MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SCREAM: A Horror Game Awards Showcase 2026
Discover some of the best games coming out in 2026 and beyond! Your hosts Phil Dickens, Ash Millman and Will Penkeyman are ready to take you on another dark, scare-filled journey through deep caves filled with new titles, exclusive trailers and thrilling gameplay reveals. 100+ games will be covered, with 50+ world premiere trailers in over two hours of upcoming horrors, so there’s plenty to keep you busy and set your wishlists overflowing!
Games shown at the MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SCREAM: A Horror Game Awards Showcase 2026
End of Ember
TBA
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No ratings
Explore a gory Hell in this twin-stick shooter that pays homage to badass horror franchises. Kill demons, upgrade items, and fight weird and gross bosses until they explode in piles …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Solace Creek
TBA
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No ratings
Solace Creek is a Horror game with a focus on suspense, exploration, stealth & puzzle solving. You wake up in a sinister place, haunted by a monstrous presence. Uncover the …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Oniria
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Oniria is a first-person psychological horror game with a retro aesthetic. Explore the village by solving puzzles and evading the strange presence that haunts it. Experience Angy's present in 3D, …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
In Hope Voiden
TBA
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No ratings
A forbidden warzone. Twelve soldiers. One life each. In this first person survival horror, death is permanent and the world remembers. Explore a surreal, trench-ridden hellscape where every action matters …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Lucid Falls
TBA
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No ratings
Manipulate gravity, space and time, and survive terrifying nightmares in a deeply atmospheric lucid dream. Facing terrifying creatures, and solving challenges that bend reality, every moment reveals more of the …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Graft
TBA
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No ratings
GRAFT splices together tense survival horror with a dark RPG experience in a thrilling new adventure from the developers of BATTLETECH and the Shadowrun Trilogy. Explore a dying world haunted …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
House 2
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
As a terrible storm approaches, two young girls spend a fateful night watching TV and playing games… House 2 is the sequel to the hit indie horror game, House. In …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
House of Saturn
TBA
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No ratings
Exorcize the demonic in this psychological horror game set in 1920s England. Navigate a haunted university by solving puzzles and hiding from a demon that can phase through walls. The …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Lurks Within Walls
Mar 31, 2026
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No ratings
Lurks Within Walls is a tense survival horror game combining modern dungeon RPGs' exploration elements with fast-paced turn-based combat. Explore a series of cursed environments filled with terrifying creatures illustrated …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Forest Escape: Last Train
Jun 30, 2026
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No ratings
Forest Escape: Last Train is a co-op horror exploration game for 1-4 players in the mysterious forest. Repair your locomotive, solve the insane Warden’s eerie puzzles, and outrun the stuff …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Don't Let It Starve
Jun 1, 2026
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No ratings
A horror roguelike deckbuilder. You're trapped in a kitchen, forced to feed a half-chef monster that crawls through the vents. Don't let it starve.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
The Victor Initiative
Jun 1, 2026
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No ratings
The Victor Initiative is an atmospheric horror game about exploring an abandoned government facility that lost contact with the rest of the world 60 years ago.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
The Well Is Not Empty
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
The well has gone dry. It's up to you to find out why. Traverse through abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Power dying machinery …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Unhomely
TBA
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No ratings
Unhomely is a retro-inspired first person psychological indie horror game. You play a journalist who has 3 days alone in a reclusive tech CEO's cabin to get the exclusive on …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Wilderdark
TBA
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No ratings
Something dangerous is lurking in the wilderness. Wilderdark is a first-person survival horror game where you must navigate a strange island inhabited by ectoparasitic dinosaurs and organisms. You must remain …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Iris Dissolution
TBA
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No ratings
Iris Dissolution is a classic survival horror game where you explore increasingly surreal places, manage scarce resources, and fight for your life against horrid creatures as you struggle to come …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Fear of Sleep
TBA
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No ratings
Fear of Sleep is a retro-inspired sci-fi horror that blends old-school survival horror tension with modern physics and analogue design. Wishlist now and solve puzzles, face grotesque monsters in visceral …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Alchemortis
TBA
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No ratings
Alchemortis is a roguelike inventory-management auto-battler about alchemy. Transmute and combine items to merge their stats, properties, and forms, then organize your inventory to unlock powerful synergies. Experiment, optimize, and …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Dark Lessons
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Can you survive your teacher in this psychological horror game? With only candles for light and trapped in her home, you have to uncover her family's dark secrets. Solve puzzles, …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Paper Bleed
TBA
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No ratings
Paper Bleed is a creepy and grotesque point-and-click adventure, made with a raw art style and disturbingly gory hand-drawn animations. You find yourself in a horrible yet familiar place, facing …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Perceptum
Dec 31, 2027
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No ratings
A psychological horror game where you play as a medium investigating the disappearance of a family. Explore a house with an oppressive atmosphere, close your eyes to hear the beyond, …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X|S
Echograph
TBA
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No ratings
Photograph ghosts, crack environmental puzzles, manage limited resources, and unravel the mystery behind a generational family curse in this classic survival horror experience.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
HR: Human Remains
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
In a broken world ruled by demons, the gears of productivity still turn. Complete tasks, solve puzzles, and explore a society under demonic regime from the perspective of an ordinary …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Vermilion Arcade: Horror Collection
TBA
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No ratings
Vermilion Arcade is a collection of 8+ horror games inside a surreal and mysterious arcade.
