7 Days to Die!

I played the arcade version of......

Night Slashers (1994 Data East) - Beat 'em up
Splatterhouse (1988 Namco) - Beat 'em up

And I also played

Castlevania: Simon's Destiny (2017 Batandy) - GZDoom - First Person Whipper

There is a game for Linux with Halloween as the title that was commercial in 2003:

Halloween: The New Nightmare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSi8E0n2rh4

You can download it for free:

https://github.com/brizzly/Halloween3D

Hmm, what did I play last night. I tested a lot of games (after changing some plumbing) but the games I played in earnest were Kona II Brume (second playthrough) and Far Cry 5 Arcade mode (user created maps).

Also booted to my other (from scratch) setup to test some OpenGL games and ended up playing Soma for an hour or so. That's a good creepy game for Halloween, not so much because it's horrific and scary, but because of the nature of what's happening. The end is the ultimate torment (for the character I mean, not that it's aggravating)

We don't get kids anymore. Two years ago we had one family show up that lives on an adjacent street, but it's mostly old folks and summer cottagers around here. We always buy stuff and have it at hand, and turn the driveway lights on etc. but nobody comes.

The Hunted Chronicle 2 is a scary game for Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V08FujZzSdE

Last edited by gbudny on 1 November 2023 at 6:37 pm UTC

Not exactly a horror/spooky game, but it has a couple of ghost levels:

Downwell (steam)

-- it's an amazing game; works flawless on proton. (Actually, it doesn't even need proton, just a gamemaker binary. Finding a compatible gamemaker binary can be a problem, though.)

Earlier this month I finished Costume Quest 2. From what I recall from the first game, this one is a little bit shorter and a little bit easier but still fun!

For Halloween itself I started playing The Excavation of Hobs Barrow. Non-gaming activities did keep me occupied so I have only played a couple of hours. No spooky stuff so far but it is well written and acted with oodles of atmosphere.

I also made sure to bake plenty of pumpkin pies. Three so far! I was expecting to make a fourth this weekend but the oven broke... Fingers crossed that spare part gets here in time!

I also made sure to bake plenty of pumpkin pies. Three so far! I was expecting to make a fourth this weekend but the oven broke... Fingers crossed that spare part gets here in time!

Mmmm, home made pumpkin pie. That's something that has to be home made... few make one that doesn't make me gag (like store bought ones... the colour and consistency of unripened stool, with a funny taste. It's usually squash, not pumpkin, too)

My mother lost her sense of smell a long time ago due to chemotherapy damaging her olfactory receptors. She only gets sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and "umami" (e.g. glutamates in meat distributed by fats) and of course the heat only from capsaicin in peppers. So she has a hard time judging spices etc.

One time she accidentally put a little extra ginger in the pumpkin pie and it was like magic, the best I'd ever had. Everyone else went ape shit nuts for it too. I asked her "WTF did you do! We have to duplicate this". I'm not sure she ever got that ratio of spices exactly the same again, but it's close every time.

Anyway, I hope yours turned out well

I spent Halloween finishing an update to a Halloween themed Linux game I wrote the year before.

https://pigalore.miraheze.org/wiki/Nightfall

Umineko. Major part of the story there takes place in October too.

Last edited by Shmerl on 2 November 2023 at 11:23 pm UTC

This installation script for Halloween: The New Nightmare works on Ubuntu 22.04:

#!/bin/sh
git clone --recursive https://github.com/brizzly/Halloween3D.git
cd Halloween3D/HalloweenSrc
mkdir Build
cd Build
cmake ..
make
cd Halloween3D/HalloweenSrc/Build
cp halloween ../../distrib
cd ..
cp libbass.so ../distrib
cd ..
cd distrib
./halloween

The Hunted Chronicle 2 worked fine on Ubuntu 18.04, but I could only use the 32-bit version.

Last edited by gbudny on 3 November 2023 at 2:07 am UTC

Not exactly a horror/spooky game, but it has a couple of ghost levels:

Downwell (steam)

-- it's an amazing game; works flawless on proton. (Actually, it doesn't even need proton, just a gamemaker binary. Finding a compatible gamemaker binary can be a problem, though.)

Have you played it using proton or the compatible gamemaker binary.

I've tried with binaries from Risk of Rain and Fran Bow Demo and it didn't work. First I had problems with missing libraries which I finally resolved with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime.old/lib/i386-linux-gnu/:$HOME/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime.old/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu ./runner

It stopped complaining but now I have memory protection violation.

Not exactly a horror/spooky game, but it has a couple of ghost levels:

Downwell (steam)

-- it's an amazing game; works flawless on proton. (Actually, it doesn't even need proton, just a gamemaker binary. Finding a compatible gamemaker binary can be a problem, though.)

Have you played it using proton or the compatible gamemaker binary.

I've tried with binaries from Risk of Rain and Fran Bow Demo and it didn't work. First I had problems with missing libraries which I finally resolved with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime.old/lib/i386-linux-gnu/:$HOME/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime.old/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu ./runner

It stopped complaining but now I have memory protection violation.

I've been playing it with Proton ever since I started running into the issues you describe w. the Fran Bow Demo binary. It used to work just fine; then after an update it broke (can't remenber when - a couple of years ago, maybe), and I haven't bothered finding a replacement since proton works fine.

I thought so.

Well playing it natively would be nice but I'm also not going to search for a compatible Game Maker binary.

Amnesia: Rebirth and Amnesia: The Bunker

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Amnesia: The Bunker is a nice game, as with other games from them, I like the atmosphere. However, what gave me the pox is the save system. To save any progress or game state at all, you have to go back to the room with the gas lamp and light it.

That just makes it so I never progress. I kept meaning to get back to it, but the yuck factor prevailed.

P.S. With sadness, I've never been able to play Amnesia Rebirth. I've tried twice over the years (2nd time fairly recently) and had to send it back. The same OpenGL rubbish (starts out with artifacts, then corruption, then crash... always). whether I ran the native or windows/proton. I really wanted to play that.

Last edited by Grogan on 9 November 2023 at 7:36 pm UTC

Amnesia: The Bunker is a nice game, as with other games from them, I like the atmosphere. However, what gave me the pox is the save system. To save any progress or game state at all, you have to go back to the room with the gas lamp and light it.

That just makes it so I never progress. I kept meaning to get back to it, but the yuck factor prevailed.

P.S. With sadness, I've never been able to play Amnesia Rebirth. I've tried twice over the years (2nd time fairly recently) and had to send it back. The same OpenGL rubbish (starts out with artifacts, then corruption, then crash... always). whether I ran the native or windows/proton. I really wanted to play that.

Yeah I just stream all my games through the GeForce NOW cloud gaming service to not have to deal with Linux specific issues with Windows games

PornHub.

In all seriousness, nothing Halloween themed. I've given up on bothering with most holidays outside of May Day and other labor holidays. But I did tryout some Counter-Strike 2 on Devil's Night. Plus secular el Día de los Muertos celebration is cooler than Halloween anyways. lol