Looking for spooky games for October that aren't overtly survival horror

[Thefriman]

Every October I like to play a horror themed game. The only problem is I don't really like the clunky controls and inventory management of a lot of survival horror games out there. What spooky games you you like to play to celebrate October?

 

[Jade_Tyrant]

My go to games for October have been FEAR and Luigi's Mansion, mainly Luigi's Mansion 2. More recently, a game that actually made me paranoid ( in the best way possible ) is Prey, either one works but im really talking about the 2017 reboot. Theres also Half Life: Paranoia, but thats a slight hassle to set up but short and sweet.

 

[VampireLord1024]

I don't really play games to celebrate October, but I could suggest Gauntlet: Dark Legacy or maybe Godzilla: Save the Earth, Godzilla: Unleashed, Voodoo Vince, Undead Knights, Death Jr. / Death Jr. 2 or maybe Dead Head Fred.

 

[RaHoWa]

DOOM, Alien Trilogy and Alien Resurection on PS1.
Dementium 1 and 2, Nanashi no Geemu and Nanashi no Geemu Me on NDS.
Alien 3 on Genesis/Megadrive and SNES, Super Metroid.
Sweet Home on Famicom/NES.
Manhunt 2 on PSP.

 

[moonbits]

Darkwood

 

[CRTRebel]

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain & Soul Reaver

 

[It's Thinking 2]

Anything by Siactro.

 

[Boo Man]

Darkwood

Yeah! Darkwood is good one

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain & Soul Reaver

classic! I've been playing the dreamcast version with texture mods, looks great
one day i will actually beat this game haha

 

[StMil]

Lollipop Chainsaw? XD

 

[solidbatman]

Catherine has some creepy vibes. PC release is usually pretty cheap and runs well on PC. If you're alright with a visual novel, the duology of Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bad of milk and Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk are really unsettling dives into a broken psyche. Both are pretty short reads (30 min. for the first, 1-2 hours for the second).

Catherine (Steam)

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk (Steam)

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk (Steam)

 

[Sheep]

Poppy Playtime (Steam) I can't wait to see chapter 4. AND THE ENEMY IS A SHEEP!!!!
I can't find many horror games with a sheep character except Amanda the Adventurer (Steam).

List of some horror games:
- Slender: The Eight Pages
- Offline
- Backrooms: Escape Together
- Aooni (Portable)
- Aooni 2 (Portable)
- Aooni 3 (Portable)
- Dark Deception so hard X)
...

 

[Yankee]

Check out Brain Dead 13. It's on PlayStation, Saturn, CDO, CD-i and others by Ready Soft, the guys behind Dragon's Lair and Space Ace.
It's a movie game so you don't have to worry about gameplay.

 

[StMil]

There are loads of spooky games to play at halloween which don't have survival horror mechanics.

Check out my list here for some suggestions!
https://retrogametalk.com/threads/halloween-time.224/post-2279

 

[It's Thinking 2]

Check out Brain Dead 13. It's on PlayStation, Saturn, CDO, CD-i and others by Ready Soft, the guys behind Dragon's Lair and Space Ace.
It's a movie game so you don't have to worry about gameplay.

Got that on the Mac. Feels like a Don Bluth game.