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117 Horror games reviewed and scored, best first.
117 reviews
A 40-minute narrative clicker from Strange Scaffold about a masked man who wants to watch you thumb a tally counter — critically adored as a piece of writing about labour and discomfort, and just as consistently criticised by its own reviewers for stretching a five-minute idea across a full session of repetitive clicking.
7 / 10
A solo developer's low-poly horror shooter about rescuing seven kidnapped DJs from a building full of murderous ravers, built around letting players load in their own music.
7 / 10
Ten years, 38 DLC packs and 924,876 reviews later, the complaint isn't the licensed horror store — DLC appears in nine of a hundred negative reviews. It's each other.
7 / 10
Motive Studio's remake of the 2008 survival-horror classic remains Very Positive across nearly 70,000 Steam reviews, widely credited as one of the finest remakes ever made — a reputation undercut by a real, severe, persistent Denuvo-caused stuttering problem and a mandatory always-online requirement for an entirely single-player game, both of which this review can confirm went unfixed after EA redirected developer Motive Studio to other projects roughly two months after launch, with the studio's own pitches for a sequel subsequently rejected.
7 / 10
A survival-crafting game that replaces its genre's usual menu-driven fiddling with a diegetic system — you inspect your own wounds, dig leeches out with your fingers and physically reach into your pack for a fire kit — built around a sanity mechanic that can hallucinate you to death. A separate, heavily narrative Story Mode sits alongside the open sandbox and has drawn specific, credible criticism for how it depicts the Amazon's indigenous Yabahuaca people.
7 / 10
A solo developer's three-years-in-the-making cosmic-horror action roguelite that draws passionate praise for its atmosphere and combat feel, while a consistent thread of its own fans worry it's chasing Dead Cells a little too directly to fully stand on its own.
7 / 10
A cosy, genuinely inventive horror-comedy about running a 1980s late-night radio show while a killer stalks your callers, undercut by minimal gameplay some reviewers call closer to a visual novel — and by a VR version that was marked for Steam before launch and never arrived.
7 / 10
A one-day-old Japanese horror walking sim whose entire hook is a gaze-driven fog of war — the neighbourhood only exists where you're actually looking, and looking is also how the thing hunting you finds you. Reviewed on launch day, against zero Steam reviews and the developer's own two-title track record.
7 / 10
A chaotic, genuinely addictive co-op survival game set in a STALKER-flavoured nuclear exclusion zone, praised by players for its dark comedy and bunker-crawling tension even as a substantial share of the same review sample argues its "1.0" label is misleading for content this thin — and whose launch was briefly overshadowed by a real, well-documented DMCA dispute with STALKER 2 developer GSC Game World and an admitted offensive Discord incident from a member of the small development team.
7 / 10
A genuinely unsettling psychological horror story about grief and identity, praised even by its critics for atmosphere and sound design, undercut by one specific, near-universally disliked mechanic gating its true ending — an apple-picking replay loop several fans single out by name as the game's one real flaw.
7 / 10
A bold, deliberately alienating reinvention of Ice-Pick Lodge's cult plague-town saga — swapping the survival-sim hunger and infection management longtime fans loved for a time-looping detective mystery — that landed Very Positive on Steam even as a genuine, detailed split opened up among the series' own most devoted players.
7 / 10
One of the biggest co-op horror games ever made, sitting on 836,000 reviews and a movie deal — and, right now, absorbing the fallout of a May 2026 customisation update its own top reviews call the worst in the game's six-year history.
7 / 10
A NZ$7.39 first-person survival horror game built entirely from a streamer's improvised joke pitch, sold with "Idler" as a top-voted community tag despite having no idle or incremental progression anywhere in it.
7 / 10
A gorgeously atmospheric Victorian folk horror point-and-click whose exceptional opening hours and voice acting draw near-unanimous praise, undercut by an ending a large and vocal share of players say betrays the protagonist and the story's own logic — though a meaningful minority argues it's exactly the cosmic-horror payoff the genre demands.
7 / 10
A free, twenty-minute psychological horror vertical slice built around a genuinely unsettling premise — you're trapped inside a mimic that's rebuilding a familiar environment around you to keep you docile before it eats you — with visual ambition well beyond what its tiny indie studio should be able to pull off.
7 / 10
A free browser incremental built for a 2025 game jam, about hauling a strange substance up out of a mining town's collapsing depths — deliberately short, unusually confident about its Lovecraftian ending, and patched several times since launch to fix the rough edges that shipped with it.
7 / 10
A short, cheap, genuinely atmospheric PS1-VHS horror game that launched with real killer-AI and logic bugs — and a developer who shipped six patches in three weeks that visibly won back reviewers who'd initially soured on it.
6.7 / 10
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A long-delayed, darker Digimon story that both its fans and its critics agree is a visual novel first and a tactical RPG a distant second -- and whose own trailers, by wide reviewer account, misled buyers about exactly that ratio.
6.5 / 10
Supermassive set up the best premise they've ever had — a shapeshifting alien aboard a crashed colony ship, where the horror is not trusting the crew — and then spent the second half forgetting to use it.
6.5 / 10
A post-Soviet extraction horror shooter where a creature hunts you by your heartbeat — reviewed on its full English review sample, a dated patch that directly addressed the mechanic's loudest complaint, and a real mismatch between its co-op marketing history and its shipped build.
6.5 / 10
A celebrated parkour-and-zombies open world whose negative sample carries two distinct complaints — a years-long "fake co-op" structural gripe where only the host keeps quest progress, and a brand-new controversy from June 2026, when a patch cut roughly two hours from the acclaimed opening prologue, confirmed against the game's own official patch notes.
6.5 / 10
A solo developer's brutal survival-horror JRPG sequel with a devoted, near-unanimous cult following -- undercut consistently, across its own review corpus, by a save system reviewers say punishes patience as harshly as it punishes mistakes.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed BL suspense visual novel about cannibalism, class and a very literal kind of appetite, two days into Early Access with zero Steam reviews yet — reviewed on the developer's own Early Access FAQ, patch history and a genuinely positive 18-month demo record.
6.5 / 10
Tango Gameworks' supernatural open-world action game remains Very Positive across more than 20,000 Steam reviews for its genuinely striking, densely realised recreation of Tokyo — undercut by a real, remarkably consistent "beautiful but repetitive" complaint about its combat and side content, and by a specific, unusual, dateable controversy this review can confirm directly: Bethesda added Denuvo DRM to the game roughly a year after launch, bundled inside what its own update was billed as free content.
6.5 / 10
