Survival
The Coma: Recut
Asleep in your final exam, awake in a school with a killer.
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Horror games on Linux
Horror games with a native Linux version, for the desktop and the Steam Deck: survival horror, psychological horror and indie scares. Each has a page on what frightens and links to where to get it.
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Tonight's pick · Survival
Clea 2
A former maid crosses into the realms beyond, listening for what roams the halls.
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Co-op
Dying Light
Run the rooftops by day; flee for a safe zone when night falls.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Pumpkin Eater
A family cares for their pumpkin-headed son, and keeps smiling.
PC / Mac / Linux
Survival
Darkwood
Scavenge a cursed forest by day and survive the nights in your hideout.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Saint Kotar
Two devout men, a missing sister and a town that worships something else.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Oxenfree
A night on an island, a radio, and a rift you should not have opened.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Action horror
Shrine
A skinless monster with a shotgun against the eldritch horde.
PC / Linux
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty
Watch the cameras all night and report anything that changes.
PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone
Psychological
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Descend into the infernal machine beneath an industrialist's factory.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Amnesia: Rebirth
Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Among the Sleep
Crawl through a nightmare house as a toddler searching for your mother.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Psychological
Anthology Of The Killer
A zine writer, a city of serial killers and a world that runs on dream logic.
PC / Linux
Psychological
Being Her Darkest Friend
An art student wakes inside her own nightmare and has to find a way out.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Can A Cute Ghost Story Be Spooky?
Help a cute ghost find his stolen hat. What could go wrong?
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Ceasing to be Her Demise
Selina's nightmares follow her home, in the last part of the trilogy.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Conarium
Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
DEAD LETTER DEPT.
Type up the lost mail. Some of it seems to be writing back.
PC / Linux
Survival
Alien: Isolation
Hide from one alien you cannot kill on a dying space station.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Survival
Alisa
Escape a Victorian dollhouse of mechanized horrors, 1990s style.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Amnesia: Rebirth
Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Clea
Lead your little brother out of a mansion where the monsters hear everything.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Clea 2
A former maid crosses into the realms beyond, listening for what roams the halls.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Cronos: The New Dawn
Scavenge a ruined future and burn the monsters before they merge.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Darkwood
Scavenge a cursed forest by day and survive the nights in your hideout.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Duskers
Send your drones into dead ships, and trust a motion sensor that cannot tell you what is out…
PC / Mac / Linux
Survival
Endoparasitic
One arm, one gun, one bullet at a time, and a parasite heading for your brain.
PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
7 Days to Die
Scavenge and build by day; hold your fort when the blood moon horde comes.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox
Co-op
Barotrauma
Keep a submarine alive in the black ocean under Europa's ice.
PC / Mac / Linux
Co-op
Buckshot Roulette
Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun, against The Dealer or your friends.
PC / Linux / Xbox
Co-op
Dead Island Definitive Edition
Survive a zombie outbreak on a tropical resort island.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox
Co-op
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
The outbreak follows you to another island paradise.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox
Co-op
Dying Light
Run the rooftops by day; flee for a safe zone when night falls.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
KLETKA
Ride a hungry elevator down an endless building, and keep it fed.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Co-op
Left 4 Dead 2
Four survivors fight from safe room to safe room through the zombie South.
PC / Linux
Survival
No More Room in Hell
Co-op zombie survival with scarce ammo and bites that infect.
PC / Linux
Survival
Project Zomboid
Loot, barricade and stay quiet in a Kentucky county lost to the dead.
PC / Mac / Linux
Multiple endings
CANIDAE
Halloween night, animal masks, and friends who start to change.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Multiple endings
Carnivore!
You are a sheep, you work in a restaurant, and you are on the menu.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Survival
Clea 2
A former maid crosses into the realms beyond, listening for what roams the halls.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
Conarium
Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance
A spoiled girl falls into hell, and a sarcastic demon offers to help.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
Crowscare
A straw boy's first Harvest Festival, and the reason he was kept home at night.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
DEAD LETTER DEPT.
Type up the lost mail. Some of it seems to be writing back.
