Horror for Linux — top best games in the Horror genre

7 Days to Die - a game in the Horror genre

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Survival, Online, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox

Early Access: Linux → 13 December 2013; Game released: Linux → 25 July 2024

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 41/100

Players find themselves in a world gripped by a zombie apocalypse, where the main task is survival. During the day, they search for resources, build shelters and...

System Shock Remake

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Science fiction, Remake

Game released: Linux → 30 May 2023

Players: 7.9/10

A remake of the legendary role-playing shooter System Shock. The game takes place in the year 2072, where all resources on Earth have been practically depleted...

Metro: Last Light

Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 5 November 2013

VGTimes: 9.6/10

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Left 4 Dead 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Darkwood

Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Survival, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 17 August 2017

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Top-down survival action-horror adventure. Events take place in a mysterious forest, where every night threatens to be the last. Players control a nameless hero who...

Unturned

Online, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Sandbox

Early Access: Linux → 7 July 2014; Game released: Linux → 7 July 2017

Players: 7.9/10

Unturned is a multiplayer sandbox action game with a first-person view. The main goal here is to survive by defending yourself from zombies and hostile players...

Don't Starve

Simulation, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Indie, Survival

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Don't Starve is an adventure game about survival in a randomly generated world. In it you have to collect resources, stock up on food, grow berries and vegetables...

SOMA

Action, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 22 September 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

SOMA is a new project from Frictional Games, the creators of Penumbra and Amnesia. The plot revolves around the underwater research facility PATHOS-2, where...

Carrion

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2020

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The game's protagonist is a creature created in a laboratory that managed to escape from a glass container and start hunting its creators. The huge complex and its...

Police Stories

Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Police Stories is a top-down tactical shooter with horror elements. You will play as a policeman and, together with your partner Rick, go to storm various premises...

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 16 March 2002

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a legendary first-person shooter with elements of mysticism and horror. The game takes place in 1940 during World War II. As in the...

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager

Role-playing game, Strategy, Horror, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Early Access: Linux → 20 March 2020; Game released: Linux → 29 April 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager is a dark role-playing roguelike with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. You have to build a...

Observer

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2017

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Observer is an adventure with horror elements and a first-person view in a cyberpunk style from the creators of Layers of Fear. The game takes place in 2084 in a...

DOOM (1993)

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 1994

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Клеть

Action, Horror, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Linux → 13 December 2024; Game released: Linux → 19 February 2026

Players: 8.4/10

Cooperative action-horror from the creators of Kuzhlevka. Players try to survive in the Gigakhryushchevka, riding a living and voracious elevator...

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 10 September 2013

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a continuation of the first-person horror adventure Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The game completely inherits the ideas of the original...

Dead Age 2

Role-playing game, Horror, Side view, Turn-based, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 12 March 2021; Early Access: Linux → 16 July 2020

Players: 8/10

Dead Age 2 is a continuation of the action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. 10 years after the first...

Death Trash

Role-playing game, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Linux → 5 August 2021; Game in development: Linux → 2026

Players: 10/10

Death Trash is a post-apocalyptic isometric role-playing game with horror elements in a futuristic setting. You'll be sent into a world filled with large creatures...

Dead Age

Role-playing game, Horror, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Dead Age is an action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. You will go to a world where you will forever have to...

DUSK

Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2018

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 88/100

A retro shooter filled with three atmospheric campaign episodes, designed in the spirit of the 90s. The main character fights against mystical creatures. The game...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 4 October 2013

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 57/100

Knock-knock is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. In the depths of a dense forest there is a wooden house. A man lives in this house...

Skyhill

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2015

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Skyhill is a quest with survival elements. The main character ends up in a hotel called SKYHILL, where he rents the safest room on the hundredth floor. And then...

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2023

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 91/100

A mixture of horror and dating simulator about a princess imprisoned in a basement. Usually such stories end with the girl being saved, but this time it’s the other...

Slender Threads

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2025

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Atmospheric quest, where reality is intertwined with nightmares. Harvey, a wandering salesman, is in a small town of Villa Ventat. Its days are filled with...

2Dark

Arcade, Action, Horror, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 10 March 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 62/100

2Dark is an arcade action-horror game with survival elements and a top-down view. The main character discovers his beloved dead, and his two children are kidnapped...

Fran Bow

Adventure, Horror, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2015

Players: 9.4/10

Fran Bow is an atmospheric point and click adventure with horror elements. A very interesting story awaits you of a girl who is not at all crazy. But still, the...

Left 4 Dead 3

Action, Shooter, Horror, Hack and slash, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Not officially announced: Linux → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 7.8/10

The game is a prequel to Left 4 Dead and tells about the first month of infection. Six chapters, four characters, one of which fights with fists and has a unique...

The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters

Adventure, Horror, Side view

Game released: Linux → 28 January 2020

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 74/100

The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters is a continuation of the horror adventure with survival elements. The game tells the story of a young girl, Mine Park, who, under...

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2019

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is an isometric horror RPG with turn-based combat that will take you to eerie worlds based on the stories of writer Howard Phillips...

Among the Sleep

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 29 May 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Among the Sleep is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view and horror elements. The main character is a very young child. He is hiding from a mysterious...

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Free game

Game released: Linux → 27 April 2017

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Bendy and the Ink Machine is an episodic adventure with horror elements and a first-person perspective. Visually, the game is made in the style of the first...

Monstrum

Action, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Monstrum is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. All levels in the game are procedurally generated, so with each playthrough you will encounter...

Eldritch

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2013

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Eldritch is a first-person role-playing game with elements of action, shooter, adventure, horror, stealth and indie games from the developers of Minor Key Games...

DreadOut

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 15 May 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 55/100

DreadOut is an action-horror game played from a third-person perspective. The events of the game will tell the story of young Linda and her friends, who find...

Cayne

Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Free game

Game released: Linux → 24 January 2017

Steam: 80/100

Cayne is a shareware adventure horror game with an isometric camera view. The game's events revolve around a pregnant woman named Hadley, who is about to give...

Shadowgrounds

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2009

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Shadowgrounds is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, shooter, horror and sandbox from the masters from the studio Frozenbyte, Inc.. The game is...

Monochroma

Arcade, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 61/100

Monochroma is an atmospheric puzzle platformer with horror elements and a side view. The game takes place in a gloomy industrial world. You will learn the story of...

Dying Light: Hellraid

Action, Arcade, Horror, DLC, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2020

Players: 8/10

Dying Light: Hellraid is an add-on for dynamic action in an open world with a first-person view and a zombie apocalypse setting. The new chapter will make you feel...

Deadly 30

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Slasher, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 January 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Deadly 30 is an arcade game with elements of action, shooter, horror, slasher, platformer and indie game from the studios Gonzalo Villagomez and Ignatus Zuk. The...

Count Lucanor

Adventure, Horror, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2016

Players: 9/10

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Best Games in the Horror genre for Linux