Best Horror Games in the Steam Autumn Sale 2026 – GameWatcher

There are some particularly substantial savings this year. The Outlast Trials and Darkwood have both dropped by 90%, Resident Evil 2 and Dead Space are 80% off, while newer games including Resident Evil Requiem, Routine, Tormented Souls 2, and The Sinking City 2 have also received discounts.

Whether you want something new for October or simply need another excuse to expand your Steam library, we’ve rounded up some of the best horror games available in the Steam Autumn Sale below.
A bunch of deals immediately stand out during this year’s Steam Autumn Sale:
The Outlast Trials is particularly noteworthy because its 90% discount takes the co-op horror game from $39.99 to just $3.99. Darkwood matches that 90% reduction and costs only $1.99.
Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem sits at the opposite end of the pricing scale, but it’s also one of the newest major horror releases in the sale. Its 30% discount reduces the standard edition from $69.99 to $48.99.
Note that available offers are based on the US version of Steam; prices and game availability may differ depending on your location. Here are our top picks:

Released in February 2026, Resident Evil Requiem is naturally one of the more expensive horror games participating in the Autumn Sale, but its first-year discount is still worth highlighting. Capcom’s latest Resident Evil game is 30% off, reducing its usual $69.99 price to $48.99.
Its main campaign should take roughly 11 hours, although exploration and optional content can push that closer to 14 hours.

The Outlast Trials arguably has one of the most eye-catching horror discounts in the entire sale. Red Barrels’ multiplayer horror game normally costs $39.99, but a 90% discount brings it down to $3.99. Its Reagent Starter Pack Edition has similarly fallen to $4.99, while several individual DLC packs are also heavily discounted.
The Outlast Trials differs from most games here because its length depends heavily on how much of its replayable co-op content you tackle. The core experience takes roughly 13 hours, with substantially longer times for players working through additional Trials and challenges.

Resident Evil fans are eating well this sale, as the Resident Evil 2 remake is 80% off at $7.99, while its Deluxe Edition is $9.99. The Raccoon City Edition, which bundles Resident Evil 2 with Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil Resistance, is $11.99.
Its first campaign takes roughly nine hours, although seeing both protagonists’ scenarios and digging into the additional content takes considerably longer.
Resident Evil 4 Steam rating: Overwhelmingly Positive Time to beat: Around 16 hours
Resident Evil 4 is meanwhile 75% off, cutting the remake from $39.99 to $9.99. Its Gold Edition, which includes Separate Ways, is 70% off at $14.99.
A standard playthrough of the main campaign takes roughly 16 hours, making it one of the longer Resident Evil games featured in the sale. The ability to mod it also boosts total playtime.

EA and Motive’s Dead Space remake has another substantial discount, dropping 80% from $59.99 to $11.99. The Deluxe Edition has received the same percentage reduction and currently costs $13.99. Anyone interested in going further back can also grab the original 2008 Dead Space for $7.99, while Dead Space 3 is currently just $3.99.
The 2023 remake’s 12-chapter campaign takes roughly 12 hours to finish, increasing to around 16 hours if you tackle side content.

Amnesia: The Bunker is 80% off at $4.99, putting players inside a World War I bunker with limited resources and an AI-driven creature constantly roaming its corridors.
Despite its open-ended structure, The Bunker is relatively short. Its main story takes roughly five hours, although searching thoroughly and tackling optional content can stretch a playthrough closer to seven hours.
SOMA Steam rating: Overwhelmingly Positive Time to beat: Around 9 hours
SOMA has received the same 80% discount, dropping to $5.99. The underwater sci-fi horror game focuses heavily on narrative, exploration, and avoiding enemies rather than directly fighting them.
Its main story lasts around nine hours, making it a manageable option for anyone looking for something more story-focused during the sale.

The Forest is 79% off at $4.19, combining open-world exploration, crafting, base building, and co-op with increasingly unpleasant encounters involving cannibals and mutated creatures.
Players sticking largely to the main story objectives can expect around 16 hours before reaching the ending.
Sons Of The Forest Steam rating: Very Positive Time to beat: Around 19 hours
Sons Of The Forest has dropped 71% to $8.69 and expands on the original with a larger island, more advanced building systems, companions, and additional survival mechanics.
Its main story takes roughly 19 hours, although players who spend more time building and exploring can easily put considerably longer into it.

Alien: Isolation remains one of Steam’s most recognizable licensed horror games, and Sega has reduced it by 70% to $11.99 during the Autumn Sale. This makes it the perfect time to see what makes the game’s use of the titular xenomorph so effective, ahead of the upcoming sequel.
The game casts players as Amanda Ripley, who must navigate Sevastopol Station while being stalked by a Xenomorph that cannot simply be defeated with conventional weapons.
Alien: Isolation is also one of the longer games here, requiring around 18-and-a-half hours for its main story.

For something considerably cheaper, Darkwood has received a huge 90% discount, reducing its regular $19.99 price to $1.99.
Unlike most of the games on this list, Darkwood uses a top-down perspective, but its focus on limited visibility, exploration, scavenging, and surviving each night gives it no shortage of atmosphere.
It is also surprisingly substantial for its $1.99 sale price. A main-story run takes around 18 hours, while exploring more thoroughly pushes that comfortably beyond 25.

One of the games drawing attention from horror players during the sale is The Evil Within 2, which has been cut 80% from $39.99 to $7.99.
Tango Gameworks’ sequel follows Sebastian Castellanos back into STEM, blending third-person survival horror with larger areas that give players more freedom to explore, scavenge resources, and tackle encounters in different ways.
Its main story takes roughly 13 hours, while players who search for additional weapons, upgrades, and collectibles can expect a longer run.

Lunar Software’s Routine is one of the newer horror games featured, with its 35% discount bringing the price down from $24.99 to $16.24.
Set on an abandoned lunar base built around a retro-futuristic interpretation of the 1980s, Routine blends exploration, environmental storytelling, puzzles, and survival horror without relying heavily on waypoint markers to guide players.
Its compact campaign takes around six hours to complete.

Fans of older Resident Evil and Silent Hill games may also want to look at Tormented Souls 2, which is 30% off at $20.99. Its Digital Deluxe Edition has fallen to $23.44.
The sequel features deliberately old-school survival horror elements including environmental puzzles, limited resources, exploration, inventory management, and an optional classic tank-control scheme.
A main-story playthrough takes around 13 hours, with additional exploration extending that to roughly 15-and-a-half hours.

One of the newest games on our list is The Sinking City 2, which has received a 20% discount, bringing the standard edition from $49.99 to $39.99. The Deluxe and Premium editions have received the same reduction.
Frogwares’ sequel moves much further into traditional survival horror than its predecessor while retaining a Lovecraftian setting, exploration, puzzles, and (now-optional) investigation elements.
Its main story takes around nine hours, although players who spend more time exploring optional areas can expect to push past that.
The Steam Autumn Sale ends on October 8, 2026, at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.
That makes the timing especially convenient for horror fans looking to stock up ahead of Halloween. With games ranging from $1.99 for Darkwood and $3.99 for The Outlast Trials to much newer releases such as Resident Evil Requiem and The Sinking City 2, there’s a broad range of options depending on how much you want to spend.
Steam’s horror-focused promotions also tend to make October a particularly busy month for the genre, so anyone who doesn’t find what they’re looking for in the Autumn Sale may want to keep an eye on Steam’s remaining seasonal events.

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