Halloween (fan-made game)

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Babysitting on Halloween night, 1978-style, until someone tries the door.

Platforms: PC
Price: Pay what you want
Rated: 4.3 of 5 from 150 ratings on itch.io
Length: a few minutes to half an hour
Players: 1
Controls: WASD to move, mouse to look, Ctrl to hold your breath, number keys for items
Made by: Martín Fernández and Damián González
Released: 2021

What frightens You babysit on Halloween night in a dim, realistic house; a creepy phone call comes, someone tries the front door, and from then on a masked killer moves through the dark rooms while you close windows, restore the power from the basement by flashlight and hold your breath to stay unheard.
Content: jumpscares, blood, violence.

A free fan-made game based on John Carpenter's 1978 film Halloween. You are babysitting Tommy on Halloween night when a creepy phone call comes and someone tries to get in, and you have to survive the masked killer in a dark, realistic house. It is short, tense and plays in first person on Windows.

About Halloween (fan-made game)

This is a fan-made game based on John Carpenter's Halloween from 1978, made by Martín Fernández and Damián González and first released on itch.io on 31 October 2021, with an update in July 2022. It is not an official licensed game; the official one on this site is Halloween: The Game. It is a free download for Windows, and the menu can be switched between English and Spanish.

You are babysitting Tommy on Halloween night. The house is warm and lived in, with jack-o'-lanterns on the kitchen counter, a television on and Tommy's name on his bedroom door. Then the phone rings, the voice on it is wrong, and someone tries the front door.

From there it plays as a short first-person survival game in the dark. Objectives at the top of the screen tell you what to do next: answer the phone, close the open windows, restore the power from the basement. You carry a flashlight, you can hold your breath to stay quiet while he is near, and the killer in the white mask turns up in doorways, behind blinds and at the foot of the stairs. In the end the objective changes from hiding to fighting for your life.

It suits fans of the film and of slasher games who want a short, free scare for Halloween night, and players who liked the house-siege tension of One Halloween Night or You Are Grounded. A sequel by the same makers, Halloween 2 - Asylum, moves the night to the psychiatric hospital.

How to play Halloween (fan-made game)

Download the free Windows build from the itch.io page (about 1.3 GB) and unzip it.
Choose English in the settings menu and set the graphics to suit your computer.
Follow the objective shown at the top left: answer the phone, close the windows, restore the power.
Use your flashlight in the dark rooms and hold Ctrl to hold your breath when the killer is close.
When the objective turns to fighting back, find a way to stop Michael Myers before he reaches you.

Screenshots

Kitchen counter on Halloween night with carved jack-o'-lanterns and candles, the objective Answer the phone at top left

The living room by flashlight, objective Close open windows, a staircase in the corner

Through dark window blinds a figure stands outside, with the hint Try holding your breath with Ctrl

A pitch-dark hallway lit by a flashlight beam, objective Restore the power from the basement

Tips

Play with headphones: footsteps and the door are your warnings.
Turn the flashlight off when you hide; light gives you away.
Lower the graphics setting if the game stutters; it is a heavy Unreal Engine build for its size.