Fanatical is selling six horror games for $16.66 in a Halloween bundle called Frightmare, and the Halloween part is the weakest claim on the page. The bundle's own store record ends it at 08:00 UTC on November 26, which is 27 days after Halloween.
It is a build-your-own bundle rather than a fixed pack, with 14 items and three price tiers. Fanatical supplies every title as an official Steam key.
That structure matters because the value figure attached to bundles like this is almost always a sum of list prices. These particular games are discounted elsewhere right now.
What the Frightmare bundle costs and what is in it
Fanatical prices two games at $6.66, four at $11.66 and six at $16.66. Those come to $3.33, $2.92 and $2.78 per item, and the page lists no tier above six, so $2.78 is the floor rate.
The four headliners are The Evil Within 2, Prey - Deluxe Edition, The Evil Within and DOOM + DOOM II. The rest are small horror releases, among them You Will Die Here Tonight, Amanda the Adventurer 3, Night Swarm, The Lacerator, RUNT, Feed The Pit, Midnight Swamp, Uncanny Tales: The Watcher and Birds Watching.
One entry is not a single game. TurnVex Horror Collection is seven short horror titles sold as one pick, and Fanatical values it at $32.93, which makes it the third-largest line on the page.
The $234.80 value total is a list price
Adding every RRP that Fanatical prints beside the 14 items gives $234.80. Fanatical itself publishes no combined value and no savings percentage for the bundle.
The same 14 items, in the same editions, cost $127.12 on Steam at the time of writing. Most of the lineup sits inside Steam's Scream Sale, which Valve's own product pages date to November 2.
The Evil Within 2 is $7.99 on Steam against a $39.99 list price, The Evil Within is $4.99, and You Will Die Here Tonight is $3.99. The $32.93 credited to TurnVex Horror Collection is the full-price sum of seven games that together cost $7.85 today.
Where the saving survives the comparison
The bundle still wins on arithmetic. Its $2.78 floor rate undercuts every single pick, because the cheapest item in the lineup on Steam today is You Will Die Here Tonight at $3.99.
Taking the four headliners as a four-game pick costs $11.66. The same four editions cost $62.96 on Steam at the time of writing, so the bundle saves $51.30, or 81.5 percent.
One row carries most of that gap. Prey - Deluxe Edition is the only headliner Steam is not discounting, and it holds at $39.99 while the base Prey app sits at $5.99.
Swapping that base edition in drops the Steam total for four titles to $28.96. The bundle is still $17.30 cheaper, which is a genuine 60 percent saving rather than the 80-odd percent a list-price sum implies.
Steam keys, Deck ratings and repeat titles
Fanatical states that all games are supplied as official Steam keys and describes nothing in the bundle as a Steam gift. Each product page prints an activation-region line beside a Check Regions button, but no country list appears in the served page.
Valve's own compatibility reports rate six of the 13 individually listed games as Steam Deck Verified and six as Playable. RUNT carries no rating at all, and none of TurnVex's seven games is Verified, a gap that also ran through Humble's Cozy After Dark bundle.
Fanatical flags only four items as new to its bundles: Feed The Pit, Uncanny Tales: The Watcher, Midnight Swamp and RUNT. By the store's own labelling the other ten have appeared in a Fanatical bundle before, which is a real risk for anyone who bought the All Stars Fall 2026 bundle three weeks ago.
What the bundle page does not print
The closing time sits in the page's own bundle data rather than in anything a reader can see. Fanatical renders no countdown and no end date for Frightmare, and it publishes no region list, no total value and no savings figure.
Neither store publishes an all-time low for any of these titles, so the only price history on offer is Steam's own struck-through list price. Prices can move on both sides, and Steam's discounts lapse on November 2, after which the same comparison will flatter the bundle considerably more than it does today.
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