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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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The Secret of Pineview Forest
The Secret of Pineview Forest
Forest exploration horror where staying calm is part of survival
56% positive Free
Archipelago
Archipelago
Real-time strategy puzzles about outsmarting enemies and taking their treasure
71% positive 147 reviews
Tall Poppy
Tall Poppy
First-person horror adventure with a ghost disrupting a cemetery errand
87% positive 147 reviews
The Missing Parts of Maria Gwozdek
The Missing Parts of Maria Gwozdek
A horror visual novel where every wish costs an organ
97% positive Free
Night Loops
Night Loops
Psychological horror adventure inside a hotel where nights keep repeating
90% positive 147 reviews
Connection: The Nightmare Within Demo
Connection: The Nightmare Within
Survival horror about investigating a case inside an antagonist's mind
84% positive 147 reviews
GORE
GORE
Found-footage horror walking simulator through mountains overtaken by flesh
72% positive 147 reviews
Curse: The Eye of Isis
Curse: The Eye of Isis
Third-person survival horror about a stolen statue and deadly fog
74% positive 146 reviews
Dark Fear
Dark Fear
A retro horror adventure combining point-and-click puzzles with RPG battles
92% positive 146 reviews
Towards The Pantheon: Escaping Eternity
Towards The Pantheon: Escaping Eternity
Top-down puzzle mystery about a soldier waking in darkness
90% positive Free
Despair: Blood Curse
Despair: Blood Curse
Third-person survival horror with an axe that doubles as a gun
82% positive 146 reviews
The Repairing Mantis
The Repairing Mantis
First-person horror exploration about a mantis repairing a bridge of flesh
95% positive 146 reviews
DEEP FOG Demo
DEEP FOG
Side-scrolling horror adventure about strange events in a fogbound city
80% positive 146 reviews
Five nights at Stalin
Five nights at Stalin
First-person point-and-click horror about stopping a Stalin statue from escaping
94% positive 146 reviews
Quod: Episode 1
Quod: Episode 1
First-person horror adventure with puzzles in a 1930s prison
85% positive 146 reviews
Nuclear Day
Nuclear Day
Side-scrolling survival adventure with choices about who gets left behind
68% positive Free
PAGER
PAGER
A surreal office walking simulator driven by a pager's instructions
88% positive 146 reviews
Follia - Dear father
Follia - Dear father
First-person survival horror about searching a university for your parents
59% positive 145 reviews
ALONE?
ALONE?
First-person horror exploration through a house that changes around you
43% positive 145 reviews
彼岸画廊/Nether Gallery
彼岸画廊/Nether Gallery
A horror puzzle adventure about dreams, memories, and stranded souls
85% positive 145 reviews
Fear of Dark
Fear of Dark
Multiplayer horror with hunters and a monster stalking each other
52% positive Free
Prime Horror II
Prime Horror II
Four workers face one hunter in horror mixed with comedy
76% positive Free
Sorry We're Open Demo
Sorry We're Open
Supermarket horror RPG with turn-based battles that spend your money
94% positive 145 reviews
KRAMPEN
KRAMPEN
A horror adventure through a winter forest with a violent past
93% positive 145 reviews