PC / Linux
Psychological
Dread Fields
A quiet farm in the middle of nowhere, and what its last owner buried.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Harvester
Wake in a 1950s town of strangers and a cult that wants you to kill.
PC / Linux
Multiple endings
Help! I Took My Little Brother to a Halloween Party and the Popular Kids Want to Sacrifice Him to a Demon!
Halloween 2004, a party full of theatre kids, and a demon that wants your little brother.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Being Her Darkest Friend
An art student wakes inside her own nightmare and has to find a way out.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Puzzle horror
Blackout
A power cut, a witch costume and a very strange old house.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Ceasing to be Her Demise
Selina's nightmares follow her home, in the last part of the trilogy.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Conarium
Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance
A spoiled girl falls into hell, and a sarcastic demon offers to help.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Puzzle horror
Creepy Tale: Some Other Place
A quiet fishing trip ends in a dark fairy-tale land.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Detention
Trapped in a haunted school in 1960s Taiwan under martial law.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android
Puzzle horror
DreadOut
Photograph the ghosts of an abandoned Indonesian town before they reach you.
PC / Linux
Puzzle horror
Fear the Spotlight
A séance at school goes wrong, and something with a spotlight walks the halls.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Puzzle horror
FeedVid Live
A stranger's livestream, a locked bathroom stall, and a chat that tells them what to do.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Action horror
DUSK
A 90s shooter through backwater cults and the darkness under the earth.
PC / Mac / Linux
Co-op
Left 4 Dead 2
Four survivors fight from safe room to safe room through the zombie South.
PC / Linux
Survival
Metro 2033 Redux
Cross the tunnels of a post-nuclear Moscow metro with a gas mask and few bullets.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
Metro: Last Light Redux
Return to the Moscow metro as its stations slide into civil war.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Action horror
Shrine
A skinless monster with a shotgun against the eldritch horde.
PC / Linux
Action horror
Shrine II
Tusk returns to the Elder World, with more guns, more horrors and six bosses.
PC / Linux
Multiple endings
CANIDAE
Halloween night, animal masks, and friends who start to change.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Multiple endings
Help! I Took My Little Brother to a Halloween Party and the Popular Kids Want to Sacrifice Him to a Demon!
Halloween 2004, a party full of theatre kids, and a demon that wants your little brother.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
A sleepy summer village where someone dies every June.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
It gets so lonely here
Run through the forest. She will never let you go.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Help a girl buy milk, as the voice inside her troubled head.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
The girl got her milk. Now help her get through the night.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
missed messages.
A stranger's phone airdrops you a photo. Accept or decline?
PC / Mac / Linux
Visual novels
PROJECT: Halloween
An AI made to ensure everyone enjoys Halloween. At all costs.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Pumpkin Eater
A family cares for their pumpkin-headed son, and keeps smiling.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Scarlet Hollow
Survive a week in a mountain town where something preys on more than livestock.
PC / Mac / Linux
Freshly unearthed
Psychological
It gets so lonely here
Run through the forest. She will never let you go.
PC / Mac / Linux
Action horror
Shrine II
Tusk returns to the Elder World, with more guns, more horrors and six bosses.
PC / Linux
Psychological
missed messages.
A stranger's phone airdrops you a photo. Accept or decline?
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
The girl got her milk. Now help her get through the night.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Survival
Clea
Lead your little brother out of a mansion where the monsters hear everything.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
the static speaks my name
One man's last night alive, a painting he cannot stop thinking about, and a tank of pet shrimp.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Help a girl buy milk, as the voice inside her troubled head.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition
A psychiatrist follows his missing patient past the Veil and toward madness.
PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone
More kinds of horror
- Psychological horror games63
- Horror games with multiple endings34
- PS1 horror games34
- Short horror games33
- Horror puzzle games32
- Survival horror games23
- Horror visual novels16
- Stealth horror games15
- Co-op and multiplayer horror games11
- Analog horror games10
- Cosmic and Lovecraftian horror games10
- Haunted house games10
- Horror escape games10
- Sci-fi and space horror games10