About This Game

HALLOWEEN 2026 - TRICK OR TREAT

It's Halloween night on Maple Court. The parents are out until midnight, the porch light is on, there's a full bowl of candy by the door, and you're the babysitter. It should be an easy night.

Then someone knocks.

OPEN THE DOOR

Every visitor plays out right there in the doorway as a full-motion video. A little witch with an orange pail. A boy in a homemade cardboard robot costume. A bumblebee who's thrilled about the chocolate. And a man in a suit whose smile is painted on.

When the door opens you make one choice: give them candy, or tell them you're all out. Most of them are just kids. Some of them aren't, and giving candy to the wrong one is the last thing you'll do. Turning a real kid away isn't free either: they'll egg the house, and you'll be out on the porch with a sponge before anyone else will knock.

Nobody leaves. Ignore the doorbell and it rings again, then knocking, then pounding, louder and faster, until you answer.

A HOUSE FULL OF THINGS TO DO

The night is about twenty to thirty minutes long, and the house is yours between knocks:

- Work on jigsaw puzzles at the dining table, eight of them, each with a handwritten note taped to the back.

- Frame a finished puzzle and hang it on the wall. Walk up to it later to read its note again.

- Flip through the TV channels from the couch.

- Check her phone: photos, videos and a text thread with her boyfriend. Text him and he might come over.

- Put a CD on in the living room.

- Find the extra candy hidden around the house.

- Climb up to the attic.

Every note points at something in the house. Look in the bathroom mirror. Open and close the shower curtain six times. Be wary of the woman in the well on the TV. Don't leave the door open. You don't have to do any of it. But you will.

THE NIGHT GETS STRANGER

Some visitors don't leave when the door shuts. One of them sits down in the porch rocker and waits. Another one shrinks you down to the size of a pumpkin seed and lets the whole pumpkin patch in through the front door, where you fight back with a carving knife and a pumpkin scooper until the clock runs out. One turns you into a black cat with the neighbor's dog right behind you. And the potted plant by the window grows teeth.

Out in the yard, a faceless man stands under the trees and backs away whenever you get close. Don't stare at him for too long.

MADE FOR HALLOWEEN NIGHT

Halloween 2026 is a short, straight-faced first-person horror game in the spirit of slow-burn horror films: a warm, ordinary suburban house, a quiet street full of trick-or-treaters, and something wrong underneath it. No combat system to grind, no inventory to manage. Just the door, the candy bowl, and your judgment.

- First-person exploration of a fully furnished house, porch and front yard

- A new visitor at every knock, each with their own trick-or-treat video and outcome

- Give candy or turn them away: kids, costumes and things that only look like kids

- Jump scares and slow dread, from the bathroom mirror to the attic

- Special nights: the pumpkin patch invasion, the cat-and-dog chase, the window plant

- Eight jigsaw puzzles with notes that hint at what's hiding in the house

- Framed puzzles you can hang and revisit

- Checkpoints each hour of the night, so a death sends you back to the start of the hour, not the start of the night

- Settings for mouse sensitivity, invert look, music and effects volume, subtitles, graphics quality and display mode, plus rebindable controls

CONTROLS

Keyboard and mouse. WASD to move, the mouse to look, E or left click to use, Q to sit or climb, Space to jump, Shift to run, Tab for the phone, and number keys 1-4 to pick candy at the door. Every key can be rebound in Settings.

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Content note: Halloween 2026 contains horror imagery, jump scares, blood and frightening creatures. It's meant for players who enjoy being scared.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Halloween 2026 contains AI-generated content that was created during development. Nothing is generated while you play. The visitors at the door are AI-generated videos, and their voices and some other voices were made with AI voice tools. All of the music is AI-generated. AI image tools were used for the visitor artwork, the jigsaw puzzle pictures, the photos on the phone and other in-game images, and many of the 3D models were generated from reference images with AI, then cleaned up and assembled by hand. Some of the in-game text was written with AI help, and the game's code was written with the help of AI coding assistants. The house, the gameplay, the scares and how everything fits together were designed by the developer. The store page art, screenshots and trailer use the game's own footage and AI-generated key art.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Halloween 2026 is a horror game full of scary monsters, frightening and disturbing images, jump scares and some blood. Monsters disguised as trick-or-treaters can attack and kill the player ch
aracter. The death itself happens off-screen (the screen cuts to black). A visitor at the door is grabbed and dragged away by a creature. In one sequence the player, shrunk to the size of a pu
mpkin seed, fights off living pumpkins and seeds with a carving knife, and pulp and red juice splatter across the screen. In another, the player is turned into a cat and chased and bitten by a
dog. Some visitors are children in Halloween costumes; no children are harmed. There is no sexual content, no drug or alcohol use and no self-harm.