Steam Next Fest: February 2027 runs Feb 22 to Mar 1, 2027 (10 AM Pacific).
36 upcoming horror games with a playable Steam demo, pulled nightly from Steam's Horror tag. Many of these are in (or headed for) Next Fest.
A year after a bio-engineered organism drowned the world in mutation, an infected ex-captain steers his battered boat into a flooded, hand-painted swamp to find his lost family. Explore, scavenge fuel, and fight the twisted creatures of the
Curiosity leads a group of teenagers to a remote Sri Lankan village to investigate ancient exorcism rituals. When the local folklore proves horrifyingly real, their search for answers becomes a desperate fight to survive the wrath of the Ma
VULTURE is a 4-player co-op horror extraction FPS. Explore abandoned facilities, recover valuable resources, complete objectives, and survive creatures hunting your team. Work together, use specialized roles, and extract before you lose eve
Inner Exile is a cinematic FPS psychological horror experience told in a single uninterrupted take. Collect memory objects and solve environmental puzzles to rebuild a traumatic past inside a claustrophobic, mysterious mindscape.
1980. Rooms to let on a quiet street, meals included, a landlady who calls her lodgers family. You move into one. And as the days pass, you cannot shake the feeling that something in that house is wrong, and that it has been wrong for a ver
Enter the long-closed St. Elora Hospital for a final technical inspection before demolition. Restore power, explore the building, and examine the records left behind. Before it Falls is a first-person psychological horror game focused on ex
Co-op survival horror for one to four players, or solo with companions at your side. In Ashbrook the dead get back up unless what is left of them burns. Ration the fuel. Leave no corpse whole. Then open Bloodthirsty Demon Baby Mode, and up
A spooky pixel-art platformer set in an abandoned mansion on Halloween night. Fight monsters, explore eerie rooms, and rescue the missing children before the Witch completes her sinister ritual.
Silent Ward is a free short horror experience: explore a ruined asylum from a wheelchair, uncover what happened during your coma, and survive blind monsters that hunt by sound—escape with one of multiple endings.
Jerry’s Secret is a first-person horror and mystery game in which you play as a detective investigating the disappearance of students and staff from an abandoned school. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the secrets of a powerful organiza
A story driven golf game, challenge friends locally or online or experience the cinematic story. Customize your golfer with the right set of clubs and delve into a haunted golfing adventure!
BUFFET is a chaotic kitchen management game for up to 4 players. Serve delicious (?) dishes and try to survive when customers hate your food and attack back!
first/third person psychological horror, where the player takes odd freelance jobs,with specific rules to survive. Using a phone to access security cameras, take pictures, and the flashlight app to help with work. -Thanks for applying to ou
Follow Markus as he investigates the secrets of a technology-dependent future. Missing Protocol is a retro-futuristic, narrative-driven survival horror experience that questions what we're willing to give up for comfort.
A turn-based combat roguelite where you build a monster from the body parts of your enemies. Create evolving combos, break enemy limbs mid-fight and wear their flesh after you defeat them to grow in power.
A chicken possessed by the Devil has laid 4,266 colored eggs in a barn, but 666 of them are demonic eggs in disguise! Sort the eggs, find the evil impostors, and burn them before they hatch and doom the world.
Dive into an atmospheric 3D puzzle-platformer set in an industrial nightmare. As a weaponless boy, sneak through the colossal, rusted city of DNO to rescue Princess Aya—the last flicker of light. Outsmart mechanical watchers, evade grotesqu
This 2D psychological horror game traps you in a pastel-pink doll museum, where you help Valentine to survive the cruel Doll Queen!
A short survival-horror game. With only a compass and a fragmented map, scavenge, fight monsters and seek a way out of a fogbound city that should not exist.
A psychological horror investigation and survival game where you explore a house full of secrets, faces the living unkow, solve puzzles, use a fully interactive retro computer, and uncover a decades-old conspiracy.
SECTOR GAMMA - an atmospheric horror simulator set in the Soviet Union, 1968. You are an intern at a secret Soviet facility. Your job: dispose of anomalous waste, fight dangerous robots, and survive on a limited budget. Ready to sign the co
Play the killer. Or try to escape one. A top-down pixel horror game set in a corn maze on Halloween night.
Step into The Split Layer, psychological horror game set within a liminal world where familiar places no longer reveal the whole truth. Your only reliable tool is a tablet that uncovers another layer of reality.
A psychological horror game that delves into the lives of the Synclair Family, following a horrible tragedy.
Life 2047: Escape Simulator is an atmospheric puzzle game set in a cyberpunk dystopia. The line is your path to freedom. Hack the system, evade surveillance, uncover hidden truths, and escape the loop where every day repeats. Are you a glit
Welcome to the afterlife's premier termination facility. Manage booths, process clients through industrial disposal units, collect VIP specimens, and scale your death enterprise. A darkly corporate idle game widget for your desktop.
A first-person psychological horror game set inside a mysterious mountain hotel. Explore the dark halls of Reaven Wood Hotel and uncover the terrifying secrets hidden behind Room 207.
A first-person survival horror game where you chop trees and split logs by day, then keep the fire alive through the night as horrors close in beyond its light.
A 2.5D side-scrolling romance adventure blending dual perspectives, puzzles, survival horror and psychological horror. Awaken with no memory in an underground experimental prison. Evade modified test subjects and seek a way out, forging a b
A psychological horror game where you explore atmospheric dreamscapes. Sprint to survive, manage your stamina wisely, and escape from terrifying nightmares to find your way back to reality, if you can.
Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.
Trapped within in a looping British alleyway, you must complete disturbing tasks for a demonic rubbish bin while surviving murderous children's TV puppets known as, Huggles & Friends. A surreal and macabre first-person horror based on the S
39D is a linear sci-fi horror visual novel. Once you cross the line, there’s only one way to go: down.
Midnight Reading is a short horror adventure set in a Showa-era Japanese school. As a library committee member, search for overdue books. Read, return, and make choices as the story branches into three routes and a True Route.
A solo or co-op horde survival where reckless wizards (you) blast mutated hordes with synthwave magic, upgrade between runs, and try not to kill each other.
GUTSPILL is a brutal horror game where you use a hammer and kicks to destroy and cannibalize your enemies using the environment to your advantage. Survive a descent into madness where everything becomes increasingly surreal and visceral.
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