Most played horror games on Steam

The horror games with the most people playing on Steam right now, from Steam's own live player counts, refreshed every ten minutes. The top ten have 123,080 players between them.

Every kind of game Most played overall

The most played of the horror games right now

Dead by Daylight

55,145 at its 24h peak

54,013

playing now

Ranked by players right now

Players in game this minute, with each game's peak over the last day.

Current24h peak

Dead by Daylight

54,013 playing · 55K peak

54,01355,145 2

R.E.P.O.

23,005 playing · 23K peak

23,00523,005 3

Escape the Backrooms

10,190 playing · 10K peak

10,19010,190 4

Phasmophobia

8,251 playing · 12K peak

8,25111,665 5

Dying Light

7,091 playing · 7,091 peak

7,0917,091 6

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

5,227 playing · 5,829 peak

5,2275,829 7

Resident Evil 2

4,639 playing · 4,639 peak

4,6394,639 8

The Forest

4,021 playing · 4,304 peak

4,0214,304 9

The Outlast Trials

3,939 playing · 4,119 peak

3,9394,119 10

Lethal Company

2,704 playing · 3,379 peak

2,7043,379 11

Subnautica

2,697 playing · 2,697 peak

2,6972,697 12

Resident Evil Village

2,550 playing · 2,666 peak

2,5502,666 13

Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

1,996 playing · 1,996 peak

1,9961,996 14

Resident Evil 6

1,726 playing · 1,726 peak

1,7261,726 15

Resident Evil 3

1,396 playing · 1,396 peak

1,3961,396 16

Buckshot Roulette

1,365 playing · 1,365 peak

1,3651,365 17

DEVOUR

1,103 playing · 1,167 peak

1,1031,167 18

Metro 2033 Redux

1,085 playing · 1,171 peak

1,0851,171 19

Inscryption

1,048 playing · 1,048 peak

1,0481,048 20

Poppy Playtime

934 playing · 934 peak

934934 21

Resident Evil 4 (2005)

782 playing · 1,032 peak

7821,032 22

Content Warning

748 playing · 822 peak

748822 23

GTFO

691 playing · 780 peak

691780 24

Cry of Fear

516 playing · 587 peak

516587 25

Half-Life: Alyx

413 playing · 515 peak

413515 26

Alan Wake

287 playing · 358 peak

287358 27

BioShock™ Remastered

286 playing · 397 peak

286397 28

Outlast

272 playing · 341 peak

272341 29

Little Nightmares

240 playing · 252 peak

240252 30

港詭實錄ParanormalHK

231 playing · 231 peak

231231 31

Alien: Isolation

224 playing · 352 peak

224352 32

Trepang2

206 playing · 230 peak

206230 33

Dead Space™ 3

188 playing · 225 peak

188225 34

Cube Escape Collection

183 playing · 183 peak

183183 35

Killing Floor

162 playing · 247 peak

162247 36

Ultimate Custom Night

136 playing · 137 peak

136137 37

Hello Neighbor 2

93 playing · 93 peak

9393 38

SOMA

86 playing · 115 peak

86115 39

Dead Space (2008)

78 playing · 107 peak

78107 40

FAITH: The Unholy Trinity

Firework

Labyrinthine

The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

56 playing · 59 peak

5659 44

Layers of Fear (2016)

Baldi's Basics Plus

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope

POSTAL

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

31 playing · 74 peak

3174 49

The Mortuary Assistant

Paper Dolls 2 纸人贰

A game is in this list when its Steam players voted “Horror” as one of its defining tags. Counts are Steam players only, from Steam's player API, and exclude creative software.

Frequently asked

What is the most played horror game on Steam?

Right now it is Dead by Daylight, with 54,013 people playing on Steam, followed by R.E.P.O. (23,005) and Escape the Backrooms (10,190). The ranking uses Steam's own live player counts and refreshes every 10 minutes.

How many people play horror games on Steam?

The ten most played horror games have 123,080 players on Steam between them right now. These are Steam players only: games that also run on their own launcher or on console have players this number cannot see.

Which games count as horror games?

Games whose Steam players voted "Horror" as one of their defining tags: among the game's five most-voted tags, with at least half as many votes as the top one. A game that merely has a few Horror votes does not count, which keeps the list to games that are horror games, not games with a Horror moment in them.