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Horror puzzle games on Linux

33 horror puzzle games on Linux, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Solving puzzles is a main way to play and to progress: codes, mechanisms, item combinations or logic, not just finding a key on the floor. A horror game with an occasional lock or lever puzzle between fights does not count.

33 games

All horror puzzle games on 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

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

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

Conarium key art: a pale man's face with glowing white eyes and a light shining from his forehead

Conarium

Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.

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

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

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

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

DreadOut key art: a long-haired ghost with white eyes and an open mouth hanging upside down against a stained, scratched wall

DreadOut

Photograph the ghosts of an abandoned Indonesian town before they reach you.

PC / Linux

Fear the Spotlight art: a shadowy long-haired figure with glowing eyes looms over two girls standing in flames

Fear the Spotlight

A séance at school goes wrong, and something with a spotlight walks the halls.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

FeedVid Live

A stranger's livestream, a locked bathroom stall, and a chat that tells them what to do.

Browser / 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

Harvester key art: a hooded figure with glowing red eyes raises a scythe against a red night sky over a domed building

Harvester

Wake in a 1950s town of strangers and a cult that wants you to kill.

PC / Linux

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream key art: glowing blue circuit-board lines on a black background

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

Inscryption key art: a wooden cabin door lit from above by hanging lanterns in a dark log cabin

Inscryption

A card game for your life in a dark cabin, and secrets written on the cards.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

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

Penumbra: Black Plague screenshot: a flooded, arched brick tunnel lit green, a doorway glowing at the far end

Penumbra: Black Plague

No weapons, an infected research complex and a voice in your head.

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

Multiple endings

Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

Follow a golden letter into your school after dark.

PC / Mac / Linux

Saint Kotar key art: a bloodied man in glasses leans on a companion before hooded figures, a church tower and crows under a full moon

Saint Kotar

Two devout men, a missing sister and a town that worships something else.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

Slender Threads key art: a frightened Harvey Green by a fire, hooded figures in bird masks behind him and a mustached man aiming a revolver

Slender Threads

A salesman's nightmare of his own head on a wall starts coming true.

PC / Mac / Linux / 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

The Children of Clay screenshot: a pale clay figure with a carved face stands lit on a dark desk beside old books and a compass

The Children of Clay

Study an ancient clay figure at your desk until it starts to change.

PC / Linux

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

Illustrated scene of a 1930s car with its headlights on in the rain outside a large country house at night, a man and a woman standing beside it

The Incident at Galley House

Listen in on the night of a 1936 massacre and work out who died, and how.

PC / Mac / Linux

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

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