The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 1,830 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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Demo THE SPIRIT LIFT
A roguelike deckbuilder about teenagers climbing a haunted hotel
96% positive
118 reviews
Demo Enelia: Dawn of Madness
Fantasy-horror visual novel with friendships and rivalries shaped by choices
94% positive
118 reviews
Demo Soul Mates
Point-and-click survival horror with puzzles and ghosts you can flirt with
97% positive
118 reviews
Find or be Found
Two-player co-op horror heists where one partner guides the other
68% positive
118 reviews
Quiver Dick's Terrible Tale For Terrible Parents To Read To Their Equally Terrible Children
A story-driven visual novel starring a foul-mouthed, cannibalistic fairy
87% positive
117 reviews
Demo Hospitality VR
Seated VR horror that adjusts its pacing to head movements
70% positive
117 reviews
Biolum
A VR sci-fi horror story about a deep-sea research mission
80% positive
117 reviews
Trenches - World War 1 Horror Survival Game
First-person horror in World War I trenches where enemies hear you
70% positive
117 reviews
The Backrooms Project
Exploration horror in a maze of seemingly endless yellow rooms
64% positive
117 reviews
Refund Me If You Can
First-person horror about finding one escape route through a maze
79% positive
117 reviews
The Guard
First-person mall horror with locked rooms and roaming mannequins
61% positive
117 reviews
Demo Liminal Void
First-person horror dungeon crawler where death advances you through layers
78% positive
116 reviews
Demo SCP: Descent
First-person horror with stairwell puzzles and monsters drawn to light
53% positive
116 reviews
Dead end Exit 8
First-person horror puzzles about spotting changes in repeating corridors
72% positive
116 reviews
Invasion of The Halloween Fiends
First-person horror comedy about giving candy to masked monsters
95% positive
116 reviews
Too Well Hidden
First-person psychological horror built around a nighttime game of hide-and-seek
86% positive
116 reviews
Bobok
A darkly comic visual novel about conversations among the dead
94% positive
115 reviews
Demented
Stealth horror where declining sanity changes the world around you
75% positive
114 reviews
Motherland
First-person walking simulator through a Russian town during an epidemic
63% positive
114 reviews
MEGA
First-person survival horror about evading a giant monster in ruins
81% positive
114 reviews
The Oily Depths
First-person submarine horror where drilling for oil keeps you breathing
80% positive
114 reviews
GUTTED: Infested Crypts
Horror FPS focused on close-range shooting and enemy dismemberment
88% positive
114 reviews
The Mystery of the Druids
Point-and-click detective adventure about ritual murders and a Druid order
50% positive
113 reviews
Deathbloom: Chapter 1
First-person survival horror inside a manor full of hidden passages
83% positive
113 reviews