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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SHINONOME : Rainy Night Manor
Survival horror roguelike about outsmarting spirits in haunted Japanese houses
87% positive
61 reviews
Alkurai
Co-op fantasy horror with puzzles across maze-like gardens and dungeons
77% positive
61 reviews
Crime Passional
First-person home invasion horror where text replies influence your stalker
72% positive
61 reviews
Journey
First-person horror adventure about a mysterious object threatening a family
75% positive
Free
Mostroscopy
A three-button fighter pitting masked wrestlers against horror movie monsters
95% positive
61 reviews
Nightmare Side: The Game
Horror adventure where listening to the radio alone increases danger
75% positive
61 reviews
Backspace Backspace Backspace
A psychological horror visual novel about a writer facing automation
98% positive
61 reviews
Baptisterio
First-person horror with a camera for gathering evidence and defense
80% positive
61 reviews
Writer. Chapter 1
First-person horror exploration with a camera that reveals hidden clues
72% positive
61 reviews
Demo They See Us
Office anomaly-hunting horror where an incorrect count means death
85% positive
61 reviews
Demo B.A.N.K.
Cooperative bank simulator mixing financial paperwork with humor and horror
98% positive
61 reviews
The Cemetery Shift | 墓地の夜勤
First-person horror with camera surveillance and investigations in a cemetery
79% positive
61 reviews
SurvHive
Multiplayer horror shooter where alien impostors hide among the crew
63% positive
60 reviews
Space Hotel
First-person survival horror about reaching a hangar and escaping
35% positive
60 reviews
Hegis' Grasp: Evil Resurrected
Survival horror following a journalist into a cursed British village
55% positive
Free
Pinewood Island
A romance visual novel about surviving an island murder mystery
83% positive
60 reviews
Waxworks: Curse of the Ancestors
First-person survival horror across cursed wax exhibits from different eras
52% positive
60 reviews
The Luminist
Third-person horror shooter using light to fight underground monsters
87% positive
Free
GAG
Dialogue-based psychological horror set on a surreal sitcom stage
73% positive
60 reviews
Seduction
A side-scrolling horror puzzle adventure about a monk resisting temptation
55% positive
60 reviews
Retchid
Sci-fi horror shooter with methodical combat and nonlinear exploration
78% positive
60 reviews
Demo Devil Inside Us: Roots of Evil
First-person horror about an elderly priest exorcising a cursed house
95% positive
60 reviews
Gehinnom
Multiplayer survival horror with randomized quests and a playable demon
77% positive
60 reviews
The Third Shift
Retro horror adventure where dialogue choices lead to different endings
95% positive
60 reviews