Scary games on 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: A Machine for Pigs

Descend into the infernal machine beneath an industrialist's factory.

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

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

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

Co-op

Barotrauma

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

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

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

Psychological

Conarium

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

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

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

Survival

Cronos: The New Dawn

Scavenge a ruined future and burn the monsters before they merge.

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

Cosmic

Darkest Dungeon

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

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

Survival

Darkwood

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

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

Psychological

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

Type up the lost mail. Some of it seems to be writing back.

PC / Linux

Psychological

Detention

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

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

Psychological

Dread Fields

A quiet farm in the middle of nowhere, and what its last owner buried.

PC / Mac / Linux

Puzzle horror

DreadOut

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

PC / Linux

Action horror

DUSK

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

PC / Mac / Linux

Survival

Duskers

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

PC / Mac / Linux

Co-op

Dying Light

Run the rooftops by day; flee for a safe zone when night falls.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Survival

Endoparasitic

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

PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch

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

Psychological

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

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

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi

A sleepy summer village where someone dies every June.

PC / Mac / Linux

PS1

House of Necrosis

A 32-bit mansion of monsters that rearranges each time you enter.

PC / Linux

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

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