The spooky season is well and truly here, and it’s the perfect time to dive into some eerie games. Now horror games aren’t for everyone, but that doesn’t mean you need to miss out on the fun.
In this article we’ll be going through 13 spooky, not scary, games that are perfect for Halloween.
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Love, Ghostie
Spend your afterlife setting people up for their happily ever after’s in the matchmaking sim Love, Ghostie.
You’ll play as an adorable ghost, who finds themselves responsible for the residents of a manor. It’ll be your job to keep your residents happy, and what better way to do that, then setting them up on dates?
Discover each residents preferences, give them gifts that you pretend are from other residents, and sit back and watch your matchmaking come to life in the date cinema. This is a great wholesome choice with a sprinkle of spook, perfect for the cozy gamer.
Vampire Therapist
Live out your true calling, guiding vampires through centuries of problems in Vampire Therapist.
This visual novel game uses real cognitive behavioural therapy concepts woven into a fangtastic story, where you team up with a 3000 year old vampire in a German nightclub to guide your fellow vampires through their immortal existence.
With a decent dose of humour, and an all-star fully voice acted cast, this is a great spooky vampire choice.
REKA
Step into the shoes of an apprentice witch in the exploration game REKA.
This one draws on some of the more traditional roots of witchcraft, and you’ll explore a stunning Autumnal woodlands, learning and practicing witchcraft, and maybe helping some of the villagers along the way.
You’ll build your own iconic chicken-legged home to help you travel, and you can build this up with a range of different options, really embracing your inner witch. This is a great witchy choice for the exploration lover.
Potion Tycoon
Build a potion shop from the ground up in the spooky tycoon game Potion Tycoon.
You’ll create and design your very own potions, growing your own ingredients to manufacture them in house, and selling them to the kingdom’s people. Work your way up to becoming the best potion shop in the land by experimenting with different combinations of ingredients and cooking methods, and make sure you’re adequately staffed to meet demand.
This one is a great spooky tycoon game for the management lover.
Underground Blossom
If you’re looking for an eerie adventure game, with a couple of jump scares, and maybe a little bit of gore, then look no further than Underground Blossom.
This puzzle adventure game sees you journey from station to station as you follow the important events in Laura Vanderboom’s life, and you’ll need to work your way through a range of different puzzles to find the ticket to continue to the next station.
Along the journey you’ll be immersed in a creepy story, with a couple of tense moments, plenty of twists and turns, and an ending that is worth holding out for. This is a great eerie pick for puzzle lovers.
Garden Witch Life
Step into the shoes of a witch who find’s themselves with no job and an ancient tree house to restore in Garden Witch Life.
This life sim game incorporates some fan faves like farming, cooking, and quest based tasks from the locals. The cooking side sees you complete different mini games, choosing how to prepare each ingredient, before turning them into delicious meals to sell, and you can decorate to your hearts content, transforming your run down treehouse into something magical.
This is a great cozy life sim choice full of witchy goodness.
Graveyard Keeper
Build and manage a medieval graveyard in the creepy management sim Graveyard Keeper.
This game combines capitalism with cemetery management, forcing you to make some questionable choices as you do whatever it takes to build a thriving business.
With a side of dark humour, some interesting quests to complete, crafting, and dungeons to explore, this is a great spooky management choice.
Tidy Cauldron
Tidy up after three messy witches in the puzzle arranging game Tidy Cauldron.
This cozy puzzle game mixes magic and organisation requiring you to arrange enchanted ingredients of all shapes and sizes into different grids.
With 100 handcrafted levels that get progressively harder as you go, an enchanting pixel art style, and three different themed chapters to explore, this is a great witchy themed puzzler for the cozy gamer.
Spiritfarer
Play as a ferrymaster to the deceased, caring for your spirit friends before releasing them into the afterlife in Spiritfarer.
This cozy management game sees you build a boat to explore the world, where you’ll pick up spirit friends who need a little extra care on the last leg of their journey. You’ll need to build relationships with each of the characters, build them homes, gather resources to craft upgrades or give gifts, as you care for each of them.
This is a heartfelt journey full of emotional stories, and is a great management pick.
Witchy Life Story
In this game you’ll play as a witch in training, tasked with helping a cozy village prepare for their harvest festival. Witchy Life Story is a cozy visual novel style game, where you’ll have two weeks to save the harvest festival and help the villagers of Flora.
You’ll need to tend to your garden, gathering plants to use in magical recipes and rituals, brew potions, craft spells, perform tarot readings and more, as you prepare, and don’t forget to build up relationships with the locals to help your chances for success.
Rumour has it you may even be able to score a date to the festival – will you be able to make the Harvest Festival a success?
Spells and Secrets
Free the academy of Griefenstein from magical creatures in the cozy roguelite adventure Spells & Secrets.
You’ll play as a new student to the academy, which soon comes under fire from a mysterious source, and upon re-entering the castle, will find is to be infested with magical creatures. You’ll need to use spells in creative ways to fight off the magical creatures, and solve puzzles, as you play through an ever changing layout.
Collect artefacts to help you on your run, as you journey through the castle to take down the mysterious Prince. This one is a great magical adventure choice.
Mika and the Witch’s Mountain
Become an aspiring witch on an adventure to reach the top of the mountain in Mika and the Witch’s Mountain.
This cozy adventure game sees you hop on your broom to deliver packages to the townspeople of a small village, earning you money to put towards upgrading your broom. You’ll be able to zoom all over the island, discovering all of the secrets of the mountain as you work your way up to buying a broom that will fly you all the way to the top.
This is a great cozy adventure choice with a witchy theme.
Necrosmith 2
Raise an army of the dead to protect your tower and take over the world in Necrosmith 2.
This tower defense game sees you scavenge the world for various body parts, which you then combine to reanimate into an army of the dead. You’ll need to fight off waves of enemies by night, and collect resources by day, infusing your army with superpowers, and building titans to take on the deadliest of foes.
This is a great action packed choice with a darker theme, perfect for tower defense lovers.
That is a wrap on some spooky, not scary, picks for this Halloween season.
Until next time, Stay Caffeinated!
