Halloween is the one time of year when voluntarily sitting in a dark room while something screams at you from the shadows is considered a perfectly reasonable evening. And thankfully, 2026 has plenty of games willing to make you regret turning off the lights.
Whether you want zombies, psychological torment, Lovecraftian nightmares, or whatever horrible thing is hiding around the next corner, these five games are perfect excuses to spend Halloween questioning your life choices.
1. Resident Evil Requiem
What better way to celebrate Halloween than returning to a franchise that has spent decades teaching us that abandoned mansions, laboratories, villages and basically every other building are terrible places to visit?
Resident Evil Requiem brings the series back for another dose of survival horror, creepy environments and monsters that apparently have nothing better to do than chase you around. Expect the usual combination of limited resources, horrifying creatures and the constant realization that the thing you just heard probably wasn’t your imagination.
It’s also the perfect Halloween game because Resident Evil understands an important rule of horror: sometimes the scariest thing in the room isn’t the monster. It’s your inventory.
Do you have enough ammunition? Is that herb worth carrying? Should you open that suspicious door?
Probably not.
2. Silent Hill: Townfall
There are two kinds of people in the world: people who see a strange fog-covered town and think, “Let’s investigate,” and people who survive horror games.
Silent Hill: Townfall continues the franchise’s proud tradition of making ordinary environments feel profoundly wrong. The Silent Hill series has never needed armies of monsters to create tension. Give it an empty street, some unsettling noises and a suspicious amount of fog, and you’re already uncomfortable.
That’s what makes it such a good Halloween experience. You’re not just fighting monsters; you’re wandering around wondering whether the game is trying to scare you or psychologically ruin you.
So turn off the lights, put on your headphones and prepare to spend several hours wishing your character had simply stayed home.
3. Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival
Halloween and Hellraiser were basically destined to meet. One involves dressing up and voluntarily frightening yourself. The other involves chains, mutilation and people discovering that opening mysterious puzzle boxes is perhaps not a great hobby.
Hellraiser: Revival brings Clive Barker’s famously nasty universe into gaming, meaning players can once again experience the important life lesson that some doors should remain firmly closed.
The Cenobites are already terrifying enough without having to worry about what happens when you’re the one controlling the unfortunate human caught in their nightmare.
This is horror for people who looked at traditional ghosts and zombies and thought, “Could we make this considerably more uncomfortable?”
Yes, we can.
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