The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 1,995 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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Ghost Watchers
First-person horror about identifying, weakening, and capturing ghosts
86% positive
16K reviews
Contagion
First-person zombie survival shooter with randomized rounds and co-op
73% positive
16K reviews
SCP: 5K
Co-op tactical horror shooter inside anomalous underground research facilities
79% positive
15K reviews
BioShock® 2
First-person shooter through an underwater city as a Big Daddy
89% positive
15K reviews
Look Outside
Turn-based survival horror RPG inside a monster-filled apartment building
98% positive
15K reviews
KinitoPET
Retro psychological horror with a virtual friend who disrupts your desktop
93% positive
15K reviews
Demo White Knuckle
First-person roguelite climbing with momentum, horror, and permadeath
98% positive
15K reviews
Demo REANIMAL
Co-op horror adventure about siblings searching an island for friends
78% positive
15K reviews
Demo Little Misfortune
Darkly comic story adventure about a child's search for happiness
92% positive
14K reviews
Zort
First-person co-op horror game about escaping creatures across levels
90% positive
14K reviews
Demo The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Cinematic ghost-ship horror where your choices decide who survives
77% positive
14K reviews
Call of Cthulhu®
First-person detective horror investigating deaths on an isolated island
79% positive
14K reviews
Demo Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
Lovecraftian hotel management sim with dating and branching endings
94% positive
14K reviews
We Happy Few
First-person survival adventure about escaping a drugged, conformist city
77% positive
14K reviews
Still Wakes the Deep
First-person horror against an unknown threat on a storm-hit oil rig
87% positive
13K reviews
Lunch Lady
Co-op survival horror with a murderous lunch lady in pursuit
85% positive
13K reviews
Demo PANICORE
First-person co-op survival horror with stealth and a noise-sensitive monster
79% positive
13K reviews
Demo System Shock
First-person survival horror remake set on a rogue AI-controlled station
90% positive
13K reviews
Amnesia: The Bunker
First-person survival horror in a World War I bunker stalked by a monster
93% positive
13K reviews
DOOM 3
Horror-focused first-person shooter in a demon-infested Mars research facility
86% positive
13K reviews
Demo The Beast Inside
First-person horror adventure linking two timelines through a diary
83% positive
12K reviews
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
First-person horror mystery about missing children and an industrial machine
70% positive
12K reviews
In Silence
Multiplayer survival horror where sound guides the monster's hunt
74% positive
12K reviews
Detention
2D horror adventure about escaping a haunted school in Taiwan
96% positive
12K reviews