Upcoming horror games in winter 2026/27

Sharpen your machete and grab your friends. Arizona Sunshine brings its award-winning zombie apocalypse to explosive third-person action, featuring online and split-screen co-op, brutal combat, dark humor, and Buddy, your loyal zombie-chomping canine companion.

Beautiful Light is a PvPvP(vE) tactical first-person extraction shooter where 6 squads of 3 operators are tasked with entering, securing, and extracting an artifact in a hostile, horrific environment. Face other operators and player-controlled anomalies, but beware: mistakes can risk your life and gear.

A story-driven, atmospheric thriller with pixel-art graphics and survival-horror elements. Short, intense, and unforgettable.

BrokenLore: Ascend is a first-person psychological horror with climbing and stealth mechanics. Follow Ren and Yui, two rooftop climbers facing a cursed tower and the terrifying Rokurokubi. The higher they climb, the closer they get to madness—and to the truth about themselves.

Face off in a Russian roulette drinking survival with a demon who'd kill for you—or kill you—where it's puke or be puked on for your soul. The more you drink, the more the rules break down, until it all spills into one hell of a night you'll never forget.

Hide. Solve. Run. Survive. In a near-future dystopia ruined by the Yellow, Aila must rely on observation and ingenuity to escape a world where light is lethal. Copy objects from the environment, adapt under pressure, and create your own way forward in this dark cinematic stealth adventure

Encryptid is a short FMV horror game about hunting and catching cryptids. Use real-world footage recorded exclusively via the Gameboy Camera to identify, locate and capture iconic creatures of myth and folklore.

‘Sombras: Negative Frames’ is a first person narrative game with a focus on photography and light horror elements. Follow Shiomi, a Japanese-Spanish photography student, as she is spirited away in a dark mirror of her 2000s Japanese town and must confront fragments of her own psyche.

Outsmart your past self in a battle of cause and effect. Explore an interconnected clay world, discover its hidden rules, and uncover the secrets it would rather keep buried.

Last Floor is a first-person psychological horror game focused on observation and anomaly detection. The player navigates a looping hospital corridor and must identify subtle changes in the environment. Each run begins in an elevator and progresses through an identical hallway. The player must determine whether an anomaly is present during the loop and choose the correct elevator direction to continue. Incorrect decisions reset progression. An elevator that doesn't obey the laws of space. Descend through impossible places, spot anomalies, follow the rules, and survive… Show more

A 2 player psychological horror game where not every player sees the same reality. Explore a carnival trapped in an endless transformation, detect anomalies, verify with your friend if they see the same thing and make the right decisions before the clown Bobby loses his temper...

Put yourself in the shoes of a combat veteran. Can you handle the hardships that come with a life of solitude?

Fight your way through a diverse world in this action-adventure side scroller, where you are given one weapon and die in one hit. Can you earn the right to peer beyond the Zeroed Abyss?

Mandatory orientation at a corporate hellscape. The loop never ends. A psychological horror visual novel where your accumulated choices build a hidden profile and the world around you adjusts accordingly. Public demo available on Steam. Full release is currently in development.

The Infinite Shift is a psychological horror exploration game. As a pool cleaner caught in an unending shift, traverse eerie liminal spaces from submerged Poolrooms to Level 0. Solve environmental puzzles, evade lurking entities, and try to escape—before you drown in the depths of the Backrooms.

God Is Not Here is a first-person psychological horror game. The player explores an isolated house, investigates paranormal phenomena, solves environmental puzzles, and follows clues through recordings, surveillance cameras, and the surrounding environment. The game focuses on atmosphere, narrative exploration, environmental storytelling, and encounters with hostile supernatural entities.

Twenty years ago, Val Thorne's family was taken from her by a sinister cult. Now armed with nothing but her dad's old pistol and a fresh bottle of whiskey, she's vowed to get her revenge...

Backrooms Anomaly: Pools is a first-person anomaly-spotting horror game set in a looping complex of liminal poolrooms. Players study tiled corridors, pools and flooded chambers, turning back when something has changed and continuing when everything looks normal. In the Survival Stage, players photograph multiple anomalies before time runs out.

Blood Covenant is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror job-sim. Players are a hazmat cleaning crew taking night jobs at farmhouses, barns in the woods and an abandoned psychiatric hospital. Each shift they scrub blood, bag remains, seal breaches and repair fences, then return to the van before the entity that has moved in comes for them. Players spot anomalies, read messages written on the walls under UV light, and must identify the entity before lighting the ritual altar; naming the wrong one turns it against the crew. Can be played solo or with up to three friends.

Abandoned Below is a first-person cooperative zombie survival game set in an abandoned underground bunker. Play alone or with friends, fight increasingly dangerous waves of zombies, rebuild barricades, and unlock new areas as you explore the complex.

Down to Floor Zero is a survival horror experience set in an unreasonably large hotel. Your only means of transportation is an elevator that can solely go down. Each floor may host useful items and structures, as well as horrors beyond comprehension. Try to reach the ground floor intact.

Look, just because I’m paid to fix computers, doesn’t mean I’ll sit here and listen to your life story. So what there’s been murders? Do I look like a detective?

It's time to make learning fun, with sandwiches and smalltalk at the Edutainment Vortex Diner, in retro PC game style! Take classes from ageless and immortal teachers. Get good grades or embrace your inner bratty problem child! Unpack the mystery of this cosmic eatery and perhaps you'll inherit their burdens.

The Hambagu Shop is a cozy horror narrative simulator where you work in a Japanese Hamburg Steak Shop. Cook Hamburg, serve customers, and upgrade your shop for more menu items.