Halloween: The Game

Multiplayer is a 1v4 match on a living suburban map. As Michael, your job is to pick targets, stalk them through shadows and kill without raising the alarm. Every resident who spots you and reaches a phone makes the night harder, because police patrols get heavier and more thorough the more calls go out. Good Michael players treat detection as a resource to manage, not an inconvenience.

As a Hero of Haddonfield, you cannot kill The Shape, so you play for time and escapes. You knock on doors, convince residents the threat is real, raid kitchens and garages for household items and weapons, and hand gear to NPCs so they can stall Michael while families run. Coordinating who calls the cops, who herds civilians and who baits the killer is where a good team separates from four strangers.

IllFonic calls the result a horror sandbox: dynamic map features, distinct systems and NPCs with their own reactions mean the same street plays out differently each match. Michael's kit leans on stealth abilities and environmental kills, while heroes win through information and crowd control.

Solo players get a separate story mode set during "The Night He Came Home", played entirely as Michael. Matches support full controller input, including DualShock and DualSense pads, and there are 50 Steam achievements to chase across both modes.

October 31, 1978. Haddonfield is a quiet suburban town getting ready for trick-or-treaters, and nobody has noticed that Michael Myers has come home. The game drops you into that single night and lets you see it from both sides of the knife.

In the single-player story, you live through "The Night He Came Home" as Michael himself, following the haunting events of the original film from behind the mask. It is the first time the franchise has offered that point of view as a playable campaign.

Multiplayer keeps the same setting but writes its own night every match. Families make holiday preparations, neighbours go about their evening and the police are only a phone call away, until The Shape starts moving between houses. The fiction rewards fans of the 1978 film: the threat is quiet, patient and almost impossible to stop.

Halloween is out now on Windows PC via Steam at US$39.99. Local Steam prices are RM83.99 in Malaysia, S$37.99 in Singapore, ₱1,099 in the Philippines, ฿669 in Thailand, Rp 309,999 in Indonesia and 495,000₫ in Vietnam. Interface languages number ten, including English, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese, but there is no Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Filipino or Vietnamese. The minimum spec asks for Windows 11, 16 GB of RAM and a GTX 1660, RX 590 or Arc A770 for 1080p at 30 fps, plus 45 GB on an SSD. A broadband connection is required, and full controller support is included.