I’ve browsed the category on Steam, but my eyes glazed over after about the 10th page of Unity walking simulators, anime schoolgirls, and RPG Maker games with default assets. I’m also looking for something that’ll really get under my skin rather than casual action-horror titles.
Examples of horror games (both old and new) I particularly like to give you an idea of what might resonate with me:
- Silent Hill 2
- Lost In Vivo
- IMSCARED: A Pixelated Nightmare
- Clock Tower
- Five Nights At Freddy’s (I might catch some flak for this one, but it was a genuinely clever and well-executed premise before it got memed to death and I’ll die on that hill.)
- ANATOMY
- Stories Untold
Horror games a lot of people seem to like but I don’t:
- Doki Doki Literature Club (it was a bit too anime for me)
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent (I finished it, it was okay, never really scared me though)
Have you played Subnautica? I don’t think any other game has scared me as much as that.
I have, actually! I was thinking of it as a survival/crafting game, but it definitely creeped me out more than most horror games ever did. I always felt uneasy any time I had to leave the safe biomes. Devs knew exactly what they were doing when they implemented the reaper and ghost leviathans.
How about Darkwood? Top down survival horror with some killer atmosphere.
It’s not on steam, but if you can set up Zdoom with Ghoul’s Forest 3 that was probably the scariest shit I’ve ever played.
Oh hey, this looks interesting! I do have ZDoom set up, so I’ll have to check this out. Thanks!
EDIT: Just checked a wiki and I noticed it mentions the Yurei pops a bunch of shock images if it kills the player. How concerned should I be? I don’t want to look at, like, decapitation photos or harlequin fetuses or shit like that.
Lone Survivor - a 2D Silent Hill-like story.
Oxenfree - quality psychological horror.
Penumbra (Overture + Black Plague) and SOMA - I think they’re worth trying since the plots are very different from Amnesia, but if the gameplay is what you dislike about Amnesia then skip.
