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0 The Steam Scream 3d Fest is live from now through to November 4th and there are plenty of amazing horror games up for grabs! We’ve trekked through the many games that you can choose from to pull out 7 of our spooky favourites. There are some really great discounts going on this Steam Scream Fest – Check out the entire sale here.
You can also grab a couple of free animated stickers from the Steam Points shop!
Sons of the Forest
- Longevity: 14+ hours
- Steam ratings: Very positive
- Developers: Endnight Games
- Release Date: 23/02/2023
- On sale price: £13.74
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Experience complete freedom to tackle the world how you want. You decide what you do, where to go and how best to survive. There are no NPC’s barking orders at you or giving you missions you don’t want to do. You give the orders, you choose what happens next.
Monstrum
- Longevity: 7+ hours
- Steam ratings: Very positive
- Developers: Team Junkfish
- Release Date: 20/05/2015
- On sale price: £2.39
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
Offering up a challenge to even the hardiest of gamers, Monstrum will force you to use your wits and whatever tools you can find to outrun or outsmart your pursuer. Attempt to escape from an environment that is out to kill you while evading the lurking terror that could be around any corner. Can you survive the Hisa Maru?
Dredge
- Longevity: 10+ hours
- Steam ratings: Overwhelmingly positive
- Developers: Black Salt Games
- Release Date: 30/03/2023
- On sale price: £31.19
Captain your fishing trawler to explore a collection of remote isles, and their surrounding depths, to see what lies below. Sell your catch to the locals and complete quests to learn more about each area’s troubled past. Outfit your boat with better equipment to trawl deep-sea trenches and navigate to far-off lands, but keep an eye on the time. You might not like what finds you in the dark…
Starting from your new home in the remote archipelago, ‘The Marrows’, take to the water and scour the depths for curious collectables and over 125 deep sea denizens. Explore each area while completing quests and visiting neighbouring island regions – each with their own unique opportunities, inhabitants, and secrets.
You can check out our Dredge PS5 review by clicking here.
Subnautica
- Longevity: 30+ hours
- Steam ratings: Overwhelmingly positive
- Developers: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
- Release Date: 23/01/2018
- On sale price: £12.49
You have crash-landed on an alien ocean world, and the only way to go is down. Subnautica’s oceans range from sun drenched shallow coral reefs to treacherous deep-sea trenches, lava fields, and bio-luminescent underwater rivers. Manage your oxygen supply as you explore kelp forests, plateaus, reefs, and winding cave systems. The water teems with life: Some of it helpful, much of it harmful.
After crash landing in your Life Pod, the clock is ticking to find water, food, and to develop the equipment you need to explore. Collect resources from the ocean around you. Craft diving gear, lights, habitat modules, and submersibles. Venture deeper and further form to find rarer resources, allowing you to craft more advanced items.
The Last Of Us
- Longevity: 15+ hours
- Steam ratings: Mostly positive
- Developers: Naughty Dog LLC
- Release Date: 28/03/2023
- On sale price: £29.99
In a ravaged civilization, where infected and hardened survivors run rampant, Joel, a weary protagonist, is hired to smuggle 14-year-old Ellie out of a military quarantine zone. However, what starts as a small job soon transforms into a brutal cross-country journey.
Includes the complete The Last of Us single-player story and celebrated prequel chapter, Left Behind, which explores the events that changed the lives of Ellie and her best friend Riley forever.
Resident Evil 4
- Longevity: 15+ hours
- Steam ratings: Overwhelmingly positive
- Developers: CAPCOM
- Release Date: 24/03/2023
- On sale price: £16.49
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Agent Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors of the incident, has been sent to rescue the president’s kidnapped daughter. He tracks her to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals and the curtain rises on this story of daring rescue and gruelling horror where life and death, terror and catharsis intersect.
Featuring modernised gameplay, a reimagined storyline, and vividly detailed graphics, Resident Evil 4 marks the rebirth of an industry juggernaut. Relive the nightmare that revolutionised survival horror.
Check out our Resident Evil 4 (2023 Remake) PS5 review here
Phasmophobia
- Longevity: 10+ hours
- Steam ratings: Very positive
- Developers: Kinetic Games
- Release Date: 18/09/2020
- On sale price: £12.56
Phasmophobia is a 4-player, online co-op, psychological horror game. You and your team of paranormal investigators will enter haunted locations filled with paranormal activity and try to gather as much evidence as you can. Use your ghost-hunting equipment to find and record evidence to sell on to a ghost removal team.
We recently covered the Early Access release of Phasmophobia PS5, which you can check out here.
Happy Screaming!
Those are our top seven spooky games up for grabs in the Steam Scream 3D Fest. There are plenty more on offer for the short period of time that the sale is running, so be sure to take a look through everything in case something on your wishlist has dropped in price! If you want to get some opinions before you commit to buying anything, check out our PC reviews here.
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