Halloween 2023 is finally here, and in between all that pumpkin pie and binging scary movies, Steam’s spooky sale will have you experiencing all that PC gaming has to offer as it temps souls to the dark side. Whether you’re into Resident Evil or Dead Space, Steam’s array of blood-curdling titles that started on October 26 and ends on November 2 will expand your game’s library with horror games to fit the season.
If you do need a little break from heart-racing and gore fest titles, there are a handful of lighter games as part of the ‘Steam Scream: The Revenge Fest’, as it’s known by, like Stray and Batman Arkham Knight, but you are here for the thrill of PC horror and to grab a deal so let’s get on with the best 10 games you can pick up right now in the Halloween sale.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
$7.99 $19.99 Save $12
Why you should pick it up: Great graphics, an absorbing story, and really bloody scary, Resident Evil Biohazard is a no-brainer when it comes to picking up the ideal game if you’re looking for thrills and jump scares.Horror lurks around every corner and the intense darkness of this game will already make your imagination run wild. Maybe don’t play it alone?
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Dead Space (2023)
$59.99 $35.99 Save $-24
Why you should pick it up: Released in 2008 and then remade in 2023, for many years you only had to mention Dead Space and watch gamer’s face’s curl in terror.Classed as one of the most terrifying Sci-Fi survival horror titles, the game maintains the classic appeal of the original game as players explore a spaceship overrun by deadly monsters. Filled with tension, eeriness, and genuinely scary encounters, no Halloween would be complete without playing this one.
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The Last of Us Part 1
$47.99 $59.99 Save $12
Why you should pick it up: If life isn’t challenging enough for you and you’d like to make it that much harder this Halloween, dip into the emotional post-apocalyptic journey of Joel and Ellie. This incredibly moving story will have you not only jumping out of your skin due to the horrendous variant types of roaming infected but also crying like a baby. What a great combination!
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The Outlast Trials
$23.99 $29.99 Save $6
Why you should pick it up: Psychological survival games will undoubtedly set your heart racing on an already spooky Halloween night but coupled with intense violence and gore, The Outlast Trials might just push you over the edge!Competing in horrific trials to test methods of brainwashing and mind control while trying to escape monstrous enemies, this one would be great played with friends, or you can try and brave it solo.
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Sons of the Forest
$23.99 $29.99 Save $6
Why you should pick it up: Being stranded on an island inhabited by cannibals might not sound like a great time but on Halloween, you can bet your life it’s the perfect setting for your worst nightmares.Play with friends or on your own, Sons of the Forest allows you to build camps and weapons as you *try* and stay alive amid a range of mutated creatures hunting you down. Who said Halloween couldn’t be “fun”?
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Resident Evil Village
$15.99 $39.99 Save $24
Why you should pick it up: Since you’ll be looking for a “front-row seat to horror”, Resident Evil Village is a great pit stop for your spooky night. Gameplay is engaging, challenging and the puzzles are pretty cool too.Obviously, fear plays a big part especially when being chased around Castle inhabited by the 9 foot, 6 inch tall Mistress Dimitrescu and her three daughters — who you will very likely enjoy being chased, but also terrified, it’s a strange mix of emotions!
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Alan Wake
$3.74 $14.99 Save $11.25
Why you should pick it up: More than anything within the game, Alan Wake plays on your imagination and loves to create a fearsome tension that you can feel creep under your skin.Equipped with just a flashlight as you try to make sense of the somber and forbidding environment, a “darkness” takes over humans, animals, and objects in Bright Falls, and it’s up to you to unravel its disturbing mysteries. This psychological thriller is perfect if you’re looking for a chilling atmosphere on the run-up to the witching hour.
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Phasmophobia
$11.19 $13.99 Save $2.8
Why you should pick it up: when you think of Halloween, you think of ghosts, right? So what could be better than an entire game to play on the spooky season where you run around a haunted house trying to capture spirits with ghost-hunting equipment – sounds perfect!For the ultimate fright night, gather some of your friends (especially ones who scare easily) and have a fun-packed night filled with screams and gasps.
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Resident Evil 4 Remake
$39.59 $59.99 Save $20.4
Why you should pick it up: considered by many to be the best survival horror game ever, you may have already thought about this one to get stuck into on Halloween but now with -34% off, you have no excuse to not make your night even scarier.Not only will you be encountering a group of hostile and genuinely terrifying villagers in ta place worse than hell who are infected with mind-controlling parasites, you’ll need to hack and slash your way through these grotesque monstrous forms and rescue Ashley, the US president’s daughter. If that doesn’t scream ONE HELL OF A HALLOWEEN, I don’t know what does.
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Dead by Daylight
$7.99 $19.99 Save $12
Why you should pick it up: we all know the horror movies where young people are being chased by some weirdo with a knife or chainsaw (and usually someone falls), well this is it in video game form but a lot more fun!One player is the Killer and the other four are Survivors. The Survivors’ objective is to escape the trial by repairing generators scattered throughout the environment to open the gates. The Killer must impale all Survivors on hooks before they escape (I know who I’d want to play *evil laugh*) Forget going out to silly Halloween parties and spending money you don’t have and instead, get your friends online and play this fantastic survival horror. Even the ones you don’t like so you can hook them up and watch them scream!