Best Linux Games
1,051 Linux games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
Released: Jun 19, 2012
Critic rating: 78.8 / 100
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Tiny & Big, a comic styled jump and slice platformer, gives you the unique ability to shape a whole world at your will!
Hitman Go: Definitive Edition
Released: Feb 23, 2016
Critic rating: 77.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation Vita
Game modes: Single player
Hitman Go is a simple to play, but difficult to master turn-based strategy game set in a stunning interpretation of the Hitman universe.
Graveyard Keeper
Released: Aug 15, 2018
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Graveyard Keeper is the most inaccurate medieval cemetery management sim of the year.
Fran Bow
Released: Aug 27, 2015
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Rune
Released: Nov 18, 2000
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
In RUNE, players assume the role of Ragnar the Viking, mightiest warrior of a bygone age.
Skul: The Hero Slayer
Released: Jan 20, 2021
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Skul: The Hero Slayer is an action-platformer that boasts rogue-like features such as everchanging and challenging maps.
Worms W.M.D
Released: Aug 23, 2016
Critic rating: 79.1 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Arcade
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The worms are back in their most destructive game yet!
Helltaker
Released: May 11, 2020
Critic rating: 74.0 / 100 • 181 votes
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
Dex
Released: May 7, 2015
Critic rating: 69.4 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Discover the truth behind an enigmatic AI striving to reach the Singularity, a theoretical “event horizon” in which artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence and all bets about the future will be off.
Broforce
Released: Oct 15, 2015
Critic rating: 72.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
When evil threatens the world, the world calls on Broforce - an under-funded, over-powered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.
Two Point Campus
Released: Aug 9, 2022
Critic rating: 78.2 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the follow up management sim with a twist from the creators of Two Point Hospital.
Artifact
Released: Nov 28, 2018
Critic rating: 82.5 / 100
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Card & Board Game
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
A collaboration between legendary card game designer Richard Garfield and Valve, Artifact Classic is a digital card game that combines deeply strategic, competitive gameplay with the rich setting of Dota 2.
Hue
Released: Aug 30, 2016
Critic rating: 77.9 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Hue is a stark puzzle platformer where you shift the hue of the world, creating rifts when colours collide.
Shadowrun Returns
Released: Jul 25, 2013
Critic rating: 72.5 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The year is 2054.
Axiom Verge 2
Released: Aug 11, 2021
Critic rating: 78.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
You may have played Axiom Verge, or heard it referenced as a benchmark for indie “metroidvania” adventures.
Cossacks 3
Released: Sep 20, 2016
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: PEGI 12
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Cossacks 3 is the third main game in the long-running historical real-time strategy series.
Gone Home
Released: Aug 15, 2013
Critic rating: 73.8 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home.
Dungeon Defenders
Released: Dec 15, 2010
Critic rating: 77.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Dungeon Defenders is a Tower Defense Action-RPG where you must save the land of Etheria from an Ancient Evil!
Please, Don't Touch Anything
Released: Mar 26, 2015
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Web browser, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Please, Don’t Touch Anything is a cryptic, brain-racking button-pushing simulation.
Action Henk
Released: May 11, 2015
Critic rating: 69.9 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Racing, Sport, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Run, jump and butt-slide into the glorious toy-filled world of Action Henk!
Thomas Was Alone
Released: Jul 24, 2012
Critic rating: 76.4 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Thomas Was Alone is an indie minimalist 2D platformer about friendship and jumping and floating and anti-gravity.
Type: Rider
Released: Oct 10, 2013
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Type:Rider is an adventure puzzle game that brings gaming experience to a whole new daring level.
The Guild 2
Released: Sep 29, 2006
Critic rating: 68.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400.
Layers of Fear: Inheritance
Released: Aug 2, 2016
Critic rating: 77.5 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Layers of Fear: Inheritance expands the plot from Layers of Fear and tells the story of the painter’s daughter, who comes back to her childhood home to face her past.
McPixel
Released: Jul 9, 2012
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through 100 short challenges in an old-school point'n'click fashion.