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: 1,831 horror games are on sale right now.
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East Wood Carnival
First-person horror about solving puzzles to escape an abandoned carnival
77% positive
Free
Epimutation
A horror visual novel about bunker survivors investigating an infection
95% positive
Free
Demo The Angel's Devil Tail - One More Question 2
A lateral-thinking visual novel with horror twists and dark humor
91% positive
77 reviews
Absum
A psychological horror walking simulator inside a house that changes
94% positive
77 reviews
The Silence After
First-person horror where sound becomes color in a ruined world
92% positive
Free
Cloudrooms
Anomaly-spotting horror in a corridor that loops above the clouds
60% positive
77 reviews
Project Pulsation
First-person horror shooter with scarce supplies aboard a ruined station
54% positive
76 reviews
Gordy and the Monster Moon
A short exploration adventure starring a pumpkin astronaut facing monsters
100% positive
76 reviews
Animals Memory
A card-matching memory game with animals and increasing difficulty
82% positive
76 reviews
Property
First-person horror with one player hunting a group of survivors
76% positive
76 reviews
Waves of Rotting Flesh
Wave-defense FPS about holding a barricaded house against zombies
80% positive
76 reviews
The Dive
Linear underwater horror about a search dive gone wrong
54% positive
76 reviews
Utomah
Side-scrolling horror platformer with grappling, dashing, and charcoal-drawn environments
91% positive
Free
PIEN & PAON plus
First-person horror-comedy with a theme song for monster chases
97% positive
76 reviews
The House of E.
First-person horror adventure investigating two disappearances in an old mansion
91% positive
Free
Pact of Joy: Prologue
First-person sci-fi horror with a robot companion beneath the ocean
92% positive
Free
Days With Ollie
Choice-driven visual novel about a reporter covering a zombie idol
70% positive
76 reviews
Monkey Mischief
Multiplayer VR playground mixing physical movement, exploration, and horror
78% positive
Free
Blueman
An office job simulator with demonic chores and workplace puzzles
89% positive
76 reviews
Christmas Mutilator
First-person stealth horror about surviving a snowbound cabin invasion
68% positive
76 reviews
困兽TrappedBeast
Third-person horror shooter with puzzles and a missing-person investigation
79% positive
Free
Laugh Track
Dark comedy visual novel about writing a sitcom under threat
92% positive
Free
Mycopsychosys: Project Jupiter
Survival horror adventure mixing office work with outbreak investigations
96% positive
76 reviews
At Night: The Student
First-person psychological horror where phone photos guide your daily errands
54% positive
Free