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117 Horror games reviewed and scored, best first.
117 reviews
A brutally tense, atmospheric co-op horror shooter built entirely around four-player coordination — undercut for years by the one thing it never properly solved: no server browser or real matchmaking, leaving solo players locked out unless they already have a premade squad.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous PS1-era survival horror homage whose atmosphere, music and visual craft draw near-universal praise, undercut by an unusually consistent, specific critique running through most of its negative reviews — that it borrows the aesthetic of Resident Evil and Silent Hill without the resource tension or mechanical friction that made those games actually work as survival horror.
6.5 / 10
A co-op horror-comedy about hauling wrong-looking wildlife through a national park that shouldn't exist, held back from the genre's top table by a punishment mechanic that erases a night's work for reasons the player often can't see coming.
6.5 / 10
A tense, atmospheric PvPvE bounty-hunting shooter that rebuilt itself on a new engine and a fixed 1896 setting — and split a deeply devoted, thousand-hour community right down the middle over whether the relaunch was a genuine improvement or a betrayal of what made the original special.
6.5 / 10
A genre mash-up that does what it says on the tin — turn-based tactical combat fused with extraction-looter risk management, in a Western-gothic horror setting — emerging from a 13-month Early Access run with real praise for its core tension and real complaints about repetition and a gear-progression curve that eventually breaks its own difficulty.
6.5 / 10
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
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
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
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
A short, atmospheric first-person horror sim from a solo developer with an established following, whose genuinely effective scares and Night of the Living Dead homage were nearly undercut by real launch bugs — since addressed by nine patches in the game's first week alone.
6.5 / 10
A budget first-person stealth horror game that drops a lone archaeologist into a Mayan tomb full of patrolling "Guardians," built on a demo that spent over a year gathering feedback before the ten-level full release launched with no user reviews yet to check it against.
6.5 / 10
A first-person, no-combat stealth slasher where a masked killer hunts by noise, light and movement rather than a script — built for one intense sitting, released day one with a single verified user review and a demo that had already been public for five and a half months.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed PS1-era survival horror throwback with genuine retro charm, undercut by a slow opening act, real launch-day bugs, and a short 1-2 hour runtime — offset by unusually fast, sustained developer patching that this review verified independently.
6.3 / 10
An Unreal Engine 5 tactical shooter built around a genuinely distinctive body-camera perspective, whose reputation was badly damaged by a November 2024 update that stripped out hard-earned cosmetic progress and replaced it with a cash shop — the single highest-voted review this library has found on any game, at nearly 4,000 votes.
6 / 10
An absurdist, story-first adventure from the cult studio behind Priest Simulator, whose devoted fans love its surreal comedy — but whose "simulation" store tags mislead buyers expecting real brewing-economy depth, and whose UI still lacks basic accessibility options years on.
6 / 10
A moody, RPG Maker-style psychological horror RPG about a man, a chainsaw and a city that stops being safe — with striking presentation and a real-time-interrupt combat twist, undercut by roughly an hour of Episode 1 content, scattered balance and a store page that's still openly asking players for feedback on "the demo."
6 / 10
A viral solo-developer horror hit about upgrading a train to fight a monstrous spider train -- genuinely well-liked, and just as consistently criticised, on both sides of its score, for being over in about the time it takes to watch a movie.
6 / 10
A genuinely fun, gory open-world zombie brawler whose Steam release — arriving a year after the game's original 2023 launch specifically to escape Epic Games Store exclusivity — forces Epic Online Services onto players anyway, producing some of the angriest, most-detailed technical reviews in this library's coverage.
6 / 10
A cheesy, Resident Evil-and-Turok-inspired dinosaur survival horror shooter from a small studio that improved meaningfully on its predecessor, undercut at launch by a genuinely buggy save system and repetitive level design, with two years of ongoing patches since narrowing the gap.
6 / 10
A ground-up Unreal Engine 5 remake bundling both original Layers of Fear games, their DLC and new connective content into one package — whose own returning fans keep saying the same thing, backed by a real, measurable gap: the 2016 original still holds Very Positive 88.4% on Steam against this remake's Mostly Positive 79.0%.
6 / 10
A loop-based analog-horror game where you replay the same corridor hunting for what changed, told through VHS static and a flashlight that keeps something in the dark at bay — released two days ago to exactly two user reviews, split one positive and one negative.
6 / 10
A free top-down horror game about escaping a bar full of monsters across five linear, differently-themed levels, from a two-person team on their apparent first published release — with a storefront listing that discloses nothing to buy.
6 / 10
An H.R. Giger-inspired biomechanical nightmare eight years in the making, whose extraordinary art direction is praised almost unanimously by the same review base that overwhelmingly describes the actual game underneath it as short, clunky and built on a store description its own most-upvoted review calls factually false.
6 / 10
A NZ$1.49 solo-developer horror game about a child escaping a cult's private chapel — verified here against Steam's own genre field ("Indie," which says nothing) and its top-voted community tag ("Idler," which says something wrong). Three puzzles, two endings, no idle or incremental mechanic anywhere in it.
6 / 10
