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Horror shooters and action horror games on Linux

6 horror shooters and action horror games on Linux, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Fighting the horror head-on with real weapons is the main way to play, in a game whose world, enemies and set pieces are built to frighten. A shooter with one spooky level, or a military shooter with zombies as a mode, does not count; a survival horror game where you are poorly armed belongs on the survival page instead.

6 games

All horror shooters and action horror games on linux

DUSK key art: antlered, long-limbed creatures with glowing eyes stand before a gothic cathedral under a blood-red sky

DUSK

A 90s shooter through backwater cults and the darkness under the earth.

PC / Mac / Linux

Left 4 Dead 2 art: a survivor in a white suit fires a pistol at a crowd of the infected, including a clown, in a dark carnival

Left 4 Dead 2

Four survivors fight from safe room to safe room through the zombie South.

PC / Linux

Metro 2033 Redux key art: a soldier in a gas mask and helmet shielding his eyes in a ruined Moscow street

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

Metro: Last Light Redux key art: a ranger in a gas mask with a rifle and a shield in front of ruined Moscow

Multiple endings

Metro: Last Light Redux

Return to the Moscow metro as its stations slide into civil war.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Shrine key art: a double-barrelled shotgun held up among gravestones and crosses in a dark pine forest

Shrine

A skinless monster with a shotgun against the eldritch horde.

PC / Linux

Shrine II key art: a bloody hand holds a cross before a crucified figure on a heap of bodies, robed monsters around it in a gothic square

Shrine II

Tusk returns to the Elder World, with more guns, more horrors and six bosses.

PC / Linux