The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,306 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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Demo CloverPit
First-person horror roguelite about rigging slots to pay your debt
90% positive
26K reviews
DUSK
Fast-paced retro first-person shooter against cultists and possessed soldiers
97% positive
26K reviews
Vampyr
Choice-driven vampire action RPG in flu-ravaged 1918 London
77% positive
25K reviews
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
First-person horror with puzzles in an abandoned amusement park
95% positive
Free
The Quarry
Cinematic horror adventure where choices decide who survives the night
82% positive
25K reviews
Darkwood
Survival horror with daytime scavenging and desperate nighttime defense
95% positive
25K reviews
The Forever Winter
Third-person PvE extraction shooter beneath towering war machines
68% positive
25K reviews
死寂（Deathly Stillness）
A free zombie shooter built as a teaching project
95% positive
Free
ANIMAL WELL
Puzzle platformer with nonlinear paths and secrets beyond the ending
96% positive
25K reviews
Dark Deception
First-person horror maze game built around running from monsters
88% positive
Free
Demo Demonologist
First-person co-op horror about identifying and exorcising evil spirits
85% positive
24K reviews
Thief
First-person stealth adventure about robbing guarded homes in a troubled city
75% positive
24K reviews
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Asymmetrical third-person horror where victims evade a murderous family
66% positive
24K reviews
Demo Fran Bow
Point-and-click psychological horror with puzzles and a hidden grotesque world
97% positive
23K reviews
BIGFOOT
First-person survival horror about hunting or playing as Bigfoot
82% positive
22K reviews
The Room Two
Point-and-click puzzle adventure built around objects and hidden mechanisms
98% positive
22K reviews
Demo Aliens vs. Predator™
Three-sided sci-fi FPS with distinct Marine, Alien, and Predator campaigns
91% positive
22K reviews
AI
MISERY
Co-op survival with daily scavenging runs and a bunker to build
85% positive
21K reviews
Ghostwire: Tokyo
First-person open-world action against spirits in a deserted Tokyo
83% positive
21K reviews
Demo The Darkness II
First-person shooter with dual guns and shadow-powered demon arms
92% positive
21K reviews
港詭實錄ParanormalHK
First-person horror adventure searching Kowloon Walled City for missing crew
89% positive
21K reviews
SILENT HILL f
Psychological survival horror in a fogbound Japanese mountain town
80% positive
20K reviews
A Game About Digging A Hole™
Single-player mining sandbox about digging, selling finds, and upgrading gear
89% positive
20K reviews
Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered
First-person stealth horror parodying the look of '90s educational games
92% positive
Free