The best horror games for Halloween 2026

Uncanny Tales: Cold Road

First-person horror where ordinary people are the source of danger

68% positive 170 reviews

Insomnis

First-person horror adventure with puzzles in a changing manor

86% positive 169 reviews

Demo

BrokenLore: FOLLOW

First-person psychological horror tracing a young woman's past through puzzles

80% positive 169 reviews

Demo

Security: The Horrible Nights

Horror stories about watching hospital cameras and confronting strange creatures

89% positive 169 reviews

Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター]

First-person holiday horror with Santa collecting gifts and making deliveries

82% positive 169 reviews

Pizza Deathlivery

Co-op horror with pizza deliveries, roaming monsters, and daily deadlines

69% positive 169 reviews

NIGHT SHIFT NIGHTMARE

First-person horror mixing convenience store chores with late-night danger

85% positive Free

Demo

The Lacerator

Survival horror where losing limbs changes how you play

99% positive 168 reviews

EggK47

Retro shoot 'em up starring a chicken with a gun

81% positive 167 reviews

PAGAN PEAK VR

VR horror escape room set in a killer's alpine cabin

81% positive 167 reviews

Banana 2: Fruit

A free incremental clicker focused on collecting different banana varieties

46% positive Free

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FIRE AND ASHES

First-person survival horror where your voice can reveal your position

92% positive 167 reviews

Clamb

Physics-based VR climbing where you tackle obstacles with a hammer

64% positive 167 reviews

DON'T FACE UP

First-person horror built around exploring without making eye contact

71% positive Free

Demo

Fledgling Manor

Horror visual novel set inside a deadly vampire reality show

99% positive 167 reviews

Ancient Guardian

Action-adventure through randomized mazes filled with traps and Greek monsters

72% positive 166 reviews

Deserving Life

Room-scale VR escape game where you wake up in chains

81% positive Free

Dreamwalker: Never Fall Asleep

Hidden-object mystery about a psychiatrist who enters patients' dreams

86% positive 166 reviews

Demo

Fossilfuel

First-person survival horror with mutant dinosaurs and invading soldiers

70% positive 166 reviews

Demo

Cooking Companions 2: Dread Weight

Horror visual novel where death doesn't end the story

86% positive 166 reviews

Ex Vitro

A 2D metroidvania with endings determined by the items you collect

93% positive Free

Demo

Selene's Unbearable Night

Third-person survival horror with scarce supplies and two playable characters

73% positive 166 reviews

Christmas Story

First-person horror where a grandfather's Christmas tale blurs with reality

90% positive 166 reviews

Trouble In The Manor

Online multiplayer murder mystery where killers hide among other players

58% positive 165 reviews