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2D horror games on Linux

46 2d horror games on Linux, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Played in two dimensions: the player moves through a side-view or top-down world drawn in 2D (pixel art or hand-drawn), as in Darkwood, Ib or Limbo. A 3D game seen from the side (2.5D, like Little Nightmares) does not count, nor does a visual novel whose play is mainly reading text.

46 games

All 2d horror games on linux

A monster doesn't let me leave my room title art: a top-down apartment in purple line art, with a bed, desk, sofa, guitar and pistol around the title in red and white

A monster doesn't let me leave my room

One apartment, a few days, and something outside the door.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Asleep art: Ana Lúcia runs with a flashlight past lockers as a small figure waits in a red-lit doorway

Asleep: Act 1

A flashlight, a sketchbook and a girl lost in her own nightmares.

PC / Mac / Linux

Barotrauma key art: a diver in a heavy suit with a skull behind the helmet glass, against a red and green submarine schematic

Barotrauma

Keep a submarine alive in the black ocean under Europa's ice.

PC / Mac / Linux

Being Her Darkest Friend: Selina stands on a rock ledge in the dark as a grey figure with red eyes sits above her, with the line 'Tomoko?!'

Being Her Darkest Friend

An art student wakes inside her own nightmare and has to find a way out.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Blackout cover: Marilyn in a witch hat holds up a lit match while a man with a knife through his head stands in a dark doorway behind her

Blackout

A power cut, a witch costume and a very strange old house.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Blackout Hospital screenshot: Vasilis with a mop in a dark pink hospital corridor, asking who wants to know

Blackout Hospital

A janitor, a power cut, and a hospital that turns strange in the dark.

PC / Mac / Linux

Carnivore cover: a wide-eyed cartoon sheep runs with a bloody cleaver across a menu card headed Today's Special

Carnivore!

You are a sheep, you work in a restaurant, and you are on the menu.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Ceasing to be Her Demise nightmare art: a skeleton slumped in front of a grey wall of ribs, with tentacle-like shapes and an eye in the dark below

Ceasing to be Her Demise

Selina's nightmares follow her home, in the last part of the trilogy.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Clea screenshot: Clea with a lantern runs down a brick hallway with her brother and his teddy bear as a hooded skull-faced figure reaches for them

Clea

Lead your little brother out of a mansion where the monsters hear everything.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

Clea 2 screenshot: Florine with a lantern steps out of a stone archway as a bandaged figure covered in eyes walks away from her

Clea 2

A former maid crosses into the realms beyond, listening for what roams the halls.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

Corpse Party (2021) screenshot: the pale blue ghost of a child crouches in a rotting wooden corridor as Yoshiki cries out

Corpse Party (2021)

A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Creepy Tale 3 key art: Ingrid sits on the floor of a dark cell as light from an open door throws a long, horned shadow toward her

Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance

A spoiled girl falls into hell, and a sarcastic demon offers to help.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place key art: Martin in a red coat walks toward a giant skull-like face full of teeth in a dark forest

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place

A quiet fishing trip ends in a dark fairy-tale land.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Crowscare cover art: the scarecrow boy Ryo in a straw hat and red scarf, half his face dark with glowing yellow eyes, beside the title

Crowscare

A straw boy's first Harvest Festival, and the reason he was kept home at night.

PC / Mac / Linux

Darkest Dungeon key art: a crusader with a sword, a plague doctor and a highwayman with a pistol stand in a red-lit crypt of skulls

Darkest Dungeon

Lead broken heroes into the dark beneath your ancestor's estate.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

Darkwood art: a pale, emaciated figure crowned with twisted branches stands open-mouthed in grey darkness

Darkwood

Scavenge a cursed forest by day and survive the nights in your hideout.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Detention key art: a schoolgirl in a white uniform holds a picture frame as chairs, desks and papers fly around her

Detention

Trapped in a haunted school in 1960s Taiwan under martial law.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

Duskers art: a drone's light falls on the dark, ribbed hull of a derelict ship marked A1

Duskers

Send your drones into dead ships, and trust a motion sensor that cannot tell you what is out…

PC / Mac / Linux

Endoparasitic key art: the grey silhouette of a man with no legs dragging himself across a tiled floor, leaving a trail of red blood

Endoparasitic

One arm, one gun, one bullet at a time, and a parasite heading for your brain.

PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch

Endoparasitic 2 key art: the one-armed, legless survivor dragging himself and a case across a dark tiled floor, a red wound on his back

Endoparasitic 2

Crawl through an infested arcship with one arm, hand-loaded guns and a parasite in your head.

PC / Mac / Linux

Eversion

A cheerful platformer about saving a princess, until you evert.

