Is Halloween: The Game on Nintendo Switch or Switch 2?
No. No. No Switch or Switch 2 version has been announced, and the word Nintendo does not appear anywhere on the official site — including on the purchase row, which lists Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Epic and nothing else.
No, and the absence is unusually clean to verify. The official site’s purchase row lists exactly four destinations — Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and the Epic Games Store — and the word “Nintendo” does not appear anywhere on the site at all. There is no announcement, no listing, and no placeholder.
That covers both consoles. People search for the original Switch and for Switch 2 separately, and the answer is the same for both: nothing has been announced for either.
The minimum PC specification gives some idea of the gap that would need closing. It asks for 16 GB of RAM, a GTX 1660+-class GPU for 1080p at 30fps, DirectX 12 and an SSD. That is a demanding profile to port down from, which is context rather than a prediction — a port is a business decision and plenty of demanding games have made the jump.
If a Switch version is announced later, it would come from IllFonic or Gun Interactive rather than from a retail listing, so the official site and the official Discord are the places it would show up first.
Related questions
- Will Halloween: The Game come to Switch 2?
- Nobody has said. There is no announcement, no store listing and no developer comment about a Nintendo release of any kind. Anyone stating a Switch 2 release date is not working from a published source.
- Which platforms is it actually on?
- PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Steam lists Windows only — there is no macOS or Linux build either.
- Is there a cloud version I could play on Switch?
- No cloud version has been announced. Cloud streaming would be the usual route for a game whose specs make a native port hard, but nothing indicates one exists for this title.
Every platform, answered
| PlayStation 5 | Yes | Yes — a launch platform. The official site links straight to the PlayStation Store, and a physical PS5 Limited Collector's Edition exists alongside the digital versions. |
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| Xbox Series X|S | Yes | Yes — a launch platform, with its own purchase link on the official site. Xbox Game Pass is a separate question and the answer there is no. |
| PC (Steam / Epic) | Yes | Yes — same-day on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Steam lists Windows only: there is no macOS and no Linux build. |
| PlayStation 4 | No | No. The PlayStation release is PS5 only; no PS4 version is listed or announced. The minimum PC spec — 16 GB RAM, DirectX 12, SSD required — is a fair indicator of why. |
| Xbox Game Pass | No | No. The game is on Xbox Series X|S as a $39.99 purchase; nothing from IllFonic, Gun Interactive or Xbox has announced a Game Pass release. Being on Xbox and being on Game Pass are different things. |
| Steam Deck | No | Not rated yet. Valve's Deck compatibility report for this app returns "Unknown" — the game has not been through the Verified/Playable review. The minimum spec asks for a GTX 1660-class GPU and an SSD, so treat it as untested rather than as either a yes or a no. |
| Crossplay | No | Unknown — and the store listing cannot settle it. None of the 21 official news posts mentions crossplay or cross-progression at all. Steam's category list does not carry the Cross-Platform Multiplayer tag, but that proves nothing here: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, from the same co-publisher, does have crossplay and its Steam listing is untagged too. Check in-game rather than trusting either. |
| Australia | No | Not purchasable on Steam in Australia. Querying the Steam store API with cc=AU returns no listing for this game, while the same query for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre returns a normal A$21.95 listing — so it is this title, not the region. New Zealand is unaffected and can buy it at NZ$60.99. |
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All platform answers
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System requirements
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Sources: Steam store page · PlayStation official page