The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,035 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: 1,848 horror games are on sale right now.
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Hidden Paws Mystery
A hidden-object game about finding cats across strange 3D islands
93% positive
310 reviews
Demo Mothmen 1966
A choice-driven horror story set during a 1960s meteor shower
92% positive
310 reviews
Demo Project: Mist
Open-world survival horror with a moving train for a base
73% positive
310 reviews
Midnight Murder Club
Multiplayer party shooter in a dark mansion with proximity chat
70% positive
310 reviews
Kidz
A horror anthology mixing combat, point-and-click interactions, and platforming
87% positive
Free
Fear the Timeloop - Prologue
Third-person survival horror where bleeding out starts the cycle again
84% positive
Free
Zombeer
A zombie first-person shooter where beer keeps infection at bay
72% positive
308 reviews
Dream Cage
First-person horror where your microphone can give you away
63% positive
308 reviews
It Paints Me
Gothic horror visual novel about an artist and absent muse
98% positive
Free
Dead
A twin-stick shooter where healing requires standing still during fights
89% positive
307 reviews
Nemesis: Distress
First-person survival horror where cooperation can give way to betrayal
56% positive
307 reviews
Demo Crossroad OS
A puzzle adventure set inside a decaying computer operating system
98% positive
307 reviews
Demo MISTERY
Multiplayer survival horror with hidden traitors sabotaging the group's escape
66% positive
307 reviews
Eleusis
First-person horror adventure investigating a cult in rural Greece
61% positive
306 reviews
The Monstrous Horror Show
Pixel-art horror adventure about four girls trying to escape a hospital
89% positive
306 reviews
Tombwater
A top-down Soulslike set in a monster-infested Wild West town
92% positive
306 reviews
Alone in the Dark: Illumination™
A third-person horror shooter where light helps you fight monsters
25% positive
305 reviews
I Must Kill: Fresh Meat
Hand-drawn horror adventure about a butcher at odds with modern life
31% positive
Free
Is Simon There?
Psychological horror with three endings that follow different paths
85% positive
305 reviews
Z.O.N.A Project X VR
VR survival shooter with scavenging in a nuclear wasteland
74% positive
305 reviews
Demo 咒影 Curse of the Shadow
Horror visual novel about strange shadows appearing in photographs
84% positive
305 reviews
Help
First-person horror adventure searching a bunker for your missing daughter
56% positive
304 reviews
The Living Remain
VR zombie shooter with ammo crafting and a family search
80% positive
304 reviews
Frontline Zed
Zombie defense shooter with daytime scavenging and nighttime barricade battles
57% positive
304 reviews