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

Quoting: wvstolzingNot 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.

Quoting: Bestia

Quoting: wvstolzingNot 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

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

Quoting: GroganAmnesia: 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