10 Spooky Halloween Events to Enjoy on Xbox

Halloween is just around the corner! You know what this means? Special Halloween events in your favourite video games! What, you thought we’d say candy? A lot of games revealed plans for special holidays to commemorate the most frightening of holidays, with the day fast approaching. There’s a lot of great stuff happening this year, so let’s take a look at some of the standouts.

Minecraft Spookyfest & Minecraft Dungeons Spookier Fall Events

Mojang will always have fun Halloween in Minecraft Dungeons. New Minecraft Dungeon seasonal trials unlock exclusive items including the Cackling Broom, the Phantom Bow, and the Spooky Gourdian armor set.  To download the Spooky Gourdian Character Creator, and to get a Halloween Fiends skinpack for free, visit Minecraft. For more information, visit Minecraft.net.

Sea of Thieves – Fury of the Damned

Perhaps not surprisingly for a game that’s full of spooky skeletons and ghost ships, the team at Rare always goes big for Halloween. In this year’s in-game event, players can earn extra Favour with the Bilge Rats by accomplishing tasks (laid out in-game via Mysterious Notes) such as taking down Skeleton Ships or emptying out Skeleton Forts. Wicked Web cosmetic items can be earned as you reach certain Favour thresholds. You can even take part in Community Spirit Challenges that will help you eliminate a large number of skeletons. This gives pirates more reward after Fury of the Damned. Visit the Sea of Thieves official site for more information.

Fortnite – Fortnitemares

Once again, Fortnite’s Halloween event is titled Fortnitemares and it will feature some spooky decorations sprinkled around the island where the game’s battles take place. There are also some new skins available for players, including The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes and everyone’s favorite lab-created monster, Frankenstein.

Apex Legends – Monsters Within

Apex Legends will feature Shadow Royale, a new game mode that features special Halloween costumes for Bloodhound and other scary characters. Shadow Royale will allow dead players to return in ghost form and help their teammates from the far beyond.

Rocket League – Haunted Hallows

This year, Developer Psyonix is going big with Halloween offerings. Rather than skewing spooky, however, this year’s Haunted Hallows event will focus on everyone’s favorite caped crusader: Batman. The big draw is the ability to unlock both the 1989 and 2016 versions of the Batmobile, though there’s also the new Gotham City Rumble mode, which places the Rumble game type squarely in Batman’s world.

Rainbow Six Siege – Doktor’s Curse

Everyone who plays Rainbow Six Siege loves the annual Doktor’s Curse event, so it’s not surprising to see Ubisoft bring it back for another year. Offering a spooky twist on the tried-and-true Rainbow Six Siege formula, this mode finds players battling their way through the titular Doktor’s castle, with mutated operators battling their way through twisted creatures bent on destroying them. As the mode’s tagline says, “When the Doktor’s away, the monsters will play.”

Overwatch – Halloween Terror

A seasonal series stalwart since 2016, Overwatch’s annual Halloween Terror event brings back Junkenstein’s Revenge with new Challenge Missions for players to overcome. There are many weekly challenges available that offer icons, sprays and icons as well as Epic Skins. Even better, you can grab loot bags that have cosmetics and gear leftover from Halloween Terror.

Destiny 2 – Festival of the Lost

Festival of the Lost is back! Once again, you’ll be donning a mask and collecting candy throughout the universe, then diving into haunted versions of the game’s lost sectors to take down headless enemies. Much like the Headless Horseman, they’ll be sporting jack o’ lanterns on their shoulders, so go for those headshots!

Call of Duty: Warzone – The Haunting

If you’re looking for a game mode that switches up everything you’ve come to expect from a game, look no further than Warzone’s second annual Halloween event. The Haunting is a fun twist on Warzone’s Infection game mode in which players turn into ghosts after they die, gaining special powers that they can unleash on their unsuspecting (and still-alive) fellow players. There’s even a fear meter that will give you a good fright once filled!

No Man’s Sky – Emergence

Giant worms are hot! While No Man Sky’s actually added massive, centipede-like Titan Worms to the game in an update this year, the Emergence event gives players the ability to tame them, ride them, and, yes, even raise your own from a wee baby worm. What’s more, you can nab a special worm mask that’s just as creepy as it sounds.