The 10 Best Halloween Games to Play on Your Phone in 2026
Ten Halloween games for iPhone and Android, sorted from cute to properly scary, with the scare level and the price stated for each. Our own Monster Country Idle Tycoon is on the list, marked as ours.
The best Halloween games to play on your phone range from goofy to genuinely frightening. Plants vs. Zombies 2 is the easy, free pick for anyone. Five Nights at Freddy’s is the one that will make you jump. Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit is the gentle one, and our own Monster Country Idle Tycoon is a haunted town where the monsters run the shops.
This list covers ten for iPhone and Android in 2026, with the scare level and the price stated for each. One is ours: marked, ranked on the same criteria, weak spot stated like everyone else’s.
Identity V· Gothic hide-and-seek, one hunter against four survivors. Scare level: medium.
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#1
Plants vs. Zombies 2
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Electronic Arts / PopCap · Free, ads and optional in-app purchases
Goofy zombies across time. Scare level: none.
EA’s lawn-defence sequel has you “meet, greet, and defeat legions of hilarious zombies from the dawn of time, to the end of days,” with an army of plants. It is the easiest Halloween game on this list to hand to anyone, it is free, and Google Play lists more than 100 million downloads.
Best for
A Halloween mood with no scares at all, for anyone in the house.
Weak spot
Free with ads and in-app purchases, and some purchases include random items.
Verdict: The spooky game almost everyone can play.
Available on iOS and Android.
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#2
Five Nights at Freddy's
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Scott Cawthon / Clickteam · Paid, one-time purchase
A night shift at a haunted pizza place. Scare level: high.
“Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza,” where “the robots’ behavior has become somewhat unpredictable at night.” The question is whether you can survive five nights. The App Store lists frequent and intense horror and fear themes. It is a one-time purchase, and the sequels are on both stores too.
Best for
Players who want a real fright in short sessions.
Weak spot
Rated Teen and 12+ for intense horror, so it is not for a mixed-age group.
Verdict: The best-known phone horror game on this list.
Available on iOS, Android, PC and console.
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#3
Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit
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Spry Fox / Netflix · Included with a Netflix subscription
Help ghost bears on a haunted island. Scare level: none.
Through Netflix Games, you camp on a haunted island and help cute, ghostly bears find peace. Its listing says it plainly: “Something spooky is afoot,” but the atmosphere is haunting “in a cozy, adorable way.” The island opens up a little each real day.
Best for
Players who want October’s mood and nothing that makes them jump.
Weak spot
Needs a Netflix membership.
Verdict: The cozy Halloween pick. Our spooky cozy games list has more like it.
Available on iOS and Android.
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#4
Little Nightmares
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Tarsier / Playdigious · Paid, one-time purchase
Escape a vessel full of hungry monsters. Scare level: medium to high.
The console horror adventure on phones: help Six escape The Maw, “a vast, mysterious vessel inhabited by corrupted souls looking for their next meal.” The listing calls it “a dark whimsical tale that will confront you with your childhood fears.” It is a one-time purchase.
Best for
Players who want a full, creepy story they can finish over a few evenings.
Weak spot
A paid game, and rated Teen for violence and blood.
Verdict: The most atmospheric game on this list.
Available on iOS, Android, PC and console.
#5
Monster Country Idle Tycoon
Our gameiOSAndroidMac
Kano Games · Free, optional in-app purchases
Our game: a haunted town where the monsters run the shops. Scare level: none.
Our game. Werewolves, witches and a gorgon run the businesses of a spooky-cute town, and a comic-strip story follows them episode by episode. You buy customers for each shop, upgrade your characters, and from the second episode you can automate a business so it keeps earning while the app is closed. It is spooky all year rather than for one season, and it is free on iOS and Android.
Best for
Idle players who want spooky characters and a story, with progress that waits for them.
Weak spot
It is an idle business game, not an action or horror game: there is nothing to fight, and customers and cash reset at the end of each episode.
Verdict: The Halloween pick for idle game players.
The fourth game in Fireproof’s puzzle series starts with “the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse.” You “explore unsettling locations, follow obscure clues and manipulate bizarre contraptions.” It is creepy rather than frightening, and Google Play rates it Everyone. A one-time purchase with nothing sold inside.
Best for
Puzzle fans who want an eerie mood without horror.
Weak spot
A puzzle you finish rather than a game that keeps going, and the App Store version has not been updated since 2018.
Verdict: The puzzle pick on this list.
Available on iOS, Android and PC.
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#7
Vampire Survivors
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poncle · Free, ads and optional in-app purchases
Mow down night creatures until dawn. Scare level: none.
Its listing calls it “a gothic horror casual game”: you “mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn!” The monsters are the theme, not the scare, and a run fits a coffee break. Free, with ads and in-app purchases.
Best for
Players who want a spooky theme with fast, simple action.
Weak spot
Rated Teen on Google Play for blood and violence, even though nothing in it is frightening.
