The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 494 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: 1,995 horror games are on sale right now.
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Treasure Hunters: Raid Together
First-person co-op dungeon raids with puzzles and treasure to haul
78% positive
63 reviews
Five Nights At Monkeys: Flat Mode
Survival horror with threats and rules that change each night
84% positive
Free
Demo Upstairs
A point-and-click escape adventure mixing dark humor with horror
94% positive
63 reviews
Otherside Tapes: Favela
First-person horror with found-footage visuals and a shifting favela setting
94% positive
62 reviews
Alkurai
Co-op fantasy horror with puzzles across maze-like gardens and dungeons
77% positive
61 reviews
The Cemetery Shift | 墓地の夜勤
First-person horror with camera surveillance and investigations in a cemetery
79% positive
61 reviews
Demo AI
Cognition Method
First-person sci-fi puzzle adventure built around gravity and impossible architecture
72% positive
60 reviews
The Third Shift
Retro horror adventure where dialogue choices lead to different endings
95% positive
60 reviews
SUBSUMED
First-person cave horror about crawling in search of missing divers
80% positive
60 reviews
6 Floors
First-person psychological horror with a new puzzle on each floor
80% positive
Free
AI
HouseWarming
First-person psychological horror inside an old house that traps you
75% positive
60 reviews
Demo The Bunker Notes - Horror/Drama Visual Novel
A psychological horror visual novel about isolation during a pandemic
75% positive
59 reviews
Demo Who Are You!?
First-person sci-fi horror about a father's search for his daughter
69% positive
59 reviews
Demo Scorched Sun
Top-down survival horror with turn-based combat that targets enemy limbs
90% positive
59 reviews
Dave.EXE
Single-player comedy horror about looting soda machines while monsters hunt
95% positive
59 reviews
Murmurs of the Mist
Third-person psychological horror explored through a young girl's stuffed toy
92% positive
Free
AI
POOL LOOP
First-person horror about spotting changes in a looping swimming pool
83% positive
59 reviews
Demo The Family Trip
First-person psychological horror about a family watched from the woods
86% positive
59 reviews
AI
The Abyss Below
Deep-sea psychological horror where you navigate using physical cockpit instruments
81% positive
58 reviews
DeadboySkeleton
Third-person shooter about a dead boy fighting skeletons
95% positive
58 reviews
Ritual Static
Photography horror inside a haunted house that keeps changing
95% positive
57 reviews
A Hole In My Room
First-person psychological horror with locked-room puzzles and a stalking creature
79% positive
Free
Demo Deceived Of Joy
First-person psychological horror where hotel routines give way to illusions
84% positive
57 reviews
Demo Huntin' Buddies
Co-op horror hunting where dragging animals can make them explode
77% positive
56 reviews