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: 1,829 horror games are on sale right now.
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Dark Hours: Prologue
Co-op survival horror about thieves trapped with a demonic creature
88% positive
Free
FOREWARNED
Co-op survival horror in shifting Egyptian tombs haunted by mummies
90% positive
6,664 reviews
Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories
Free escape-room puzzles played alone or with up to four friends
83% positive
Free
Demo The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
Branching third-person horror adventure inside a trap-filled hotel
55% positive
6,283 reviews
DARKEST DAYS
Open-world zombie survival RPG with recruitable survivors and customizable vehicles
50% positive
Free
Ghost Exorcism INC.
Co-op horror investigation where you identify and banish ghosts
76% positive
5,437 reviews
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem
First-person shooter with alien hordes across snowy Siberian levels
92% positive
5,248 reviews
Burglin' Gnomes
First-person co-op burglary as gnomes sneaking through human homes
82% positive
5,233 reviews
BrainBread 2
Free-to-play first-person zombie shooter with co-op and playable zombies
73% positive
Free
Machine Party
A horror party game with deadly twists on familiar minigames
87% positive
4,955 reviews
Unplagued
First-person co-op horror about making cures in procedurally generated villages
32% positive
4,950 reviews
Fear Therapy
First-person horror matches with randomized ritual hunts and player-controlled Satan
67% positive
4,741 reviews
Ghost Exile
First-person ghost-hunting horror with evidence gathering and exorcisms
88% positive
4,665 reviews
SCP: Nine-Tailed Fox
First-person survival horror about retaking a facility overrun by anomalies
75% positive
Free
SCP: Labrat
First-person survival horror in a breached facility, playable in VR
82% positive
Free
SCP: Containment Breach 2
Survival horror with playable test subjects, guards, and escaped creatures
79% positive
Free
Gears of War: Reloaded
A remastered cover shooter about a squad fighting underground monsters
60% positive
4,264 reviews
Demo Dark Hours
Co-op survival horror where thieves must escape roaming monsters
82% positive
4,223 reviews
THE 4 SINS
First-person horror escape room where four players piece together clues
24% positive
4,050 reviews
Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game
Asymmetrical horror matches pit alien clowns against surviving townspeople
74% positive
3,876 reviews
PILGRIM
First-person medieval horror with co-op dungeon trips and a wagon
67% positive
3,838 reviews
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2
Third-person co-op shooter about holding off swarms of xenomorphs
61% positive
3,833 reviews
Hamster Hunter
First-person horror hunting driven by revenge against hamsters
94% positive
3,692 reviews
CASE 2: Animatronics Survival
First-person survival horror with puzzles, stealth, and hostile animatronics
81% positive
3,620 reviews