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Best Halloween games

The best-rated games for Halloween: trick-or-treating, pumpkins, costumes and the night itself, from gentle spooky games to properly frightening ones. Each is ranked by what players and critics score it, with how long it takes and where to get it.

The top 5 of 5 Halloween games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 5 best, 2026

  1. Costume Quest art: four children in homemade costumes, a girl in a unicorn-horn hat, a knight, a cardboard robot and an astronaut with a glowing wand, on a suburban street at night HalloweenCostume QuestIt is set on Halloween night: you trick-or-treat door to door in homemade costumes that become champions when monsters answer. 94% on Steam (4,129 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Xbox
  2. Costume Quest 2 art: four cartoon children in Halloween costumes, a candy corn with big glasses, a caped hero in goggles, a bearded wizard and a dinosaur, on a glowing clock circle HalloweenCostume Quest 2Set on Halloween night: you trick-or-treat for candy in costumes that become warriors, to stop a dentist from banishing Halloween forever. 90% on the PlayStation Store (2,633 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox
  3. Dread X Collection 3 key art: a castle on a red autumn hillside under a grinning jack-o'-lantern moon PS1Dread X Collection 3Released for Halloween 2020; Chip's Tips has you preparing a Halloween party and SPOOKWARE @ The Video Store is a Halloween horror-movie marathon. 92% on Steamabout 8 hPaidPC
  4. The Last Crown: Midnight Horror key art: ghost-hunters Nigel and Lucy in black and white with green ghostly smoke and photographs of a sheeted ghost Puzzle horrorThe Last Crown: Midnight HorrorThe whole game is one Halloween night in Saxton, with jack-o'-lanterns, party games, masks and trick and treat. 80% on Steam (129 reviews)about 2.5 hPaidPC
  5. Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare key art: Edward Carnby scowling with a raised revolver, Aline Cedrac behind him with a flashlight glow, in dark green light SurvivalAlone in the Dark: The New NightmareThe story takes place on the night of October 31, 2001, when Carnby and Aline fly out to Shadow Island. 71% on Steam (576 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC

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More kinds of horror

  1. Psychological horror games121
  2. Horror puzzle games109
  3. Survival horror games82
  4. Horror games with multiple endings71
  5. 2D horror games58
  6. PS1 horror games45
  7. Stealth horror games45
  8. Cosmic and Lovecraftian horror games42
  9. Mystery and detective horror games38
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