The Horror Game Awards ceremony kicks off in November, but the team’s latest showcase event has arrived, highlighting 100+ horror games. The latest showing, Harvest of Terror, is the brand’s first event since June’s Midsummer Night’s Scream showcase.
As I did for that summer show, I watched every trailer featured in today’s event and pulled out a handful of those I’m particularly excited about. I purposely didn’t call out games already featured in my summer horror showcase recap or my October horror games calendar, so you should check those out too if you want even more suggestions for upcoming horror games to wishlist. But for today’s showcase, I’ve settled on 14 horror games that especially caught my eye.
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Confronted
Confronted looks a lot like Amnesia: The Dark Descent, one of the scariest games I’ve ever played, only with an unexpected touch of base-building. It’s already out, too, and it has a free demo if you’d like to try it first.
Signal Veil
GameSpot contributor Ashley Bardhan spotted this one recently, and I have to concur; it looks really cool. In the Silent Hill-like Signal Veil, you play a teenager who uses her flip phone as both a weapon and a puzzle-solving tool as she explores her haunted school.
The Road of Dust and Sorrow
A 2D pixel art horror game said to be inspired by the genre’s classics, The Road of Dust and Sorrow actually reminds me most of a The Last of Us demake, as it’s up to you to protect your daughter in a world full of the undead.
The Pines
The Pines is a third-person horror RPG where your choices affect the story. It looks wildly ambitious for a new studio, but for now I’m choosing to remain cautiously optimistic.
Sombras: Negative Frames
Not the only photo-based game on this list, Sombras is said to be “light” on horror, focusing on a Japanese-Spanish student who gets lost in a dark reflection of her hometown.
Nightmare House
Half-Life 2 modders may know Nightmare House as the horror mod that gained popularity many years ago. This upcoming version is a standalone version of that experiencer built from the ground up.
I Shall Name The Dead
The most striking art style of all games listed here belongs to I Shall Name The Dead, an adventure game with a heavily stylized blue and orange look to its story about exploring a graveyard after hours.
Human.exe
Give me a game about grappling with philosophy any day and I’ll be down, but if it’s horror-coded, that’s even better. In Human.exe, you’ll take an AI through ethical dilemmas, coding its worldview in major ways. That’ll end well.
Sparrow
The pitch for Sparrow is so incredibly simple; it’s a horror game in which you play as a bird seeking her lost babies. I’ve never played anything like that, and now I’m wondering why no one seemed to make it sooner.
Solace Creek
Indie horror is full of PSX-style experiences, so I try not to focus on too many of those in each roundup like this, but Solace Creek makes the cut because its dream-like trailer captures an ideal blend of eerie and oddly comforting for me.
Mayfly
Waking on a boat in England, Mayfly throws you into a shifting reality where you’ll search for your missing husband, because nothing is more ready-to-serve in horror than a disappeared spouse.
Echograph
It was just this year that I finally got my act together and experienced the greatness of Fatal Frame, so it’s cool to see a game like Echograph coming out. It’s clearly inspired by the series and even uses similar gameplay where you “shoot” ghosts with a camera.
Shutter Story
Shutter Story is actually the second upcoming game I’ve heard of in which you examine photos for signs of the paranormal, though the other seems to have disappeared from Steam. That’s odd, but at least we still have Shutter Story. To me, this concept is so ripe for a horror game, reflecting the best parts of the surprisingly great Ethan Hawke movie Sinister.
Dead of Darkness 2
Though I like the intentions of Dead of Darkness 2, it’s a little annoying to see it exists, because I still haven’t gotten around to the first one. Maybe it’s time to catch up on the series before this sequel and its charming, retro-style anime cutscenes arrive.
That does it for this edition of the Horror Game Awards showcase roundup. The next date to circle is November 20. On that day, hopefully you can pause GTA 6 for a bit and tune into the Horror Game Awards 2026.
