I've browsed the category on Steam, but my eyes glazed over after about the 10th page of Unity walking simulators, anime schoolgirls, and RPG Maker games with default assets. I'm also looking for something that'll really get under my skin rather than casual action-horror titles.
Examples of horror games (both old and new) I particularly like to give you an idea of what might resonate with me:
- Silent Hill 2
- Lost In Vivo
- IMSCARED: A Pixelated Nightmare
- Clock Tower
- Five Nights At Freddy's (I might catch some flak for this one, but it was a genuinely clever and well-executed premise before it got memed to death and I'll die on that hill.)
- ANATOMY
- Stories Untold
Horror games a lot of people seem to like but I don't:
- Doki Doki Literature Club (it was a bit too anime for me)
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent (I finished it, it was okay, never really scared me though)
It's not on steam, but if you can set up Zdoom with Ghoul's Forest 3 that was probably the scariest shit I've ever played.
Oh hey, this looks interesting! I do have ZDoom set up, so I'll have to check this out. Thanks!
EDIT: Just checked a wiki and I noticed it mentions the Yurei pops a bunch of shock images if it kills the player. How concerned should I be? I don't want to look at, like, decapitation photos or harlequin fetuses or shit like that.
spoiler
There's one event if the final monster gets you where a bunch of scary photos flash on the screen for a second. Some of them are gorey, but it's all movie/makeup shit. It's not actual pictures of dead people.