Steam's big Halloween Sale returns for 2024, and it's live now

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Steam Scream 3D, with deep discounts on spooky, scary, and silly games, runs until November 4.

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It's not often that you see games as diverse as Mortal Kombat, Back 4 Blood, Cult of the Lamb, and Outer Wilds gathered together under one big thematic tent, but Steam's annual Halloween sale manages to get it done with deep discounts of hundreds of spooky, shocking, silly, and scary games.

With that in mind, here are a few selections from Steam Scream 3D, as the sale is officially known, that won't have you screaming and jumping out of your chair. (Probably.)

And if you do happen to be in the mood for some traditional frights, you can get the whole Frictional Collection—that's all the Amnesia games, SOMA, and the Penumbra Collectors Pack—for 82% off, The Chinese Room's Still Wakes the Deep is down to $23/£20/€20 (that's 33% off), Alien Isolation is $10/£9/€10 (75% off), and Subnautica, which isn't really a horror game until it very much is, is half price, making it a very fair $15/£12.49/£15.

May I also suggest, since this passed my way recently, the demo for Dead Letter Dept, a typing game in which you pursue a very dull, dead-end job while weird stuff keeps happening around you. I haven't played the demo enough to render any sort of meaningful judgment but there's a certain Stories Untold vibe to it straight off the top that I dig, and I'm eager to get back to it.

Steam's 2024 Halloween sale is live now and runs until November 4.

Andy Chalk
Andy Chalk
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Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.