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: 1,837 horror games are on sale right now.
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Hellpoint: The Thespian Feast
Sci-fi action RPG with Souls-style combat and occult horror
70% positive
Free
The Survey
First-person horror with puzzles and a mysterious survey on your phone
72% positive
828 reviews
Demo We Escaped a Twisted Game
Two-player horror escape room where each partner holds different clues
94% positive
828 reviews
Rhome
First-person psychological horror inside a house that keeps changing
89% positive
Free
Demo ZomDay
VR zombie wave shooter with co-op and character upgrades
83% positive
819 reviews
Backrooms: Extractions
First-person co-op horror built around rescue and extraction missions
74% positive
819 reviews
Momo Mother Bird: Final Story
First-person horror with puzzles to solve while something hunts you
75% positive
Free
myPOPGOES
Resource management with a needy weasel inside an LCD toy
86% positive
813 reviews
Egging On
Physics-based platformer about climbing to the top as an egg
72% positive
813 reviews
Demo Necrophosis
A surreal walking simulator with puzzles beyond the universe's end
88% positive
808 reviews
Clawed
Survival horror set inside a rundown dinosaur theme park
53% positive
808 reviews
Answer Knot
A first-person walking simulator driven by increasingly worrying phone messages
89% positive
Free
House of Caravan
First-person escape-room adventure about a boy trapped in a mansion
67% positive
806 reviews
Don't Escape Trilogy
Point-and-click horror adventures where survival can mean locking yourself inside
99% positive
806 reviews
Hand Simulator: Horror
Co-op horror where physics-based hands complicate your escape
70% positive
801 reviews
Demo Just Ignore Them
Pixel-art point-and-click horror about monsters inside a young boy's home
79% positive
800 reviews
Demo Heaven Dust 2
Survival horror with upgradable weapons and two paths to escape
90% positive
795 reviews
Lakeview Valley
A horror RPG about small-town life, murder, and its consequences
82% positive
794 reviews
Trench Face
Survival horror RPG with turn-based combat in alternate-history trenches
93% positive
789 reviews
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
Psychological survival horror with stealth, scarce supplies, and branching story paths
87% positive
788 reviews
Moros Protocol
First-person roguelite shooting through a derelict warship's shifting corridors
79% positive
785 reviews
Demo Black Sheep
A psychological horror adventure about piecing together a school's past
54% positive
785 reviews
School Labyrinth
Co-op horror escape through a changing nighttime school maze
83% positive
785 reviews
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
Horror mystery visual novel that revisits earlier chapters' unanswered questions
97% positive
783 reviews