Gaming How-To

Halloween: The Game: How to Install Mods on PC

Everything needed to drop cosmetic .pak mods into the game's Paks folder, confirm they loaded, and remove them later.

Everything needed to drop cosmetic .pak mods into the game’s Paks folder, confirm they loaded, and remove them later.

Image: IllFonic

Modding Halloween: The Game on PC is about as simple as PC modding gets. There is no mod manager to set up, no loader to install, and no configuration file to edit. You download a mod, unzip it, and drop the files into one folder inside the game’s install directory. The character skins the community has built so far — a Jason Savini look for Michael Myers, a Deadpool model over Bob Simms — all work the same way.

Quick answer: Browse the game’s local files, open Ravage/Content/Paks, and copy the mod’s extracted files into that folder. Launch the game and the skin shows up in the character selection menu.


What these mods change in Halloween: The Game

The skin mods are client-side and cosmetic only. You see the replacement model on your own screen, and nobody else in the lobby does. They do not change movement, stealth, detection, or any other rule of a match, and they do not unlock anything on your account.

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The Forge installer window is open beside desktop Java files. Shown at 02:32 in GuideRealm’s video. Image: IllFonic

The game ships with Easy Anti-Cheat running alongside it. Keep anything that touches gameplay values or objectives out of public matchmaking — cosmetic model swaps are the category the community sticks to for a reason.


What you need before installing mods

  • A PC copy of Halloween: The Game installed through Steam.
  • A Nexus Mods account for the game’s mod page, where the community files are hosted.
  • Any archive tool that can unpack .zip or .7z files.
  • The Character Body Shrink Remover mod, which some character replacements list as a requirement.

Here is how the three mods covered below fit together.

ModReplacesAlso needs
Jason Savini (Friday the 13th) – Myers 1978Michael MyersCharacter Body Shrink Remover
Deadpool over BobBob SimmsNone
Character Body Shrink RemoverNothing on its ownNone

The Character Body Shrink Remover is not a skin. It stops the game from scaling a modded character model down, which is what keeps a replacement like the Savini Jason model sized correctly. Always check a mod’s own requirements list before you install it.

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The mod manager lists Iris Shaders, Waystones, and Xaero's Minimap. Shown at 02:35 in The Breakdown’s video. Image: IllFonic

Find the Paks folder for Halloween: The Game

Every mod goes into the same destination, so it is worth opening this folder once and leaving the window on screen while you work.

Open your Steam library and right-click Halloween: The Game. Choose Manage, then Browse local files. File Explorer opens on the game’s install directory.
From there, open the Ravage folder, then Content, then Paks. The full path you want is Ravage/Content/Paks, and you should see the game’s own packaged files sitting inside it.
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The Paks folder inside Ravage/Content, where every mod file goes. Shown at 02:17 in SIMPLYAMAZING’s video. Image: IllFonic

Copy that Paks path into a shortcut or pin the folder to Quick Access. You will come back to it every time you add or remove a mod.


Install a character skin mod

On the mod’s Nexus Mods page, open the Files tab and download the main file. Manual downloads are fine here since nothing needs to be handled by a mod manager.
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The Iron Chests Files tab lists a 1.20.1 Forge file. Shown at 00:46 in GuideRealm’s video. Image: IllFonic
Extract the archive somewhere easy to reach, such as your desktop or Downloads folder. Inside you will find the mod’s packaged files, usually a .pak plus its matching companion files.
Select those extracted files and copy them into the Paks folder you opened earlier. Do not copy the containing folder or the .zip — the loose files belong directly in Paks alongside the game’s own.
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Copying the extracted Jason Savini mod files into the game's Paks folder. Shown at 03:24 in SIMPLYAMAZING’s video. Image: IllFonic
Repeat the same download, extract, copy routine for the Character Body Shrink Remover if the skin you installed requires it, and again for any other mod such as Deadpool over Bob. Multiple mods can sit in the Paks folder at the same time as long as they replace different characters.

Check that the mod loaded

Start the game and open the character selection menu. A working skin mod replaces the model right there, so Michael Myers appears as Savini Jason and Bob Simms appears as Deadpool before you ever load into a match. The swap carries through into gameplay, including kill animations.

If the default character is still showing, the files almost certainly landed in the wrong place. Go back to Ravage/Content/Paks and confirm the mod files are sitting loose in that folder rather than nested inside a subfolder left over from the archive.


Remove mods and restore the default game

Uninstalling is the install process in reverse. Open the Paks folder, delete the files you added for that mod, and the game loads its original character models the next time you launch it. Nothing else needs to be reset.

Because everything lives in one folder, it is easy to keep a modded setup for casual play and strip it back in under a minute. Browse the game’s Nexus page occasionally too — the mod list keeps growing, and anything new follows the exact same routine.