The Best Thriller Games for Linux

Update : House Of Chavez added at rank #5.
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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

2

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

3

Antioch: Scarlet Bay (2022)

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Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure. Play as two detectives working together to solve a murder in the shadowy city of Antioch. Wander in a city filled with characters with their own agendas and attitudes, all your decisions change the story and lead to multi endings.

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  • choices
  • dark
  • multiple-endings
  • noir
  • cooperative
  • asynchronous
  • comic
  • 1990s
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • detective
  • comedy
  • interactive
  • visual-novel
  • book

4

Born Punk (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

A former combat hacker, a corporate CEO and a malfunctioning android get possessed by mysterious, otherworldly entities and must band together to save themselves and uncover the entities' origins. Talk, puzzle and explore your way through this (often humorous) cyberpunk thriller.


  • cyberpunk
  • thriller
  • point-and-click
  • cats
  • pixel
  • comedy
  • futuristic
  • puzzle
  • multiple-endings
  • sci-fi
  • colourful
  • melbourne
  • choices

5

House Of Chavez (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Play as Adriana and travel to Europe with her brother Bruno. Meet Silke, who attended to Adriana's grandmother Maria during her final moments, and Dolores, a stunning and secretive woman on a trip. Explore House Chavez's shadowy hallways and navigate the mysteries within.

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  • lgbtq
  • thriller
  • psychological
  • visual-novel
  • lovecraftian
  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • romance
  • dark
  • anime
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adventure
  • story

6

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

7

The Fernweh Saga: Book One (2023)

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Expose the dark secrets and mysteries of your seemingly idyllic hometown in this romantic thriller! Will you fall in love or fall victim to its horrors?

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  • choices
  • thriller
  • romance
  • text
  • fiction
  • atmospheric
  • interactive
  • supernatural
  • surreal
  • mystery
  • casual
  • rpg

8

A Hand With Many Fingers (2020)

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Unravel a real conspiracy from deep within the CIA’s archives. Search classified documents and follow new leads in this non-linear investigative thriller.

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  • conspiracy
  • thriller
  • investigation
  • investigative
  • detective
  • crime
  • historical

9

44 The Jail (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

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

10

A Night at the Watermill (2024)

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You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.


  • horror
  • point-and-click
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • dark
  • visual-novel
  • hand-drawn
  • psychological
  • narration
  • interactive
  • atmospheric
  • noir
  • multiple-endings
  • exploration
  • cartoony

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