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The best horror games for Halloween 2026

Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,029 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: 1,837 horror games are on sale right now.

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Dark Fall 2: Lights Out
Dark Fall 2: Lights Out
First-person horror adventure investigating a lighthouse across past and future
71% positive 112 reviews
Time Ramesside (A New Reckoning)
Time Ramesside (A New Reckoning)
A survival horror shooter set in dark, zombie-filled environments
38% positive 112 reviews
Nekomew's Potty Trouble Demo
Nekomew's Potty Trouble
Rhythm horror about reaching the bathroom while dodging monsters
96% positive 112 reviews
The Monsters' History Book
The Monsters' History Book
A horror adventure uncovering a high school's history of strange deaths
80% positive 112 reviews
Loch Ness
Loch Ness
Co-op horror with rowboats, research tools, and a lake monster
39% positive 112 reviews
Shrieking Darkness: Reloaded
Shrieking Darkness: Reloaded
First-person horror shooter following a journalist into a forest mansion
24% positive Free
Blood Lily Ghoststories Demo
Blood Lily Ghoststories
Horror visual novel that illustrates its ghost stories with silhouettes
92% positive 112 reviews
Holidays in Khrushchevsk
Holidays in Khrushchevsk
First-person psychological horror during a visit to your grandmother
62% positive 112 reviews
One Room Nightmare
One Room Nightmare
Turn-based horror where monsters move only after you act
83% positive Free
The elevator
The elevator
A short first-person horror adventure centered on an everyday elevator
87% positive 112 reviews
• Dread Chess ✣
• Dread Chess ✣
A chess puzzle adventure built around matches that play themselves
77% positive Free
Maple Ridge
Maple Ridge
First-person psychological horror about a widower's unraveling suburban routine
71% positive 112 reviews
Chimpology
Chimpology
Two-button arcade typing where chimps keep the internet running
86% positive 111 reviews
The Inevitability
The Inevitability
A horror adventure about hiding from a relentless pursuer
53% positive 111 reviews
夕生 Halflight
夕生 Halflight
Third-person mystery adventure through a village between reality and imagination
63% positive 111 reviews
Inferno - Beyond the 7th Circle Demo
Inferno - Beyond the 7th Circle
A first-person dungeon crawler about surviving a demon-ruled Earth
74% positive 111 reviews
I'mitation The Eight Suicide Note
I'mitation The Eight Suicide Note
First-person horror built around searching with a night-vision camera
59% positive Free
Cold Call
Cold Call
Point-and-click horror inside an unnaturally cold house on Christmas Eve
95% positive 111 reviews
流言侦探
流言侦探
A text-based detective game where chat conversations reveal murder clues
79% positive 111 reviews
Rooten
Rooten
A horror walking simulator with something lurking among the roots
77% positive 111 reviews
Purgo box
Purgo box
An abstract horror adventure with item collecting and online co-op
93% positive Free
浮游
浮游
A narrative puzzle game inside a surreal, locked family home
86% positive 111 reviews
Cargo Duty
Cargo Duty
Co-op space horror about keeping creatures off your cargo ship
68% positive Free
Midnight Syndrome
Midnight Syndrome
A horror adventure following a late-night ritual at school
99% positive Free