Unleash Halloween 2025: New VR Games & Updates
▼ Summary
– This article provides a comprehensive list of new and updated VR games with Halloween-themed content, including horror games, seasonal updates, and demos.
– Many games are receiving limited-time Halloween events, such as Among Us 3D’s Afterlife event and Phasmophobia’s Crimson Eye event, offering new gameplay and cosmetics.
– Several titles are launching major updates, like Ancient Dungeon’s new arena mode and GORN 2’s Fight of the Living Dead update with new bosses and weapons.
– The list includes a variety of genres beyond horror, such as fitness with FitXR, puzzles with Puzzling Places, and social games like Oktoberfest, all adding seasonal features.
– Multiple platforms are covered, with games available or coming to Quest, Steam, PS VR2, and PC VR, alongside mentions of sales on major storefronts like Meta and PlayStation.
With Halloween 2025 fast approaching, the virtual reality landscape is brimming with spooky new games and substantial seasonal updates designed to immerse players in the holiday spirit. Developers are rolling out limited-time events, fresh content, and themed experiences across major platforms like Meta Quest, Steam, and PlayStation VR2. This guide highlights the most exciting horror releases, action titles with a creepy twist, and lighter seasonal festivities for those who prefer their scares tempered with fun.
The selection focuses primarily on horror games launched in recent weeks, alongside horror-adjacent action adventures and significant Halloween-themed patches. While not the main emphasis, a few returning annual events are noted where relevant. Several demos are also included for trying before buying. For gamers not interested in Halloween content, plenty of other new VR releases are available this October.
This roundup does not concentrate on platform-wide discounts, though it’s worth noting the Meta Horizon Store is running a fall sale. The ‘Planet of the Discounts’ event also features numerous PlayStation VR2 price cuts. A Steam sale is anticipated soon, while Pico’s participation remains uncertain. Further updates will be provided as new information arrives.
For anyone planning to dive into their headset this season, here is a curated list of fitting VR games to explore.
Among Us 3D continues its tradition of limited-time Halloween events with the new “Afterlife” mode. Available on all platforms until November 13, this update allows deceased players to return as a Wraith or Guardian Angel. New cosmetic items are also part of the package.
The voxel-style roguelike Ancient Dungeon is scheduled for a seasonal update on October 28. Developers confirmed this includes a completely new arena mode, providing fresh ways to tackle waves of enemies with a roguelite framework. Additional features encompass new cosmetics, LIV support, and a Halloween-themed home base makeover.
Animal Company, a popular free-to-play horror title on Quest, is joining the festivities. Its initial Halloween update added a graveyard area and seasonal quests, which were later expanded with the recent “Circus Update.”
Fun Train’s BlackGate is a 4v1 asymmetric multiplayer horror game currently in early access. Four engineers work to repair a space station while a fifth player controls a evolving alien creature hunting them.
Originally released for older headsets in 2023, Broken Spectre: Director’s Cut offers a cosmic horror experience where you search for a missing father. This new edition features enhanced visuals and other improvements.
By Grit Alone is an intense sci-fi action horror anthology. Players explore derelict starships in a dangerous region of space, fighting off vicious aliens. After its Quest debut last year, it’s coming to Steam this month with a free PC VR demo available now.
Cactus Jam, a free sandbox game, pits cacti against aliens. A new Halloween update introduces a horror level, a Witch Doctor character, town decorations, and seasonal cosmetics.
The puzzle game Connectome is receiving a Halloween update on October 27. Developers confirmed this adds new rooms featuring skulls, tunnels, giant pumpkins, and witch hats, all accompanied by a custom music track.
The VR god simulator Deisim will launch its Halloween update on October 30. To celebrate the first anniversary of Underworld Overseer, this crossover event adds monsters from that title as summonable creatures.
The free social sandbox DigiGods recently received a “Pet Update” which also introduced limited-time Halloween items, free seasonal decorations for DigiCity and the hub area.
The hand-tracking co-op game Dimensional Double Shift has begun its first Halloween festival. This adds seasonal decorations, unlockable ghostly cosmetics, and in-game radio ghost stories.
Dread Meridian, an upcoming survival horror title, is coming to both Quest and PC VR. Although the latest Steam Next Fest has concluded, the demo released for the event remains available for download.
The zombie survival shooter Drop Dead: The Cabin is launching on Steam October 29 with an optional flatscreen mode. It will include four-player co-op, with cross-platform multiplayer in development.
The fitness platform FitXR has begun Season 4 Part 1, titled “Imagine.” This introduces a spooky environment permanently unlockable by completing five workout challenges, alongside themed gloves, an exclusive profile frame, and two Halloween-themed team members.
Ghosts of Tabor has combined its Halloween celebrations with Terminator: Dark Fate DLC, adding a new skin pack inspired by the film series. Seasonal decorations are now active in the Matka Graveyard and player bunkers on Quest and Steam, with a PS VR2 DLC release planned.
