The Best Horror Games for Linux

Update : The Drifter added at rank #7.
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Amnesia: The Bunker (2023)

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Linux Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows Mac OS Xbox Series X/s Xbox One

Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.


  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • inventory
  • first-person

2

Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut (2024)

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You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.


  • visual-novel
  • horror
  • choices
  • psychological
  • dating-sim
  • romance
  • lore
  • souls
  • comic
  • humor
  • fiction
  • walking-simulator
  • point-and-click

3

Fear the Spotlight (2023)

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Linux j Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

Fear The Spotlight is a third-person survival horror adventure with a PS1 inspired visual style. After a séance goes wrong, you have to solve puzzles, hide from monsters, and search an empty school for your missing friend.

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • puzzle
  • stealth
  • story
  • psychological

4

Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 4 Mac OS Linux Xbox Series X

Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.


  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • pixel
  • dark
  • anime
  • psychedelic
  • psychological
  • satire
  • puzzle
  • humor
  • blood
  • horror-comedy
  • dystopian
  • adventure
  • multiple-endings

5

Split! (2022)

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Linux Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox 360 Playstation 3 psp PC Windows Android

A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.


  • platform
  • horror
  • precision
  • puzzle
  • typing
  • 2.5d
  • atmospheric
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • terminal
  • contemplative
  • dual-player
  • 2d
  • psychological
  • simulation

6

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...


  • point-and-click
  • horror
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • fiction
  • emotional
  • adventure
  • story
  • mystery
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • drama
  • interactive
  • thriller
  • cinematic

7

The Drifter (2025)

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A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.


  • point-and-click
  • thriller
  • pixel
  • horror
  • modern
  • adventure
  • story
  • mystery
  • manipulation
  • supernatural
  • investigation
  • noir
  • time
  • controller-support
  • sci-fi

8

Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel (2022)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X Linux PC Windows Playstation 5

Explore a decadent hotel across different timelines and uncover the dark history of a fanatical cult and your role in their plans.

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • puzzle
  • first-person
  • inventory
  • exploration
  • supernatural

9

Exiled (2024)

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Charlotte is missing. Decode an ancient language, investigate a mystery, and stay away from ancient monsters in this compact puzzle thriller.


  • horror
  • crawl
  • survival-horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • point-and-click
  • sailing
  • arpg
  • psychological
  • multiple-endings
  • dark
  • choices
  • isometric
  • stylized
  • classic

10

Terminal 81 (2023)

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Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Linux PC Windows

Thanks to the financial crisis of 2008, Lorena migrated to Terminal 81 to work, but what seemed like a simple Latin American neighborhood, it was a dangerous region dominated by a mysterious criminal organization that carries out murders, kidnappings and human trafficking.

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  • horror
  • job
  • psychological
  • retro
  • mystery
  • noir
  • crime
  • simulation
  • investigation
  • open-world
  • capitalism
  • choices
  • immersive
  • emotional

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