This New Steam Freebie Looks Like a Spiritual Successor to P.T.

If it’s even half as scary as the developer’s last game, this upcoming Steam game is already set to be the scariest game of 2026.

Horror fans are eating good this year. Resident Evil: Requiem is weeks away from release, we have it on good authority that a Resident Evil - Code: Veronica remake is in the works, REANIMAL looks cool as hell, and Return to Silent Hill just hit cinem– oh, uh, never mind on that last one, actually.

Although, speaking of Silent Hill, if you’ve yet to get over the untimely demise of P.T., then you may want to check out this upcoming first-person psychological horror game on Steam, because a new, highly rated demo for it just dropped.

Dread Neighbor is an upcoming horror game from developer Ghostcase and publisher Erabit, and it’s set to drop at some undefinable point in 2026.

It follows the story of a young woman who moves into a cheap flat because she’s low on cash, only to discover that she’s being watched by odd, undefinable figures throughout the apartment complex.

The most safe for work screenshot I could find on Dread Neighbor's Steam page, Erabit

The further you progress through the game, the more you start to realise that little things in your flat have begun to shift and change. From there, it’s up to you to piece together Dread Neighbor’s mystery, and, presumably, not be murdered by whatever is hiding in your bathtub.

If 2026 sounds like too long to wait for you, however, then I’d highly suggest checking out its 93% Positive rated demo on Steam.

Personally, I’m terrified just from looking at the screenshots on Steam. The fact that it’s apparently “inspired by real incidents” is just the extra horrifying cherry on top, though.

However, the real reason I’m already shaking in my little booties is that I’ve played Ghostcase’s previous horror game, Dread Flats. I genuinely can’t remember the last time a video game scared me as hard as that one, mostly due to that one specific scene at the end (if you know, you know).

Gotta say, I’m quietly excited for this one. Ghostcase haven’t been around for long, but they’re starting to look like the best new horror devs since Bloober Team emerged.

In the meantime, I highly suggest playing Dread Flats while we wait for the full release of Dread Neighbor. Maybe play something sweet and wholesome in between that and Resident Evil: Requiem, though. The human heart wasn’t built to endure that much terror in such a short space of time.