The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,318 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: 2,011 horror games are on sale right now.
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First-person cave horror with a creature that moves when unseen
92% positive
Free
The Dark Inside Me
Point-and-click psychological horror with choices between mercy and violence
62% positive
179 reviews
Demo Devilated
First-person shooter where enemy bodies become shields and health
82% positive
179 reviews
Cut to the Core
A horror visual novel about a doctor's captive test subject
92% positive
179 reviews
DIGITAL EXORCIST case_(0);
Detective visual novel with crime scene investigations and demon encounters
94% positive
Free
13iew
Horror puzzle adventure where object interactions depend on your viewpoint
60% positive
Free
Malum Escape
Co-op horror escape room for up to four players
41% positive
Free
The 11th Hour
Point-and-click horror with live-action scenes in a toy maker's mansion
44% positive
178 reviews
Fading Hearts
A school-life visual novel where choices can change the genre
63% positive
178 reviews
Interactive Horror Stories
Interactive horror fiction about cursed objects, spirits, and repeating days
69% positive
Free
The Door in the Basement
First-person horror about escaping the world beyond a basement door
88% positive
178 reviews
Life after Death
First-person psychological horror with puzzles rooted in childhood memories
63% positive
178 reviews
东方心之解束~Saving from the devil
A story-focused puzzle adventure with real-time bullet-hell boss battles
98% positive
178 reviews
Yujiro's Mansion
Stealth survival horror about robbing a mansion while its owner hunts
89% positive
Free
Y. Village - The Visitors
First-person horror mixing a village mystery with live-action footage
79% positive
178 reviews
MYTH - Steam Edition
A horror visual novel with roots in Norse mythology
88% positive
177 reviews
Take the Dream IX
Surreal horror adventure RPG about saving your girlfriend from a phantom
78% positive
Free
The Initiate
First-person puzzle adventure about escaping a house full of traps
76% positive
177 reviews
LINCH
First-person multiplayer card game where moves trigger violent cutscenes
57% positive
177 reviews
20,000 Miles Under the Sea
First-person idle horror on a descent toward the Mariana Trench
40% positive
Free
INPUT6
First-person horror where switching factory sections helps you escape a robot
95% positive
177 reviews
Demo Last Light
A horror adventure about exploring a hospital while evading demons
82% positive
177 reviews
Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes
VR horror adventure through a world scaled for a child
77% positive
177 reviews
Urayama
First-person horror walking simulator about a student exploring a supposedly haunted place
85% positive
177 reviews