The Best Top-down shooter horror Games for Linux

Tesla vs Lovecraft is a classic twin-stick shooter with an intriguingly zany premise that pits horror against science. Play as the celebrated inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla and battle hordes of undead monsters using a suite of perks and abilities like jetpack teleportation, increased health and a mech suit.

Lumencraft is an addictive and action-packed game that combines mining, strategy, and tower defense elements. You play as a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world, where you need to mine resources, build structures, and defend against swarms of enemies to find the Lumen crystal, the last hope of mankind. With its destructible environments and multiple game modes, Lumencraft offers a unique and challenging gaming experience that will keep you coming back for more.

Welcome to Paws Against the World (PAW), where the last humans are gone, and it’s up to the animals to claw their way through hordes of relentless zombies. Think fast-paced, loot-grabbing action, but with a wild twist—play as cute critters fighting for survival.

An Agonized Mind is a minimalist, survival horror, 2D top down shooter. Explore corridors filled with mutilated human experiments as you run and shoot your way to freedom. Gather resources and upgrade yourself, choosing to be robotic or human as you fight horrors of the compound.

Riley In The Abyss is a stealth action shooter. You wake up as 'Riley'in an underwater facility to research the depths of the ocean. Upon waking up, something is wrong... Everyone is seemingly dead. Sink or swim in this short psychological horror game.

Dead End Job merges the frantic, addictive, highly replayable gameplay of a procedurally generated twin-stick shooter with the iconic look of a 90s cartoon. You take on the role of a worker at Ghoul-B-Gone – the #1 experts in paranormal pest control. Ghosts are captured using a tug-of-war mechanic and every ghost you catch, citizen rescued, and job completed is added to the client’s bill. Every week in-game you’re competing against the company golden boy to be named “Employee of the Week" based on the amount of money you earned the company. Have you got what it takes to be the best at putting pests to rest?

Albert and Rose investigate a manor with miscreants and broken souls. Stay together and survive the horror.