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The 16 best indie horror games on Steam in 2026

Among indie horror games on Steam, Lethal Company leads right now, then The Forest and Buckshot Roulette.

Ordered by fit with the genre, Steam review score, number of reviews and how each game plays. Steam figures checked 26 Sept 2026. How the order works

The 16 best indie horror games, ranked

01
97% positive · 510,834 reviews · USD 9.99
Lethal Company
Lethal Company is co-op horror about meeting a quota with friends who will scream. The loop is extract, not campaign.
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02
96% positive · 682,426 reviews · USD 19.99
The Forest
The Forest is first-person survival on a cannibal island: build, raid caves, keep a story in the background. Co-op is the usual way in.
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03
95.2% positive · 123,935 reviews · EUR 2.99
Buckshot Roulette
Buckshot Roulette is a shotgun wager: skip shells, take pills, do not blink. A round is a bet, and the table is the whole campaign.
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04
91.7% positive · 162,727 reviews · EUR 22.99
Darkest Dungeon®
Darkest Dungeon is a gothic turn-based RPG: you send a party of four heroes into dungeons, watch their stress as closely as their health, and lose them for good when they die.
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05
93.8% positive · 162,537 reviews · EUR 7.49
Content Warning
Content Warning is a fake-YouTube horror drop: film the monster, extract the tape, hope the clip is the product and not the obituary. A camcorder is the weapon, and the instance is a dare.
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06
96.8% positive · 148,498 reviews · USD 19.99
Inscryption
Inscryption is a deckbuilder that keeps changing the table — and the room around the table. Treat the first act as a tutorial in unease, not as the whole game.
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07
94% positive · 481,033 reviews · USD 24.99
Project Zomboid
Knowledge of heating, moodles, and TV schedules is the skill.
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08
97.1% positive · 88,148 reviews · EUR 16.79
OMORI
OMORI is a psychological RPG whose battle commands sit on top of a story you cannot unsee. The map is a head you keep walking, then a house you already knew.
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09
95.6% positive · 106,597 reviews · EUR 22.99
Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds is a 22-minute solar system you learn until the sun explodes — then you wake knowing the next door. The save is a fact, and the orbit is a question you will ask again.
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10
87% positive · 397,652 reviews · EUR 43.99
7 Days to Die
7 Days to Die is a voxel zombie sandbox whose week ends in a horde night. You mine, you wall, you hope the seventh dusk finds the concrete finished.
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11
89.9% positive · 161,236 reviews · EUR 9.49
Escape the Backrooms
Escape the Backrooms is liminal co-op horror: wander yellow rooms, don't get got. The space is the monster, and the friend on voice is the map you forgot.
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12
94% positive · 56,276 reviews · EUR 23.79
Rain World
Rain World is an ecosystem you do not top: hibernate before the rain, or the world eats you. Creatures have errands. You are food that learned to jump.
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13
96.7% positive · 34,974 reviews · EUR 19.5
Return of the Obra Dinn
Return of the Obra Dinn is a freeze-frame morgue: name the dead, once. The watch stops a death, and the ledger is the only XP that matters.
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14
95% positive · 48,086 reviews · EUR 19.99
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a hostile Zone: factions, anomalies, a gun that jams. A sandbox that can ignore your main quest while you loot a corpse.
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15
89% positive · 123,311 reviews · EUR 16.99
The Long Dark
The Long Dark is a winter that wants you quiet: calories, wolves, and a story mode beside sandbox. A storm is the boss, and the cabin is a delay.
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95.8% positive · 24,435 reviews · EUR 17.15
ANIMAL WELL
ANIMAL WELL is a mute pixel metroidvania where the map is a riddle you keep, and combat is almost a rumor you stop expecting. A pixel that moved is the loot.
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Keeps horror games where a session can go wrong in public or be spoiled. Lethal Company and Inscryption share that promise, though not the same loop.

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The 16 best indie horror games, ranked

Lethal Company

The Forest

Buckshot Roulette

Darkest Dungeon®

Content Warning

Inscryption

Project Zomboid

OMORI

Outer Wilds

7 Days to Die

Escape the Backrooms

Rain World

Return of the Obra Dinn

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

The Long Dark

ANIMAL WELL

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