It’s weird we keep meeting like this every single year a week before October 31st, right? A strange and unusual coincidence, perhaps even a conspiracy? Wait… wait I’m hearing that Halloween does in fact happen every year, so yeah, never mind. The deluge of MMORPG events every October does makes sense now. That’s on me.
Join us for our annual roundup of some of the Halloween events for MMORPGs and MMO-adjacent games we’ve been covering so far this season!
Aion NA and Aion Classic EU are best by Halloween 2024 - Whether you're playing Aion here in North America or are enjoying Aion Classic over in Europe, you've got some Halloween good times coming your way. This does assume that you…
Albion Online resurrects the Hallowed Ground dungeon for Allhallows - I know, you're shocked: There's another MMORPG Halloween event coming, and we're covering it. The difference here is that in this game, people are actually trying to kill you! Don't…
Among Us is bringing back Halloween hats from 2019 for players to collect in new bundle - It sure feels like 2019 was a long time ago, doesn't it? Out of all of the, well, everything that was happening at that time, one of the possibly nicer…
APB Reloaded brings back its Halloween Epidemic event after a five-year absence - It's weird to think that the last time that APB Reloaded ran its Epidemic event was before the real-world pandemic, but it's true. And now it's back (the fun event,…
Black Desert adds Halloween events to mobile, a spooky boss fight on console, and class updates to PC - The spookytimes are continuing to spread across Black Desert as both BDO Console and BDO Mobile players can enjoy their seasonal fun in this week's updates for the MMOs. We'll…
Black Desert brings Halloween to PC, gives console players a guild manor, opens a guild promo chat on mobile - This week is once more full of goodies for Black Desert players of all stripes and platforms, with new events starting on PC, the guild manor coming to console, and…
Casually Classic: Ranking WoW Classic’s six starting zones - Part of the sheer fun of fresh start servers and going through WoW Classic again is becoming reacquainted with that old and welcome friend, the original starting zone. When World…
City of Heroes’ Halloween 2024 is fun – but the community-run Witch’s House event steals the show - While technically the City of Heroes Homecoming Halloween event for 2024 went live earlier this month, it was barely a footnote compared to the really big news at the time:…
Destiny 2’s Halloween-y Festival of the Lost brings new weapons and sells a witchypoo outfit - Wizards hate this one trick for becoming a magic-wielding powerhouse! All you need to do is put on a floppy hat and bam - you're a wizard. Or at least…
Diablo IV lets you send a ‘real toxic bouquet’ to a friend (or enemy) for Halloween - Leave it to a game that once figured out how to combine 11 herbs and spices of KFC with the 11 torments of hell itself to come up with another…
Diablo IV’s Halloween event challenges you to meat or treat this week - Is there a better place to spend a virtual Halloween than Diablo IV's Sanctuary? Maybe? Maybe not, but you're invited to trick-or-treat there anyway. And by "trick-or-treat," Blizzard actually means…
Dungeons and Dragons Online releases Myth Drannor raid and welcomes this year’s Night Revels - What's spookier for you this year: The dead rising from the grave or a raid that's going to replenish those graves with the corpses of failed players? Dungeons and Dragons…
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s first 64 bit server and Lanterns of the Mist event are live today - Cormyr is officially here in Dungeons and Dragons Online today - that's the first 64 bit server the 18-year-old MMORPG has ever had. Studio Standing Stone Games says the new…
Elder Scrolls Online details a bevy of in-game events to celebrate spooky month - Many of us have that one house in the neighborhood that absolutely goes deliciously all-in on Halloween through the entirety of October. You all know the one: massive inflatable decorations,…
Elder Scrolls Online’s Halloween-themed Witches Festival kicks off October 24 - I know you'll be shocked to hear this, but it's Halloween season! And pretty much every MMORPG you care about is doing something festive for the spookytimes - including The…
Erenshor invites you into its totally spooky demo - It's Steam Next Fest week, and if your eyes aren't bigger than your WASD, you're still shopping around for different titles to try out. Raising its hand to be noticed…
EVE Online’s annual Crimson Harvest Halloween event offers rewards for internet spaceship slaughter - The Halloween season has returned to the universe of EVE Online once more as CCP Games has brought back its annual Crimson Harvest event, offering thematic goodies and activities for…
EverCraft Online dresses up for Halloween for its next weekend alpha October 18 - For the past little while we've kept an eye on EverCraft Online, a boxy voxel-based MMORPG that seeks to bring the genre back to its roots, complete with all of…
EverQuest kicks off Nights of the Dead, EverQuest II begins spooky season - Feel that chill in the air and scent of pumpkin spice? That's Halloween coming to take over all your MMORPGs for the next few weeks. And up next is Classic…
EverQuest Online Adventures rogue server Sandstorm continues weekly updates and celebrates Halloween - At the top of this year we did a quick check-in on the rogue servers of the old console MMORPG EverQuest Online Adventures, including Sandstorm, the currently only publicly playable…
