7 Spooky Games You Can Get for Cheap: Shield Halloween Game Sale

Article by George Norman (Cybersecurity Editor)

on 27 Oct 2016

In honor of the most ghoulish day of the year, NVIDIA is running a Shield Halloween Game Sale, giving you the chance to get 7 spooky games for cheap, at discounts that range from a mere 10% to a whopping 70%.

"Whether you like zombies or tentacles, spectral chills or even more zombies, this is one sale that could provide enough haunting experiences to keep you shivering with fright for another 12 months," says NVIDIA.

Here are the 7 games that are part of NVIDIA’s Shield Halloween Sale.

1. The Guest
  • Game type – first person exploration video game.
  • Discount 70% off, offered for $2.99 instead of $9.99.
  • Story – you’re being held captive in a dilapidated, gloomy hotel. Solve puzzles and riddles to uncover the identity of you captors and their motives.


Learn more about The Guest.
Get it for PC on Steam.


2. Virginia
  • Game type – first-person mystery thriller adventure video game.
  • Discount 10% off, priced at $8.99 instead of $9.99.
  • Story – FBI special agent Anne Tarver gets to investigate her very first case: the disappearance of a young boy, Lucas Fairfax, from the rural town of Kingdom, Virginia.


Learn more about Virginia.
Get it for PC on Steam.


3. Grim Fandango Remastered
  • Game type – one of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time.
  • Discount 66% off, priced at $5.09 instead of $14.99.
  • Story – Manny Calavera is a travel agent at the Department of Death who sells luxury packages to souls on their four-year journey to eternal rest. Help Manny untangle himself from a conspiracy that threatens his very salvation.


Learn more about Grim Fandango Remastered.
Get it for PC on Steam or GOG.com.


4. Dead Island: Definitive Edition
  • Game type – open world survival horror action role-playing video game.
  • Discount 40% off, priced at $11.99 instead of $19.99.
  • Story – the tropical island of Banoi is overrun by zombies who would like nothing more but to eat you alive. You must do whatever it takes to survive and lead a group of survivors through hordes on zombies on the search for a cure.


Learn more about Dead Island.
Get it for PC on Steam.


5. Dead Island Riptide: Definitive Edition
  • Game type – action role-playing survival horror video game.
  • Discount 40% off, priced at $11.99 instead of $19.99.
  • Story – continue the story of the Outbreak and see another island paradise gone to hell.


Learn more about Dead Island Riptide.
Get it for PC on Steam.


6. Day of the Tentacle Remastered
  • Game type – cartoon puzzle adventure game.
  • Discount 40% off, priced at $8.99 instead of $14.99.
  • Story – Dr. Fred’s mutated purple tentacle is about to take over the world, and only you can stop him!


Learn more about Day of the Tentacle Remastered.
Get it for PC on Steam or GOG.com.


7. Resident Evil: Revelations 2
  • Game type – episodic survival horror video game.
  • Discount 61% off, priced at $11.69 instead of $29.99.
  • Story – Claire Redfield and Moira Burton are kidnapped and taken to dark and abandoned detention facility, a remote prison island. Claire and Moira must work together and find out who took them and to what sinister end. Meanwhile, Barry Burton is on his way to find his missing daughter. He comes across Natalia Korda, a little girl who possesses strange powers.


Learn more about Resident Evil: Revelation 2.
Get it for PC on Steam.


Technical details you need to know about

NVIDIA’s Shield Halloween Game Sale ends on October 31.

The sale is aimed at customers who have an NVIDIA Shield Android TV.

NVIDIA GeForce Now membership is required to purchase games.


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