Those Who Dwell
Nov 21, 2025
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No ratings
Those Who Dwell is a story-first psychological horror focused on isolation, atmosphere, and folklore. Light is your only hope as you explore deeper into a cursed cave system disturbed by …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
The Patient: Can You Escape?
TBA
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No ratings
The Patient is a tense first-person escape game set in an atmospheric 1930s German sanatorium with subtle horror Elements. Explore the mysterious location, solve cunning puzzles, and hide from the …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Verho: Curse of Faces
Nov 10, 2025
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★ 3.5
Verho, a Dark RPG following the tradition of the King’s Field series, takes place after the catastrophic Era of Solitude, where masks have become the only protection against the Curse …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Deperson
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Are you ready to step into a dark and mysterious world with Aaron, who is afraid of his own shadow? A file that has been closed for years is opened …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Vampire Huntress: Lament of the Sun
TBA
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No ratings
Classic survival horror experience set in a dark gothic world. Play as Luna Ashcroft and explore an interconnected world filled with incomprehensible horrors, mind-bending puzzles and countless secrets. Are you …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Remnants of R'lyeh
TBA
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No ratings
Remnants of R'lyeh is a Classic Horror Survival game inspired by H.P.Lovecraft's Great Work. An ancient dark power is calling you and you need to find an exit... Face your …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Rain98
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Tokyo, 1998. A rain that never ends and a girl who wants everything to end. Two lonely youths will change the world with their choices.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
The Twilight Project
TBA
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No ratings
The Twilight Project is a third person survival horror game where you play as a tourist who gets lost in a forgotten village sealed off from the outside world. As …
Cordura
TBA
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No ratings
Cordura is a 4-player online co-op psychological horror where sanity is your most scarce resource. Venture together into shifting procedural Victorian labyrinths where the environment is never the same. Lose …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Lurking
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Lurking is a first-person survival horror game set in a building infested by giant spiders. Search for tools and weapons to fight back and survive. Find a way out before …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Donut Panic
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Order up! Donut Panic is an anomaly horror game with a cooking sim twist. Take customer orders. Prepare and serve up delicious donuts. But when the hallucinations appear, run for …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
A kidnapping, a desperate mother, and a shadow from the past. The final chapter of the trilogy reveals every secret behind the series most unsettling icon: the Red Nun.
Deadly Rehearsal
Mar 31, 2027
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No ratings
The rehearsal must be flawless. Every sound, every light timed perfectly. You are one of the best stage manager's after all. Failure is not an option. The play is cursed... …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Psycho Dead
Dec 31, 2026
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★ 4.0
A third-person survival horror game that you play as a girl with psychic power who tries to escape from a secret lab and is pursued by deadly stalkers.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Kopernicus: Extraction
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Incremental suffering. Experience the 2-bit terror of the sole SSC KOPERNICUS survivor. Expand your base, construct weapons and face nightmares while trying to EXTRACT forgotten memories. There is no escape …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Blighten
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Blighten is a survival horror fps set in an abandoned facility overrun by mindless creatures infected by the Blight. Scavenge for resources and do whatever it takes to survive the …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Parasomnia
TBA
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No ratings
What begins as a simple funeral wake spirals into something far more sinister. As the Wan Siblings, explore their childhood home and uncover a dark plot, all the while surviving …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Fright Train
TBA
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No ratings
Fight through a train overtaken by monsters and survive Antarctica’s cold as paranormal special agent Doug Barker in this chilling single-player third-person survival horror game.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Baptiste
Mar 31, 2026
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No ratings
Submerge yourself in a first-hand experience that will make you feel each chill as if it were real. The line between the game and reality blurs further with each step …
Pulsebreaker
TBA
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No ratings
Pulsebreaker is a classic survival horror game. Explore environments, collect resources, and fight zombies. Manage your inventory, solve light puzzles, and survive with limited supplies. Includes melee and ranged combat. …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Necrophosis: Full Consciousness
May 28, 2026
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No ratings
The complete experience comes alive in Necrophosis: Full Consciousness, a first-person psychological horror adventure with engrossing puzzles that plunges you into a surreal haunting world where only death endures. Begin …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X|S
Tic-Tac: Twelve O’Clock
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Tic-Tac: Twelve O’Clock is a survival horror game. Monitor corridors and rooms through surveillance cameras to counter vengeful ghosts. Keep the lights on, the generator charged, and fuses replaced… and …
Blok
TBA
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No ratings
Blok is a psychological horror game set in 1990s Poland. You play as a former oppositionist who fled the country during the communist regime in the 1980s. After the system's …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Dive or Die: Children of Rain
Jun 21, 2026
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No ratings
Every descent is a deadly gamble. DIVE or DIE in the cursed abyss, face Eldritch horrors to uncover the mystery of the black rain. Scavenge and upgrade, recruit and sacrifice. …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Encryptid
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Encryptid is a short FMV horror game about hunting and catching cryptids. Use real-world footage recorded exclusively via the Gameboy Camera to identify, locate and capture iconic creatures of myth …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Murder Meet Cute
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Look, just because I’m paid to fix computers, doesn’t mean I’ll sit here and listen to your life story. So what there’s been murders? Do I look like a detective?
PC (Microsoft Windows)