A pack of nine spooky games
Spooky Station is a collection of 9 games rather than a single title, and each one plays differently. You get an arena brawler, a rogue-like dungeon crawl, a text adventure, a shoot 'em up, a match 3 game, a first person adventure, a top-down GameBoy-style adventure, a 2-player party game, and a Halloween slasher story. The shared thread is Halloween: pumpkins, demons, curses, monsters and candy. Some games lean on puzzles and enigmas, others on tough bosses and deadly enemies, so the pack covers casual arcade play and harder challenge runs in the same place.
Playing together
Two of the games are built for groups. The Spooky Land is a shoot 'em up adventure for up to 4 players in co-op, where a group of mischievous kids fights monsters, dodges traps and collects candy. The party game puts two players against each other to see who is the better worshiper of the demon lord. Beyond those, the pack supports Remote Play Together, so friends who do not own it can join in over a remote session. The rest of the games are singleplayer experiences, which suits taking turns on the couch or watching someone else work through a story.
What to know before starting
The games vary a lot in style and difficulty, so expect to switch gears between sessions. One of them is a one-button arcade game about shooting a pumpkin into a cauldron while dodging obstacles — simple to understand, hard to master. Another is a classic rogue-like with a demon-filled dungeon of 100 floors, where death means starting the descent again. Wishing Sarah is a top-down adventure that supports keyboard and Xbox controllers and ships with its original GameBoy ROM image. The text-based game has you play Sister Constance, gathering ingredients and making choices to deliver a Death Curse, and the first person adventure has you hunting down items for Johnny the serial killer while inspecting them to read his thoughts. Killing Moon is a chapter-based thriller where you switch protagonists, so the tone is story-heavy there. Check which of the nine suits the mood of your group before you commit an evening to it.