The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 494 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 Sucker for Love: Crush Landing
Horror-comedy visual novel about keeping a shapeshifting comet's flame alive
88% positive
207 reviews
Demo Don't Let It Starve
A strategy roguelite about arranging meals for a hungry monster
95% positive
207 reviews
Demo Project Songbird
First-person psychological horror about a musician recording in isolation
84% positive
205 reviews
Giggleland
First-person psychological horror in a park promising endless happiness
63% positive
205 reviews
Demo Crawling Angels
Physics-based horror puzzles built around a living chicken ragdoll
96% positive
205 reviews
Anomaly Company
First-person co-op horror about spotting changes in familiar surroundings
77% positive
200 reviews
Channel 4 Midnight
First-person horror about performing an online ritual at an inn
87% positive
Free
Inferno Protocol
First-person survival horror in a maze that changes around you
78% positive
196 reviews
Demo The Alley
Psychological horror about separating supernatural anomalies from ordinary alleyway scares
92% positive
196 reviews
CONCRETE BURIAL
First-person horror platforming with a weapon fueled by your blood
83% positive
196 reviews
THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
Horror adventure beneath a well, armed with a rusty spoon
90% positive
194 reviews
Demo Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel
A motel work simulator with a noir-inspired horror story
90% positive
192 reviews
LYSA HORA: The Haunted Hill
First-person horror adventure tracing recurring nightmares to their underground source
82% positive
191 reviews
TAKE CARE OF THE DOG
A psychological horror adventure about looking after a dog
93% positive
Free
Can I Come In?
A horror walking simulator about staying home alone after school
89% positive
188 reviews
Demo Don't Drop The Cake
A horror adventure about keeping a cake balanced through danger
90% positive
187 reviews
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Crococo
First-person horror walking simulator mixing sewer alligators with dark comedy
87% positive
184 reviews
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no fox season
A psychological horror visual novel about secretly sheltering a fox
71% positive
183 reviews
Demo Gospodar's Tales
First-person psychological horror with Romanian folklore and dark humor
93% positive
183 reviews
Demo The Stalked 3
Linear psychological horror about being stalked in an empty carnival
82% positive
182 reviews
Tales Beyond The Tomb - No Witnesses
First-person horror with optional microphone detection for noise-sensitive enemies
91% positive
181 reviews
Shards Of Solitude
First-person survival horror with a pursuer who reacts to you
85% positive
179 reviews
Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes
VR horror adventure through a world scaled for a child
77% positive
177 reviews
Foghorns Drown
First-person psychological horror about ferrying passengers across a foggy lake
77% positive
177 reviews