Steam Halloween sale offers cheap thrills

If your Halloween plans are less focused on dressing up to score free candy and more about playing games into the wee hours of the night, Steam has a Halloween-themed sale just for you. The offerings are mainly horror-themed, but just about anything dark, scary or otherwise with a tangential connection to Halloween is on sale right now.

Steam’s Halloween sale runs Oct. 29 to Nov. 1. Here’s a selection of some of the top sellers currently on sale (which, yes, includes Rocket League, currently holding its Haunted Hallows seasonal event):

• Hunt: Showdown — $22.49 (25 percent off)
• Left 4 Dead 2 — $1.99 (80 percent off)
• Rocket League — $11.99 (40 percent off)
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider — $39.59 (34 percent off)
• Vampyr — $33.49 (33 percent off)
• Warhammer Vermintide 2 — $14.99 (50 percent off)
• We Happy Few — $44.99 (25 percent off)

Also on sale are under-$10 games like Inside, The Room Two, Layers of Fear, Outlast 2, Soma, The Evil Within and Detention, as well as horror VR titles like Arizona Sunshine, Killing Floor Incursion and The Brookhaven Experiment. The full list of Steam Halloween Sale titles, broken down into multiple categories, is available on the Steam store.