PC / Mac / Linux

Fran Bow key art: Fran holding her black cat Mr. Midnight in front of a red-eyed monster, with skeletal and masked characters on the left

Fran Bow

A girl escapes an asylum while her pills show her a world of blood and monsters.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers key art: a steam train racing through the night beside four giant masked faces in the smoke

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers

Four strangers, a masked ball on a train, and four dark tales.

PC / Mac / Linux

Knock-knock art: a purple night sky with an orange swirl moon, a twisted horn-shaped pipe and a bare tree hung with red berries and a white horn

Knock-knock

Stay awake and sane until dawn in a cabin where something has moved in.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Lamentum key art: Victor with a bloody axe among the other characters and tentacles, a dark mansion on a floating rock

Lamentum

Seek a cure for your wife in a mansion of nightmares.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Little Misfortune key art: a little girl in a red beret and green coat looks back over a golden autumn hillside, with a fox holding a crackling staff and a Missing poster on a tree

Little Misfortune

A sweet little girl, a friendly voice and a very bad day in the woods.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Neverending Nightmares key art: a man holding a red candle while a pale woman with bleeding red eyes reaches for him from behind

Neverending Nightmares

Wake from a nightmare into another one, and another, in black and white.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone

OFF key art: a swarm of pale purple ghosts with varied faces pouring over dark purple buildings

OFF

Guide the Batter on a sacred mission to purify a world of specters.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Oxenfree key art: a glowing triangular rift hanging in a dark cave

Oxenfree

A night on an island, a radio, and a rift you should not have opened.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Paper Cages screenshot: a pixel-art bedroom with a figure in bed, a close-up of a tired face between willpower and completion bars, and the prompt Mash Z to wake up

Paper Cages

Wake up, get dressed, go to work. A true horror story.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Paper Lily key art: Lacie, a blonde girl in a red scarf and white coat, holding a golden letter tangled in red threads

Paper Lily - Chapter 1

Follow a golden letter into a hidden world where every puzzle has another way out.

PC / Mac / Linux

Pony Island screenshot: the title screen on an old CRT, with two horned pony heads and a 1992 copyright

Pony Island

A pony game made by the devil, and you are trapped inside it.

PC / Mac / Linux

Project Kat screenshot: girls holding a seance at a table in a dark pixel-art room, and a frightened girl saying Is that a ghost? We summoned a ghost

Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

Follow a golden letter into your school after dark.

PC / Mac / Linux

Sally Face screenshot: Sal, seen from behind with long blue hair, sits across from a therapist with a clipboard, his prosthetic face mask on the table

Sally Face

A boy with a prosthetic face investigates murders and talks to the dead.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Stowaway screenshot: the pilot stands in a purple reactor room with blood on the floor and fleshy pipes around a central column

Stowaway

The last pilot of the Starcross, a dead crew and something aboard.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Strangeland key art: a huge metal skull with glowing violet eyes between two ravens, over a fiery dark

Strangeland

A nightmare carnival, a woman who keeps falling, and a Dark Thing on the roller coaster.

PC / Mac / Linux

Sunless Sea key art: a lone lit buoy leans out of a flat dark sea under a green-black sky

Sunless Sea

Lose your mind. Eat your crew. Die. Then try again.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

Teleglitch screenshot: the player firing a beam at a spider-legged creature in a dim pixel-art room

Teleglitch: Die More Edition

The lone survivor of a research base where the dead were put back to work.

PC / Mac / Linux

The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters key art: Mina Park in her school uniform against a blood-red sky over the city

The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters

Hide from a demoness with your teacher's face in a shadow version of your school.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

The Coma: Recut key art: a girl in a school uniform holds a bandaged finger to her lips

The Coma: Recut

Asleep in your final exam, awake in a school with a killer.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

The Count Lucanor key art: Hans holding a candle in a purple night forest, a grinning blue jester-hatted kobold and a castle behind

The Count Lucanor

Guess the kobold's name, and become the new Count Lucanor.

PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow art: Thomasina Bateman looks out over a misty moor where a barrow glows with purple light

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

A Victorian dig on the moors, and something waiting in the soil.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

The Last Door screenshot: in chunky pixel art, Jeremiah stands in a dark hall with a red carpet before an open door glowing with sunset light

The Last Door

A low-res Victorian nightmare of occult secrets and doors best left shut.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone

The Last Door: Season 2 screenshot: in chunky pixel art, Dr. Wakefield stands by a lit street lamp before a dark brick house at dusk

The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition

A psychiatrist follows his missing patient past the Veil and toward madness.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone

Tormentum II key art: a pale, dark-haired woman seated in a red-lit chamber of biomechanical shapes

Tormentum II

Wake up a prisoner inside the world you created.

PC / Mac / Linux

Yuppie Psycho: Brian with his briefcase stands at a reception desk under the words KILL THE WITCH written in dripping blood

Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition

Your first assignment at Sintracorp: kill the Witch.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

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