The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 437 horror games on PC in our catalog: the best ones to play with friends, this year's new releases, free games and demos. Every game links to its requirements, price and Steam Deck status.
Steam Scream V, the Steam Halloween sale, runs until Nov 2, 2026: 1,830 horror games are on sale right now.
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Dead Horde
Top-down survival shooter against hordes of increasingly powerful mutants
36% positive
458 reviews
INVITATION To FEAR
Survival horror where your own footsteps can attract the monster
61% positive
453 reviews
Hide and Seek
First-person multiplayer with timed hiding and a race back to base
38% positive
Free
Remnant Records
First-person horror investigations where a ghost's past guides its exorcism
80% positive
448 reviews
SKIBIDI: ESCAPE FROM TOILETS!
Cooperative horror escape using screen flashes against hostile enemies
69% positive
448 reviews
Dirge
Multiplayer horror where investigators face a monster controlled by another player
53% positive
Free
Malum
Co-op survival horror where rituals arm you against pursuing demons
72% positive
443 reviews
Together After Dark
First-person co-op horror where escaping means staying out of sight
52% positive
442 reviews
Masked Forces: Zombie Survival
First-person zombie shooter with escalating waves and online co-op
70% positive
435 reviews
Loco Parentis / 孤女咒怨
A horror adventure through an apartment building filled with paranormal threats
51% positive
432 reviews
Demo DeathWatchers
Co-op horror investigation where spotting changes helps banish entities
86% positive
430 reviews
Last Pirates: Die Together
Co-op pirate horror about grabbing treasure with stretchy arms
79% positive
424 reviews
The Hidden Ones
Online co-op horror adventure with puzzles and role-playing elements
10% positive
418 reviews
The Goatman
Co-op horror hunting with traps, explosives, and remote-controlled drones
68% positive
414 reviews
Escape First
Escape room puzzles playable with or without a VR headset
65% positive
409 reviews
MetaPhysical
First-person ghost-hunting horror with co-op investigations and exorcisms
80% positive
407 reviews
Curious Cases
First-person escape room puzzles in a missing scientist mystery
70% positive
387 reviews
Unpossess: Exorcism Simulator
Co-op horror simulation about freeing possessed people through exorcism rituals
70% positive
382 reviews
This is a Ghost
First-person horror where you identify ghosts before fighting them
91% positive
381 reviews
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
Open-world survival horror with shelter building and strange anomalies
37% positive
Free
Lucid Cats
First-person co-op horror about looting dreams and finding the exit
75% positive
371 reviews
Eresys
Co-op horror where cultists use lamplight to keep monsters away
59% positive
362 reviews
Chased by Darkness
Cooperative survival horror with guns and hostile spirits to banish
73% positive
351 reviews
Summon: Joint escape
Cooperative survival horror about escaping a stalker in camouflage
66% positive
349 reviews