Kyle Crane and the original Dying Light formula, widely, specifically praised as a genuine "return to form" after the divisive Dying Light 2 — backed by an unusually clean, well-optimised launch and an explicit, kept promise to ship without microtransactions — undercut for a real minority of players by parkour-unfriendly map design and a genuine, documented fairness controversy over how a later Definitive Edition treated existing Deluxe Edition owners.
7.5 / 10
A charming, faithful point-and-click adaptation of the Erma webcomic that plays like a playable cartoon episode, held back by a very short runtime and a real handful of launch bugs.
7.5 / 10