Gorilla Tag has brought back its Ghost Reactor map with a new Halloween update, adding chaos seeds and other seasonal elements. Limited-time Halloween cosmetics and spooky environments are now live.
The slapstick arena fighter GORN 2 has a free Halloween update called ‘Fight of the Living Dead.’ This introduces a new boss that can resurrect defeated fighters, plus themed weapons like a scythe, resurrection staff, and a giant bone hammer. The update is currently on Steam and Quest, with a PS VR2 version planned.
The sandbox multiplayer parkour game GRAB continues receiving regular updates. Its latest “Haunted” patch added themed cosmetics and new decorations alongside physics objects.
Hauntify, notable for its use of continuous scene meshing on Quest 3, is a fitting inclusion. In this early access game, players must survive and expel evil spirits haunting their living space. Developers recently outlined various setup options for Halloween.
The action horror game Memoreum launched on Quest earlier this month. Set in 2311, you play as Dr. Otto Hudson discovering your ship’s crew has succumbed to the Ichor Infection. Steam and PS VR2 versions are forthcoming.
The officially licensed free social game Oktoberfest has left early access and added a “Spooky Castle” haunted house experience supporting eight players, a Crazy Maze with three challenges, limited-time outfits, and new moderation features.
The mixed reality educational drawing app Pencil! launched its first free update with six new lessons focused on drawing mythical creatures like Bigfoot, unicorns, and the Loch Ness Monster.
The co-op ghost hunting simulator Phasmophobia is running its annual Crimson Eye event until month’s end. This offers new rewards, and a rotating selection of maps are affected by a Blood Moon weather condition that increases difficulty but boosts all rewards by 10%.
Pinball FX VR continues adding tables via DLC, with its latest update featuring two licensed Elvira tables just in time for Halloween.
The long-supported puzzle game Puzzling Places has a new content update titled ‘Undead Afterparty,’ a follow-up to the previous Dance of the Damned puzzle. This free addition features a haunted house with zombies and is available to claim until December 16, 2025.
The co-op bootlegging game Prison Boss Prohibition has a new seasonally appropriate update that revamps your hideout, adds Halloween customizations, spooky clients, and new cosmetics. It also removes the barrier that previously separated players during co-op sessions.
Following a major Quest revamp earlier this year, the physics-based co-op game Requisition VR is getting a new Steam release focused on an extraction-based PvPvE adventure.
Scared by Squares is a creepy exploration game where you play a prisoner sent into a digital prison of perfect squares called the Cube. The Quest early access version is available now with a separate demo, while news on the PC VR version is pending.
Smash Drums has a Halloween event live until November 30, currently exclusive to Quest. This adds new drumsticks, a skull avatar with a moving jaw, and a new song called ‘Dawg,’ all unlockable by achieving specific scores.
Synth Riders is celebrating Halloween with a free new song, The Evil Dab by Voicians. The base game is also discounted.
The mixed reality tabletop game Table Troopers has a Halloween update adding a new graveyard map, a new trooper team, four new weapons, and a seasonal rule set. Developers also confirmed matchmaking and campaign improvements.
The co-op action adventure Titan Isles has a limited-time Hollowlight Festival event. This adds a pumpkin collection race, a time trial challenge for a unique trophy, and a disco area in the hub.
Trenches VR is a psychological horror game set in World War 1 with supernatural elements. The Quest and Steam versions feature microphone detection where enemies can hear your breathing, and dying sends you back to the start. A PS VR2 version is delayed briefly.
Trombone Champ: Unflattened recently received two Halloween updates simultaneously, one free and one paid DLC. The free update added new trombone cosmetics, two new tracks, and a Halloween stage. The $2.99 DLC included an additional song and more cosmetics.
Twilight Zone VR, based on the classic series, received a major visual update for Quest 3, enhancing textures for enemies, weapons, tools, and environments across all three stories.
The sci-fi racing game V-Racer Hoverbike is celebrating with “Hoverween,” giving the entire game a Halloween makeover. This includes spooky lobbies with new visuals and music, altered track lighting, and jack-o’-lantern helmets.
Walkabout Mini Golf recently launched its 36th DLC course, Forgotten Fairyland, available on all supported VR platforms and iOS. This course explores the decaying remains of an amusement park.
Waltz of the Wizard is receiving a major content update alongside its iOS launch on October 27. Skully’s Fantastic Fails adds a rocket launch section for experiments, new reactions, more voice lines, and additional events in the Tower.
The free VR game Yeeps: Hide and Seek has rebranded for Halloween as Yeeps: Horror. Traveling through red portals leads to official horror levels with unique threats; eight levels are available now with two more arriving October 30.
This roundup aims to provide a comprehensive look at the most notable Halloween VR offerings with substantial updates. For those seeking even more options, additional titles are worth exploring. To suggest a VR or MR game for future coverage, please reach out via our contact page or email.
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