The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 4,318 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: 2,016 horror games are on sale right now.
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Demo Clea
Stealth survival horror where roaming monsters react to your noise
98% positive
411 reviews
One Way To Die
A darkly comic text adventure where luck can turn fatal
53% positive
Free
Demo Dry Drowning
Detective visual novel with moral choices that change the story
80% positive
410 reviews
Escape First
Escape room puzzles playable with or without a VR headset
65% positive
409 reviews
FLATHEAD
A high-or-low horror game with a creature closing in
93% positive
409 reviews
The Miskatonic
A dark comedy visual novel set at an occult university
76% positive
408 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
Face The Abyss
Multiplayer horror where a psychic hunter tries to stop an escape
38% positive
Free
Alone in the Dark 1
Survival horror investigating a suspicious death in a cursed mansion
91% positive
407 reviews
MetaPhysical
First-person ghost-hunting horror with co-op investigations and exorcisms
80% positive
407 reviews
Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt
A horror shooter anthology linked by an Arctic base mystery
87% positive
407 reviews
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A text-based mystery game built around questions and deduction
93% positive
407 reviews
The Sand Man
A 2D horror adventure through a town lost to sleep
94% positive
406 reviews
Free Will
A psychological puzzle RPG where you alter files to progress
96% positive
Free
A House of Many Doors
Exploration RPG aboard a train that walks on mechanical legs
82% positive
404 reviews
Melon
A free idle clicker with melon drops on a timer
59% positive
Free
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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
Phantasmal: Survival Horror Roguelike
Survival horror roguelike where light restores sanity but risks detection
44% positive
Free
Midnight Witch
Psychological horror visual novel about escaping a witch’s classroom
93% positive
Free
Demo The Graveyard
A short walking simulator about an elderly woman's cemetery visit
63% positive
402 reviews