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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3 O'clock Horror
A timed horror puzzle adventure with sanity at stake
71% positive
Free
Love, Death & Veggies
Visual novel anthology with six short stories across different genres
90% positive
58 reviews
Cursed Exped
Ghost-hunting horror built around investigating objects and performing cleansing rituals
64% positive
Free
Psychiatric Hospital
First-person horror exploration built around keys, locked doors, and riddles
55% positive
58 reviews
DARKLIGHT
A point-and-click puzzle mystery at a lighthouse that goes dark
86% positive
Free
Experimentation
Psychological horror visual novel connecting five seemingly unrelated supernatural stories
78% positive
58 reviews
The Rake
Open-world survival horror about hunting a creature that hunts back
55% positive
58 reviews
NOCLIP
First-person horror exploration with camcorder visuals and a rescue mission
71% positive
58 reviews
Senchu/線虫
First-person horror adventure about an employee of a food company
83% positive
58 reviews
Revengeful Ghost
First-person horror adventure about a disappearance and a cursed video
69% positive
58 reviews
The Scarlet Harvest
Slasher survival horror where a Halloween farm party turns deadly
74% positive
58 reviews
DeadboySkeleton
Third-person shooter about a dead boy fighting skeletons
95% positive
58 reviews
Escape Bloody Mary
VR horror escape room built around a haunted bathroom ritual
72% positive
57 reviews
PANIC STATION
First-person horror with melee combat on a virus-stricken space station
49% positive
57 reviews
Demo Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2
A sci-fi roguelike with turn-based combat and hazardous alien depths
68% positive
57 reviews
Jewel Match Twilight 3 Collector's Edition
Match-three puzzles across eerie levels to restore abandoned buildings
93% positive
57 reviews
Demo Larry The Unlucky Part 3
A hand-drawn point-and-click adventure built around escape-room puzzles
81% positive
57 reviews
The Katydids Incident
A desktop puzzle game about investigating a mysterious online group
98% positive
57 reviews
Frightened
Cooperative survival horror about collecting ritual items to destroy a demon
60% positive
57 reviews
Sinister Entity
Third-person horror about hiding from your demon-possessed mother
86% positive
57 reviews
Cult, Chapter One
First-person horror where you sneak and run instead of fighting
49% positive
Free
Dark Days
First-person horror adventure where looking at your pursuer kills you
68% positive
57 reviews
Bedrotting
Psychological horror survival from a bed you cannot leave
68% positive
57 reviews
Ritual Static
Photography horror inside a haunted house that keeps changing
95% positive
57 reviews