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What to play this Halloween, plus last-minute costume ideas and spooky movie recommendations
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The ghouls and goblins are out, but you've heard enough about the US midterm elections already. Let's talk about something fun: Gruesome horror!
Did you know? It's perfectly acceptable to buy Halloween candy and eat it all yourself while drowning out the plaintive knocking of trick-or-treaters with surround sound headphones. See below for a selection of horror game deals and lesser-known staff picks, plus a handful of scary movies we think you should put on your to-watch list.
If you're making the effort to actually go out on Halloween, you'll also find a selection of last-minute costume ideas that'll have people saying "did you come up with this on your own?" in a way that suggests they'll lose respect for you if you say yes.
A selection of deals from this week's Steam Scream Sale and beyond.
A selection of lesser-known horror games to check out this Halloween.
(Steam) Gruesome, gnarly, first-person dungeon crawling amid the worst castle in all of Feudal Japan—come for the rancid vibes, stay for the shockingly high melee combat skill ceiling. Our 2025 horror game of the year has only improved since I fell in love with it, adding new weapons and an NG+ mode. —Ted Litchfield
(Steam) An unsettling and underplayed indie horror cult classic with shades of Silent Hill: The Room and David Lynch. This 2022 edition adds new features to the 2012 original; I only played and reviewed the original, but the Super version doesn't look like anything but an improvement. —Tyler Wilde
(Steam) Tense co-op Dead Space where every gun thunders like a cannon and attracts as much attention from the freaks roaming an oppressive space prison. By far the most nerve-racking multiplayer FPS of this type I've played—a nice change if you've played so much Left 4 Dead or Darktide that you can chatter your way through them without actually fearing for your life. —Wes Fenlon