Horror 2025 for PC — top best games in the Horror genre

Silent Hill f - a game in the Horror genre

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 25 September 2025

VGTimes: 8.4/10

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 84/100

A full-fledged sequel to the cult horror series Silent Hill. The action takes place in the 1960s in the Japanese town of Ebisugaoka. The story tells of a schoolgirl...

Little Nightmares 3

Adventure, Horror, Online, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 10 October 2025

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 49/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Low and One are trying to get out of Nowhere. They joined forces to survive in a dangerous world full of illusions and shadows. The main feature of the sequel is...

Cronos: The New Dawn

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Survival horror, Horror

Game released: PC → 5 September 2025

VGTimes: 6.8/10

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

An atmospheric horror with survival elements from the creators of the remake of Silent Hill 2, the events of which unfold in a gloomy future world that has...

Escape the Backrooms

Action, Adventure, Horror, Online, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Exploration

Early Access: PC → 12 August 2022; Game released: PC → 23 October 2025

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 88/100

A cooperative first-person horror game based on the popular creepypasta about the "Backrooms." Players will explore over thirty levels of an endless maze of empty...

R.E.P.O.

Action, Horror, Online, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy

Early Access: PC → 26 February 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 96/100

Cooperative online chorror, in which physics plays a key role. Up to six people can go to abandoned gloomy locations to extract valuable items with the help of...

The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Survival horror, Post-apocalyptic, Horror

Game released: PC → 3 April 2025

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Remaster The Last of Us: Part 2. The events of the second part begin 5 years after the first and continue the story of Ellie's life, who has grown into a young...

The Freak Circus

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: PC → 19 June 2025

Players: 8.7/10

A dark visual novel where romance intertwines with psychological horror. The story begins with an ordinary job at a café, but a chance encounter with the mysterious...

Active Matter

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Horror

Game released: PC → 15 September 2026; Early Access: PC → 10 September 2025

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 79/100

The game takes you to a world where death is not the end, but only a return to the beginning. An operative stuck in a time loop is sent again and again to...

No, I'm not a Human

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Old school

Game released: PC → 15 September 2025

VGTimes: 5.0/10

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The game introduces players to a disturbing world on the brink of an apocalypse. During the day, city dwellers suffer from the sun, burning out all living things...

Slender Threads

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 7 February 2025

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Atmospheric quest, where reality is intertwined with nightmares. Harvey, a wandering salesman, is in a small town of Villa Ventat. Its days are filled with...

Routine

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction

Game released: PC → 4 December 2025

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A science fiction horror where the silence of the lunar station quickly turns into a suffocating abyss, hiding traces of someone else's mistakes and a cold will. A...

CloverPit

Horror, First-person view, Casino, Indie, Roguelike, Comedy, Procedural generation, Strategy

Game released: PC → 26 September 2025

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A dark roguelike where excitement and fear intertwine in a deadly game. The main character ends up in a rusty cell with a slot machine and an ATM, and each round...

Tiny Bunny

Adventure, Horror, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Early Access: PC → 16 April 2021; Game released: PC → 5 December 2025

VGTimes: 7.8/10

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 81/100

An adventurous visual novel with horror elements. Looking out of the window of an old house, the boy Anton sees a fading village, huge snowdrifts, and a frozen...

KARMA: The Dark World

Walking Simulator, Adventure, First-person view, Science fiction, Horror

Game released: PC → 27 March 2025

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The game takes place in a dystopian world in East Germany in 1984, where the Leviathan corporation rules. She monitors the residents and gives them drugs that make...

One-Eyed Likho

Adventure, Horror, Interactive movie, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 28 July 2025

Players: 7/10

Steam: 93/100

An adventure puzzle-horror game based on the Russian folk tale of the same name. The main character is a blacksmith who has never seen any grief, who sets off to...

Post Trauma

Adventure, Action, Horror, Third-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Puzzle, Old school

Game released: PC → 22 April 2025

Players: 8/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Surreal horror in the spirit of the first parts of Silent Hill. The plot of the game tells about a simple train conductor who finds himself in an otherworldly and...

Project Werewulf

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adult game, Survival horror, Horror

Game released: PC → 6 May 2025

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 82/100

The plot tells about a girl who was imprisoned far from civilization. However, in an already gloomy place, something strange begins to happen. People die, and the...

Total Chaos

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure

Game released: PC → 20 November 2025

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The player explores the gloomy ruins of settlements, where terrible creatures live, each of which has its own behavior in the battles. The mysterious radio...

The Midnight Walk

Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Fantasy

Game released: PC → 8 May 2025

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Gloomy game from the authors of Lost in Random. The monsters and environment were first sculpted from clay and then transferred to 3D. The gamer controls a...

Ferocious

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Tactics, Survival, Exploration

Game released: PC → 4 December 2025

Players: 4.7/10

Steam: 62/100

A tactical survival shooter set on a mysterious tropical island in the Pacific Ocean. It was from there that a distress signal came from journalists, whom the main...

Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic

Survival horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Horror, Adventure

Game released: PC → 13 June 2025

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Atmospheric horror with elements of puzzles and hide-and-seek in the Five Nights at Freddy's series, the action of which takes place in a gloomy costume workshop...

