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The best horror games for Halloween 2026

Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,025 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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Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Third-person action thriller with light-based combat and arcade survival
74% positive 11K reviews
Fear Surrounds
Fear Surrounds
Horror social deduction with hidden killers, quests, and votes
86% positive Free
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope Demo
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
Branching cinematic horror in a fogbound town with witch-trial visions
74% positive 11K reviews
Little Nightmares III
Little Nightmares III
Horror puzzle-platforming with a bow, a wrench, and a partner
48% positive 11K reviews
Yume Nikki
Yume Nikki
Surreal exploration game about wandering through strange dream worlds
94% positive Free
Rusty Lake Hotel
Rusty Lake Hotel
Point-and-click puzzle adventure preparing dinners in a surreal hotel
96% positive 11K reviews
The Headliners
The Headliners
First-person co-op horror about photographing monsters and surviving expeditions
86% positive 11K reviews
The Medium
The Medium
Third-person psychological horror adventure across physical and spirit worlds
89% positive 10K reviews
The Song of Saya
The Song of Saya
Psychological horror visual novel about grotesque visions and romance
89% positive 10K reviews
Bean Battles
Bean Battles
Short-round battle royale shooter where kills count alongside survival
94% positive 10K reviews
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
VR survival horror with scavenging, physical combat, and consequential choices
86% positive 10K reviews
Species: Unknown Demo
Species: Unknown
Co-op survival horror about completing contracts while an alien hunts you
94% positive 10K reviews
Transmissions: Element 120
Transmissions: Element 120
First-person shooter where a gravity weapon lets you leap buildings
95% positive Free
Nothing
Nothing
Minimalist timer game where doing anything makes you lose
94% positive 9,952 reviews
Ravenous Devils Demo
Ravenous Devils
Point-and-click management game about turning tailor-shop customers into pub meals
93% positive 9,918 reviews
WORLD OF HORROR
WORLD OF HORROR
Cosmic horror roguelite with turn-based fights and randomized mysteries
90% positive 9,854 reviews
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Side-scrolling zombie survival with stealth, scavenging, and shelter management
89% positive 9,836 reviews
Tannenberg
Tannenberg
Squad-based World War I shooter with shifting Eastern Front battles
86% positive 9,807 reviews
Last Year
Last Year
Asymmetric multiplayer horror with classmates facing a player-controlled Fiend
62% positive Free
Manhunt
Manhunt
Third-person stealth action where a hunted man fights to survive
71% positive 9,641 reviews
INDIKA
INDIKA
Third-person adventure following a nun and the devil through surreal Russia
89% positive 9,571 reviews
Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
Top-down horror adventure solving puzzles while hunting a witch
95% positive 9,544 reviews
BABBDI
BABBDI
First-person exploration through a surreal town with movement-changing tools
97% positive Free
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Demo
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
First-person horror shooter with slow-motion gunfights and supernatural threats
85% positive 9,520 reviews