The Best Gothic Games for Linux

Update : It Paints Me added at rank #9.
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Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists (2022)

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This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences. To achieve it, Xandria fights with a powerful whip and the power of chemical elements. Find out more about her in this modern metroidvania adventure.


  • metroidvania
  • souls
  • gothic
  • 2d
  • fantasy
  • platform
  • dark
  • rpg
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • action
  • action-adventure
  • anime
  • medieval
  • stylized

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Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona (2024)

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Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.


  • souls
  • metroidvania
  • scroller
  • gothic
  • dark
  • blood
  • lore
  • pixel
  • fantasy
  • 2d
  • boss-fight
  • difficult
  • horror
  • platform

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Mask of the Rose (2023)

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A marvellous romance with a hint of murder. Lose your heart to a stolen city in this game of amorous intrigue! Seek love, for yourself or your friends. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.


  • romance
  • dating-sim
  • visual-novel
  • gothic
  • lgbtq
  • story-crafting
  • detective
  • noir
  • romantic
  • investigation
  • lore
  • choices
  • lovecraftian
  • hand-drawn

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Toziuha Night: Dracula's Revenge (2022)

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Linux IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Follow the story of Xandria, the iron alchemist. Seeking revenge, she accepts the dangerous mission to put an end to the evil that resides in Dracula's castle and torments the people of Transylvania. Fight with an iron whip in this retro-style & Classic-Vania adventure.

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  • gothic
  • 2d
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • demons
  • magic
  • vampire
  • platform
  • scroller
  • medieval
  • anime
  • linear
  • pixel
  • action-adventure
  • retro

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Argumentum ad culpam (2024)

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Argumentum ad culpam is a gothic visual novel about the world of eternal agony. A capricious dance of principles and death. Take part in twisted battles of wits, where morality is only a tool for survival, and decide what future that world will have.

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  • gothic
  • dark
  • psychological
  • fantasy
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • logic
  • magic
  • supernatural
  • choices
  • drama
  • anime
  • surreal
  • abstract
  • mystery

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CASTILLO: The Nine Circles (2023)

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CASTILLO: The Nine Circles is an FPS Collectathon. Collect power shards in each circle of hell to unlock new areas and progress on your quest through 9 diverse worlds. Embark on a journey through the circles of Hell, using unique abilities and weapons.

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  • lovecraftian
  • collectathon
  • shooter
  • gothic
  • first-person
  • fps
  • nonlinear
  • 3d
  • retro
  • 2.5d
  • arena
  • action-adventure
  • demons
  • pixel
  • dark

7

Alisa (2021)

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Alisa is a classic late-90s style horror-themed action adventure game set in a fantasy universe inspired on the 1920s. You play as an Elite Royal Agent called Alisa, who wakes up in a strange Victorian mansion and must find her way out while being haunted by materialized / mechanized doll-like humanoids. Explore classic survival horror gameplay with real pre-rendered backgrounds, eccentric currency and item shop, unique player stats boosts, weapon load-outs, a large variety of enemies and locations and surprises around every corner.

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What we like:
  • Nostalgic survival horror experience
  • Sound and graphical design inspired by classic titles
  • Interesting story and characters
  • Optional side missions and collectibles
  • Varied enemy designs and difficulty levels
What could be improved:
  • Unintuitive currency system reliant on killing enemies

  • 1990s
  • survival-horror
  • retro
  • gothic
  • historical
  • alternate
  • old-school
  • military
  • horror
  • mystery
  • action-adventure
  • 3d
  • pixel
  • pve
  • atmospheric

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Deliver Us From Evil DUFE (2022)

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Mankind has wished since the dawn of time, but when those pleas turn dark, Heaven decides to answer. Tasked by the Archangel Michael to investigate, will our young angel Ariel follow her mission? Or will she stray from the light?

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  • otome
  • gothic
  • investigation
  • visual-novel
  • cinematic
  • dating-sim
  • romance
  • supernatural
  • drama
  • anime
  • choices
  • dark
  • multiple-endings
  • narration
  • comedy

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It Paints Me (2024)

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Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.

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  • gothic
  • dark
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • romance
  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • psychological
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • choices
  • interactive
  • historical

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Duskbound (2023)

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Pursue a cursed romance with a possibly unhinged vampire under the eternal glow of the red moonlight...

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  • otome
  • choices
  • gothic
  • dating-sim
  • vampire
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • nonlinear
  • dark
  • romance
  • anime
  • horror

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