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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Directive 8020
Space horror where an alien can impersonate your crewmates
64% positive
1,397 reviews
SILENT BREATH
First-person forest horror that listens for screams through your microphone
70% positive
1,393 reviews
Demo DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain
Underwater survival horror where each dive risks a survivor's life
91% positive
1,353 reviews
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Scary Game 2: The Mad Shepherd
A horror walking simulator about missing animals and strange villagers
90% positive
1,351 reviews
Sketchy's Contract
First-person sci-fi horror looting with friends and escalating risk
85% positive
1,338 reviews
Demo The Scourge | Tai Ương
First-person horror puzzler mixing Saigon's urban legends and nightmares
94% positive
1,329 reviews
Pyromaniac
First-person horror with street exploration and fights against scorched monsters
87% positive
1,297 reviews
Demo Folklore Hunter
Co-op horror hunts with traps, cameras, and creatures from folklore
76% positive
1,282 reviews
Money for Girls: Amortized
Horror romance visual novel about a detective tackling family debt
99% positive
1,282 reviews
Invokyr
Co-op horror built around a cursed board game
94% positive
1,214 reviews
Demo Tenebris Somnia
Pixel-art survival horror that switches to live-action at key moments
94% positive
1,210 reviews
Final Sentence
Typing battle royale where mistakes can get you shot
86% positive
1,189 reviews
Darkwater
Co-op extraction horror with submarine battles and underwater scavenging
78% positive
1,186 reviews
Storebound
Co-op puzzle horror where shoppers work together to escape a megastore
76% positive
1,120 reviews
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Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
Choice-driven horror visual novel about investigating a ghost's lost memories
95% positive
1,119 reviews
Mama's Sleeping Angels
First-person co-op horror about collecting cursed objects in dreamworlds
93% positive
1,113 reviews
Demo UMIGARI | ウミガリ
First-person harpoon fishing with stranger catches farther out at sea
83% positive
1,092 reviews
Demo HELLMART
First-person supermarket horror about running a store and surviving nights
77% positive
1,084 reviews
Demo Don't Play This
First-person horror walking simulator built around people's final recordings
85% positive
1,083 reviews
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HexBreaker Ⅱ
Isometric action RPG about fighting spirits with Taoist magic
60% positive
1,079 reviews
Iron Blight
First-person survival horror where gunfire can attract more enemies
93% positive
1,014 reviews
Dino Crisis
Third-person survival horror with dinosaurs inside an isolated research compound
81% positive
997 reviews
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NO BACKUP
A first-person horror shooter for solo play or online co-op
67% positive
947 reviews
Don't Sleep With The Fishes
Point-and-click survival horror with limited supplies and one lifeboat
95% positive
878 reviews