The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,307 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: 1,996 horror games are on sale right now.
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Iron Lung
Short first-person horror navigating a blood ocean by instruments
92% positive
11K reviews
Demo The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Choice-driven horror adventure with rival soldiers trapped underground
89% positive
11K reviews
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
Pixel-art horror adventure about time travel and evading a pursuer
96% positive
11K reviews
Visage
First-person psychological horror in a shifting house without weapons
84% positive
11K reviews
Lucius
Third-person horror adventure about staging deadly accidents with supernatural powers
81% positive
11K reviews
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Third-person action thriller with light-based combat and arcade survival
74% positive
11K reviews
Fear Surrounds
Horror social deduction with hidden killers, quests, and votes
86% positive
Free
Demo The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
Branching cinematic horror in a fogbound town with witch-trial visions
74% positive
11K reviews
Little Nightmares III
Horror puzzle-platforming with a bow, a wrench, and a partner
48% positive
11K reviews
Yume Nikki
Surreal exploration game about wandering through strange dream worlds
94% positive
Free
Rusty Lake Hotel
Point-and-click puzzle adventure preparing dinners in a surreal hotel
96% positive
11K reviews
The Headliners
First-person co-op horror about photographing monsters and surviving expeditions
86% positive
11K reviews
The Medium
Third-person psychological horror adventure across physical and spirit worlds
89% positive
10K reviews
The Song of Saya
Psychological horror visual novel about grotesque visions and romance
89% positive
10K reviews
Bean Battles
Short-round battle royale shooter where kills count alongside survival
94% positive
10K reviews
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
VR survival horror with scavenging, physical combat, and consequential choices
86% positive
10K reviews
Demo Species: Unknown
Co-op survival horror about completing contracts while an alien hunts you
94% positive
10K reviews
Transmissions: Element 120
First-person shooter where a gravity weapon lets you leap buildings
95% positive
Free
Nothing
Minimalist timer game where doing anything makes you lose
94% positive
9,952 reviews
Demo Ravenous Devils
Point-and-click management game about turning tailor-shop customers into pub meals
93% positive
9,918 reviews
WORLD OF HORROR
Cosmic horror roguelite with turn-based fights and randomized mysteries
90% positive
9,854 reviews
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Side-scrolling zombie survival with stealth, scavenging, and shelter management
89% positive
9,836 reviews
Tannenberg
Squad-based World War I shooter with shifting Eastern Front battles
86% positive
9,807 reviews
Last Year
Asymmetric multiplayer horror with classmates facing a player-controlled Fiend
62% positive
Free