Horror Fans are Enjoying Spooky Season a Whole Month Early…

Horror is celebrated year-round, and there have been countless video games that have been celebrated in a miscellaneous, seemingly arbitrary month with no other significance attached to the release date they’ve chosen. But, it’s also colloquially and ubiquitously accepted that horror’s best or most prominent month for video games is October, when gamers and consumers alike are already in the mood for a spookier ambiance and blood-curdling festivities on and/or around Halloween. As such, whenever fates align fortuitously, October will leave on its doorstep a tempting ‘Trick or Treat’ bowl filled with horror games.

Unfortunately, October looks like it’s going to have a dry spell in 2025. There are a handful of exciting, high-profile horror games on the horizon, including Resident Evil Requiem, Reanimal, Alien: Isolation 2, and Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, but none of them are being released in October. Rather, only Little Nightmares 3 and the Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition are scheduled for October at the moment, with Supermassive’s Directive 8020 recently being delayed. Meanwhile, Cronos: The New Dawn received a release date of September 5. Therefore, Cronos: The New Dawn and Silent Hill f are bringing horror’s spookiest season to September this year.

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October 2025 is Devoid of Horror

With only two horror games slated for this October—and both belonging to the same IP, no less—horror’s spooky season in 2025 is sure to be lacking. Indeed, by comparison with last year alone, October 2024’s horror games proudly boasted:

Ballistic Moon’s Until Dawn remake.
Bloober’s Silent Hill 2 remake.
Diablo 4’s Vessel of Hatred expansion (not much of a ‘horror’ game, per se, but with its fair share of demonic motifs and grisly gore).
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead.
No More Room in Hell 2.
Alan Wake 2’s Lake House DLC.
Blumhouse’s Fear the Spotlight.
Phasmophobia’s console launch.

It’s no studio or publisher’s fault if this spooky season is lackluster concerning its output of horror games, but it does inevitably make for a disappointing month when new scary titles would be welcome. To be fair, it’s unknown when it will launch, yet Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is apparently “closer than you think.” And, while it might be a tad earlier than some Halloween enthusiasts are prepared for, September could be this year’s October thanks to two massive horror blockbusters that are releasing on both ends of the month and sandwiching Borderlands 4.

Cronos: The New Dawn and Silent Hill f are bringing horror’s spookiest season to September this year.

Cronos: The New Dawn and Silent Hill f are Early Halloween Treats

Cronos: The New Dawn’s release date plants it a month shy of when it’d be able to truly thrive as a psychological/survival horror game, but it joining NeoBards’ enigmatic and alluring Silent Hill f in September instead makes a bold statement. Stretching the spooky season backward by a month, Cronos: The New Dawn and Silent Hill f are proving that the spooky season doesn’t need to be restricted exclusively to October.

Silent Hill f is already poised to be one of the most thrilling horror games of 2025 as it’s finally contributing a brand-new, original entry to the revered yet blemished Silent Hill franchise and is undoubtedly taking the IP in a wildly unique direction.

Cronos: The New Dawn is the first original IP from Bloober since it released the Silent Hill 2 remake last year, and will be followed by a remake of Team Silent’s first Silent Hill game. Cronos: The New Dawn has earned goodwill as a byproduct of the Silent Hill 2 remake’s positive reception, and the former now gives Bloober an opportunity to rewrite its history in terms of the mixed-to-poor receptions of some of its past games, such as Layers of Fear or The Medium. Nonetheless, for all intents and purposes, September has become 2025’s new spooky season month.