Games with an Autumn/Halloween vibe?

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Now that we're more than halfway through September and it's getting a bit cooler (for about a week, then it's back to 90+F degrees again for a bit), I'm getting a bit more of a Halloween vibe than I did last year for some reason. Probably because my 3D printer's just about ready to print with foodsafe plastics and I want to make Halloween themed cookie cutters, dishes, and cookie jars, as well as other decorations with other materials.

To keep the mood going, I've decided to change my XB1 library to fit that of the oncoming season. So far I've got:

Fallout 3/NV/4
Neverwinter
Sims 4
Lego Marvel Superheroes

Intstalling currently:
Candleman
South Park Stick of Truth
Lego Harry Potter

Will Install:
Bioshock 1
Greedfall
South Park Fractured but Whole

Interested in seeing if anyone else is gonna focus on Autumn/Halloween themed games for a bit as well, and what games you might suggest for my list. Thinking more among the lines of the relatively lighthearted cartoony fantasy, adventure, and platformer games like Candleman or maybe that Ori franchise, or maybe something more Halloweenish like Limbo.

Night in the Woods - set during October. Contains a Halloween festival midgame, nightmare scenarios, a paranormal investigation arc, and a lovecraftian cult.

Postal - diary entries before each level take place in written on October dates, I think.

Postal Redux - same thing.

The Last Door - A point n click heavily inspired by the works of Poe and Lovecraft.

Lego Batman trilogy and DC Supervillains.

I was thinking about playing some Resident Evil, I still need to finish Zero...but I'll probably just end up playing N64 instead =)

My brother and I spent one Halloween playing Perfect Dark all day, so I still kind of feel that nostalgia for whatever reason.

- Lakeview Cabin Collection
- Uncanny Valley
- Slender: The Arrival (short and sweet, if you like those types)
- Eldritch (huge rogue / time-waster, but amazing)
- Penumbra / Amnesia / Soma (any games in the series)
- ObsCure (super old for a lot of you, but seriously fun)
- Splatterhouse 3 (even older)
- Hugo's House of Horrors (I'm really dating myself here, lol)
- Painkiller (series, any of them really)
- BloodRayne (series)
- Zombie Night Terror (seriously, this is like Lemmings but with zombies. Def recommended)
- FNAF series (not even kidding on this one)
- Left 4 Dead (series)
- Still Not Dead (very indie, but fun for a rogue FPS)
- The Binding Of Isaac

These are probably less-than-traditional picks, but they're what came to mind first for some reason. I see you're on XB1 and more than likely these aren't even remotely compatible, but these also run on potato-tier PC's FWIW.

Also, like a lot of you (probably) I don't really care about them being exactly Halloween-themed. Anything horror / fall / nostalgic kind of fits the bill for me, but YMMV with my picks for sure.

From the FPS genre
Doom series - dive straight into Hell.
Quake Series - Lovecraftian Dimensions and alien cyborg body horror
Half Life series - for Ravenholm
DUSK - if you love Quake

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

In most of the Animal Crossing games the characters celebrate Halloween. A character named Jack, who is a pumpkin spirit, comes to your village while everyone wears costumes, begs you for candy, and are being generally mischievous.

In the first game for Game Cube, all the animals are dressed like Jack and chase after you. If they catch up with you they ask for candy, and if you don't give to them they play a prank that turns your clothes into rags or an item in your inventory into a Jack in the Box. Which is okay if you wanted those things, but if you should avoid wearing an outfit you really like or carrying anything you don't want transformed. The real Jack doesn't chase after you, he just stays in one spot until you talk to him. If you give him candy, he trades it for Spooky Furniture. But if you don't, he plays a prank like the animals do. I would hide my candy in my envelopes to keep them safe and then take a piece out before talking to him.

In New Leaf you can buy monster masks in October and use them to scare different animals in their houses into giving you lollipops,which Jack is especially fond of. Different animal characters have fears of different kinds of monsters, but the sheep characters apparently always afraid of the wolf mask. Jack will trade lollipops for Creepy furniture but candy gets you the usual Spooky furniture.

In New Horizons you can get "reactions" that make your character do spooky animations in October. And if Jack plays a prank on you he may randomly give you spooky-themed face paint, but unfortunately it doesn't get saved with your other designs and once remove it, it's gone.

In the first AC I remember one of the animals telling me Halloween used to be just a holiday for humans but then the animals decided to celebrate it as well. Of course, Christmas is called Toy Day and Easter is called Bunny Day or Egg Day. I read that the Japanese version of the game it's called Christmas, however.