Best Perks in Halloween: The Game — Perk Card Tier List

The first meta week of Halloween: The Game has produced a real perk consensus, and it is clearer than expected. This tier list ranks every known civilian perk card from launch coverage and early meta testing — and, just as importantly, explains the deck logic that makes broad perks beat narrow ones. How the system itself works (points, rolls, decks) lives in our perks guide.

Halloween: The Game — every civilian perk ranked — YouTube

Halloween: The Game — every civilian perk ranked

The Core Principle: Random Rolls Reward Broad Cards

Remember the deck math: your 15-card deck gets sampled during the match — fill the progression circle and the game rolls three cards from your deck, keeping one until the next fill. Empty slots are auto-filled with random cards. That means a deck full of niche perks spends its rolls on cards that may never matter, while S-tier broad cards are useful every single roll.

S-Tier — Build Around These

Every one of these helps in every round: chases, heals, escapes, revives. This is the core of any competitive deck.

A-Tier — Strong and Reliable

Knockout deserves a spotlight: a longer Michael knockdown is exactly what the arrest strategy needs. Exit Strategy and Survival Intuition pair beautifully with the escape routes on the East Haddonfield map.

B-Tier — Playstyle-Dependent

Bullet Belt (extra ammo) · Breakfall (landing recovery) · Brimstone Fuse (longer firecracker stun) · Barricade (stronger locked doors) · Repair Expert (repair kit efficiency) · Scavenger (faster rummaging) · Silver Tongue (more conversation time) · Smooth Talker (bigger perfect zone on dispatch calls) · Trespasser (lockpicking) · Witness State (outlines nearby residents) · Pied Piper (higher follower cap) · Shared Desperation (armed residents deal more damage) · Fade To Black (faster Stalk decay while hiding) · Elusory (slower Stalk buildup on you) · Ghost (faster Stalk decay) · Dying Breath (grab escape at low health) · Liquid Courage (melee bonus while drunk) · Reveler (longer intoxication)

These shine in the right build — a Marcus car-escape deck wants Repair Expert and Trespasser — but as random rolls they underperform the S/A lists.

C and D-Tier — Skip

Deaden (less visible noise pings) · Grave Footing (fewer trips while exhausted) · Panic Driver (less vehicle damage) · Convincing Plea (shorter cop-wave timers) · Frantic (adds police presence) · Shield Of Law (less fear near police) · Aura Of Awareness (bigger Shape Jump prevention radius) · Glass Walker (less window-dive damage)

Three Meta Decks

1. All-round survivor — the eight S-tier cards, then A-tier movement and healing. Default for solo queue.
2. Follower support — Voice Of Reason, Guardian Shadow, Pied Piper + S-tier cores, on a high-Personality civilian. The strongest round-score build: residents escape faster and survive longer.
3. Combat / arrest — Contender, Brutal Cleave, Solid Foundation, Knockout + S-tier cores, on a high-Capability civilian. The build for squads hunting the detain win condition.

Michael’s counter-kit is covered in his play guide; the underlying system in the perks guide; and every term in the glossary.