Halloween is coming soon, and many gamers are celebrating the season by playing the various horror games available to them. While there are many popular and well made horror games out there, some gamers can’t afford too many games at this time.
Those looking for a scare while staying on a small budget can play these games on Steam for free. While some of these games have paid DLC for additional content, the main story of the games can still be experienced without any sort of charge.
As all of these are horror games, they are not recommended for young children or those sensitive for dark subject matters. Some of these games have additional content warnings that can be viewed on their official Steam pages or when the game is opened.
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator is a part of the Five Night’s at Freddy‘s series and is internally named Five Night’s at Freddy’s 5. It takes the appearance of a simple Atari styled game at both the game’s start and on the game’s official Steam page. It soon, however, crumbles to reveal the real game hidden inside.
Once the real game begins, players are tasked with operating their very own Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza restaurant. They will have the ability the choose which decorations, animatronics, and games to buy for their business while balancing between fun and restaurant safety. They will additionally have to avoid the various lawsuits that come with running an arcade filled with children.
When night comes however, the true game begins. Players will have to finish a variety of tasks within their office before going home for the night. As long as players don’t purchase animatronics possessed by the souls of dead children or child murderers, their nightly tasks will go off without too much trouble. However, players will get the opportunity to salvage certain broken animatronics from previous games for extra money. Doing so will invite a few unwanted guests into the player’s ventilation system.
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator has multiple endings to achieve as well as multiple secrets to find throughout it. Many of the arcade games that players can purchase are additionally fully playable, giving players a variety of things to do in the game in between the frightful nights.
This game can be added to players’ Steam libraries here.
Doki Doki Literature Club is a horror visual novel released by Dan Salvato back in 2017 to a very positive reception all around. It features adorable anime-styled graphics alongside an upbeat soundtrack. While this might lull some players into a false sense of security, the content warning at the very start of the game isn’t one that players should take lightly. Doki Doki Literature Club is an intense horror experience that isn’t for those faint of heart.
The game has players play as the friend of Sayori, the vice president of the school’s literature club. After visiting the club one day, the player is able to meet the other members of the club, Monika, Yuri, and Natsuki. Each of these girls including Sayori have their own romantic route that players can pursue except for Monika, as she serves as more as a tutorial character. At the end of each in-game day, players are able to select words from a word bank to write a poem for the next club day. Each girl has their own preferred words and depending on how much a girl likes a poem, that is who players will spend the next day with.
As an experience, Doki Doki Literature Club is a game that is best experienced completely blind. There are a multitude of different scares that players can encounter on different playthroughs as well as other randomized events. There are additionally multiple community-made expansions for those who still want more after completing the game.
This game’s Steam page can be found here.
Spooky’s Jumpscare Mansion is a comedy-horror game that has players explore a haunted mansion filled with ghosts, monsters, and cardboard cutouts of cute things that pop out of walls accompanied by loud noises. An HD remaster is also available on Steam for $10.00 USD.
The goal of the game is to make it through all 1000 rooms of the mansion while not dying to the actual horrors that lie within. While many of the rooms can be cleared in mere seconds, some of them are filled with multiple rooms inside them as well as various puzzles. Many of the floors and rooms are additionally filled with homages to various horror movies and games that any longtime horror fan is sure to appreciate.
The further players get inside the mansion, the more difficult it is to stay alive. In the beginning there are elevator rooms every 50 floors that serve as checkpoints. However, checkpoints will only be available every 100 floors after floor 200 is reached. There is additionally an expansion known as Karamari Hospital that is available for $1.99 USD.
The game’s Steam page can be found here.
Yume Nikki isn’t a traditional horror game with there being some questioning in the community about its status as such. However, many who’ve played Yume Nikki have haunting memories revolving around it.
The game has players control a girl named Madotsuki as she explores her lucid dreams. While in her dreams, she is able to explore the various connecting worlds lying inside them while also collecting special items known as effects. Effects can be used from the menu to change Madotsuki’s appearance and give her new abilities. These abilities can be used to gain access to new areas, effects, and special scenes.
There is absolutely no dialogue within Yume Nikki, leaving the entirety of the story and the events up to players’ interpretations. The variety of creative imagery and haunting NPCs makes for an experience that is unique for every player. Just like real dreams, there is no one path that players need to take, making many of the actions needing to be taken in order to get the ending needing no specific order.
The game’s Steam page can be found here.
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