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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Drug Dealer Simulator: Free Sample
Crime management simulation balancing drug sales, expansion, and police avoidance
87% positive
Free
镇邪
Single-player Chinese folklore horror RPG with ghost hunts and tombs
87% positive
2,980 reviews
Garten of Banban 3
First-person horror adventure searching for your child beneath a kindergarten
73% positive
2,976 reviews
Lily's Well
Pixel horror adventure about answering a cry from a well
97% positive
Free
Home Safety Hotline
Analog horror hotline simulator about identifying strange household hazards
91% positive
2,957 reviews
Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals
First-person multiplayer horror with monster hunts and shard-collecting mazes
79% positive
2,950 reviews
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
A first-person mystery where you ask questions through magical cards
96% positive
2,945 reviews
Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Third-person survival horror about hiding from pursuers in a mansion
72% positive
2,943 reviews
Fears to Fathom - Carson House
First-person psychological horror about a house-sitting job gone wrong
92% positive
2,940 reviews
The Midnight Walk
Stop-motion dark fantasy adventure evading monsters with a lantern creature
93% positive
2,927 reviews
Paper Dolls 2 纸人贰
First-person survival horror in a mansion of eerie paper dolls
82% positive
2,922 reviews
近畿霊務局 - Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau
Third-person horror shooter about a government exorcist fighting ghosts
93% positive
2,897 reviews
Kiosk
First-person cooking horror game with clues from late-night customers
88% positive
2,891 reviews
Demo FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE
Third-person survival horror with a camera for fighting ghosts
85% positive
2,884 reviews
Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
Psychological mystery visual novel about murders on an isolated island
95% positive
2,879 reviews
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake
An arcade zombie rail shooter with local two-player cooperative play
68% positive
2,862 reviews
Demo Lorn's Lure
First-person platformer about climbing through a vast, dangerous structure
86% positive
2,855 reviews
Demo Emissary Zero
Co-op horror with monsters, puzzles, and a building that changes
83% positive
2,850 reviews
Demo Scarlet Idol
Two-player horror puzzles rooted in the folk traditions of Zhejiang
68% positive
2,849 reviews
PockeDate! - Pocket Dating Simulator
A dating visual novel that mixes romance with psychological horror
97% positive
Free
The Complex: Expedition
Slow-paced psychological horror through a VHS camera in the Backrooms
90% positive
2,840 reviews
The Town of Light
First-person psychological adventure through a reconstructed Italian psychiatric hospital
79% positive
2,829 reviews
Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000
Sci-fi horror shooter with Marine, Alien, and Predator campaigns
87% positive
2,823 reviews
Duskers
Space survival strategy through typed commands and salvage runs
90% positive
2,818 reviews