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: 1,832 horror games are on sale right now.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi
Psychological horror visual novel revisiting a deadly village mystery
98% positive
1,178 reviews
Demo Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition
Point-and-click murder mystery linking New Orleans killings to family secrets
91% positive
1,177 reviews
Gem Defender: Soyjak Survivors
Top-down survival shooter with escalating waves and bullet-hell boss fights
94% positive
1,177 reviews
Investigator
First-person horror exploration in a world devastated by extreme weather
69% positive
Free
Slingshot people
Solo action game pitting your slingshot against armed commandos
40% positive
1,175 reviews
Fatum Betula
A surreal exploration game with light puzzles and hidden secrets
95% positive
1,173 reviews
Painkiller
First-person demon shooter with three-player co-op and ability-boosting tarot cards
55% positive
1,172 reviews
DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark
Third-person horror adventure across haunted realms, fighting ghosts with cameras
79% positive
1,169 reviews
Adventure Escape Mysteries
Story-driven escape-room collection with mysteries, hidden objects, and puzzles
87% positive
Free
M.A.R.S.
Free-to-play third-person shooter with PvP matches and cooperative survival missions
64% positive
Free
We Know the Devil
A horror visual novel where growing closer leaves someone out
93% positive
1,165 reviews
That Which Gave Chase
First-person horror built around dog sledding through the Arctic
91% positive
1,160 reviews
The Lightkeeper
A psychological horror walking simulator about tending an isolated lighthouse
81% positive
1,158 reviews
Evil Nun: The Broken Mask
First-person survival horror about solving puzzles while evading a nun
95% positive
1,153 reviews
THRESHOLD
Psychological horror where routine railway work consumes your limited air
85% positive
1,153 reviews
Demo Ghost Janitors
First-person co-op horror about cleaning haunted buildings while evading ghosts
87% positive
1,149 reviews
Conan the mighty pig
An exploration adventure about a pig searching for lost truffles
92% positive
1,148 reviews
Paper Bride 2 Zangling Village
Chinese folklore horror puzzle game set in a haunted village
91% positive
1,148 reviews
Lucid Dream
Point-and-click horror about a girl trapped in a dream laboratory
92% positive
Free
Alone in the Dark (2008)
Survival horror with physics puzzles in New York's Central Park
43% positive
1,146 reviews
寇莎梅特：困世迷情 Consummate:Missing World
Room-escape adventure about an amnesiac girl and her strange captor
94% positive
1,145 reviews
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[Chilla's Art] Shinkansen 0 | 新幹線 0号
First-person horror game about spotting anomalies aboard a Japanese bullet train
86% positive
1,144 reviews
Tokyo Dark
A point-and-click horror mystery where decisions shape a detective's sanity
85% positive
1,140 reviews
Love Love School Days
First-person school horror with a dating game heroine hunting you
95% positive
1,139 reviews