October is here and that mean Halloween season is finally upon us. For many, spooky season is one of the best times of year where you can indulge in horror movies and games without anyone questioning you. And while there have been some great games released over the years, 2025 has proven to be a strong year for horror fanatics.
Here are some of the new games games to play this Halloween season in 2025. Let us know if there’s a horror game you think people should play that might have been missed down in the comments below. And don’t forget to join the official Insider Gaming Discord server.
Top New Horror Games Of 2025
Silent Hill f
Description: Hinako’s hometown is engulfed in fog, driving her to fight grotesque monsters and solve eerie puzzles. Uncover the disturbing beauty hidden in terror.
Our Take: Silent Hill f is a game that proves the Silent Hill franchise is as strong as ever. Though, there’s nothing more unnerving than what happens to Hinako midway through the game. I won’t go any further than that.
Cronos: The New Dawn
Description: A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.
From Our Review: What Cronos does, it does very well, and taking the recency bias of the Silent Hill 2 Remake out of the equation, I can’t recall a new survival-horror game I’ve enjoyed this much and found this immersive in a while. Once it gets going, Cronos batters you with a buffet of scares, stress, and superb combat.
Pigface
Description: You wake up with an explosive headache in a pool of your own blood. You’re Exit, a terrible woman whose awful past has finally caught up to her. Fulfill contracts for the people who drilled into your skull — guns-blazing, slow and tactical — it doesn’t matter. They know you’ll do whatever it takes.
Our Take: We got hands on with Pigface during Summer Game Fest, and in just that short amount of time, we found a game that keeps your heart racing around every corner. It’s not going to break the mold for horror games, but for the price of $9.99, it’s hard to not justify the fun it offers.
Dead Take
Description: Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
From Our Review: The acting in this game is jaw-dropping and seen from a perspective we very rarely get in this medium. Dead Take made me feel things that AAA games often fail to, and I was kept guessing about the story at all times.
No, I’m not a Human
Description: WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
Our Take: Think the great Papers, Please and imagine it for monsters. The stress of knowing that a simple mistake can ruin everything and see innocent people killed is enough to have you second guessing every decision you make. The constant surveillance of making sure the people you let into the building aren’t visitors has you looking for any clue possible.
Honorable Mentions
Luto
Description: Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
The Night Shift
Description: Trapped in a department store during a storm, survive with only a flashlight while completing tasks and evading a malevolent presence that only moves when you’re not looking. Uncover secrets and face evolving horrors in this immersive first-person horror game.
KARMA: The Dark World
Description: KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
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