Fallout 76 embraces Halloween with spooky Scorched and a haunted CAMP contest - Is it possible for a nuked-out world full of mutated horrors and carnivorous cryptids to be scarier at Halloween than any other day of the year? Probably not, but Fallout…
Farm Together 2 has pumped out over 50 updates since its early access launch five months ago - Way back in May, we covered the launch of cozy multiplayer farming game Farm Together 2, the sequel to - you guessed it - Farm Together. Milkstone Studios rolled out…
Final Fantasy XI kicks off the Harvest Festival on October 25 - It's almost Halloween, and Final Fantasy XI is honor-bound to have a Halloween event since it originally launched in North America when its Halloween event was running. (Really.) The Harvest…
Final Fantasy XIV prepares for a new round of All Saints’ Wake on October 18 - The ghoulish delights of the spooky season pervade the MMO landscape, and Final Fantasy XIV is no exception to that rule. In fact, its own offering is kicking off on…
Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival returns with multiplayer carving contests and hats - While there are many MMOs and other online games that feature Halloween events, one game is an entire event unto itself. We speak of the charming and fleeting Ghost Town…
Guild Wars 2 fans can trick-or-treat at player houses in this year’s Shadow of the Mad King event - The best Guild Wars 2 event of the year (if you don't count Super Adventure Box) has arrived as of today, as the Shadow of the Mad King officially returns…
Lineage II kicks off Halloween Festival events across all three versions of the MMO - The great thing about Lineage II having three different versions on our side of the globe (presumably) is that means there's three times the Halloween event goodness. So it is…
Literally Diablo arrives to haunt Diablo Immortal players this fall according to the latest roadmap - Diablo IV may have eaten up the bulk of the Blizzard presentation during Gamescom's Opening Night Live, but it's not even the only Diablo game the company brought to the…
Lord of the Rings Online gets its Harvestmath fall festival underway - What's the best Lord of the Rings Online festival? That's a point of fierce debate among the Free Peoples of Middle-earth, but there's a case to be made for the…
MapleStory’s Midnight Carnival arrives for the Halloween season - Don't look now, but MapleStory might be crushing the competition with its Halloween update this year. The V.254 release arrived on Wednesday with the Midnight Carnival and its assortment of…
Massively OP Podcast Episode 491: World of Warcraft’s Buckosaurus problem - Justin and Bree discuss Halloween across the MMO world, DC Universe Online's Xbox X|S arrival, the World of Warcraft dino debacle, and the secret Guild Wars CCG, with adventures in…
New World discusses the design, lore, and mechanics of its Nightveil Hallow event - Halloween has descended on New World this week, but perhaps you're curious about how this event came together from a lore and design standpoint. If that's the case, Amazon Games…
New World see trick-or-treating and Baalphazu, Marquis of Terror, return for Halloween - New World is having a second day in the sun this week, thanks to its release on console and its new Aeternum edition, but in case you're already over that…
New World’s weekly patch cleans up some bugs and buffs visual quality as the devs talk hippos - All right, a New World update, let's goooooo! Oh, it's a really tiny patch? And it turns off Halloween? Well, dangit. Yes, New World's Aeternum 1.1.2 patch rolled out to…
Nightingale patches in Halloween and confirms layoffs at Inflexion’s UK subsidiary - It's patch day over in co-op sandbox Nightingale, and it's a good patch too as it includes the game's Halloween event. "Head on over to the Abeyance Realm and talk…
Nightingale suffers second round of layoffs in two weeks as staff say the game’s early access will continue - Last week, we covered some unfortunate news for co-op sandbox Nightingale when we learned that its studio, Tencent-backed Inflexion, had abruptly closed down its UK subsidiary, axing multiple developers. At…
No Man’s Sky launches its spoopy 16th expedition, The Cursed, just in time for Halloween - Well now this is a treat: While most MMOs have a Halloween event these days, it's not quite as common to get an entire update that fits perfectly with the…
Old School RuneScape invites you to carve your head into a pumpkin face - If you're going to wear a Jack O' Lantern as a mask, we strongly suggest that you carve it before it's resting on your neck. Then again, if you tell…
Overwatch 2 launches Halloween events October 15, Hearthstone opens The Great Dark Beyond November 5 - It's about to get spooky, ookie, and kooky in both Overwatch 2 and Hearthstone over the next few weeks, with the superheroic PvP FPS readying to celebrate the Halloween season…
Palia’s Autumn Awakening is live for beta players with a new minigame for Maji Market - As teased last week, Palia's Autumn Awakening patch is officially live in the beta mini-MMO this afternoon with the return of Maji Market and its multitude of minigames - including…
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis brings new missions, placeable water, and the spooky season this month - The month of October is once again promising to be full of things to do in Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, as the anime MMO has laid out its…
