Best Linux Games
1,051 Linux games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
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.
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!
Dead Island: Definitive Edition
Released: May 31, 2016
Critic rating: 72.4 / 100 • 48 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.
Super Auto Pets
Released: Apr 20, 2021
Critic rating: 72.2 / 100 • 46 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.
Paratopic
Released: Mar 15, 2018
Critic rating: 72.1 / 100 • 26 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border.
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.
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.
Dear Esther
Released: Feb 14, 2012
Critic rating: 72.3 / 100
Rating: PEGI 12
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Two years in the making, the highly anticipated Indie remake of the cult mod Dear Esther arrives on PC.
Dysmantle
Released: Nov 16, 2021
Critic rating: 83.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, 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, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The open world action RPG where you can ruin everything.
Sportsfriends
Released: May 6, 2014
Critic rating: 81.4 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Fighting, Sport, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer
Sportsfriends is a collection of four local multiplayer games designed for social play.
ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron
Released: Dec 31, 1993
Critic rating: 71.8 / 100 • 24 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Linux, Wii, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron is a platform video game, developed by Johnson Voorsanger Productions and published by Sega originally in 1993.
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Released: Dec 31, 1995
Critic rating: 71.8 / 100 • 35 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, DOS, Amiga
Game modes: Single player
Flight of the Amazon Queen follows a pilot for hire named Joe King who is hired to fly a famous actress to her next job, but ends up in a lightning storm and crashes deep in the Amazon Jungle.
Pikuniku
Released: Jan 24, 2019
Critic rating: 74.8 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Google Stadia, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Pikuniku is a puzzle and adventure game set in a colorful world.
Armello
Released: Jan 22, 2015
Critic rating: 73.3 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Quiz/Trivia, Adventure, Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Armello is a grand swashbuckling adventure that combines three styles of play; The deep tactics of card games with the rich strategy of table top board games, combined with a character role-playing system.
Medal of Honor
Released: Oct 12, 2010
Critic rating: 74.4 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Operating directly under the National Command Authority, a relatively unknown entity of handpicked warriors are selected when it is crucial that a mission must not fail.
Kingdom Rush Origins
Released: Nov 7, 2014
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The third installment in the popular tower defense series Kingdom Rush.
The Escapists 2
Released: Aug 22, 2017
Critic rating: 75.4 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Tactical, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The Escapists 2 is the forthcoming sequel to the sandbox prison-escape game which will include, in a first for the series, drop in/drop out play for up to four players in both local and online play.