The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,312 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: 1,998 horror games are on sale right now.
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The Shore
First-person horror adventure combining island exploration, puzzles, and Lovecraftian monsters
71% positive
1,851 reviews
Passing Pineview Forest
First-person forest horror where survival depends on staying calm
66% positive
Free
IMMORTALITY
Live-action mystery pieced together from three unreleased films
84% positive
1,848 reviews
Paranoia Place: Escape Together
First-person co-op survival horror with puzzles and a pursuing killer
88% positive
1,844 reviews
Demo DEAD LETTER DEPT.
Psychological horror built around typing strange and damaged mail
95% positive
1,841 reviews
Demo nophenia
A walking simulator through dreamlike spaces and stark brutalist architecture
97% positive
1,840 reviews
Demo Killer Chat! - Original Edition
Satirical dating chat sim about romancing serial killers
94% positive
Free
Bendy: Lone Wolf
Top-down horror roguelike about scavenging supplies and hiding from monsters
84% positive
Free
Budget Cuts
First-person VR stealth with robots, throwing knives, and teleportation
80% positive
1,812 reviews
He Needs His Medicine
Surreal horror about mixing a creature's medicine for different outcomes
79% positive
Free
Trapped with Jester
A psychological horror visual novel centered on a talkative stranger
94% positive
Free
Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
Hidden-object detective adventure following clues to a missing girl
85% positive
1,805 reviews
Demo Gori: Cuddly Carnage
Third-person hack-and-slash as a hoverboarding cat fighting mutated toys
96% positive
1,805 reviews
CONVRGENCE
Single-player VR extraction shooter with procedural raids and a dog
88% positive
1,801 reviews
Space Beast Terror Fright
Permadeath first-person shooter aboard changing ships full of lethal aliens
92% positive
1,795 reviews
Demo Tormented Souls 2
Survival horror where changing the past opens new paths
86% positive
1,789 reviews
Homicipher: Demo
Horror adventure built around deciphering a strange language to escape
98% positive
Free
Alone in the Dark Prologue
A Southern Gothic horror teaser about delivering a letter
76% positive
Free
Escape from Playtime
Co-op survival horror with scavenging runs through a changing factory
69% positive
1,774 reviews
Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
First-person vampire horror with a randomly generated castle to explore
89% positive
1,764 reviews
STASIS
Isometric point-and-click horror aboard a spacecraft descending into Neptune's clouds
80% positive
1,763 reviews
The Bunker
Live-action psychological horror about isolation inside a nuclear bunker
70% positive
1,763 reviews
Resident Evil (1996)
Third-person survival horror about exploring a mansion overrun by monsters
90% positive
1,761 reviews
Demo Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum
2D horror adventure through a mansion of puzzles and lost memories
93% positive
1,758 reviews