The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,025 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: 1,830 horror games are on sale right now.
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3AM CORP: The Balbazar Resort
Psychological horror adventure with homemade tools for gathering evidence
68% positive
Free
Demo Paranormal place
A first-person horror walking simulator about investigating abandoned barracks
57% positive
63 reviews
Ells Tales: Chicken
A horror puzzle game about helping a trapped chicken escape
83% positive
63 reviews
Demo You see me?
Third-person psychological horror with puzzles in distorted memories
65% positive
63 reviews
SCARY MAGIC ZOMBIE
Short first-person horror about investigating a zombie inside a facility
76% positive
Free
Demo Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
Text-based horror adventure about surviving work at a secretive corporation
90% positive
63 reviews
Tribute
First-person horror adventure with a sacrifice to accept or refuse
70% positive
63 reviews
Five Nights At Monkeys: Flat Mode
Survival horror with threats and rules that change each night
84% positive
Free
Demo Upstairs
A point-and-click escape adventure mixing dark humor with horror
94% positive
63 reviews
Demo Curse
First-person point-and-click horror about clearing ghosts from a haunted manor
63% positive
62 reviews
Dead Purge: Outbreak
First-person zombie survival with scavenging, skill research, and equipment upgrades
44% positive
62 reviews
Harts
First-person horror adventure with puzzles and a detective mystery
60% positive
62 reviews
Perceptions of the Dead 2
A visual novel mixing ghost stories with comic dialogue
95% positive
62 reviews
Deported: Drain the Swamp
Pac-Man-style gameplay mixed with political parody and alien deportations
87% positive
62 reviews
Depths of Madness
Underwater horror with explosives to plant and Cthulhu to evade
44% positive
Free
S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored
First-person puzzle horror inside a secret institute near Chernobyl
63% positive
62 reviews
DarKnot
Psychological horror with challenging combat and multiple story endings
52% positive
62 reviews
Mental Hospital VR
VR horror following a reporter's investigation near a psychiatric hospital
69% positive
62 reviews
Horror Royale
Multiplayer survival horror where monsters can hear your voice
61% positive
62 reviews
Dear Brother
A retro-style horror adventure with hidden keepsakes and a secret ending
89% positive
Free
Demo Discolored 2
First-person puzzle horror about restoring color to a gray world
73% positive
62 reviews
Achromatic
First-person horror puzzles in a carnival where monsters hunt you
60% positive
Free
The Cleaner
A dialogue-heavy horror game about cleaning during society's collapse
85% positive
62 reviews
Backroom Warfare II
First-person shooter with close-quarters combat in the Backrooms
69% positive
62 reviews