The Best Horror storytelling Games for Linux - Page 3

Update : The Drifter added at rank #1.
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No Recollection (2024)

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A mystery visual novel following a boy who awoke in a strange building, with no recollection of where he is, how he arrived, why he’s here, or how to leave. Discover the answers to these mysteries as you search for a way out. Meet a small but colorful cast in your journey, and escape together!

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  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • detective
  • multiple-endings
  • psychological
  • dark
  • interactive
  • anime
  • mystery
  • story
  • colourful
  • romance
  • casual

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Estranged: Act II (2017)

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Estranged: The Departure follows the story of a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Little does he know his adventure has just begun, and the island is home to more than it first seems.

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  • casual
  • violent
  • horror
  • adventure
  • underwater
  • fps
  • story
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • action
  • arcade

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Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story (2021)

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Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux vita Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

A 2.5D horror game inspired by Clock Tower and Fatal Frame, mixing cyberpunk with traditional Cantonese folklore. With careful attention to pacing, atmosphere and storytelling, Sense hopes to return the horror genre to its roots by celebrating visceral horror and the slow, fearful creep of dread.

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • cyberpunk
  • point-and-click
  • exploration
  • futuristic
  • story
  • dystopian
  • over-the-top
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • cerebral
  • supernatural
  • adventure
  • psychological

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Flesh Water (2021)

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This is your last day as a worker for a pet feeding service, and depending on how the day goes, your life. Prepare the final meal for a client's odd pet that lives in an abandoned pool all while trying to make it out safely and avoid mistakes.

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  • horror
  • walking-simulator
  • multiple-endings
  • dark
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • choices
  • scroller
  • action-adventure
  • mystery
  • pixel
  • story
  • exploration

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Red Silhouette (2024)

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2.5D survival horror game, where Eevi works security at the abandoned Silver Leaf Mall known to contain doors to many dead dreams.

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  • horror
  • thriller
  • 2.5d
  • dark
  • psychological
  • cinematic
  • third-person
  • abstract
  • tps
  • action-adventure
  • walking-simulator
  • hand-drawn
  • minimalist
  • story
  • colourful

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Psychroma (2024)

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PC Windows Linux Xbox Series X j Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Psychroma is a narrative-driven side-scroller where you play as a digital medium. Confront the past by piecing together the broken memories of a cybernetic house, and exorcise the ghosts in the machine.

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  • cyberpunk
  • psychedelic
  • psychological
  • capitalism
  • nonlinear
  • scroller
  • horror
  • lgbtq
  • dystopian
  • pixel
  • emotional
  • story
  • surreal
  • fiction
  • dark

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Sanity of Morris (2021)

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Linux Mac OS Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows

Sanity of Morris: a psychological horror adventure game. Your flashlight reveals the clues you need to stay sane in the search for your father. Discover the truth. Could aliens be real?

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  • horror
  • thriller
  • detective
  • psychological
  • tutorial
  • psychedelic
  • surreal
  • survival-horror
  • action-adventure
  • stealth
  • first-person
  • mystery
  • cinematic
  • story
  • sci-fi

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Cellar (2016)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Playstation 3 Playstation 4 vita Nintendo Switch

A story-focused game about six strangers stuck together for a month, and a machine that must be kept running.

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  • underground
  • pixel
  • philosophical
  • dark
  • conversation
  • story
  • fiction
  • emotional
  • atmospheric
  • single-player
  • time-management
  • interactive
  • horror
  • casual
  • short

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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi (2016)

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Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.


  • visual-novel
  • horror
  • psychological
  • anime
  • mystery
  • story
  • dark

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Sofi Origins (2023)

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Sofi Origins is an adventure, suspense, and horror game in which you play as Sofi, a girl with a very sad past, but who in her world has powers. Alongside Sofi, you will experience fear and sadness in a unique way. You will have to use your skills and stay focused to confront the past.

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  • horror
  • 2.5d
  • clicker
  • platform
  • psychological
  • magic
  • action-adventure
  • thriller
  • dark
  • puzzle
  • story
  • 3d
  • realistic
  • atmospheric
  • first-person

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