The best new horror games to play right now as part of Steam Next Fest

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It’s the perfect time for horror games. As Halloween and the spooky month descend, from Resident Evil to Silent Hill, Five Nights at Freddy’s and Phasmophobia, the absolute best that the genre has to offer are bound to make a return to your Steam playlist. But alongside all the classics, there are loads of fantastic Steam Next Fest demos available now that give you a window into horror games’ future. The sheer amount of upcoming games can get overwhelming, so at PCGamesN, we’ve gathered a flashlight and a dusty old map, and trawled the haunted caves to find you the absolute best horrors available to try now.

October is the month for horror games. From classic-style, fixed-camera retro cuts to fear-inflected shooters and creepy platformers, there are dozens of future classics waiting for you at Steam Next Fest. Everything is free to try, and with so much to choose from – and so many enormous scares just waiting to pounce – this is the ideal time to sample the Steam Next Fest horror catalog. We’ve chosen five of the absolute best.

The best Steam Next Fest horror games to play are:

A team of investigators and commandos is sent to a remote facility in the wilderness of Japan. Naturally, something has gone horribly wrong – your job is to find out what. Played from a top-down perspective, not dissimilar to Hotline Miami, Empty Shell is a roguelike shooter with a highly distinctive black-and-white aesthetic. The whole game looks like a crusty, haunted old VHS tape, and there’s a terrific mix of action and big scares. There’s also a neat gimmick, true to the absolute best roguelikes, whereby if you get killed, you jump to another member of the commando team with completely randomized gear and abilities. Scavenge gear. Explore