It’s that time of year when people start getting ready for Halloween and all things spooky.

I’ve never been that into it. For me as a kid growing up in the UK in the 70’s it was always penny for the guy, and bonfire night. Halloween was never a big thing back then.

I have fond memories as a kid of family gatherings, fireworks, baked potatoes, hot dogs, and dark cold autumn nights lit up the flickering glow of bonfires.

I don’t know when things changed. But it seemed all of a sudden trick or treat was a thing, shops were full of Halloween merchandise and branded sweets. The Americanisation and commercialism of this time of year was complete. Yes I’ve always seen this big celebration of Halloween as an American thing that sadly made its way over here.

Maybe it’s my age. But I just don’t see the attraction. However each to their own.

In the meantime I get to be a Halloween grinch.

At least it gives me some things to write about!

The idea for this post comes from that recent Dice Tower video about their top ten horror themed games as part of their Autumn Spooktacular.

While I was thinking about my own collection thinking I had only a handful of horror themed games.

However as I started to tag games I owned in the bgstat app that figure grew and grew.

The criteria I used to add the tag was that the game had to have something associated with the horror genre, have a dark theme, be spooky!, or associated with halloween.

So some of these games tagged are very light in tone, such as Broom Service that has you delivering potions around the map as a witch on their broomstick.

By the end of the exercise I had thirty five games tagged. Although the image below only shows thirty three. I had missed a couple when I generated the images to use. Laziness stopped me correcting the omissions.

Below are my top twenty played horror themed games that I own based on number of plays.

I might even enter into the spirit of this commercial holiday and try and play one or two of these nearer the “big” day.