Horror for Linux — top best games in the Horror genre / Page 2

Online, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical, Horror

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Tannenberg is a standalone add-on for the multiplayer third-person shooter about the First World War Verdun. The game will focus on the events of the Eastern Front...

Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story

Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Side view, Survival horror

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2020

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story is a side-view horror adventure in cyberpunk style. The game takes place in 2083 in Neo-Hong Kong. The main character is a young girl...

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 10 September 2013

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 65/100

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...

Close Me

Indie, Adventure, Horror

Game released: Linux → 9 August 2017

Steam: 78/100

This adventure horror game centers on a person who wakes up unable to remember the previous night’s dream. The player moves through everyday activities: going...

Yuppie Psycho

Indie, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Top-down view, Puzzle, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2019

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Yuppie Psycho is an adventure horror game with stealth elements and a top-down view. The game takes place in a dystopian world from the 90s, where in the role of...

Fragile Reflection

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Old school, Zombies, Survival horror, Horror

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2025

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 75/100

The old Japanese town of Nankofuraku is shrouded in a haze of memories and pain. When Karyo Ito returns there to her family, she discovers not a cozy village, but a...

Shadows of Kurgansk

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Survival, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Shadows of Kurgansk is an action shooter with a first-person view and horror elements in a post-apocalyptic world. You have to survive in a Zone where zombies live...

Among the Sleep

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 May 2014

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

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...

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 96/100

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...

Banebush

Horror, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 December 2024

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 94/100

A gloomy adventure made in black and red colors and inspired by fairy tales. The game has several endings, the receipt of which depends on the decisions made by the...

Killing Floor

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

Game released: Linux → 14 May 2009

Players: 8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Killing Floor is a cooperative horror shooter with a first-person view. Hordes of dangerous clones created by a biotechnological corporation have broken free. Only...

Black Mirror

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 28 November 2017

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 47/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Black Mirror (2017) — point and click horror adventure with puzzle elements. Since childhood, our hero, David, has been tormented by nightmares and visions...

Machine Party

Action, Horror, Logic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2026

Steam: 87/100

Cooperative game for 2–4 players, inspired by the tense atmosphere of Buckshot Roulette. Participants must go through a series of brutal mini-games, where any...

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 22 April 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an adventure RPG puzzle game with horror elements and an isometric view. You are a nice baby turnip who was declared an enemy of...

Dead Maze

Action, Horror, MMO, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Survival, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 67/100

Dead Maze is a free-to-play multiplayer action role-playing game with an isometric camera view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. Players must team up to...

Hatred

Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 43/100

An isometric twin-stick shooter about a character known as the Antagonist, who declares war on humanity and seeks to unleash Armageddon. The action takes place on...

Layers of Fear (2016)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 15 February 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Layers of Fear is a first-person psychological horror about a mad artist around whom horrific things unfold. Players will get into a huge mansion with beautiful...

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil

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

Game released: Linux → 24 May 2005

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil is an add-on for the legendary first-person shooter with horror elements Doom 3. 2147 2 years have passed since the events of Doom 3...

Skyhill

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

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2015

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 69/100

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...

White Night

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2015

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 65/100

White Night is an adventure black-and-white horror game in the noir style. The action of the game takes place in the 1930s, where you will explore the sinister and...

Painkiller: Hell & Damnation

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

Game released: Linux → 27 May 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Painkiller: Hell & Damnation is a continuation of the hardcore and bloody third-person shooter, which is a re-release of the original Painkiller, released in 2004...

Dying Light: Hellraid

Action, Arcade, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2020

Players: 8/10

Steam: 41/100

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...

Blue Ridge Hunting

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

Early Access: Linux → 20 October 2026; Game in development: Linux → 2027

Steam: 47/100

A cooperative game set in the Appalachian Mountains, players team up to search for traces of cryptid creatures lurking in the shadows. Players can use a variety of...

Neverway

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Simulation, Top-down view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Construction, Crafting

Game in development: Linux → 2027

A dark hybrid game that combines elements of life simulation, horror, and role-playing action. The story centers around Fiona, who starts a new life on a farm after...

Cooking Companions

Adventure, Horror, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Mysticism / Supernatural, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 7 October 2021

Steam: 87/100

An unusual visual novel with elements of psychological horror, hiding a dark story behind a cute and almost carefree facade. The events unfold in the forests of the...

Corpse Party

Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This horror adventure with visual-novel elements follows a group of students trapped in an otherworldly version of an abandoned elementary school after performing a...

Shadowgrounds

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

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2009

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This top-down science-fiction action game follows a fight against an alien threat in the colony of New Atlantis. The protagonist battles monsters and large bosses...

Syndrome

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Survival horror, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 56/100

Syndrome is a classic action-horror game with a first-person view. The main character wakes up from cryosleep on a spaceship, but cannot find his crew members...

The Coma: Recut

Action, Adventure, Horror, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 September 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Coma: Recut is an improved edition of adventure horror with survival elements. The main character will be a Korean student who fell asleep while taking an exam...

I'm on Observation Duty

Horror, Puzzle, Indie, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 14 December 2018

Steam: 95/100

Atmospheric horror built around the search for anomalies on surveillance cameras. Several screens show empty rooms where small changes gradually appear: paintings...

SCP: Escape Together

Adventure, Action, Horror, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, First-person view, Online, Free game

Early Access: Linux → 7 January 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 63/100

SCP: Escape Together is an action-horror adventure with a first-person view and co-op based on the 2012 horror film SCP: Containment Breach. You'll team up or...

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

Horror, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2021

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 97/100

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk is a visual novel in the horror genre with point and click elements. A psychedelic narrative full of pyramidal word...

The Drifter

Adventure, Horror, Point & Click, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2025

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 84/100

A dark story inspired by King, Crichton, and Carpenter. The main character constantly moves from one job to another, never staying in one place for long. One day...

Outbreak: Epidemic

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival horror

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2020

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 42/100

Outbreak: Epidemic — a cooperative shooter with a classic survival theme among insane hordes of zombies, as seen in Killing Floor and Left 4 Dead. Four...

Monochroma

Arcade, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 74/100

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...

Doorways: Old Prototype

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

Game released: Linux → 5 October 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Doorways: Old Prototype is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The game is a showcase of what the original Doorways looked like in its early stages...

Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance

Adventure, Horror, Mysticism / Supernatural, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

A girl named Ingrid ends up in the underworld, where she meets the demon Mloch. Together, the characters solve puzzles and escape from terrible monsters. The...

Abuse

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Horror, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1996

Steam: 88/100

Abuse is an action game with a touch of shooter and sandbox from the developers from the Crack dot Com studio. The game is published by RedHat. Sometimes the game...

D

Action, Adventure, Horror, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2016

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 88/100

D: Solving the Mystery Means Visiting the Dark Pit of Your Soul is an adventure horror game with survival elements. A young girl, Laura Harris, receives a call from...

Near Death

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Survival, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 2 August 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Near Death is an indie action adventure game with a first-person view and horror elements. The events of the game will take you to the cold corridors of a research...

Horror

Best Games in the Horror genre for Linux