7 Best Free Horror Games on Steam

If you want to relax for the evening and play some scary games but don’t want to spend money on a new game, we’ve put together a list of the best and scariest free horror games available on Steam. See how long you can play these games before moving on to something more relaxing to help you sleep that night.

7 Best Free Horror Games on Steam

1. SCP: Secret Laboratory 

This is the greatest of the SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) games available on Steam. If you’re unfamiliar with the SCP universe, it’s a fictional sci-fi universe where the SCP Foundation keeps humans or items that violate natural law secret.

The events of Secret Laboratory take place during a containment breach by the Chaos Insurgency, a group attempting to free potentially deadly beings held at one of the SCP Foundation’s labs.

You can play a variety of characters in the game, including Foundation security, scientists, lab-rat inmates known as D-Class, Chaos Insurgency members, and more, all of whom have a role in the breach. It’s a fantastic first-person horror game that ranks among the greatest.

2. Dark Deception

This game is like a horrifying version of Pac-Man, if you could see everything from a first-person perspective and the monsters chasing you were terrifying. You’re stuck in a maze full of traps with nowhere to hide in Dark Deception. Your only chance of surviving is to find a way out while avoiding the monsters pursuing you.

These monsters are designed to be absurd, and the game is more of a dark comedy horror than anything else. To survive long in this game, you’ll need quick thinking, and there will be plenty of jumpscares along the way.

3. No More Room In Hell

This game includes a one-of-a-kind zombie experience as a tribute to George Romero’s renowned horror film Dawn of the Dead. You play as one of the few survivors amid a zombie apocalypse, and you must work together to stay alive. Of course, killing zombies is a part of the game, but so is working with your squad to stay alive and solve riddles.

No More Room In Hell is a great pick if you’re looking for a fun zombie game.

4. Literature Club Doki Doki

On the surface, this game appears to be 100 percent innocent. When you first start playing this seemingly ordinary anime visual novel game, you’ll be confused as to why it’s classified as horror. However, as you progress, more and more things begin to appear to be amiss, until the true nature of the game smacks you in the face.

Doki Doki Literature Club is not for the faint of heart, since it contains distressing stuff and gradually becomes more chaotic until the entire game crumbles. Literally. The game might end in a variety of ways, so choose wisely.

5. Cry of Fear

You play as a young man exploring a Scandinavian city as he is attacked by terrifying creatures. To survive, you must try your best to find out what is genuine and what isn’t. This game began as a Half-Life mod and evolved into its own game. Cry of Fear is available in single-player and co-op modes, so if you’re too terrified to play it alone, you can always enlist the help of some pals to overcome the weird, terrible atmosphere.

6. Deceit

Deceit is a multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) with an unpleasant twist. You awaken in a room with a group of other players and learn that one-third of them has been infected with a virus that causes them to murder others. If you’re playing as an innocent, you’ll have to keep an eye on the group to figure out who’s infected. If you’ve been infected, you’ll need to kill others while remaining unnoticed.

As you play, you’ll pick up hints that will help you figure out whose side other players are on, and you’ll be able to vote out the suspect ones. Deceit is a psychological horror film that is both fascinating and suspenseful.

7. Dagon: By H.P. Lovecraft

Whether or not you enjoy H.P. Lovecraft’s classic horror stories, this game generates a memorable horror atmosphere that will keep you engrossed for hours. This game is a completely faithful adaptation of the story created by Lovecraft as part of his Cthulu mythos, but it’s worth playing whether or not you’ve read it.

Dagon is a story-driven game with only roughly 30 minutes of gameplay. Nonetheless, it’s a lovely experience that perfectly captures Lovecraft’s famous sense of cosmic horror.