The Best Horror Games for Linux - Page 4

Update : Buckshot Roulette added at rank #13.
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Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs (2013)

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Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.


  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • puzzle

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Echoes (2017)

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wii Linux PC Windows Mac OS gamecube

Follow the clues, question a cast of quirky witnesses and uncover the secrets of the little town of Greenhearth, but the deeper you dig, the more your risk awakening Eldritch horrors. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?


  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • choices
  • 2d
  • hand-drawn
  • interactive
  • noir
  • comic
  • horror
  • rogue-like
  • adventure
  • detective
  • conspiracy
  • hidden-object

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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk (2020)

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"Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk" is a bizarre, yet impactful psychological horror visual novel game that takes only 20 minutes to complete. You play as a voice in the head of a traumatized girl who wants to buy a bag of milk. Experience her struggles with mental illness as you accompany her on this trip. The game has no saving feature, so you must observe the suffering and surrealism with no relief. Despite its unconventional approach, it offers a thought-provoking and honest portrayal of mental illness.

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What we like:
  • Thought-provoking and honest portrayal of mental illness
  • Disturbing and surreal atmosphere
  • Affordable price
  • Unforgettable soundtrack
  • Unique and affecting experience
What could be improved:
  • No player choice or alternate endings
  • Limited gameplay time
  • Minimal graphics
  • No saving feature
  • Abrupt ending if the player is cruel or unhelpful.

  • visual-novel
  • psychological
  • horror
  • experimental
  • abstract
  • text
  • commodore
  • fiction
  • philosophical
  • crow

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Detention (2017)

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Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.

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  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • mythology
  • psychological
  • story

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Saiko no sutoka (2020)

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Saiko No Sutoka is a Horror Survival Game where you as a Protagonist must escape and avoid the crazy yandere girl who wants you dead.

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  • horror
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • psychological
  • choices
  • anime
  • cartoony
  • action-adventure
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • cute
  • atmospheric

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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers (2021)

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Linux PC Windows

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.

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  • psychological
  • horror
  • emotional
  • dark
  • point-and-click
  • gothic
  • supernatural
  • linear
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • drama
  • isometric
  • narrative
  • pixel
  • mystery

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Hidden Deep (2022)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Hidden Deep is an atmospheric sci-fi action game heavily inspired by Aliens, The Thing, and Half-Life. Explore, climb, swim, scan, blast and shoot your way through dangerous missions in a huge sub oceanic mining and research facility. Fear the horrors that lurk below…


  • mining
  • thriller
  • physics
  • dark
  • 2d
  • horror
  • story
  • realistic
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • mystery
  • aliens
  • action-adventure
  • in-game
  • cooperative

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The Hex (2018)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...

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  • psychological
  • horror
  • survivor
  • mystery
  • funny
  • story
  • beat-em-up
  • dark
  • pixel
  • single-player
  • multiple-endings
  • 2d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • book
  • memes

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Parasite (2022)

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early access Xbox One Xbox 360 Playstation 3 Linux PC Windows ps1

This is a roguelike open-world sandbox survival horror set in a modern city. Play as an --redacted-- parasite, possess human hosts, exploit and evolve them to help you survive in a hostile world, all to find out your one true purpose.


  • survival-horror
  • rogue-like
  • horror
  • rpg
  • traditional
  • modern
  • aliens
  • action
  • non-linear
  • illuminati
  • plat-former
  • adventure
  • choices
  • lovecraftian
  • sci-fi

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I'm on Observation Duty (2018)

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Your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies in the monitored rooms. Anomalies range from furniture movement to otherworldly intruders. When you spot an anomaly you have to file a report to fix it. You will need sharp eyes and good memory to survive the entire night.

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  • horror
  • psychological
  • atmospheric

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