The Black Ice

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Zombies, Survival horror, Horror, Futurism (Future), Survival

Game released: PC → 24 December 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 77/100

Atmospheric adventure horror set in the vast Antarctic. After receiving a distress signal from the Vostok scientific complex, a polar explorer from the Mirny...

Stygian: Outer Gods

Adventure, First-person view, Survival horror, Horror

Early Access: PC → 14 April 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 6/10

Steam: 80/100

The player takes on the role of a mercenary escorting a mysterious girl to the foggy settlement of Kingsport to uncover the dark secret of her family. After a...

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

Cyberpunk, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Shooter, First-person view, Horror, Science fiction, Role-playing game, Old school, Online

Game released: PC → 26 June 2025

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Remaster of the role-playing shooter System Shock 2 from 1999. The game's action takes place in the distant future on a spaceship. The main character is an...

AI2U-With You 'Til The End

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Casual game, Visual novel

Early Access: PC → 23 January 2025; Game released: PC → 12 August 2026

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 88/100

An unusual adventure with elements of psychological thriller and AI, where each story unfolds differently thanks to language models. The main character finds...

A Game About Digging A Hole

Simulation, Business / Management, First-person view, Sandbox, Casual game, Dungeons, Crafting, Procedural generation, Exploration, Horror

Game released: PC → 7 February 2025

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

The main character bought a house and now digs a hole in his garden. In the process, different values come across, for example, silver and even bags with money...

Painkiller

Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Action, Gothic

Game released: PC → 21 October 2025

Players: 3.8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 62/100

The game returns in a refreshed format, preserving the iconic atmosphere of the dark shooter while adding a modern twist. Purgatory becomes the arena for merciless...

The Inn-Sanity

Walking Simulator, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Exploration, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 10 January 2025; Early Access: PC → 22 October 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

The main character finds himself in a luxurious hotel, which becomes a trap against the background of the impending apocalypse. In one night, the city is immersed...

EBOLA VILLAGE

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Exploration, Zombies, Survival horror, Action, Horror

Game released: PC → 13 May 2025

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 79/100

A dark game inspired by classic survival horror games from the 90s, set in Russia. The main character named Maria is investigating mysterious events in the village...

Killing Floor 3

Shooter, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Horror, Zombies

Game released: PC → 24 July 2025

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 49/100

Metacritic: 68/100

The events of the game unfolded in 2091, when the Horzine megacorporation created an army of obedient monsters. Players take upon themselves the role of rebels from...

Moros Protocol

Shooter, First-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Old school, Procedural generation, Replayability, Action, Horror

Game released: PC → 18 September 2025

Players: 1/10

Steam: 81/100

An old-school shooter set aboard an abandoned warship transformed into a labyrinth of nightmares. Without memories or allies, only the survival instinct and a...

Species: Unknown

Horror, First-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Survival horror

Early Access: PC → 23 October 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

Steam: 94/100

A dark co-op game in which up to four players explore an abandoned spaceship hunted by a monster. The goal is to complete a contract and escape alive. Upgradeable...

Resident Evil Re:Verse

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Horror, Cooperative (co-op), Survival horror

Game released: PC → 28 October 2022; The project is closed: PC → 29 June 2025

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 33/100

Resident Evil Re:Verse — a network third-person shooter where you get the opportunity to play as iconic characters from the Resident Evil series. You will face a...

Horses

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC → 2 December 2025

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 73/100

An adventure horror game with FMV elements, built around a fourteen-day stay at an isolated horse farm. The player arrives there as a student who decided to spend...

White Knuckle

Adventure, Action, First-person view, Parkour, Platformer, Old school, Roguelike, Horror

Early Access: PC → 17 April 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 98/100

A hardcore roguelike platformer that focuses on speed climbing and inventory management. Using the physics of movement, momentum and precision, you have to rise...

A.I.L.A

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Science fiction, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 25 November 2025

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A.I.L.A. is an artificial intelligence that creates horror games based on the tester's deepest fears. Each new session becomes a reflection of their...

DEATH BURGER

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Comedy, Survival horror, Horror

Game released: PC → 5 August 2025

Steam: 98/100

An absurd horror about an evil burger that once almost became dinner, and now it hunts everyone. The main goal is survival in liminal spaces filled with strangeness...

Ghost Watchers

Adventure, Horror, Online, First-person view, Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Demons, Detective

Early Access: PC → 28 July 2022; Game released: PC → 24 July 2025

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 81/100

Ghost Watchers is a co-op survival horror game with puzzles and demons. Many abandoned houses are haunted. These could be the souls of suicides or demons. This...

Bio Goddess: Doomsday Begins

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Survival, Zombies, Role-playing game

Early Access: PC → 2 November 2025; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 8/10

Steam: 84/100

A high school student tries to survive in a school overrun by monsters. She'll have to solve puzzles, search for useful resources, and fend off enemies. You can...

Necrophosis

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Exploration, Demons, Walking Simulator, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 25 April 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Adventure horror set in a surreal universe where the environment is a nightmare. The story unfolds billions of years after the demise of the universe. A curse...

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Best Games in the Horror genre of 2025 for PC