The Best Horror storytelling Games for Linux - Page 4

Update : The Drifter added at rank #1.
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Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood (2021)

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Scarlet Hood must lead a hapless Munchkin troupe through the Wicked Wood. Too bad the Black Witch, LeFaba, doesn't take too kindly to strangers gallivanting in her domain. Our fledgling witch soon realizes she's reliving the same day. Can she overcome the disaster that awaits at every turn?


  • investigation
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • comic
  • scroller
  • adventure
  • interactive
  • puzzle
  • endings
  • cartoony
  • book
  • horror
  • stylized
  • story
  • text

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Saint Kotar (2021)

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Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.


  • psychological
  • horror
  • point-and-click
  • lovecraftian
  • detective
  • mystery
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • interactive
  • fiction
  • gothic
  • dark
  • story
  • lore
  • atmospheric

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Endless Dark (2023)

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An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.

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  • rogue-like
  • dynamic
  • psychological
  • humor
  • horror
  • narration
  • choices
  • minimalist
  • dark
  • conversation
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • multiple-endings
  • pixel
  • management

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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi (2017)

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This series of deaths and disappearances is connected to the local resistance against a now-abandoned dam construction project. THE GAME THAT INSPIRED THE MEGA-HIT ANIME SERIES RETURNS WITH BRAND NEW CHARACTER ART! Multi-language: Switch between English & Japanese Renewed Art: Switch between original and new character art Original BGM/Un-Cut Contents Multi-OS Support


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

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SUNLESS SEA (2015)

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LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.


  • rogue-like
  • sailing
  • exploration
  • story
  • pirates
  • narrative
  • horror
  • adventure
  • discovery
  • combat
  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • naval

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Fibrillation HD (2017)

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Linux PC Windows

Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.

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  • walking-simulator
  • horror
  • psychedelic
  • philosophical
  • short
  • surreal
  • abstract
  • atmospheric
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • exploration
  • dark
  • story
  • first-person
  • supernatural

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My Grandpa's Haunted House (2024)

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My Grandpa's Haunted House is a 2D top-down survival horror game based on the story of a girl named Emily who has returned to her grandpa's house from abroad only to find out that her grandpa passed away and his spirit got trapped in the house by a Demon.

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  • walking-simulator
  • survival-horror
  • anime
  • top-down
  • horror
  • 2d
  • casual
  • story
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • programming

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True Abstraction: Rewind (2024)

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Solve puzzles in a secret, Lunar facility, while trying to not get killed by whatever nightmare still roams the chambers.

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  • logic
  • linear
  • horror
  • space
  • puzzle
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • 3d
  • single-player
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • sci-fi
  • platform

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Morningtide Motel (2024)

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Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?

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  • choices
  • conversation
  • multiple-endings
  • hand-drawn
  • psychological
  • visual-novel
  • point-and-click
  • lore
  • horror
  • fiction
  • story
  • management
  • magic
  • stylized
  • 2d

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44 The Jail (2024)

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They got locked up in a prison for a reason. Try to get the answers in this point and click adventure.

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  • thriller
  • narration
  • point-and-click
  • conversation
  • choices
  • fiction
  • multiple-endings
  • detective
  • story
  • third-person
  • pixel
  • drama
  • interactive
  • horror
  • 2d

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