Verdict: The action pick with a gothic coat of paint.
Available on iOS, Android, PC and console.
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#8
DREDGE
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Black Salt Games · Paid unlock (first area free on the App Store)
A fishing trip with something wrong in the fog. Scare level: medium.
A single-player fishing adventure with “a sinister undercurrent.” You fish the islands by day, and “the biggest threats of all lurk within the fog that cloaks the night-time seas.” It builds unease rather than jump scares. The first area is free on the App Store; the full game is a paid unlock, and on Google Play it is a paid download or part of Play Pass.
Best for
Players who want slow-building dread.
Weak spot
The full game is a paid unlock on both stores.
Verdict: The eerie pick on this list.
Available on iOS, Android, PC and console.
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#9
Cube Escape Collection
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Rusty Lake · Free, ads and optional in-app purchases
Nine short, strange puzzle rooms. Scare level: low to medium.
Rusty Lake’s anthology follows “a homicide detective, as he investigates the death of a woman and finds himself drawn into the mysterious world of Rusty Lake,” across nine chapters. The mood is unsettling and surreal. Free, with ads and in-app purchases.
Best for
Players who like odd, creepy puzzles in small pieces.
Weak spot
Rated Teen for violence and blood, and the story is cryptic on purpose.
Verdict: The strange pick, and free.
Available on iOS, Android and PC.
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#10
Identity V
iOSAndroidPC
NetEase Games · Free, optional in-app purchases
Gothic hide-and-seek, one hunter against four survivors. Scare level: medium.
NetEase calls it “the first asymmetrical horror mobile game”: four survivors decode cipher machines and escape while one player hunts them, all in “a gothic art style” with “mysterious storylines.” It is the only multiplayer game on this list. Free, with in-app purchases.
Best for
Players who want a spooky game to play against other people.
Weak spot
Its Google Play reviews are mixed, and some purchases include random items.
For no scares at all, Plants vs. Zombies 2 or Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit. For a real fright, Five Nights at Freddy’s. For a creepy story you can finish, Little Nightmares. For puzzles, The Room: Old Sins.
If you want Halloween characters without the fear, and a game that keeps going between visits, ours is built for that: Monster Country Idle Tycoon is free on iOS and Android, and the monster town game page shows how the town and its shops work.
No scares: Plants vs. Zombies 2, Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit, Monster Country Idle Tycoon, Vampire Survivors.
Creepy, not frightening: The Room: Old Sins, Cube Escape Collection.
Tense: DREDGE, Identity V.
Properly scary: Little Nightmares, Five Nights at Freddy’s.
For more games with the Halloween mood and none of the fear, see our spooky cozy games. If the monsters are the draw, the best monster games list covers collecting, battling and building.
How this list was put together
A Halloween game has to feel like October: ghosts, zombies, haunted houses, monsters. We judged each entry on four things: how strong the Halloween mood is, how well it plays on a phone, what it costs to play all of it, and how scary it is, which we state for every game so you can pick your level. The list runs from cute to properly frightening on purpose, because “Halloween game” means very different things to different people.
This is a phone list. Every game here is on iPhone and Android today. Facts about other studios’ games come from their current App Store and Google Play listings, including the age ratings and fear descriptors each store shows.
Kano makes Monster Country Idle Tycoon (this site). It is marked “Our game”, ranked where the criteria put it, with its weak spot stated like everyone else’s.
How these were compared: we reviewed official store listings, developer information, player reviews and genre conventions, and applied the same criteria to every game. We have not independently play-tested every title here.
FAQ
Questions people ask about Halloween games
What are the best Halloween games to play on a phone?
Plants vs. Zombies 2 is the best free pick for everyone, Five Nights at Freddy’s is the best-known horror game, Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit is the cozy one, and Little Nightmares is the best creepy story. Our Monster Country Idle Tycoon is the pick if you want a haunted town and an idle game.
What are good Halloween games that are not scary?
Plants vs. Zombies 2, Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit, Vampire Survivors and Monster Country Idle Tycoon all have a Halloween theme with no scares. The Room: Old Sins is creepy but rated Everyone on Google Play.
Which Halloween phone games are free?
Plants vs. Zombies 2, Vampire Survivors, Cube Escape Collection, Identity V and Monster Country Idle Tycoon are free to download with optional in-app purchases. Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit needs a Netflix membership. Five Nights at Freddy’s, Little Nightmares and The Room: Old Sins are one-time purchases, and DREDGE is a paid unlock.
What is the scariest game on this list?
Five Nights at Freddy’s, which the App Store lists for frequent and intense horror and fear themes, followed by Little Nightmares. Both are rated Teen on Google Play.
Is Monster Country Idle Tycoon a Halloween game?
It is spooky all year rather than a seasonal Halloween game. The town is haunted, the cast is werewolves, witches and a gorgon, and the tone is warm rather than frightening. You run the monsters’ shops and follow the story in comic strips. Free on iOS and Android.
