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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Don't Look
Survival horror where creatures move only when you see them
39% positive
Free
Hello Puppets: Midnight Show
Stealth-puzzle horror with changing levels and puppets that hunt you
72% positive
69 reviews
LIGHT: Black Cat & Amnesia Girl
A horror puzzle adventure where you play a black cat
83% positive
69 reviews
AFTERLIFE DEFINITIVE EDITION
First-person horror shooter mixing zombie combat with a cyberpunk setting
65% positive
Free
There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings
Narrative horror about a desert town's sacrifices to the sun
97% positive
69 reviews
7 Sins : Lost in Labyrinth
Anime survival horror with maze escapes and camera-based ghost defense
80% positive
69 reviews
Ontotis
Psychological horror with puzzles and endings shaped by your discoveries
80% positive
69 reviews
I Hate This Place
Isometric survival horror where noise can lure creatures into traps
67% positive
69 reviews
Poltergeist Watcher
Camera-based horror puzzles about spotting changes in a haunted mansion
93% positive
69 reviews
ALL IN ONE ADVENTURE VR
First-person VR adventure with cliff climbing, freediving, and dungeon traps
74% positive
69 reviews
Demo Salvage Protocol
First-person horror about scavenging abandoned stations and breaking objects apart
100% positive
69 reviews
The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー
Japanese horror game about preparing sushi on a night shift
51% positive
69 reviews
Holey
Survival horror where feeding an underground creature helps fuel your escape
78% positive
69 reviews
Greed's Grub
First-person horror about serving burgers to customers from hell
87% positive
Free
soundless - A MODERN SALEM IN REMOTE AREA -
Psychological horror visual novel about an outcast in a religious village
97% positive
Free
Demo The Ice Cream Shop
Night-shift ice cream shop simulator with a psychological horror twist
78% positive
69 reviews
CARTAGRA
A detective visual novel linking a disappearance and serial murders
87% positive
69 reviews
8-hour Workday
Office horror built around spotting anomalies and surviving the workday
87% positive
Free
The Queen's Gondola
First-person anomaly spotting aboard a fantasy airship caught in a loop
96% positive
Free
Death Tractor
Corn-harvesting action where rival farmers and killer tractors threaten survival
81% positive
68 reviews
Octave
Point-and-click horror adventure with forest exploration and haunted-house puzzles
72% positive
68 reviews
Home Darkness - Escape?
Point-and-click treasure hunt through an old house full of puzzles
38% positive
Free
Baldina's Basis in Education Literary Grammar
School horror adventure about collecting poem fragments while avoiding a teacher
75% positive
68 reviews
Zero Tolerance
First-person corridor shooter with shotguns, grenades, and laser guns
76% positive
68 reviews