The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 410 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: 1,829 horror games are on sale right now.
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Demo Withering Realms
Horror action RPG where night brings new creatures and secrets
95% positive
416 reviews
Coincidences?
First-person psychological horror centered on a suspiciously cheap rental
92% positive
416 reviews
Rehaunted
First-person detective horror about reconstructing a crime from contradictory clues
71% positive
399 reviews
Below, Rusted Gods
First-person horror where you guide an expedition by radio
87% positive
381 reviews
Demo The Coma 3: Bloodlines
2D survival horror with three playable characters and occult mysteries
85% positive
378 reviews
Demo Hariti
Psychological horror with Chinese settings and monsters from ancient folklore
88% positive
372 reviews
Lucid Cats
First-person co-op horror about looting dreams and finding the exit
75% positive
371 reviews
Smile More
Medical horror simulation where every patient must be made to smile
95% positive
Free
Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs
First-person horror about making deliveries before a citywide curfew
88% positive
359 reviews
Demo Uncanny Tales: The Watcher
Psychological horror with caretaker duties in the isolated Russian wilderness
80% positive
357 reviews
Static Dread: The Submarine
First-person horror aboard a submarine cut off from the surface
82% positive
353 reviews
Everyday Devil
A psychological horror story told through a demon's fragmented memories
95% positive
Free
Demo Birds Watching
Psychological horror where your survival depends on satisfying demanding birds
87% positive
347 reviews
Lumina Veil
Survival horror split between a strange game and everyday life
96% positive
Free
Demo Angel Engine
Horror surgery simulator with timed procedures, failing equipment, and demons
79% positive
335 reviews
Demo Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter
A murder-mystery visual novel with deckbuilding and deadly class trials
88% positive
334 reviews
Demo Entropy
Turn-based fantasy RPG about a theater troupe taking up arms
94% positive
332 reviews
Yoko no Hanashi
First-person survival horror about escaping or appeasing an obsessive pursuer
91% positive
316 reviews
BLOOD MALL: RETAPED
First-person horror about hunting a dinosaur through a shopping mall
93% positive
312 reviews
Demo Project: Mist
Open-world survival horror with a moving train for a base
73% positive
305 reviews
Demo 咒影 Curse of the Shadow
Horror visual novel about strange shadows appearing in photographs
84% positive
305 reviews
Demo Knights End
First-person co-op horror with nightly chores and increasingly dangerous monsters
89% positive
302 reviews
Tombwater
A top-down Soulslike set in a monster-infested Wild West town
92% positive
301 reviews
Night Shippers
Co-op horror-comedy about delivering food in hell before sunrise
75% positive
300 reviews