Scary hidden gems

Creaking rooms, lonely jobs and farms hiding old secrets run through these scary hidden gems. You spend most of your time low on supplies, watching shadows and deciding whether to run or stay quiet. Dread Fields, Iron Blight and Don't Sleep With The Fishes show the range, from slow rural dread to holding out indoors to drifting at sea while something visits after dark.

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1. Money for Girls: Amortized

   

   A horror-romance visual novel about a girl detective trying to save her mom from a predatory loan on a tropical island that is prettier than it is safe. Customize your girl, humiliate yourself for petty cash, romance your bully, and collect the many horrible endings you earn along the way.

   98%98% of 1,320 Steam reviews are positive42Players online now: 42$15

2. erdetspill

   

   Grandpa wants two ice creams and grandma left you 100 kroner, which covers exactly one. Cash the inheritance, get ID from the police, apply for a grant, and buy the second ice cream at KJIWI while nobody reacts to any of it.

   98%98% of 1,165 Steam reviews are positiveFree

3. Normal Golf Game

   

   A golf simulator that is anything but normal. You control your stance, aim and clubface separately while a mysterious man watches, your car burns and your money is gone. Hitting one pure shot here feels better than a whole round anywhere else.

   98%98% of 1,564 Steam reviews are positive98Players online now: 98$7.99

4. 暴杀残雨之夜

   

   A rainy night, an uncle's house, and a high school girl saving up for college. 暴杀残雨之夜 is an otome visual novel where you decide, choice by choice, whether to be kind, serious, or quietly cruel to the strange people around you. Every decision branches the story, an infamy value tracks your worst impulses, and the endings go places most romance games won't.

   98%98% of 1,084 Steam reviews are positive10Players online now: 10$6

5. Tales of Fear - Episode Zero

   

   Three short horror stories, one question: which of them actually happened? Play through each tale from inside the protagonist's shoes, explore handcrafted places, solve small puzzles and gather clues. Then make your call on truth or tale and see how it stacks up against everyone else's.

   96%96% of 658 Steam reviews are positive13Players online now: 13Free

6. Love Nest ~V0.098~

   

   A girl has been waiting for you, and she remembers everything: your choices, your saves, the times you left. What starts as a sweet date with full voice acting slowly curdles into something possessive, glitchy and hard to shake off.

   98%98% of 921 Steam reviews are positive33Players online now: 33Free

7. Feed The Pit

   

   A cult handed you a deck of magical cards and a simple job: find the wealthy people hiding in Carrister Valley and feed them to the Pit. Deduce their location, dodge the monster hunting you, and unravel a branching story that is funnier and stranger than it has any right to be.

   97%97% of 779 Steam reviews are positive12Players online now: 12$9.99

8. CAPTURED 2

   

   You're trapped in an apartment with ever-changing rooms. Capture anomalies on camera, survive deadly entities and escape an endless nightmare.

   99%99% of 613 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$7.99

9. Dread Fields

   

   A slow-burn folk farming horror. You bought an isolated farm to start a new life. Your peaceful routine is shattered when the former owner's terrible secrets rise from beneath the ground.

   98%98% of 589 Steam reviews are positive$6.99

10. MOLDRISE

    

    An infection started in your foot and is now climbing toward your brain, leaving one clear thought: go up. Climb a thirty-floor apartment block, trade with strange neighbors, and manage hunger, thirst and rot along the way. Death only resets the building; what you know stays, and that is your real way up.

    96%96% of 726 Steam reviews are positive25Players online now: 25$11.99

11. lily's world XD

    

    Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop. Read her diary, dig through her blog, message her friends and decode what happened to her before it's too late. A fourth-wall-breaking mystery about friendship, body image and growing up lonely online, with someone watching your every click.

    96%96% of 1,751 Steam reviews are positive20Players online now: 20$11.99

12. Stonemachia

    

    Play as Zefiro, a pawn who transforms into other chess pieces, and fight your way through Medhelan, a land haunted by the Plague of Angels. A dark, soulslike action-adventure built on parries, strange transformations and a quest to return to Heaven.

    95%95% of 1,375 Steam reviews are positive18Players online now: 18$19.99

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