The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,024 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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BioShock® 2
First-person shooter through an underwater city as a Big Daddy
89% positive
15K reviews
Look Outside
Turn-based survival horror RPG inside a monster-filled apartment building
98% positive
15K reviews
KinitoPET
Retro psychological horror with a virtual friend who disrupts your desktop
93% positive
15K reviews
Demo White Knuckle
First-person roguelite climbing with momentum, horror, and permadeath
98% positive
15K reviews
Demo REANIMAL
Co-op horror adventure about siblings searching an island for friends
78% positive
15K reviews
POSTAL
Isometric shooter about fighting through a town full of gunmen
92% positive
Free
Demo Little Misfortune
Darkly comic story adventure about a child's search for happiness
92% positive
14K reviews
Zort
First-person co-op horror game about escaping creatures across levels
90% positive
14K reviews
Demo The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Cinematic ghost-ship horror where your choices decide who survives
77% positive
14K reviews
Call of Cthulhu®
First-person detective horror investigating deaths on an isolated island
79% positive
14K reviews
Demo Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
Lovecraftian hotel management sim with dating and branching endings
94% positive
14K reviews
We Happy Few
First-person survival adventure about escaping a drugged, conformist city
77% positive
14K reviews
F.E.A.R. 3
Co-op first-person shooter with slow-motion combat and psychic powers
71% positive
14K reviews
Garten of Banban
First-person horror adventure in a kindergarten where everyone vanished
54% positive
Free
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
First-person cosmic horror drawn from a Lovecraft short story
95% positive
Free
Still Wakes the Deep
First-person horror against an unknown threat on a storm-hit oil rig
87% positive
13K reviews
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
First-person horror mini-games with animatronics in VR or flatscreen
96% positive
13K reviews
Lunch Lady
Co-op survival horror with a murderous lunch lady in pursuit
85% positive
13K reviews
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
First-person open-world zombie action built around melee combat and co-op
71% positive
13K reviews
Demo PANICORE
First-person co-op survival horror with stealth and a noise-sensitive monster
79% positive
13K reviews
Demo System Shock
First-person survival horror remake set on a rogue AI-controlled station
90% positive
13K reviews
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Side-scrolling psychological horror adventure about eviction, guilt, and puzzles
93% positive
13K reviews
Fears to Fathom - Home Alone
First-person psychological horror about a teenager left home alone
89% positive
Free
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
First-person horror as a night technician among active animatronics
90% positive
13K reviews