The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 1,829 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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Granny Simulator
Multiplayer comedy game where a grandson disrupts grandmother's routine
90% positive
6,159 reviews
Demo The Casting of Frank Stone™
Choice-driven horror adventure about a killer's legacy and branching fates
62% positive
6,006 reviews
The Test: Final Revelation
A psychological horror quiz built around increasingly personal questions
98% positive
5,831 reviews
The Sinking City Remastered
Lovecraftian open-world detective adventure in a flooded, supernatural city
75% positive
5,722 reviews
Demo DreadOut
Third-person Indonesian horror with camera-based ghost encounters and puzzles
77% positive
5,716 reviews
Ghost Exorcism INC.
Co-op horror investigation where you identify and banish ghosts
76% positive
5,437 reviews
Angels of Death
Psychological horror adventure about uneasy partners escaping a sealed building
95% positive
5,416 reviews
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2
First-person horror minigames about surviving jobs at an animatronic pizzeria
95% positive
5,394 reviews
Ib
Pixel-art horror adventure through a shifting gallery of puzzles
99% positive
5,327 reviews
Demo Scarlet Hollow
Branching horror visual novel about a supernatural mountain-town mystery
98% positive
5,305 reviews
Observation
Sci-fi puzzle adventure viewed through a space station's AI
78% positive
5,218 reviews
Tattletail
First-person Christmas horror about keeping a noisy toy quiet
95% positive
5,058 reviews
Machine Party
A horror party game with deadly twists on familiar minigames
87% positive
4,955 reviews
Summer of '58
First-person horror walking simulator exploring an abandoned Soviet summer camp
89% positive
4,953 reviews
Unplagued
First-person co-op horror about making cures in procedurally generated villages
32% positive
4,950 reviews
Alone in the Dark
Third-person survival horror investigating a disappearance at a Louisiana asylum
78% positive
4,922 reviews
Paper Dolls: Original / 纸人
First-person horror adventure through a mansion haunted by paper dolls
84% positive
4,902 reviews
DON'T SCREAM
First-person forest horror where screaming restarts the night
65% positive
4,874 reviews
The Incident at Galley House
A detective visual novel about piecing together a fractured timeline
94% positive
4,793 reviews
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
Open-world horror adventure about investigating murders in a supernatural town
66% positive
4,780 reviews
That's not my Neighbor
Point-and-click horror simulation about screening neighbors for doppelgangers
89% positive
4,732 reviews
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
Third-person zombie shooter with sniping and four-player co-op
88% positive
4,706 reviews
Ghost Exile
First-person ghost-hunting horror with evidence gathering and exorcisms
88% positive
4,665 reviews
Pathologic Classic HD
First-person survival horror in a town consumed by plague
88% positive
4,613 reviews