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: 1,832 horror games are on sale right now.
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Aftershock: Coastline
First-person horror shooter about escaping a military bunker
82% positive
Free
The Lure
A horror walking simulator about escaping a living, shifting trap
84% positive
Free
Jurassic Island: The Dinosaur Zoo
Dinosaur zoo management with park construction and escaped animals
7% positive
95 reviews
Project Syria
Free VR journalism about children displaced by Syria's civil war
41% positive
Free
Shut Eye
Survival horror with threatening toys and a child's rising anxiety
66% positive
95 reviews
1406
A horror adventure about a writer who doubts ghosts exist
44% positive
95 reviews
Demo MEAT
Open-world action RPG mixing gold-rush Canada with science-fiction horror
72% positive
95 reviews
Two Guys One Cabin
First-person action adventure mixing cinematic storytelling with horror elements
79% positive
95 reviews
Angels Cove
First-person psychological horror about investigating hauntings on a remote island
77% positive
95 reviews
Notebook Entries Vol. 1
Short horror anthology with eight stories and varied play styles
85% positive
95 reviews
Partum Artifex
First-person puzzle horror built around a serial killer's art
95% positive
95 reviews
027
First-person survival horror with puzzles to solve while monsters pursue
48% positive
Free
Liminal Exit
Anomaly-spotting walking simulator set inside a building of repeating corridors
68% positive
95 reviews
Eggplant
A free casual clicker centered on a single vegetable
60% positive
Free
Dogs
A free clicker about petting, feeding, and collecting virtual dogs
48% positive
Free
Mycelium: The Silent Contract
Extraction horror about gathering fungi in an ever-changing forest
99% positive
95 reviews
Cry Of Monster
2D survival horror with deadly puzzles and a missing friend
52% positive
Free
Demo Unseen
First-person horror walking simulator about an overnight stay gone wrong
82% positive
95 reviews
Log.in
A mystery horror adventure told through a kidnapper's computer
76% positive
95 reviews
Mistfal
First-person survival horror with a story told through diary chapters
48% positive
Free
The Shadowland
A reflex-driven 2D platformer about a reaper trying to escape
65% positive
94 reviews
Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don´t Eat Flamingos
Retro point-and-click adventure starring a vampire eggplant FBI agent
72% positive
94 reviews
Strange Night ll
First-person psychological horror on a night shift at a hostel
50% positive
94 reviews
Panic Room 2: Hide and Seek
Hidden-object mystery about surviving captivity in an abandoned mansion
51% positive
Free