How many chapters does Halloween: The Game have?

Six: a prologue plus Chapter 1 through Chapter 5. Each one carries its own set of six challenges, 36 in total.

Do I have to do all six challenges in one run?

No, and in several chapters you cannot. The prologue asks you to alert nobody in one challenge and to clear every orderly in another; Chapter 2 and Chapter 5 have the same shape. Treat the stealth challenges as their own attempts.

What difficulty should I use?

Story mode offers Normal, Hard, Boogeyman. No challenge asks for a particular difficulty, so run whichever lets you focus on the challenge rather than on surviving.

Why do so many challenges need Tier 3 Stalk?

Because Stalk is the pacing mechanic of the story mode. Environmental and named-target executions do not offer their prompt until Stalk on that target reaches Tier 3, so a challenge that names both a victim and an object is really asking you to build Stalk first and walk second.

Which challenge is the hardest?

Two candidates. Chapter 2's Slab challenge is the tightest timing: you have to catch him at a specific point in his routine without alerting him. Chapter 5's Loomis stealth challenge is the most unreliable, because it can fail on runs where Loomis never detects you at all.

Story mode

All 36 Halloween: The Game chapter challenges

The single-player story mode is a prologue plus five chapters, played entirely as Michael Myers, and each chapter carries six challenges. Most of them name both a target and an object, which means they are really asking you to reach Tier 3 Stalk on that target before the execution prompt will appear at all. Difficulty runs Normal, Hard, Boogeyman, and what each setting changes. Finishing a chapter also unlocks its Steam achievement.

If a chapter restarts instead of saving

The symptom looks like this: you finish a chapter, the end screen never appears or the screen goes black, and the same chapter loads again from the start. The next chapter stays locked and that chapter's challenges and XP are not recorded, even though the Steam achievement for finishing it sometimes still unlocks. It was most common at the end of the Prologue and Chapter 3.

Patch 1.0.4 fixed crashes after completing a story mission and when loading into a match. Patch 1.0.2 had already fixed four story challenges that were not tracking (Prologue Challenge 6, Chapter 2 Challenge 6, Chapter 4 Challenge 2 and Chapter 5 Challenge 1), and IllFonic says every story challenge can now be completed.

IllFonic has also named four story challenges it may make easier: Chapter 2 Challenge 6, Chapter 4 Challenges 5 and 6, and Chapter 5 Challenge 6. None of them has been changed yet, so the steps for those four still apply as written.

If a chapter still restarts on you, there is no reliable workaround. Retrying sometimes gets it through, but not often enough to count on. Tick your challenges on the tracker as you go so you know what the game owes you.

IllFonic’s single-player trailer shows the story mode these six chapters belong to, including the Stalk tiers and executions the challenges are built around.

Single-player trailer
Singleplayer Trailer | Halloween: The Game
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Keeping count yourself is worth it right now, because the game may not: the challenge tracker holds a tick for each of the 36 in your browser, shares the board with one link, and shows the share of Steam players who have finished each chapter.

Looking for a civilian’s challenge instead? Every civilian’s list, with the goals Patch 1.0.3 set, is on Progressive Challenges, and the timed objectives you get when you prestige are on Prestige Challenges.

Prologue6 challengesSmith's Grove · Smith's Grove SanitariumThe escape. Six challenges built around orderlies, the power unit and staying unseen.Chapter 16 challengesRoad to Haddonfield · The Rabbit in Red Lounge, East HaddonfieldBikers, pool cues and a cleaver — the chapter that teaches you improvised weapons.Chapter 26 challengesMain Street · The cemetery and the hardware storeThe chapter that forces you to learn Stalk tiers — three of its six challenges need Tier 3.Chapter 36 challengesReturning Home · The neighbourhood, starting at the Myers houseThree named targets, three specific objects — and a wood axe you must not walk past.Chapter 46 challengesBabysitters · The Wallace HouseThe 1978 recreation — the Sheet, the telephone, and the chapter's final challenge that chains all of it.Chapter 56 challengesInto the Shadows · The streets, the sewer entrance and the Wallace House againPolice, a pitchfork, a police car to wreck, and a Loomis stealth challenge that fails more often than it should.

The four that stop completionist runs

Thirty-two of the 36 take a paragraph each. These four take a page: each has a trigger the game never explains, a workaround, and a way to fail a run that looked perfect.

Prologue, Challenge 6Kill or drive away every orderlyTwelve orderlies, three routes, and what happens when one of them runs.Chapter 2, Challenge 6Complete the chapter without alerting anyoneThe on-screen word that says a kill counted, the kill order that works, and why identical runs still fail.Chapter 4, Challenge 6Complete the chapter matching the film's plotTwenty beats in the film's order, three silent stalk-tier gates, and the glitches that ruin a correct run.Chapter 5, Challenge 6Destroy any police car before you escapeNothing happens when the car dies. The tick lands at the exit instead.

Before you start: three things that are true of every chapter

Stealth challenges want their own run. Nearly every chapter pairs a “do not alert anyone” challenge with a “take down everyone” one. They are mutually exclusive by design. Attempting both in a single pass is the most common reason people restart chapters.

A named target plus a named object means Tier 3 Stalk. The cash register, shelf, campfire, weight bench and motorcycle executions offer no prompt until Stalk on that specific target has reached Tier 3. If the prompt is not appearing, the answer is almost always that you have not finished stalking, not that you are standing in the wrong place.

Pick up the tool on the way past. Chapter 3 wants three kills with a wood axe that sits in the first house; Chapter 5 wants a pitchfork execution and the pitchfork is near the spawn. Both are easy challenges and long walks if you notice them late.

Frequently asked

How many chapters does Halloween: The Game have?: Six: a prologue plus Chapter 1 through Chapter 5. Each one carries its own set of six challenges, 36 in total.
Do I have to do all six challenges in one run?: No, and in several chapters you cannot. The prologue asks you to alert nobody in one challenge and to clear every orderly in another; Chapter 2 and Chapter 5 have the same shape. Treat the stealth challenges as their own attempts.
What difficulty should I use?: Story mode offers Normal, Hard, Boogeyman. No challenge asks for a particular difficulty, so run whichever lets you focus on the challenge rather than on surviving.
Why do so many challenges need Tier 3 Stalk?: Because Stalk is the pacing mechanic of the story mode. Environmental and named-target executions do not offer their prompt until Stalk on that target reaches Tier 3, so a challenge that names both a victim and an object is really asking you to build Stalk first and walk second.
Which challenge is the hardest?: Two candidates. Chapter 2's Slab challenge is the tightest timing: you have to catch him at a specific point in his routine without alerting him. Chapter 5's Loomis stealth challenge is the most unreliable, because it can fail on runs where Loomis never detects you at all.

Keep going

Michael Myers

The abilities and starting weapons you bring into every chapter.

Items

What the collectibles do, including the ones the game never explains.

All four maps

The multiplayer side of Haddonfield, with the landmarks the story mode borrows.