We’re well into October country now and the spooky season is in full swing. And as the leaves begin to fall and a chill wind begins to blow, Sony is marking Halloween 2025 with a surprisingly robust slate of horror-themed games on its PS Plus subscription service. Here’s our guide to the best games to check out, with a range of options depending on what you’re in the mood for. Only one of them requires PS Premium and that’s the PS1 Resident Evil trilogy. The rest are available to download and play on the Extra tier. Here are our picks:
Genre: Survival horror adventure
Great for: People who love looking at detective boards and unraveling gnarly metanarrative threads.
Not good if: You want monster variety and hate musical interludes.
Genre: Third-person action-adventure
Great for: Players who like using ghost powers to unravel Witcher-esque monster-of-the-week stories.
Not good if: You don’t like hunting for clues or repetitive combat.
Genre: Third-person action-RPG
Great for: Anyone who likes gitting gud.
Not good if: Players who don’t like dying and want a story spoon-fed to them.
Genre: 1920s Lovecraftian RPG
Great for: Cosmic horror buffs who enjoy deciphering environmental clues and interrogating mysterious NPCs.
Not good if: You prefer lots of action or maintaining your sanity.
Genre: PS1-style survival horror
Great for: Anyone still pining for the grimy and blocky early 3D adventure games from the ’90s.
Not good if: You hate classic Resident Evil games or millennial humor.
Genre: Online hide-and-seek horror
Great for: Fans of horror movie icons and asymmetric multiplayer where you hunt friends or escape from monsters.
Not good if: You hate being chased or playing online.
Genre: Lovecraftian fishing sim
Great for: Lovers of minigames, inventory management, and haunted seas.
Not good if: You hate boats.
Genre: Third-person horror puzzle game
Great for: People grappling with psychedelic crises of faith, Russophiles, and suckers for dark humor.
Not good if: You get bored easily or aren’t prepare for a game to make you think.
Genre: Supernatural teen adventure
Great for: Fans of analog media, Stranger Things, Stephen King, and Choose Your Own Adventure books.
Not good if: You don’t like abrupt endings or constantly fiddling with random junk on a screen to progress the story.
Genre: 3D action platformer collectathon
Great for: Everyone.
Not good if: You hate fun games.
Genre: PS1-era third-person horror adventure
Great for: Players who love fixed camera angles, hoarding resources, and solving puzzles in a creaky old mansion.
Not good if: You lack taste and aren’t willing to adapt yourself to the tank controls of yesteryear.
Genre: Survival horror
Great for: Fans of unearthing buried trauma and creepy fog.
Not good if: You’re a stickler for artistic intent and how creativity is shaped by constraints.
Genre: Psychological survival horror
Great for: People who like Resident Evil but prefer all-purpose nightmare fuel to government-monitored zombie outbreaks.
Not good if: You have a problem with blood and seeing lots and lots of it.
Genre: Narrative-driven third-person shooter adventure.
Great for: Fans of great storytelling, linear level design, and watching people lose their humanity in a post-apocalyptic world.
Not good if: You’re afraid of fungal body horror, dislike jump scares, and hate crafting bandages and Molotov cocktails.
Genre: Cinematic interactive horror adventure
Great for: Fans of Rami Malek, great in-game performances generally, and novel narrative mechanics.
Not good if: You hate predictable third acts or clumsy camera angles.
Genre: Story-driven RPG with dialogue choices
Great for: Fans of dark cobblestone streets and industrial grime in WWI-era London. Heal the sick and suck their blood as you grapple with the morality of a fallen world.
Not good if: You don’t like turned-based combat or lots of talking.
Genre: Open-world base-building survival sim
Great for: Anyone who wants to live the dream of being a vampire, building a castle, and sucking the blood of the local populace, especially if you’ve got a buddy to play with.
Not good if: You hate grinding or top-down games make your eyes hurt
Genre: Third-person hound adventure
Great for: Fans of AA games and B-horror movies who just want to transform into a monster and beat the crap out of things as a man-wolf.
Not good if: You prefer your stories to make sense and aren’t prepared to parse a ton of weird in-game lore.
