Best Linux Games
1,070 Linux games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
The Last Tinker: City of Colors
Released: May 12, 2014
Critic rating: 71.3 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
The Last Tinker is a joyous action adventure and definitely no platformer, as there is no jump button.
Forager
Released: Apr 18, 2019
Critic rating: 70.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Forager is the popular crafting, exploration and base building game that can best be defined as “the idle game that you want to actively keep playing”.
Knights of Pen and Paper II
Released: Oct 20, 2015
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Prepare to inhabit a world of chivalry, class warfare and off-beat pop references.
Hexcells
Released: Sep 12, 2013
Critic rating: 72.6 / 100 • 39 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game in the vein of minesweeper.
7 Billion Humans
Released: Aug 23, 2018
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
"Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people.
BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds
Released: Jul 30, 2013
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds is the first downloadable content pack for BioShock Infinite.
Battle for Wesnoth
Released: Aug 2, 2005
Critic rating: 72.5 / 100 • 39 votes
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Amiga
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme.
Terminator 2D: No Fate
Released: Dec 12, 2025
Critic rating: 73.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Arcade
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Experience the thrill of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with arcade action & pixel-perfect graphics!
Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Released: Sep 9, 2016
Critic rating: 75.4 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Jotun is a hand—drawn action—exploration game set in Norse mythology.
Wizard of Legend
Released: May 15, 2018
Critic rating: 74.4 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
"Wizard of Legend is a fast paced 2D dungeon crawler where you assume the role of a powerful wizard on his quest for fame and glory!
Insurgency
Released: Jan 22, 2014
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Strategy, Tactical, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative
Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine-based experience.
Dirt Showdown
Released: May 23, 2012
Critic rating: 75.2 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Racing, Sport
Platforms: Arcade, PlayStation 3, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Race, crash and hoon your way through a world tour of motorised mayhem in DiRT Showdown!
Day of Defeat
Released: May 1, 2003
Critic rating: 70.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer
Enlist in an intense brand of Axis vs.
Dead Island: Definitive Edition
Released: May 31, 2016
Critic rating: 72.3 / 100 • 50 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever.
Puzzle Quest 2
Released: Jun 22, 2010
Critic rating: 80.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: Linux, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Puzzle Quest 2 is a video game developed by Infinite Interactive for the Nintendo DS, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, and Microsoft Windows.
Dynamite Headdy
Released: Aug 5, 1994
Critic rating: 72.3 / 100 • 32 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform
Platforms: Linux, Wii, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Dynamite Headdy is a platform game in which the player controls Headdy, a puppet with a detachable head.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Released: Jan 30, 2014
Critic rating: 73.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood.
The Hex
Released: Oct 16, 2018
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Genres: Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging.
Super Auto Pets
Released: Apr 20, 2021
Critic rating: 72.2 / 100 • 47 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Web browser, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer
In Super Auto Pets you build a team from a lovable cast of animals who will fight for you.
Champions of Regnum
Released: Jan 3, 2013
Critic rating: 72.1 / 100 • 27 votes
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Champions of Regnum, is a free to play MMORPG focused in epic Realm versus Realm (RvR) and Player versus Player (PvP) battles.
Planetary Annihilation
Released: Sep 5, 2014
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Colonize solar systems, annihilate homeworlds, and exterminate your foes in epic interplanetary battles with multiple players and thousands of units.
Paratopic
Released: Mar 15, 2018
Critic rating: 72.1 / 100 • 27 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border.
Shivah
Released: Jun 1, 2006
Critic rating: 72.1 / 100 • 27 votes
Genres: Point-and-click, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City.
Surviving Mars
Released: Mar 15, 2018
Critic rating: 73.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process.
The Last Blade
Released: Dec 5, 1997
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Fighting, Arcade
Platforms: Arcade, Neo Geo AES, Windows Mixed Reality, Web browser, PlayStation 3, Linux, Wii, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Neo Geo CD
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
The Last Blade is a fighting game developed and published by SNK and released in arcades in 1997.