What are the best horror games you can buy from Steam? True horror games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Alien Isolation, Penumbra, Outlast etc.

What would your top 3 be?

Also any good upcoming horror games that will be out before Halloween this year? I know of The Evil Within 2.

Would like to see some opinions :)

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How about Layers of Fear~

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Here's a few I can think of and recommend

White Night
SOMA
Darkwood
P.A.M.E.L.A. Is in Early Access, but still enough content to enjoy (@=

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The Cat Lady is a good one. I also found Silence of the Sleep to be good too, so long as you don't find the monsters too annoying.

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My top three are SOMA, Outlast, and Pineview Drive

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I'd recommend Corpse Party

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Here is my top 10 I have so far. Agree or disagree? What do you think

1.) Amnesia: The Dark Descent
2.) Alien Isolation
3.) Outlast (+Whistleblower DLC)
4.) Outlast 2
5.) Penumbra: Black Plague
6.) The Evil Within
7.) SOMA
8.) Dead Space
9.) Penumbra Overture
10.) Among the Sleep

Honorable Mentions

Layers of Fear
Monstrum
Dead Space 2
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Little Nightmares
Darkwood

Upcoming

The Evil Within 2
Agony
Scorn
Allison Road
Visage
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SOMA, Amnesia Dark Descent, Penumbra Collection, Dead Space 1,2, Condemned, Obscure Collection, Zero Escape Trilogy, Danganronpa seriers, DredOut Collection, Cat Lady, Downfall, Detention, Obscure Collection, Fran Bow, Neverending Nightmares

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Darkwood finally left Early Access earlier this year, and is more a surreal survival adventure than straight horror. If you can tolerate the escalatingly difficult nights, there's some good creeps to be had. The best tension comes from playing on permadeath, but the AI gets aggressive to the point that your early survival tactics will suddenly crumble when new hostiles turn up. Could have been absolutely amazing but the combat and trial+error gradually eats away at the amazing tension it first gives you. You can buy it on steam, but the devs also released a legit version on various torrent sites for those with financial problems. If you like it, please buy it, and beware the usual torrenting pitfalls. The audio engineering on that game is delicious.
"Little Nightmares" also gets a total recommendation from me. Not much in the way of raw fear for you as the player, but it's damn creepy and atmospheric, and so polished that I broke my own taboo and instantly bought the season pass after completing the game <3

I'll echo The Cat Lady recommendation. A little clunky and seems deceptively unpolished at the start, but the payoff is totally worth it if you can push past the short introduction. "The Void" is a surreal experience that isn't quite horror, but is fantastic and dark enough that it borders on the genre and might be something worth looking into, if you don't mind struggling against certain cryptic mechanics and having to fail a few times and start over to really develop a winning strategy. "Incredibly Twisted Shadow Planet" isn't really horror either, but it uses the silhouette artstyle and has some damn good metroidvania-lite exploration and shooting.

I do however have to object to Outlast a 'true horror' game, given its primary source of 'scares' is startles (typically using a loud audio sting, making them 'screamer' grade startles). I suppose what constitutes true horror is down to your preference I suppose. My qualifying criteria excludes startles for startles sake. Then again, I loved Silent Hill 3 and really didn't feel much from Silent Hill 2, take this with a pinch of salt, heh. If you're into startles and don't mind the FNAF style gameplay, perhaps look into "Welcome to the Game" which has a similar core gameplay but is slower paced, where you have to browse sites and locate fragments of an URL to a darknet site. Had potential but I found it gradually tedious (and cheap with the startles, though it's more impressive than most FNAFlikes). "Boogeyman" is another startle-like worth looking into, and for a different take you could always check out the deliberately cheesy "Night Blights". NB was weird in that I enjoyed it for its mindful startles and dumbness. Little shadow monsters gradually attempt to break into your house and eat your family (and you), and you have to run around the house using various methods to either keep them at bay, or keep them calm/appeased.

Sorry I couldn't really come up with anything better. I love good horror, but I'm also a total snob about it with a ton of double standards apparently. I mean, I liked Dead Space despite startles due to how oppressive the ammo counter and environment could be. \:3/

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Doom 3?

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