The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 2,000 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: 2,000 horror games are on sale right now.
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Demo Sound of Drop - fall into poison -
Horror visual novel about an aquarium where urban legends turn real
85% positive
417 reviews
Demo Withering Realms
Horror action RPG where night brings new creatures and secrets
95% positive
416 reviews
Coincidences?
First-person psychological horror centered on a suspiciously cheap rental
92% positive
416 reviews
My Sweet! Housemate
Horror comedy visual novel about renting from a suspicious landlord
98% positive
415 reviews
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The Unholy Priest
Horror funeral service sim with exorcisms and restless graves
75% positive
412 reviews
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Haunted Room : 205
First-person horror where closing your eyes wards off supernatural disturbances
94% positive
412 reviews
Ghost Town Mine Ride & Shootin' Gallery
VR horror mixing mine-cart rides, target shooting, and on-foot exploration
86% positive
411 reviews
Demo Clea
Stealth survival horror where roaming monsters react to your noise
98% positive
411 reviews
Demo Dry Drowning
Detective visual novel with moral choices that change the story
80% positive
410 reviews
FLATHEAD
A high-or-low horror game with a creature closing in
93% positive
409 reviews
Cosmodread
VR survival horror where every escape attempt reshuffles the ship
90% positive
408 reviews
Dreams in the Witch House
Point-and-click horror balancing student life, survival, and an occult investigation
91% positive
408 reviews
a pet shop after dark
A point-and-click horror adventure where the lights must stay on
90% positive
408 reviews
Backrooms Break
First-person horror action with walls you can smash through
70% positive
408 reviews
Alone in the Dark 1
Survival horror investigating a suspicious death in a cursed mansion
91% positive
407 reviews
Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt
A horror shooter anthology linked by an Arctic base mystery
87% positive
407 reviews
The Sand Man
A 2D horror adventure through a town lost to sleep
94% positive
406 reviews
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Twisted Gallery 异馆
First-person horror about spotting strange changes in an art museum
86% positive
404 reviews
Skinfreak
First-person horror adventure about an office worker targeted by a killer
87% positive
404 reviews
Boogeyman 2
First-person survival horror where a flashlight holds off a monster
81% positive
402 reviews
Disillusions Manga Horror
First-person horror adventure mixing manga characters with haunted-house exploration
60% positive
401 reviews
El 39
First-person horror about missing the last bus in Buenos Aires
82% positive
401 reviews
Demo The Long Reach
Side-scrolling horror adventure with inventory puzzles and waking nightmares
85% positive
399 reviews
Rehaunted
First-person detective horror about reconstructing a crime from contradictory clues
71% positive
399 reviews