Key points
- Team Fortress 2’s Scream Fortress XVIII runs through November 7 with five new community maps and the Haunted Hoard Case — 23 cosmetics and 21 new Unusual effects.
- Adopt Me’s Halloween event rolls out weekly: Week 3 (Stitches’ Spotlight, October 16) added a Carnival minigame and four limited pets bought with Candy Corn.
- Fortnite’s Fortnitemares 2026 brings a Nightmare Neighborhood POI with Freddy Krueger and Five Nights at Freddy’s animatronics.
- Call of Duty’s The Haunting has turned Warzone’s Haven’s Hollow into Haunted Hollow, and RuneScape’s Harvest Hollow update added a duo-only boss, the Ghrazi Blood Knights.
- Second Life’s Halloween Shop & Hop runs until November 1: 380+ creators, every store at least 20% off.
The events, game by game
- Adopt Me: Halloween in weekly parts. Week 3’s Stitches’ Spotlight (October 16) added a Carnival minigame and four limited pets — Stitches (70,000 Candy Corn), Boohoo, Shoebill and Copycat — plus a Creepy Clown Car.
- Team Fortress 2: Scream Fortress XVIII (October 1) — five community maps (HolyHell, Scarypass, Trainsawlaser, Medi-Evil, Scaredy-Cat), the Haunted Hoard Case, Halloween Contracts, through November 7.
- Fortnite: Fortnitemares 2026 (v42.30, October 1) — the Nightmare Neighborhood POI, Freddy Krueger, FNAF animatronics, the Bonerattler SMG and Freddy’s Nightmare mythic, and the Witch Broom back.
- Call of Duty: Season 6, The Haunting — Warzone’s Haven’s Hollow became Haunted Hollow with a Ghost Train and the 64-player Giant Infected mode; multiplayer got the rethemed Bloodstead map and Hordepoint.
- RuneScape 3: Harvest Hollow (October 12) — the Ghrazi Blood Knights, the game’s first duo-only boss, with tier 95 Legendary Crossbows among the rewards.
- Overwatch 2: Mystery Madness: Graveyard Games — a four-week Halloween event with a new 5v5 arcade mode, inside Season 5.
- Second Life: Haunted Halloween & Shop & Hop (October 2) — 380+ creators across 12 regions, every store at least 20% off plus a free gift, with Trick-or-Treat in Bellisseria and the Halloween Swaginator Hunt; the sale ends November 1.
What it means for buyers
Event-limited items flood marketplaces while an event runs, and they are usually cheapest mid-event. Adopt Me’s Halloween pets, TF2’s new Unusual effects and Halloween cosmetics all follow the same curve: plenty listed now, a price spike the week the event ends, then a slow settle. The trap is last year’s items listed as this year’s — Scream Fortress is on its eighteenth edition, and most of its older cosmetics look the part. Each game’s patch page lists exactly what the 2026 event added.
When they end
Second Life’s Shop & Hop closes first, on November 1. Scream Fortress runs through November 7. Adopt Me’s event keeps rolling in weekly parts toward Halloween itself, and Fortnitemares and The Haunting run with their seasons. Our upcoming patches page tracks the confirmed end dates we follow.
What it means for buyers
If you are buying event items, mid-event is the cheap window — but check the item against the 2026 patch notes first, use a seller with buyer protection, and be suspicious of any “rare Halloween” listing that cannot name the event it came from.
Sources
- Uplift Games: Stitches’ Spotlight notes (Adopt Me)Oct 16, 2026
- Valve: Team Fortress 2 updatesOct 2026
- MP1st: Fortnite Update 42.30 for Fortnitemares 2026Oct 1, 2026
- Linden Lab: Haunted Halloween Events 2026 (Second Life)Oct 2, 2026
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