Halloween is around the corner and everybody is getting ready for scary and fun times, including the gaming industry. In this list I am going to talk about the in-game Halloween events I’m most excited for and which ones I will be enjoying all of October.
1 Overwatch Halloween Terror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkYnc7pa4TQn
Overwatch is back at it again with its Halloween terror event, and it is bigger and better than before. For starters, the Halloween chests are back and contain all new and old Halloween items including 8 new legendary skins which in my opinion are some of the best skins in the game. Junkenstein’s revenge also made its comeback and even improved on itself. Together with a higher difficulty Blizzard also added the much wanted ‘endless mode’. So all in all Halloween is a great time for all Overwatch players with a new game mode, new items and free loot for everyone.
2 League of Legends Harrowing
As always Riot Games has something planned for Halloween, and as always they like to keep it a secret from the players. last year the infamous ‘Doom Bots’ made their return, so my expectations are quite high this time. And if Halloween alone is not exciting enough for all League of Legends players, we are also in the middle of ‘Worlds’, the biggest League of Legends tournaments there is. So for all League of Legends players out there, get prepared because things are going to get exciting.
3 Black Desert Online Halloween in Wonderland
One of my favorite events of this year has to be Black Desert Online’s ‘Halloween in Wonderland’. From what I have seen in the trailer, the environment looks really good and you can clearly see that it is indeed inspired by ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Apart from the beautiful look there also is an interesting storyline about two queens, who seem to be in conflict with each other and it is up to the player to defeat the black queen. On top of all that, there are new costumes, pets and an in-game mask for players to do some trick-or-treating. I hope everybody is just as excited for this event as I am because I can not wait to experience it for myself.
4 Pokémon GO
If you thought Pokémon GO was dead, you are horribly wrong. The game still has a solid player-base which is growing every day, and with the new Halloween update I can not imagine anything else, but even more growth for the game. Even Though exact details are still unavailable, Leaked pictures show us a new Pikachu wearing a witch hat and multiple gen 3 ghost Pokemon. it is still unknown if any other gen 3 Pokemon will make an appearance to the game but since gen 3 contains some of my favorite Pokémon I can not wait to find out.
5 Other Blizzard Games
If there is one king of in-game events, it is Blizzard. Currently running Halloween events for many of their games including Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm and of course World of Warcraft. Even though I have to admit don’t play all these games, I have a lot of respect for Blizzard and definitely understand that people are hyped for these events, especially Hearthstone’s real-life meet-up events sound really exciting and fun. But if you thought that was it, Junkrat from Overwatch makes his debut in Heroes of the Storm, which obviously makes a lot of Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm players really happy.
So for all Blizzard fans out there, Halloween is promising to be a great time for all of you.
Obviously, there are many other games and franchises that have a Halloween event and I will try to play the majority of them but these are the in-game Halloween events I am most excited for, and I hope you are too.
Written by Sjaak den Heijer
Sjaak is an enthusiastic game design student from The Netherlands who ha been gaming from a really young age together with his older brother. Sjaak also loves writing about games and sharing his opinions about them.
