A Plague Tale: Innocence
$39.99 Steam price Sale endedA sister drags her five-year-old brother through plague-ridden medieval France, chased by soldiers and tens of thousands of rats.
₩4,480 — the game that teaches you rats are terrifying animals
Jul 23, 2026
Phasmophobia at ₩15,050 — This Week, Only the Scary Ones
Week four of July is a summer horror special. From medieval France with tens of thousands of rats at your heels, to Silent Hill 2, which unsettles more than it startles.
Photomaly
$5.59 $6.99 Steam price Sale endedYou develop the film customers drop off at a photo shop — and something that shouldn't have been there is in the picture.
A ₩5,520 photo shop — and something is in the prints
SOMA
$29.99 Steam price Sale endedYou wake in an undersea facility. No people left — just machines insisting they are people.
₩6,400 to go down to the deep sea and not come back up for days
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
$29.99 Steam price Sale endedThree players push into a xenomorph nest — a co-op shooter that nails the mood of Aliens.
₩7,000 of Aliens. Not at full price — but right at this one
Resident Evil 4
$9.99 $39.99 Steam price Sale endedYou go to a Spanish village to rescue the president's daughter, and the whole village comes after you. The gun-kick-knife rhythm is immaculate.
₩12,450 — a review told you to buy it four times over
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
$19.99 Steam price Sale endedBarricade a house and hold out in a zombie-overrun city — and crucially, it plays out in turns, not real time.
₩13,930 — a zombie survival that actually ends. That's the whole pitch
GTFO
$39.99 Steam price Sale endedFour players descend into a facility to steal resources and get out. Make a sound and you die.
₩14,500 — the scariest part isn't the monsters, it's having no friends
Phasmophobia
$19.99 Steam price Sale endedEnter an abandoned house and identify the ghost with thermometers and cameras. When the hunt starts, you hide in a closet and hold your breath.
₩15,050 — still scary after 487 hours
Hunt: Showdown 1896
$11.99 $29.99 Steam price Sale endedHunt bounty monsters in 1890s Louisiana swampland — where other hunters are stalking the same swamp.
₩19,560 — people who thumbed it down still call it their life's game
SILENT HILL 2
$69.99 Steam price Sale endedA letter arrives from a wife who died three years ago. The monsters in the foggy town walked straight out of the protagonist's head.
₩35,080 — for when you want to be unsettled, not startled
“Horror” here covers three different textures
This is an archive of the Steam sale from the fourth week of July 2026. The discounts have ended and the prices above are from that time.
It was a summer horror episode, but laid out together these frighten you in different ways. Choose without knowing which is which and you’ll buy the opposite of what you wanted.
Being chased / being unsettled / being squeezed
Being chased: A Plague Tale and Phasmophobia. Your body reacts first — this is where to look if you want the fun of being startled.
Being unsettled: SOMA and Silent Hill 2. These leave you thinking rather than jumping, so they’re a mismatch if you came for stimulation — and the heart of this list if you came for a story.
Being squeezed: GTFO and Hunt: Showdown. In both, sound is survival, which is closer to tension than to horror.
Half of this list needs other people
Co-op and PvP weighed unusually heavy here. GTFO is effectively unplayable without four. Aliens: Fireteam Elite (3) and Hunt: Showdown also lose most of their value solo.
Playing alone? Look at A Plague Tale, SOMA, Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 4 Remake. All four are single-player — and, as it happens, all four are story-led.
Two entries whose genre label misleads
Terminus is a zombie game but turn-based, not real-time. Same subject, completely different feel in the hands — a mismatch if you expect action.
SOMA has no Korean support. Its text and dialogue essentially are the content, so the language barrier translates directly into lost value. This is the one entry here where you must check language first.
If you’re looking at this now
Horror discounts cluster clearly around summer and Halloween. Waiting for those windows usually beats paying full price today, so check the price record on the game page.
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