Action 2010 for Linux — top best games in the Action genre

Mount & Blade: Warband - a game in the Action genre

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2010

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Mount & Blade: Warband is an action role-playing game with strategy elements and a third-person view in a medieval setting. You will be able to become the ruler of...

Shank

Action, Platformer, Side view, Beat them all, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2010

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Set in a stylized criminal underworld, this side-scrolling beat ’em up follows Shank on a quest for revenge. Its story unfolds through fully animated scenes, while...

Ecco the Dolphin

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 53/100

This action-adventure with puzzles follows Ecco, a dolphin searching for his family after a strange whirlpool sweeps them from their home bay. He explores a vast...

Trine

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 2 November 2010

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This fantasy action-platformer with physics-based puzzles follows a wizard, a knight and a thief whose fates become bound by a mysterious artifact called the Trine...

Comix Zone

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Post-apocalyptic, Comics, Side view

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Comix Zone is an arcade action game with fighting game elements and a side view in the style of comics. Sketch Turner is an artist based in New York. One day...

Ecco the Dolphin: Complete

Adventure, Collection, Side view, Casual game, Old school, Action

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Steam: 84/100

The return of the iconic Ecco the Dolphin series, more than three decades after its debut on the Sega Mega Drive. The collection brings together classic games about...

Altered Beast (1989)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 93/100

This arcade action platformer is set in a mythological world and follows a quest to rescue Athena, the daughter of Zeus, who has been captured by Neff, God of the...

Alien Storm

Arcade, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 87/100

An arcade action shooter about an invasion by alien predators that wreak havoc across the planet. The player controls the Alien Busters, a team fighting back...

Osmos

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2010

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This physics-based arcade game blends strategy and puzzles in an abstract world of particles. The goal is to grow by absorbing other motes while avoiding larger...

Crack Down

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Steam: 100/100

Crack Down — top-down arcade action game. Using a top-down perspective, the player controls either Ben or Andy, a pair of agents tasked with stopping the mad...

Sonic 3D Blast

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Isometric, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 88/100

An isometric platformer in which Sonic sets out to rescue the Flickies and stop Dr. Eggman from finding the Chaos Emeralds. Eggman turns the unusual birds into...

Ristar

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010

Steam: 100/100

A platformer about Ristar, a star who comes from the depths of space to oppose the tyrant Greedy. He has plunged the galaxy of Valdi into misery and darkness, and...

Pirates, Vikings and Knights 2

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game, Online

Game released: Linux → 12 February 2010

Players: 9/10

Steam: 88/100

This first-person team action game centers on a three-way PvP conflict between Pirates, Vikings, and Knights. Players choose a class and fight across varied maps...

Air Forte

Action, Flight Simulator, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Top-down view, Logic, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 July 2010

Steam: 50/100

This casual educational game combines math, vocabulary, and geography challenges with piloting an aircraft through aerial arenas. It can be played solo or with up...

Ecco Jr.

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010

Steam: 85/100

This puzzle adventure follows the dolphin Ecco and his friends as they swim through the ocean in search of the giant whale Big Blue. To reach him in the Endless...

Depths of Peril

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 November 2010

Steam: 88/100

This single-player action RPG with strategy elements is set in a fantasy world where leaders of barbarian factions vie for control of the city of Jorvik. The player...

Giana's Return

Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 1 January 2010

Giana's Return is an action game with platformer and fantasy game...

Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master

Action, Fighting, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 85/100

An action game about ninja Joe Musashi, who returns to Japan to fight the Neo Zeed organization. After the battle in Neo City, his sworn enemy is secretly...

Sonic the Hedgehog: Spinball

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Pinball

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 90/100

A platformer with pinball elements follows Sonic as he attempts to breach the Pinball Defense System and stop Dr. Eggman. Using his invention, the Veg-o-Fortress...

Shatter

Arcade, Action, Music game, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Arkanoid, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 March 2010

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Shatter is a top-down futuristic arkanoid game where you need to clear the playing field from colorful blocks using a ball and a moving...

Vectorman

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Platformer

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Steam: 83/100

This futuristic action platformer with shooter elements takes place on Earth in 2049, after the planet has become a toxic waste dump. Humanity has fled into space...

Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010

Steam: 50/100

This platform action game follows Alex Kidd as he searches for his missing father, King Thor, on the planet Paperock. His family suspects that Thor was kidnapped by...

Galaxy Force 2

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010

Steam: 83/100

This arcade space shooter centers on the battle for Junos, a peaceful system of five planets at the edge of the Milky Way. Halcyon, ruler of the Fourth Empire, has...

Polynomial: Space of the Music

Action, Shooter, Music game, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 October 2010

Steam: 72/100

A 3D space shooter with fractal scenery that changes in time with the music. The player explores worlds, fights enemies, protects allies, collects bonuses and earns...

Super Thunder Blade

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Top-down view, Helicopters, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010

Steam: 66/100

This arcade shooter follows the Super Thunder Blade helicopter as it sets out to stop a renegade army threatening the free world. The helicopter heads for the...

Newton Adventure

Arcade, Action, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 2 January 2010

Newton Adventure is an arcade game with action and platform...

Galcon Fusion

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2010

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 68/100

This top-down multiplayer arcade strategy game centers on a battle for control of the galaxy. Players send swarms of ships to enemy planets to defeat their...

Space Harrier 2

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Steam: 100/100

The fantasy world of Fantasyland has been overrun by destructive forces, and Space Harrier rushes to its aid. Armed with a laser, he battles hordes of enemies and...

Bonanza Bros.

Action, Third-person view, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010

Steam: 100/100

A third-person stealth action game about investigator brothers Mike and Spike, hired by a businessman to test the security at his properties. Money, documents, and...

Kid Chameleon

Action, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010

Steam: 100/100

Kid Chameleon is a platform action game about a hero who enters the arcade game Wild Side to stop its escaped boss, Heady Metal. Heady Metal has captured children...

Cubosphere

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 18 January 2010

Cubosphere is a third-person action game with a mixture of strategy, puzzle and...

OpenClonk

Action, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 7 December 2010

OpenClonk is an action game with sandbox...

Frogatto & Friends

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Sandbox, Side view, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Frogatto & Friends is a third-person action game with platformer and sandbox...

Gain Ground

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Steam: 100/100

This arcade action game with strategic elements takes place inside a battle simulator, where contestants are trapped and androids have been turned into killing...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2010 for Linux