The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 627 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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Demo Abyss Veil
First-person shooter and visual novel set amid an interplanetary war
95% positive
60 reviews
Demo Gwan Moon High School : The Ghost Gate
Horror visual novel about students trapped in a haunted school
80% positive
59 reviews
Demo 夜詛YASO curse of soirée
First-person horror adventure with rhythm gameplay in a mysterious house
76% positive
59 reviews
Demo The Bunker Notes - Horror/Drama Visual Novel
A psychological horror visual novel about isolation during a pandemic
75% positive
59 reviews
Demo Who Are You!?
First-person sci-fi horror about a father's search for his daughter
69% positive
59 reviews
Demo Scorched Sun
Top-down survival horror with turn-based combat that targets enemy limbs
90% positive
59 reviews
Demo The Family Trip
First-person psychological horror about a family watched from the woods
86% positive
59 reviews
Demo Re:Turn 2 - Runaway
A psychological horror adventure about escaping a spirit's haunted train
74% positive
58 reviews
Demo Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2
A sci-fi roguelike with turn-based combat and hazardous alien depths
68% positive
57 reviews
Demo Larry The Unlucky Part 3
A hand-drawn point-and-click adventure built around escape-room puzzles
81% positive
57 reviews
Demo Deceived Of Joy
First-person psychological horror where hotel routines give way to illusions
84% positive
57 reviews
Demo There Won't be Light
Co-op horror where using your voice helps monsters find you
54% positive
56 reviews
Demo Huntin' Buddies
Co-op horror hunting where dragging animals can make them explode
77% positive
56 reviews
Demo Loathful
Psychological horror inside a virtual vacation resort that turns hostile
87% positive
55 reviews
Demo Exit Together
First-person horror puzzles built around spotting changes in repeating rooms
69% positive
55 reviews
Demo Novena Diabolos
Occult mystery visual novel about finding one human among demons
96% positive
54 reviews
Demo Closer To Home
Surreal horror exploration where death is a tool for progress
96% positive
54 reviews
Demo 灵童
Point-and-click horror about a village homestay and spirit worship
63% positive
54 reviews
Demo Red Light
Single-player extraction shooter where death costs your gear and loot
59% positive
54 reviews
Demo RUNT
Gothic horror visual novel with five days to name a culprit
78% positive
54 reviews
Demo BROKEN LIFE
A point-and-click adventure about returning home after wartime occupation
98% positive
53 reviews
Demo Tache Noire
First-person survival horror with manual reloading and open-ended town exploration
92% positive
53 reviews
Demo Bad Faith
Psychological horror visual novel about punishment in an isolated community
92% positive
52 reviews
Demo Slayaway Camp 2
Grid-based logic puzzles about stalking victims in horror movie parodies
90% positive
52 reviews