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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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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
First-person vampire action RPG with powers and story-driven quests
94% positive 15K reviews
Halloween: The Game
Halloween: The Game
Asymmetrical horror with a stalking killer and neighbors to save
66% positive 15K reviews
SCP: 5K
SCP: 5K
Co-op tactical horror shooter inside anomalous underground research facilities
79% positive 15K reviews
Dead Space™ 3
Dead Space™ 3
Third-person sci-fi action horror with co-op and weapon crafting
72% positive 15K reviews
BioShock® 2
BioShock® 2
First-person shooter through an underwater city as a Big Daddy
89% positive 15K reviews
Look Outside
Look Outside
Turn-based survival horror RPG inside a monster-filled apartment building
98% positive 15K reviews
KinitoPET
KinitoPET
Retro psychological horror with a virtual friend who disrupts your desktop
93% positive 15K reviews
White Knuckle Demo
White Knuckle
First-person roguelite climbing with momentum, horror, and permadeath
98% positive 15K reviews
REANIMAL Demo
REANIMAL
Co-op horror adventure about siblings searching an island for friends
78% positive 15K reviews
POSTAL
POSTAL
Isometric shooter about fighting through a town full of gunmen
92% positive Free
Little Misfortune Demo
Little Misfortune
Darkly comic story adventure about a child's search for happiness
92% positive 14K reviews
Zort
Zort
First-person co-op horror game about escaping creatures across levels
90% positive 14K reviews
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan 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®
Call of Cthulhu®
First-person detective horror investigating deaths on an isolated island
79% positive 14K reviews
Yog-Sothoth’s Yard Demo
Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
Lovecraftian hotel management sim with dating and branching endings
94% positive 14K reviews
We Happy Few
We Happy Few
First-person survival adventure about escaping a drugged, conformist city
77% positive 14K reviews
F.E.A.R. 3
F.E.A.R. 3
Co-op first-person shooter with slow-motion combat and psychic powers
71% positive 14K reviews
Garten of Banban
Garten of Banban
First-person horror adventure in a kindergarten where everyone vanished
54% positive Free
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
First-person cosmic horror drawn from a Lovecraft short story
95% positive Free
Still Wakes the Deep
Still Wakes the Deep
First-person horror against an unknown threat on a storm-hit oil rig
87% positive 13K reviews
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
First-person horror mini-games with animatronics in VR or flatscreen
96% positive 13K reviews
Lunch Lady
Lunch Lady
Co-op survival horror with a murderous lunch lady in pursuit
85% positive 13K reviews
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
First-person open-world zombie action built around melee combat and co-op
71% positive 13K reviews
PANICORE Demo
PANICORE
First-person co-op survival horror with stealth and a noise-sensitive monster
79% positive 13K reviews