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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Remothered: Broken Porcelain
Third-person survival horror with stalkers hunting you through an inn
62% positive
722 reviews
Demo Perennial Order
A plant-horror boss rush built around one-hit deaths
93% positive
722 reviews
Days Without Incident
First-person survival horror with puzzles in an abandoned factory
94% positive
Free
AfterHours
Psychological horror about hiding from a creature that notices every step
69% positive
Free
Demo Lamentum
Pixel-art survival horror about seeking a cure in a mansion
86% positive
715 reviews
Demo Don't Knock Twice
First-person horror set in a manor haunted by a witch
72% positive
713 reviews
Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2
Side-scrolling survival horror with sinister toys in an orphanage
93% positive
711 reviews
Blood II: The Chosen + Expansion
Gory first-person shooter pitting Caleb against the sinister Cabal
47% positive
710 reviews
Demo Psalm 2
First-person horror where finding hidden things lets the elevator descend
88% positive
709 reviews
Propagation: Paradise Hotel
VR survival horror where you choose to fight or evade
86% positive
706 reviews
Cat or Bread?
A casual clicking game about telling cats apart from bread
92% positive
704 reviews
Demo Lake of Voices
Horror visual novel with timed choices about who survives
95% positive
Free
Irony Of Nightmare
Christmas horror built around house exploration, puzzles, and a pursuer
88% positive
703 reviews
Post Trauma
Fixed-camera survival horror built around environmental puzzles and exploration
73% positive
702 reviews
4D Minesweeper
Minesweeper puzzle game with four-dimensional boards and complex deductions
94% positive
Free
I'm on Observation Duty 6
Surveillance horror puzzle where missed anomalies can end your night
94% positive
695 reviews
Backroom Company
Co-op Backrooms horror about filming anomalies and evading monsters
82% positive
695 reviews
Silver Creek Falls: Chapter 1
A 2D detective adventure investigating disappearances in a small town
86% positive
Free
Tomato Way
First-person horror action as a tomato who hunts monsters
82% positive
694 reviews
Hellcoming
Co-op survival horror about cleaning buildings while demons hunt you
78% positive
694 reviews
Demo Contagion VR: Outbreak
First-person VR zombie shooter following survivors through a spreading outbreak
64% positive
693 reviews
White Day 2: The Flower That Tells Lies - Complete Edition
First-person horror with school mysteries, puzzles, and unkillable pursuers
45% positive
693 reviews
STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT
A sci-fi visual novel about messages that rewrite the past
88% positive
691 reviews
Suite 776
First-person horror about ringing a bell in a haunted apartment
90% positive
690 reviews