PlanetSide 2’s Nanite of the Living Dead rises from its grave once again for Halloween this year - It's time for the Halloween season to once more cover the battlefields of PlanetSide 2, and regular players of the persistent war MMOFPS know what that means: The Nanite of…
RIFT shivers with terror as the Autumn Harvest reaps once more - If the scariest thing that RIFT fans can envision is their MMO closing, then it's almost a relief to see the sheer terror and foul nightmares of the game's annual…
Runes of Magic has begun trick-or-treating early this year - If pumpkin spice gasoline and those obnoxious 60-foot skeletons in your neighbor's yard are any indication, autumn is here and we are barreling nonstop toward every MMO's favorite holiday of…
RuneScape invites players into the seasonal Halloween hub of Harvest Hollow today - Is there anything more Halloween-y than a central hub full of thematic decor and creepy fun to be had? That's definitely the vibe that's absolutely pouring out of RuneScape's newly…
Skull and Bones adds spooky new ship fights in its latest Halloween-themed event - If you're trying to merge piratical adventure with Halloween, one of the best (and arguably most used) ways to do it is to add spooky ships to the ocean. That's…
Splatoon 3’s Splatoween for Halloween is a blast from Splatoon’s past - Despite already being in maintenance mode, Splatoon 3's making good on its promise to still hold certain seasonal events starting with Splatoween. This one's inspired partially by Splatoon 1's Wizard…
Star Trek Online gets into the Halloween spirit with space witches - Putting aside the valid fears of mass studio layoffs for the simulated fears the final frontier, Star Trek Online players are invited to indulge in a few Halloween activities and…
Star Wars Galaxies Legends expands the Galactic Moon Festival for Halloween 2024 - One of the oldest - and goofiest - MMORPG Halloween events has returned today thanks to player-run Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends: The Galactic Moon Festival is upon…
Tarisland and Skyforge have finally joined the Halloween event bandwagon - Better late than never for Halloween, eh? We've got a few more late arrivals to the Halloween scene today. No, they have nothing at all to do with each other…
TERA Console’s October patch opens a new dungeon and activates Halloween - The first update since August's new screenshot mode patch arrived for TERA Console this week, opening up a new dungeon and welcoming players to Halloween festivities. The dungeon first: The…
The Stream Team: The Lord of Fear in Elder Scrolls Online’s Witches Festival - [AL:ESO]When games have been around a while, it seems there are fewer and fewer new things to experience during holiday festivals. And that's why Massively OP's MJ was happy to…
Throne & Liberty delays its Halloween event update’s deployment over a ‘critical stability issue’ - If you were among those eager to get some Halloween fun times going in Throne and Liberty, you're unfortunately going to have to wait a little bit longer: Amazon Games…
Throne & Liberty spools up its Halloween event, Haunted Harvest, this week - When Throne and Liberty launched an update last week, all we saw in the replies was demands for Halloween. Well, your demands will soon be met, as Haunted Harvest officially…
Throne and Liberty launches Phantom Tracker’s Star season and battlepass as it fights RMT - In the wee hours of this morning, Amazon pushed out another patch for Throne and Liberty: The 1.5.0 update launches the new battle pass for the Phantom Tracker's Star season, which…
Throne and Liberty’s Halloween event, Haunted Harvest, is finally here - So there's some good news and bad news with Throne and Liberty's Halloween event. The bad news is that it was delayed a day; it was supposed to launch yesterday,…
Trove is already preparing its Thanksgiving event as Gamigo puts its whole catalogue on sale - With Halloween behind us, blocky sandbox Trove is already gearing up for a holiday that most MMORPGs don't do at all: Thanksgiving. Trove's version is called Friendsgiving, and according to…
Trove launches Shadow’s Eve, revamps the newbie tutorial, and Releases the Kraken on console - Gamigo's voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove is trundling into the Halloween spirit with the release of Shadow's Eve today.[AL:Trove] "It’s time for some ooky spooky goodness as MMORPG publisher gamigo announces…
Villagers & Heroes turns on its Halloween event through November - For everyone who says that Halloween begins on September 1st, Villagers & Heroes sees you and appreciates you. The game's annual Halloween event did not quite begin on September 1st,…
Warframe launches Warframe 1999 demo and new Halloween content for Nights of Naberus - Digital Extremes has been buzzing about Warframe 1999 all year - and now you can finally check it out yourself thanks to the free demo that the studio has launched…
World of Warcraft’s Hallow’s End Halloween event returns - World of Warcraft isn't just about marking its 20th anniversary and selling exorbitantly priced dino mounts; it's also joining in the Halloween festivities across the genre with the return of…
World of Warcraft’s Patch 11.0.7 may be coming sooner than you think - With World of Warcraft's Patch 11.0.7 and its Siren Isle in testing, there's a lot of speculation and curiosity over when Blizzard is scheduling this content drop. Blizzard fan site…
And a few more we haven’t covered separately yet:
- ARK Survival Ascended is bringing back Fear Ascended and launching new themed paid mods.
