15 Best Free Steam Horror Games

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Players spent roughly 10,250,000,000 monthly hours in Roblox in 2025, analyst says—more than Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined Roblox alone accounted for 67% of the games industry's growth outside of China in 2025.

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Capcom pleads with its community once again to avoid sharing Resident Evil Requiem leaks: 'We really want everyone to enjoy the game's story and experience as much as possible' Resident Evil Requiem fans just have to hold out another week.

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A Resident Evil Requiem pull-up bar bundle sold out in Japan in less than five hours, and honestly, it just makes sense Capcom has teamed up with a Japanese TV shopping channel, and it's beautifully absurd.

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Kick off the year of the horse with a stableful of discounted horse games in Steam Horse Fest Start horsing around.

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'Art and science and procreation, that's about all life is good for:' Two former freeware developers are still trying to keep it weird in an era when companies 'sell games to people in 5-second clips' "These money people need numbers to know they will make their money back, which kind of conflicts with the nature of experimentation and trying to push the boundaries of the medium."

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If you've ever had a crippling Vampire Survivors or Slay the Spire habit, avoid Vampire Crawlers at all costs Or play it, and let it consume your whole Steam Next Fest week. I'm not your dad.

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Poppy Playtime becomes Steam's global top seller and doubles its all-time peak player count record Everyone wants to play with Chapter 5's "Wrongside Outimals."

PCGamer latest Feb 18

Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss Still Needs More Danger in its Undersea Horror | IGN PreviewMy biggest fear for Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss was assuaged pretty early - this game does a great job setting Lovecraft’s well-worn mythos in a time and place that feels unique among its many, many contemporaries. It also leans into problem solving in a way maybe other games like it don’t, focusing more on the finding out parts of diligent detective work than the effing around parts of attempting to gun fight a bog monster. And though the puzzles you’ll encounter throughout tend to balance feeling rewarding to solve while being approachable, the tense and slow-burning pace is great for the process of discovery but doesn't pay off the patience with many scares or really any pushback at all from anything that isn’t a puzzle.

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Everyone should get into birdwatching, and as a birdwatching devotee, here are the 4 upcoming birding games on Steam I'm keeping tabs on Fly from biome to biome and see what you can find.

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Steam Next Fest hasn't even started, and its first must-play demo is already here You can play Titanium Court now, and you should be doing that instead of whatever else you're doing.

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