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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SIMULACRA
Phone-based horror mystery about tracing a missing woman's last steps
90% positive
4,686 reviews
Ghost Exile
First-person ghost-hunting horror with evidence gathering and exorcisms
88% positive
4,665 reviews
Pathologic Classic HD
First-person survival horror in a town consumed by plague
88% positive
4,613 reviews
Demo CASE: Animatronics
First-person survival horror with animatronics stalking a locked police station
83% positive
4,604 reviews
Stories Untold
A psychological horror anthology built around typing and operating equipment
86% positive
4,574 reviews
DISTRAINT 2
A psychological horror sequel about guilt and finding hope
96% positive
4,571 reviews
Garten of Banban 2
First-person horror adventure with puzzles beneath an empty kindergarten
67% positive
4,560 reviews
KARMA: The Dark World
First-person psychological thriller investigating memories in dystopian East Germany
91% positive
4,558 reviews
Interstellar Marines
Tactical sci-fi shooter with robot opponents and changing combat environments
53% positive
4,548 reviews
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
First-person school survival horror with puzzles and a stalking janitor
81% positive
4,535 reviews
SCP: Nine-Tailed Fox
First-person survival horror about retaking a facility overrun by anomalies
75% positive
Free
SCP: Labrat
First-person survival horror in a breached facility, playable in VR
82% positive
Free
Beacon Pines
Storybook mystery adventure where collected words change the plot
98% positive
4,514 reviews
Demo Nightmare of Decay
First-person survival horror in a monster-filled manor with scarce ammunition
96% positive
4,438 reviews
Garten of Banban 0
First-person puzzle horror about a kindergarten's dark past
71% positive
Free
SCP: Containment Breach 2
Survival horror with playable test subjects, guards, and escaped creatures
79% positive
Free
PUMPKIN PANIC
A farming horror game about growing crops and surviving the darkness
96% positive
Free
Silver Pines
Side-scrolling survival horror where better equipment opens new routes
95% positive
4,388 reviews
Hello Neighbor Alpha 1
First-person stealth horror about dodging a neighbor who learns your routes
93% positive
Free
Demo Buddy Simulator 1984
Retro psychological horror adventure with a buddy that learns about you
93% positive
4,363 reviews
Demo Painkiller Hell & Damnation
Fast-paced first-person shooter fighting demon hordes through Purgatory
78% positive
4,355 reviews
Rake
First-person survival horror about hunting a creature that hunts back
72% positive
4,345 reviews
Crisol: Theater of Idols
First-person survival horror where every shot costs your own blood
85% positive
4,324 reviews
Perfect Vermin
First-person horror with timed puzzles and a furniture-smashing sledgehammer
92% positive
Free