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: 1,840 horror games are on sale right now.
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HORROR TALES: The Beggar
First-person horror adventure with physics combat and weather-changing powers
85% positive
130 reviews
Return the Backrooms
First-person co-op horror about escaping a maze full of creatures
62% positive
130 reviews
Save Twiks
First-person horror about searching a train for a missing kitten
59% positive
130 reviews
You Are Grounded
First-person horror about a grounded teenager and a killer clown
84% positive
130 reviews
DEATH PENALTY
A horror dungeon crawler built around hiding, scavenging, and survival
82% positive
130 reviews
Demo Lunacy: Saint Rhodes
First-person psychological horror with puzzles and two possible endings
63% positive
129 reviews
The Persistence
First-person survival horror aboard a spaceship with shifting decks
65% positive
129 reviews
Gone Golfing
First-person mini-golf horror with puzzles and enemies that hunt you
74% positive
129 reviews
虫鸣
A horror puzzle adventure centered on a village’s folk rituals
67% positive
129 reviews
YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
Psychological horror visual novel with branching paths and no happy endings
97% positive
Free
Demo Laser Tag Massacre
Retro survival horror inspired by slasher movies from the eighties
84% positive
129 reviews
Cargo 3
A first-person sci-fi horror shooter with alternate vision modes
22% positive
128 reviews
The Interview
Psychological horror adventure built around an increasingly strange job interview
35% positive
128 reviews
Tea Party Simulator 2015™
Physics-based tea party simulation with a guest you can anger
70% positive
128 reviews
Phantaruk
First-person survival horror with a roaming beast and a deadly parasite
56% positive
128 reviews
REALITY
First-person horror where your choices lead to slightly different outcomes
67% positive
Free
Close Me
Surreal horror exploration that changes when you close and reopen it
77% positive
128 reviews
Cartonfall
First-person physics puzzles with throwable weapons and destructible cardboard structures
90% positive
128 reviews
Azurael's Circle: Chapter 1
A horror-mystery adventure about family secrets behind a suspicious death
85% positive
Free
Demo Horror Legends
Asymmetrical multiplayer horror where survivors can fight back against killers
85% positive
128 reviews
廃村巡り | Haisonmeguri
First-person horror walking simulator set in an abandoned Japanese village
77% positive
128 reviews
Dog
A free clicker with new dogs arriving at timed intervals
39% positive
Free
Demo FLASH AND DIE
First-person horror about photographing real estate listings after dark
91% positive
128 reviews
Demo Like Clay
A horror adventure about searching for a missing former classmate
84% positive
127 reviews