- Monster Hunter Now opened its Halloween event through the 31st, so you have just a week left!
- Realm of the Mad God’s Halloween Event is live with hordes of zombies and costume drops.
- Nexon’s Dungeon Fighter Online has not one but three Halloween events, including one called… Spooky Juicy Craft?
- Eterspire has added a Halloween-themed puzzle quest stuffed with “creepy storytelling and worldbuilding.”
- SCUM actually has a Halloween event, which amuses me no end. “Drop onto a terrifying island of scares, shocks and thrills with SCUM’s horrifying Halloween event, The Sacrifice.”
- Battlefield 2042 invites you to the Circle of Hell! Sounds nice.
- Crossout launched Steel Troopers in celebration of the season. “The update brings a set of special modes where players can earn “tricky treats” and spend them on cosmetic items and parts for armored vehicles.”
- Something Wicket This Way Comes (hehe) has returned to the classic SWG Emu!
- Sky Children of the Light? More like Sky Children of the Night, thanks to the kick off of Days of Mischief.
We also did a few streams and guides for Halloween this year (with more on deck as I type this):
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s October outlook offers more tricks than treats - It's almost October, and that means Halloween in Pokemon Go, where the tricks are expected and the treats come with bugs, no matter how sweet. Given that this will be…
The Stream Team: A parade of pumpkins plus a maze in the annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival - Last year, Massively OP's MJ discovered the neatest little Halloween game to explore and enjoy, but she could only do so for a short time. Sadly, the annual Ghost Town…
The Stream Team: Checking out the spooky haunts hiding in Throne & Liberty’s Halloween event - It's time for an all-new Halloween event on OPTV! Today, MOP's Chris is hopping into Throne and Liberty in order to check out as much of the Haunted Harvest event…
The Stream Team: Entering a goth phase in Final Fantasy XIV’s All Saints’ Wake event - It's Halloween time in Final Fantasy XIV, and this year's event is getting into a pop goth phase. Or maybe it's not a phase? That all depends on how MOP's…
The Stream Team: Gorses, goonicorns, and more Mogloween in AQ3D - Massively OP's MJ already loves AQ3D's Mogloween (with the exception of how many fish she has to catch!), and the event just gets better every year. Now, there are even…
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s Mad King says to go trick-or-treating - [AL:GW2]It's that time of the year again -- the best time! With Halloween coming, Massively OP's MJ gets to delve into many a holiday event laced with spooks and scary…
The Stream Team: Into The Crucible in Dungeons & Dragons Online - [AL:DDO]If any aspirants want to join the Storm's Fist faction of the gathering army in Dungeons & Dragons Online, they must first prove themselves worthy to commander Jorgundal. And to…
The Stream Team: Seasonal farming sturdysquash in Astroneer - 'Tis the season for sturdysquash! It simply wouldn't be Halloween without collecting some massive pumpkins, and Astroneer has Massively OP's MJ covered. She's zipping back to Atrox (where the rocks…
The Stream Team: Shop ’til You Drop during DDO’s Night Revels - [AL:DDO]Dungeons & Dragons Online has a new quest this year for its Night Revels event, and Massively OP's MJ is ready to Halloween it up, D&D style! Maybe she isn't…
The Stream Team: The end of the war and AQ3D’s new Mogloween Trick-or-Treat Street - Now that she's finally level 50, Massively OP's MJ can participate in the conclusion of AQ3D's Pirates vs Ninjas war. (She'll just pretend she wasn't on the losing side!) Once…
The Stream Team: The further escapades of two cats dressed in pirate costumes in Cat Quest III - MOP's Chris and his best friend are dressing up like pirates! OK, technically they are pirate cats in the co-op RPG Cat Quest III, but we're trying to weave a…
The Stream Team: The Hallowed Nights of Don’t Starve Together - Massively OP's MJ has been wanting to get back into the crazy survival-ness that is Don't Starve Together, and Halloween has given her a good reason to. Its Hallowed Nights…
Let us know if we missed anything – we’ll continue adding to this list over the next week!
