The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,035 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: 1,848 horror games are on sale right now.
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Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst™
Hidden-object adventure following a ghost's warning through a cursed estate
86% positive
157 reviews
DreadEye VR
VR horror built around Indonesian rituals and encounters with ghosts
75% positive
157 reviews
Trapped
First-person horror about solving puzzles and escaping a strange place
83% positive
157 reviews
Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note
Point-and-click horror inspired by supernatural television from the sixties
97% positive
157 reviews
Spiders Everywhere
Side-scrolling action platformer where spider positions change between attempts
76% positive
Free
Demo Death In Abyss
Third-person flight shooter pitting you against deep-sea alien creatures
82% positive
157 reviews
Creepy Waves FM: Bugs Fixer
First-person psychological horror about fixing game bugs on night shifts
76% positive
Free
后室：维修工（Backrooms: Maintenance）
First-person horror with maintenance work in a shifting maze
32% positive
Free
SLACKJAW
First-person horror escape room with a serial killer upstairs
80% positive
157 reviews
Demo The Fortress
Dark fantasy roguelike dungeon crawler with dice-based combat
68% positive
157 reviews
Space of Darkness
First-person survival horror on a space station after a blackout
49% positive
Free
Fear the Dark Unknown
Fixed-camera survival horror about a father, daughter, and cursed mansion
67% positive
156 reviews
Night Grove
First-person horror exploration in a woodland hostel with strange residents
72% positive
156 reviews
Mist of the Dark
Online horror battles between a soldier squad and a player-controlled monster
48% positive
Free
The Mansion
First-person horror adventure with puzzles inside a boy's nightmare
68% positive
155 reviews
Demo Osteoblasts
Turn-based dungeon RPG with class-specific quests and randomized world elements
86% positive
155 reviews
Eyes of Hellfire
Cooperative horror deckbuilding with secret objectives that complicate teamwork
70% positive
155 reviews
KUNKUN League
An action roguelike built around roulette played with a cannon
97% positive
155 reviews
Demo EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
First-person horror exploration through abandoned offices and flooded mazes
65% positive
155 reviews
Office After Hours
Anomaly-spotting horror in an office you need to escape
95% positive
155 reviews
Demo Echoes Of The House
First-person psychological horror about a family visit that turns strange
77% positive
155 reviews
Case 00: The Cannibal Boy
A psychological horror visual novel about a cannibal urban legend
79% positive
154 reviews
Demo Mirror Forge
Psychological survival horror across alternate dimensions that keep changing
72% positive
154 reviews
Once Upon A Puppet
Theater-set puzzle-platformer where a stagehand controls a puppet's strings
86% positive
154 reviews