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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Live-action horror where clues guide your escape from a villa
79% positive
371 reviews
Demo AI
Tower of Mask
Grid-based dungeon crawling with free camera control and survival horror
95% positive
371 reviews
OMG Zombies!
Puzzle shooter about clearing zombie crowds with very few bullets
80% positive
369 reviews
Magdalena
Dark adventure about piecing together memories to unlock a room
44% positive
368 reviews
Demo RATUZ
A horror platformer about escaping a prison where experiments go wrong
88% positive
368 reviews
Buried
First-person horror puzzles inside a coffin with dwindling oxygen
74% positive
368 reviews
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Dig, Dig, Die
Co-op horror about robbing graves while monsters listen for you
68% positive
367 reviews
Cannibal Abduction
Retro survival horror about escaping a cannibal family's farmhouse
96% positive
365 reviews
Dreadhalls
First-person VR survival horror in a dungeon that changes each run
93% positive
364 reviews
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Uncanny Tales: 1992
First-person psychological horror where people, not monsters, are the threat
86% positive
364 reviews
Death end re;Quest 2
A horror JRPG mixing daytime investigations with nighttime turn-based battles
68% positive
363 reviews
Demo AI
Draft of Darkness
Post-apocalyptic survival horror deckbuilder with scarce ammo and escalating darkness
93% positive
363 reviews
TAMASHII
A horror puzzle platformer inspired by older Japanese games
95% positive
362 reviews
Eresys
Co-op horror where cultists use lamplight to keep monsters away
59% positive
362 reviews
Joyville
A horror-puzzle adventure where a teddy bear helps you survive
69% positive
359 reviews
Occlude
Solitaire puzzles with hidden objectives and a cosmic horror story
86% positive
358 reviews
The Case Book of Arne
A detective adventure where supernatural rules shape a murder mystery
87% positive
357 reviews
Demo Uncanny Tales: The Watcher
Psychological horror with caretaker duties in the isolated Russian wilderness
80% positive
357 reviews
The Haunted Building
A horror visual novel about a building awaiting demolition
85% positive
355 reviews
Dead End Road
Driving horror where a typed wish shapes each run's ending
86% positive
354 reviews
Demo KINGDOM of the DEAD
Old-school horror shooter with a hand-drawn black-and-white world
78% positive
354 reviews
DYSTHANASIA
Survival horror about escaping a research facility through stealth and puzzles
89% positive
353 reviews
Static Dread: The Submarine
First-person horror aboard a submarine cut off from the surface
82% positive
353 reviews
Chased by Darkness
Cooperative survival horror with guns and hostile spirits to banish
73% positive
351 reviews