The realistic ceiling for Psychological horror games
Two honest views of what Psychological horror games do on Steam: the whole market from a systematic sample, and the games gathered here. Kept separate on purpose.
The Psychological horror games gathered on wishvane
Across the 305 Psychological horror games compared here, a typical one runs ≈ 36k–63k copies (est.), with Phasmophobia the biggest comparable game at ≈ 22.0M–35.8M. A small, self-selected sample, not the whole market.
- The Psychological horror games gathered here span 1997 to 2025, a long track record.
- Across the Psychological horror games gathered here the median price is $9.99, and the biggest charge about the same.
- Phasmophobia
- Lethal Company
- Doki Doki Literature Club!
- Content Warning
- Escape the Backrooms
- Crab Game
- MiSide
- Outlast
- The Outlast Trials
- DEVOUR
- OMORI
- Cry of Fear
- Gorilla Tag
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
- WEBFISHING
- Dead Space
- Outlast 2
- SILENT HILL 2
- Five Nights at Freddy's
- Little Nightmares II
- NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
- Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
- SOMA
- Inside the Backrooms
- Backrooms: Escape Together
- Pacify
- Mouthwashing
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
- Hand Simulator
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
- SIGNALIS
- The Evil Within
- Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
- Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
- The Evil Within 2
- Tiny Bunny
- Layers of Fear (2016)
- Sally Face - Episode One
- Chinese Parents
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2
- Cruelty Squad
- Demonologist
- Fran Bow
- Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
- The NOexistenceN of you AND me
- 港詭實錄ParanormalHK
- The Test
- Nubby's Number Factory
- Changed
- Pony Island
- Outcore: Desktop Adventure
- Labyrinthine
- Quaver
- missed messages.
- Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
- LISA: The Painful
- not available
- KinitoPET
and 245 more
Building a Psychological horror game? This genre already ran your experiment. Add the games yours will be compared to and see what's realistic, before you spend months on it.