7 Survival Horror Games on Steam (November 2026) | Indie games with 90%+ Positive Reviews

Search the apartment building for supplies and fight monsters in turn-based combat.

Gun attacks require ammunition: rounds spent now are no longer available for a later encounter.

Players describe the disturbing pleasure of discovering another strange room when they thought they had seen the building.

Grotesque neighbours can become people to care about rather than merely targets.

That human warmth does not remove the unease of deciding whom to trust.

One reviewer cared enough about the residents to avoid choices based solely on numerical gain.

One reviewer enjoyed deciding which weapons to use and which explosives to save.

Learning another companion’s strengths can also change how a return visit plays out, according to players who tried different parties.

Opening areas and returning gradually reveals why the park closed.

Reviews describe solving puzzles with clues found elsewhere in the park.

New areas and clues kept these players exploring.

One player wrote down combinations and puzzle clues while new areas made the park more complex.

Another player compared healing and ammunition reserves before traversing familiar enemy-filled rooms.

Returning for hidden discoveries also appeals to players who want the park to become a place they understand, not merely escape.

Daniel explores a castle while his past remains largely missing.

Darkness helps hide you but lowers sanity, making waiting and moving different risks.

Players value sounds that suggest a presence before they can see it.

Notes and fragments of memory gradually fill in Daniel's past.

Puzzles ask you to handle objects directly, such as shifting pillars and rocks to clear a way forward.

One reviewer enjoyed moving furniture to block a door when desperate.

Another advises using lamp oil when needed rather than hoarding it through the darkness.

A player who tried Hard Mode found it tested the mechanics they had learned, making success satisfying.

Reviewers say the camera, light, and door checks grow frantic as the nights progress.

A reviewer finds the animatronics’ blank stares on camera unsettling.

Power is limited each night. If it runs out, the doors and lights stop working.

One reviewer alternates stage and Foxy cameras, then checks the doors.

Another listens to track Freddy’s approach.

Another reviewer enjoys the eerie atmosphere and the way later nights get tougher.

Use the flashlight while guarding doors, closet and bed.

Balance time listening at doors with attention to the other posts.

Players describe doubting whether a faint breath was real before touching the light.

Even the child's bedroom is threatened by sharp-toothed, monstrous animatronics.

The attraction is making a decision from sound, not merely waiting for the next sudden image.

One player described becoming more fluent only after learning what the different sounds meant.

Another found that overcoming their own fear was part of the work before the clear felt rewarding.

A reviewer with extensive playtime praises the challenges that follow the main nights.

Find scrap and help the island’s settlers to improve your train and equipment.

The absurd spider-train and the pursuit can make the experience funny as well as frightening.

One reviewer said that hearing Charles’s horn away from their train made them appreciate its protection.

A reviewer who played Nightmare Mode enjoyed keeping scrap for repairs and upgrades more than the scares.

In the official Nightmare Mode update, Charles becomes stronger and more aggressive, and death restarts the game. Leaving the train to search for scrap carries more risk.

Another player recommends side missions for scrap to repair and improve the train.

Collect ritual objects; the possessed cultist grows more aggressive as the ritual progresses.

Players enjoy a teammate’s panic turning a frightening chase into shared laughter.

The Easy mode offers slower pursuit and faster UV recovery for groups wanting a less severe start.

On The Manor, one group saved the dead heads for a simultaneous burial, shortening the boss's final phase.

Another reviewer recommends that teammates bring offerings together and burn them in a batch, shortening the late stretch with more minions.

A long-playing group adds rules such as not using medkits.