The Best Horror Games for Linux - Page 5

Update : The Drifter added at rank #7.
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The Hex (2018)

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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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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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Desolatium (2023)

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DESOLATIUM is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.

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  • horror
  • point-and-click
  • psychological
  • lovecraftian
  • mystery
  • narration
  • multiple-endings
  • detective
  • choices
  • investigation
  • visual-novel
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • first-person
  • exploration

44

Baldi's Basics Plus (2020)

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Baldi's Basics Plus is like the original game, but PLUS! The same cruddy edutainment horror type parody theme is back, but with hugely expanded gameplay features, including procedurally generated levels, field trip minigames, crazy random events, PLUS more characters, more items, and more chaos!

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  • parody
  • rogue-like
  • procedural
  • horror
  • perma-death
  • stealth
  • 1990s
  • satire
  • 3d
  • surreal
  • first-person
  • survival-horror
  • retro
  • funny
  • exploration

45

Isolomus (2020)

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Make your own way through the madness! I swear, they forced me to make this game! Help me! (distant mumbling and the sounds of struggle) ... Play time is about 10–20 minutes. I hope you will remember this experience for a long time. Two endings. The question is which of them is the worst. All the graphics and animations are handmade from plasticine.

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  • dark
  • humor
  • short
  • horror
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • point-and-click
  • minimalist
  • story
  • 2d
  • casual
  • single-player

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Detention (2017)

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Playstation 4 IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch

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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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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Devil's Hideout (2024)

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Devil's Hideout is a horror point and click adventure. Lauren learns from a mystic that her young sister is still alive, with cultists staging her death. Traveling to the hospital where her sister received care, Lauren plunges headfirst into a nightmare.

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  • horror
  • point-and-click
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • 1990s
  • demons
  • interactive
  • investigation
  • retro
  • stylized
  • adventure
  • old-school
  • fully-voiced
  • first-person
  • occult

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.detuned (2023)

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An eerie anti-rhythm hiden-object roguelike. Avoid a procedurally generated song. Look for pearls in a surreal wonderland. Experience hyperacusis from the comfort of your seat.

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  • horror
  • 2.5d
  • rhythm
  • procedural
  • psychedelic
  • rogue-like
  • hidden-object
  • surreal
  • hand-drawn
  • perma-death
  • dark
  • stylized
  • psychological
  • art
  • survival-horror

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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi (2019)

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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

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