Steam Scream V ends on Monday, November 2, at 10 a.m. PT, which is 1 p.m. ET and 2 a.m. Beijing time on November
3. From Monday morning in Beijing, about 17 hours remain to buy at the sale price. Valve opened its fifth annual Halloween sale on October 26, and the discounts end with the event, so a game left in a cart past the deadline returns to full price.
At a glance
Deadline: November 2 at 10 a.m. PT, 1 p.m. ET, and 2 a.m. Beijing time on November
3. About 17 hours remain from Monday morning in Beijing.
Headliners: The Outlast Trials at $11.99, down from $39.99; Resident Evil 4 at $9.99, down 75%; Dead Island 2 at $4.99, down 90%.
Deep cuts: Outlast at $1.49, Outlast 2 at $1.99, The Forest at $3.99, and White Day: A Labyrinth Named School at $2.99.
Free to keep: Asleep: Act 1, regularly $9.99, is free on Steam until November 2 at 1 p.m. ET. Only the first act is free.
Next on Steam: the Auto-Battler RPG Fest runs November 16 to 23, and the Winter Sale runs December 17 to January 4.
The deadline is the story
Scream V is a themed festival, not one of Steam's four seasonal sales, and it covers horror and Halloween-adjacent games across survival horror, co-op horror, and psychological horror. Valve's trailer for the event put Resident Evil 4, The Outlast Trials, Dead Island 2, Phasmophobia, DEVOUR, and Subnautica on the same bill. The event opened on October 26, so the final-day decision is a short one.
Treat every price in this article as a last-day check, not a promise. The headline prices below were verified on Steam Scream pages and deal roundups published on October 26 and 27, with a further check on October 31, and individual offers can end at different times inside the festival window. One source lists Metro 2033 Redux as running to November
5. Before paying, open the game own store page and confirm the price shown there.
The three buys to make first
Start with the games that are hardest to regret. The Outlast Trials at $11.99 is 70% off the $39.99 list price, and it is the co-op entry in a series that already has two cheaper solo games in the same sale. Resident Evil 4 at $9.99 is 75% off, and it is the remake that still anchors most best-horror lists. Dead Island 2 at $4.99 is 90% off the $49.99 list price, and at that price the question changes from whether the game is essential to whether a zombie open world for the price of a coffee is worth a weekend.
The co-op shelf deserves its own pass. Phasmophobia at $13.99 is 30% off the $19.99 list price, and its Crimson Eye seasonal event adds Blood Moon conditions across eight locations. DEVOUR at $4.99 is 50% off, and Sons of the Forest at $8.39 is 72% off the $29.99 list price, with The Forest at $3.99 as the cheaper original next to it. GTFO at $10.39 is 74% off for players who want co-op horror with strict teamwork rather than jump scares.
The under-5-dollar shelf, plus one free game
The cheapest tier is where Scream V does its best work. Outlast at $1.49 and Outlast 2 at $1.99 are both 90% off, which makes the three Outlast games cost $15.47 in total. The Forest at $3.99 is 80% off the $19.99 list price, and White Day: A Labyrinth Named School at $2.99 is 90% off the $29.99 list price. Visage at $17.49 is half off for players who want one haunted house that keeps changing.
The free offer ends on the same clock. Asleep: Act 1, regularly $9.99, is free to keep on Steam until November 2 at 1 p.m. ET, the same moment the festival ends. The game is a psychological horror adventure from Black Hole Games, published by Critical Leap, and it holds a 92% positive rating across 316 Steam user reviews. The free offer covers only the first act: the second act is not free, and the third and final act is not out yet. Claim it before the deadline even if the plan is to play it later, since a free-to-keep claim stays in the library after the offer ends.
What comes after Scream
Steam calendar after Scream V is set. The Auto-Battler RPG Fest runs November 16 to 23, and the Winter Sale runs December 17 to January
4. One calendar roundup notes that Valve has not confirmed a separate Steam-wide Black Friday sale for 2026, and that the Autumn Sale already ran from October 1 to 8, well ahead of the usual Black Friday window. Individual publishers can still cut prices in November through the Special Offers hub, so a game missed in Scream V may still drop before the Winter Sale, with no festival banner attached.
The practical move: buy the shortlist before 2 a.m. Beijing time on November 3, and wishlist the rest for the Winter Sale. A wishlist keeps the price visible the next time a publisher cuts it without a festival. For players in Beijing, treat Monday evening as the last session for decisions, not Tuesday morning, since the deadline falls in the early hours of Tuesday.