Steam is currently running its “Steam Scream IV” sale and while it’s a little light on big AAA headliners (don’t expect any Resident Evils on sale, or the recent Silent Hill f), there’s a solid chunk of older titles you might’ve missed, as well as dozens of cool indie games available for pocket change (actual pocket change, mind you).
The criteria for the “Scream” sale is also quite wide, so not all of these are horror games strictly speaking, but hey, a discount’s a discount.
Some recent spooky(ish) games you probably forgot about
Okay, maybe you didn’t forget about these, but then why aren’t they in your library? Hmm? As I was perusing the latest Steam sale, I noticed more than a few recent games from a few years ago that were either a hot topic for about a week, or never hit critical mass.
- A Plague Tale: Innocence and its sequel, Requiem
- Bloober Team’s solid Blair Witch game from 2019
- Bloober Team’s grim cyberpunk drama, Observer: System Redux
- 2022’s Scorn
- The excellent 2023 System Shock remake
- Last year’s short but sweet soulslike Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn
- One of my favorite horror games from last year, Still Wakes the Deep
Sick, unmissable indie titles
- Vintage PSX-style spookiness with 2024’s Crow Country
- The alluring, dark depths of Animal Well
- Heretic-inspired Boomer Shooter Dusk
- Strange Scaffold’s excellent, vampire-themed Max Payne-like El Paso Elsewhere
- Mouthwashing (why don’t you own this one already?)
- Signalis (why don’t you own this one already, too?)
Dirt cheap titles that you somehow haven’t purchased yet
There are only 24 hours in a day. You can’t possibly play them all, but if for some reason you missed out on 2014’s The Evil Within or its sequel. The Evil Within 2, they’re both on sale. The first Alan Wake is a mere $1.50 right now, and its spin-off, American Nightmare, is even cheaper.
This Steam sale is massive, so there’s much more worth digging through. The sale goes until November 3, 2025.
