Psychological
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Descend into the infernal machine beneath an industrialist's factory.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Horror game genres on Linux
Every kind of horror game on Linux, from psychological horror and survival horror to co-op games to play with friends: 126 games in all.
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
Survival
Alien: Isolation
Hide from one alien you cannot kill on a dying space station.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Co-op
Barotrauma
Keep a submarine alive in the black ocean under Europa's ice.
PC / Mac / Linux
Survival
Cronos: The New Dawn
Scavenge a ruined future and burn the monsters before they merge.
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
Psychological
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Five prisoners of an insane computer, each sent through a nightmare of their own past.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Visual novels
PROJECT: Halloween
An AI made to ensure everyone enjoys Halloween. At all costs.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
SOMA
A station on the sea floor where machines think they are people.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Puzzle horror
Stowaway
The last pilot of the Starcross, a dead crew and something aboard.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Sci-fi horror
Voyager-19
Search distant stars for a lost expedition from a dying probe.
PC / Mac / Linux
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Classic
Collect seven notebooks and get out of Baldi's school before he catches you.
iPhone / Android / 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
Co-op
Buckshot Roulette
Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun, against The Dealer or your friends.
PC / Linux / Xbox
Psychological
Can A Cute Ghost Story Be Spooky?
Help a cute ghost find his stolen hat. What could go wrong?
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
Psychological
Ceasing to be Her Demise
Selina's nightmares follow her home, in the last part of the trilogy.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
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
Survival
Alien: Isolation
Hide from one alien you cannot kill on a dying space station.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
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
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Plus
Collect the notebooks before Baldi and his ruler find you.
PC / Mac / Linux
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
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
Psychological
Knock-knock
Stay awake and sane until dawn in a cabin where something has moved in.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Survival
Monstrum
Escape a derelict cargo ship while a monster you cannot fight hunts you.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Outlast
Film your way through a madhouse with no way to fight back.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Alisa
Escape a Victorian dollhouse of mechanized horrors, 1990s style.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Classic
Collect seven notebooks and get out of Baldi's school before he catches you.
iPhone / Android / PC / Mac / Linux
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Plus
Collect the notebooks before Baldi and his ruler find you.
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
Co-op
Buckshot Roulette
Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun, against The Dealer or your friends.
PC / Linux / Xbox
Psychological
Ceasing to be Her Demise
Selina's nightmares follow her home, in the last part of the trilogy.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
PS1
Corpse Party (2021)
A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.
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
Action horror
DUSK
A 90s shooter through backwater cults and the darkness under the earth.
PC / Mac / 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
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
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
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
Survival
The Glass Staircase
Good girls take their medicine. Good girls do their chores.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
PS1
Corpse Party (2021)
A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.
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
Fear the Spotlight
A séance at school goes wrong, and something with a spotlight walks the halls.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty
Watch the cameras all night and report anything that changes.
PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty 2
A whole house on camera this time, and Timothy is back.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty 3
No cameras this time: walk the haunted house yourself and photograph what changed.
PC / Mac / Linux / VR
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty 4
Watch a house on camera all night and report everything that changes.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Knock-knock
Stay awake and sane until dawn in a cabin where something has moved in.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
Paragnosia
Watch your haunted apartment from a camera on a rail and exorcise what moves.
PC / Linux
Multiple endings
The Séance of Blake Manor
Find a missing woman before the séance on All Hallows' Eve.
PC / Linux
Psychological
DEAD LETTER DEPT.
Type up the lost mail. Some of it seems to be writing back.
PC / Linux
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
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty
Watch the cameras all night and report anything that changes.
PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty 2
A whole house on camera this time, and Timothy is back.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty 4
Watch a house on camera all night and report everything that changes.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty 5
Six places, one night each, and something different every time you switch cameras.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty 6
Six places, one night shift, and something different on every camera.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty 7
Six new places on camera, one night shift each, and paranoia to fight.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
I'm on Observation Duty 8
A catwalk, a stable, the deep sea: six more nights on the cameras.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox
Analog
POOLS
Endless tiled pools, still water and nobody else.
PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone / PlayStation / Switch / VR
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Classic
Collect seven notebooks and get out of Baldi's school before he catches you.
iPhone / Android / PC / Mac / Linux
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Plus
Collect the notebooks before Baldi and his ruler find you.
PC / Mac / Linux
Puzzle horror
Blackout
A power cut, a witch costume and a very strange old house.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Survival
Clea
Lead your little brother out of a mansion where the monsters hear everything.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
PS1
Corpse Party (2021)
A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.
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
FeedVid Live
A stranger's livestream, a locked bathroom stall, and a chat that tells them what to do.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Inscryption
A card game for your life in a dark cabin, and secrets written on the cards.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Monstrum
Escape a derelict cargo ship while a monster you cannot fight hunts you.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Pony Island
A pony game made by the devil, and you are trapped inside it.
PC / Mac / Linux
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
Conarium
Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Cosmic
Darkest Dungeon
Lead broken heroes into the dark beneath your ancestor's estate.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone
Survival
Lamentum
Seek a cure for your wife in a mansion of nightmares.
PC / 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
Cosmic
Sunless Sea
Lose your mind. Eat your crew. Die. Then try again.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone
Psychological
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
A Victorian dig on the moors, and something waiting in the soil.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Puzzle horror
The Last Door
A low-res Victorian nightmare of occult secrets and doors best left shut.
PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone
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
Puzzle horror
Blackout
A power cut, a witch costume and a very strange old house.
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
Multiple endings
CANIDAE
Halloween night, animal masks, and friends who start to change.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Multiple endings
Crowscare
A straw boy's first Harvest Festival, and the reason he was kept home at night.
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
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
Multiple endings
The Séance of Blake Manor
Find a missing woman before the séance on All Hallows' Eve.
PC / Linux
Multiple endings
What Grows in the Night
A scarecrow is given life to tend a stranger's garden. The plants grow too well.
PC / Mac / Linux
Guides to horror games
- Games Like Amnesia: Hide in the Dark, Don't Fight
- Games Like Dead Space: Sci-Fi Survival Horror
- Games Like Granny: Escape the House Before They Find You
- Games Like Lethal Company: Co-op Horror Jobs With Friends
- Games Like Little Nightmares: Small, Dark and Unsettling
- Games Like Outlast: Horror Where You Can Only Hide and Run
- Games Like Phasmophobia: Ghost Hunts and Co-op Horror
- Games Like Poppy Playtime: Mascot and Toy Horror
- Games Like Resident Evil: Survival Horror to Play Next
- Games Like Silent Hill: Fog, Guilt and Psychological Horror
- Games Like The Exit 8: Anomaly Horror to Play Next
- Games Like Until Dawn: Choice-Driven Horror
- Horror Games for Beginners: Where to Start if You Scare Easily
- Japanese Horror Games: Ghosts, Curses and J-Horror
- New Horror Games of 2026: The Releases Worth Playing
- Scary Games to Play With Friends