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Best Halloween games on PlayStation

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 6 of 6 Halloween games on PlayStation, ranked by player and critic scores

The 6 best on PlayStation

  1. Dead Estate art: a witch with a rocket launcher, a bearded man in a green cap and a dark-haired girl with a shotgun among ghouls, skulls and a hulking pig-faced brute 2D horrorDead EstateThe maker calls it a roguelike shooter with a heavy emphasis on Halloween, with pumpkins, costumes and a witch's shop, and its itch.io page wishes players a happy Halloween. 95% on Steam (6,688 reviews)about 1 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Switch
  2. Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted key art: Freddy Fazbear with glowing white eyes in the dark, surrounded by the faces of Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Funtime Foxy and other animatronics FNAFFive Nights at Freddy's: Help WantedThe Curse of Dreadbear expansion, released in October 2019, adds a Halloween-themed hub with new spooky mini-games and prizes. 90% on the PlayStation Store (18,000 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, VR
  3. 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
  4. The Night of the Scissors key art: a frightened, bloodied man behind crossed bloody scissors, beside the red title on black SurvivalThe Night of the ScissorsEach year from 25 to 31 October the game turns on a seasonal treat-hunting event in the Snipper's hideout, with its own achievement. 92% on Steam (440 reviews)about 40 minPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. Halloween Forever art: pixel-art Pumpkin Man leaps over a graveyard where a hockey-masked ghoul with a chainsaw, zombies, skeletons and a hooded figure wait 2D horrorHalloween ForeverMade for Halloween: you play a living pumpkin who spits candy corn through graveyards, crypts and haunted castles, and the developer says they wish Halloween could never end. 84% on the PlayStation Store (181 ratings)about 30 minPaidPC, PlayStation, Switch
  6. Halloween: The Game key art: Michael Myers' pale mask lit in blue against black, small figures of survivors at his chest Co-opHalloween: The GameSet on Halloween night 1978 in Haddonfield, with families making holiday preparations as Michael Myers comes home. 66% on Steam (16,581 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox

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  1. Psychological horror games137
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  3. Horror games with multiple endings115
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  7. Short horror games53
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  9. PS1 horror games41
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  13. Zombie games34
  14. Cosmic and Lovecraftian horror games33
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  7. Linux horror games261
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  11. VR horror games69
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