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Horror visual novels on Linux

18 horror visual novels on Linux, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. The story is told mainly through text over character art and backgrounds, as a visual novel or sound novel, with reading and choices as the main way to play. A horror game with some dialogue scenes between exploration, puzzles or fights is not one.

18 games

All horror visual novels on linux

Banebush screenshot: a hooded man stands before a wooden village house under a blood-red sky, with Look around and Enter choices

Multiple endings

Banebush

Hide in your childhood village, where grandmother's scary tales come true.

PC / Mac / Linux

CANIDAE: Red in a snarling fox mask with a baseball bat and Blue in a blue animal mask stand in a dark street of houses at night

Multiple endings

CANIDAE

Halloween night, animal masks, and friends who start to change.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Lisa, a smiling girl in a Green Day T-shirt, tells you there's a big Halloween party tonight, with classroom scenes behind her

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

Higurashi Ch.1 screenshot: Satoko, Rena and Rika standing at a village festival stall

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi

A sleepy summer village where someone dies every June.

PC / Mac / Linux

It gets so lonely here key art: a girl in a school uniform with a red ribbon covers her face with her hands in a dark forest

It gets so lonely here

Run through the forest. She will never let you go.

PC / Mac / Linux

It Paints Me screenshot: Marie, a pale woman in an old-fashioned gown, standing by a lamp post at night as she says S-stop it, Sam

It Paints Me

A painter, a lost muse, and a brush that hurts to lift.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk key art: a close-up of the girl's wide eyes in purple and dark red pixels

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

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk screenshot: the red-eyed girl in a black sweater looks worried in her dark apartment, with red windows behind her

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

missed messages. screenshot: May, a girl with pink hair and freckles, smiles from a doorway beside a speech bubble thanking you for being her friend

missed messages.

A stranger's phone airdrops you a photo. Accept or decline?

PC / Mac / Linux

PROJECT: Halloween art: Leena, a girl with a halo, small horns, one angel wing and one bat wing, before a dark red and purple city

PROJECT: Halloween

An AI made to ensure everyone enjoys Halloween. At all costs.

PC / Mac / Linux

Pumpkin Eater watercolour art: the son's carved jack-o'-lantern head slumped against a dark green sofa

Pumpkin Eater

A family cares for their pumpkin-headed son, and keeps smiling.

PC / Mac / Linux

Scarlet Hollow: a grey, hand-inked creature with a swollen face rears up in the dark, something sharp sliding from its open mouth

Scarlet Hollow

Survive a week in a mountain town where something preys on more than livestock.

PC / Mac / Linux

Slay the Princess key art: a pencil-drawn princess kneels in chains on the floor of a dim stone basement under a barred window

Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut

A voice tells you to slay the princess. She says otherwise. Choose who to believe.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

The Letter screenshot: a sheet of paper covered in the words Help Me written in blood, with a frightened Isabella below

Multiple endings

The Letter - Horror Visual Novel

Seven people, one letter, and a curse that has waited centuries.

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

Therapy with Dr. Albert Krueger key art: Taylor with arms crossed beside the smirking Dr. Krueger in pink and teal light

Therapy with Dr. Albert Krueger

Book a session of patented Dream Therapy. The doctor will see you now.

PC / Mac / Linux

Umineko Answer Arcs screenshot: a man in a red coat and a woman in a dark gown, with the line He'll be reported missing

Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs

Back to Rokkenjima for the second half of the witch's murders.

PC / Mac / Linux

Beatrice, a blonde woman in an ornate black and orange gown, holding a long pipe in a dark purple-lit mansion room

Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs

An island, eighteen relatives, a fortune in gold, and a witch who may be the killer.

PC / Mac / Linux

What Grows in the Night title art: the scarecrow girl sits among pumpkins under a bare cross-shaped post with a crow, a shooting star in the dusk sky

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