Action 2014 for Linux — top best games in the Action genre / Page 4

Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge - a game in the Action genre

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, Isometric, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2014

Steam: 70/100

This futuristic arcade platformer with shooter elements follows galactic heroine Serena S as she sets out to punish the Space Prince for trolling her on Spacebook...

Heldric - The Legend of the shoemaker

Role-playing game, Action, Slasher, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Steam: 66/100

This action game combines hack-and-slash combat with tower defense, casting the player as a village shoemaker who joins the locals to protect their home from waves...

Lost Marbles

Action, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 May 2014

Steam: 100/100

Lost Marbles is a platforming puzzle game in which the player controls three marbles at once, combining their properties to cross hazards and solve level...

XenoRaptor

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2014

Steam: 81/100

This top-down space shooter follows a cyberdragon battling an armada of space skeletons. The player salvages parts from defeated enemies to build weapons and equips...

Retrobooster

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2014

Steam: 100/100

Retrobooster is a 2.5D arcade shooter about piloting a nimble ship through strange worlds filled with enemies and hazards. Its flight controls use thrust and...

Pivvot

Arcade, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2014

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This arcade game of avoidance challenges players to guide a moving object along a winding path while dodging obstacles. The route grows more difficult as the run...

Nightmare Cooperative

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2014

Steam: 63/100

A turn-based strategic roguelike about a band of unlikely companions seeking gold to help their village through hard times. Each character brings a different...

Halfway

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A turn-based tactical RPG set in a future where humanity has begun colonising new worlds, Halfway follows a violent invasion aboard the colonial vessel Goliath. The...

Mega Coin Squad

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This 2D platformer with arcade action centers on collecting Mega Coins across a single-player campaign. Procedurally generated levels change as the game progresses...

Fight the Dragon

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Slasher

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2014

Steam: 78/100

This fantasy hack-and-slash RPG centers on adventures created by players, where heroes battle enemies and collect loot. Adventures can be played solo or with other...

Fat Chicken

Strategy, Isometric, Tactics, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2014

Steam: 86/100

A reverse tower defense strategy game about running an industrial farm that fattens livestock for processing into meat. The player builds towers to supply herds...

Rock Boshers DX

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2014

Steam: 89/100

This arcade action-adventure casts the young Queen Victoria in an alternate history, stranded on Mars and trying to escape home. Styled as a pixel-art 8-bit game...

Depths of Tolagal

Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Roguelike, Dungeons, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 11 December 2014

Steam: 92/100

This tactical roguelike sends the hero into the dark dungeons of Tolagal to find a missing apprentice. Whether the apprentice entered willingly or was kidnapped is...

Bone Gulch

Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, Third-person view, Historical

Game canceled: Linux → 5 August 2014

Bone Gulch is an online third-person action, shooter, massively multiplayer and historical game from the developers of Nesoi Tech. The game is published by Nesoi...

Hazewalker

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval

Game in development: Linux → 2016

Hazewalker is an action, adventure and fantasy RPG from TheoryForm. The main publisher of the game is...

T.E.R.R.A.

Online, Action, Shooter, Strategy, In real time, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game canceled: Linux → 20 November 2014

T.E.R.R.A. are first-person online games with action, shooter and strategy elements from the masters at Starcave Entertainment. The main publisher of the game is...

Children of Liberty

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action, Stealth

Early Access: Linux → 18 April 2014

Set in the American colonies as revolution looms, this stealth-action platform adventure follows the children of spies from the Sons of Liberty after their parents...

Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps

Simulation, Action, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 22 July 2014

Steam: 58/100

Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps is a simulator with a mixture of action and indie games from the developers of Max Gaming Technologies, LLC. The game is published...

Probably Archery

Action, First-person view, Indie, Sports game, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2014

Steam: 48/100

Probably Archery is a first-person arcade game about bow shooting, controlled through the separate movements of the character’s wrists, elbows and shoulders. The...

Descent 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Old school

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

This first-person shooter sends the player into dangerous alien mines in the Zeta Aquilae system, where the goal is to destroy a stronghold of hostile robots...

Space Farmers

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

This top-down co-op action shooter takes place on an alien space station, where two captives are forced to share the secrets of British agriculture. When hungry...

Rabbit Hole 3D

Action, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2014

Steam: 62/100

A 3D word puzzle with a retro aesthetic, the game draws on the opening chapter of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Players navigate through words...

Cult of the Wind

Online, Action, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 July 2014

Steam: 69/100

This third-person online action game follows cultists who worship the wreckage of ancient airplanes and mimic dogfights in a world resembling a mausoleum to an Art...

Light

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Stealth, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2014

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This top-down stealth action game follows a man who wakes up with no memory in a strange but familiar place and tries to uncover what happened to him and the secret...

Hidden in Plain Sight

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 99/100

Hidden in Plain Sight is a local multiplayer stealth game in which players try to blend into crowds of AI-controlled characters and complete objectives without...

AR-K

Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Third-person view, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 21 July 2014

Steam: 55/100

AR-K is an action-adventure game in the point and click genre with a third-person view. Alicia Van Volisch is a former police officer and current journalism student...

Blinding Dark

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 12 August 2014

Steam: 40/100

Blinding Dark is a first-person adventure horror game in which the protagonist wakes in what appears to be a mansion, with no memory of who they are or how they got...

Six Miles Under

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → IV квартал 2014

Six Miles Under is an action game with platform elements from developers from Looney Bin Studios. The main publisher of the game is Looney Bin...

Estranged: Act I

Arcade, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2014

Steam: 93/100

This first-person adventure follows a lone fisherman whose ship runs aground near a mysterious island during a violent storm. He explores the island and meets its...

10,000,000

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

10,000,000 — Action role-playing roguelike in a fantasy style with puzzle elements and a side view. In this game you have to run non-stop, overcome obstacles...

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2014

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 82/100

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea — Episode 2 — The beginning of the 20th century, Elizabeth is basking in the sun in the city she was so eager to get to...

Earth: Year 2066

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Players: 1/10

Earth: Year 2066 is a first-person action game with a touch of shooter from developers from Killing Day Studios. The main publisher of the game is Killing Day...

You Have to Win the Game

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania, Free game

Game released: Linux → 6 May 2014

Steam: 92/100

An exploration platformer with the look and sound of 1980s PC games, set among the ruins of a lost world. The player runs and jumps past deadly pitfalls while...

Antisquad

Action, Strategy, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2014

Steam: 56/100

This turn-based tactics game follows AntiSquad, a private paramilitary unit operating in the southern United States. Its members are military professionals who have...

Daedalus: No Escape

Arcade, Beat them all, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action, Online

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2014

Steam: 80/100

Daedalus: No Escape is a dynamic top-down arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. You will act as a brave space marine and go to clear a large spaceship. A horde of...

F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0

Simulation, Action, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 30 October 2014

Steam: 90/100

This combat flight simulator follows stealth missions flown in an F-117A across areas of military conflict. The player carries out strikes against targets while...

Elliot Quest

Arcade, Role-playing game, Adventure, Platformer, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 November 2014

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 76/100

An adventure platformer with role-playing elements follows Elliot, who has been cursed with immortality and is slowly turning into a demon. After his wife...

IO (2007)

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Racing

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2014

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A physics-based platformer about guiding a ball through puzzle-filled levels using momentum and changes in size. Growing or shrinking the ball affects its speed and...

Tom Sparks And The Quakes Of Ruin

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 May 2014

Tom Sparks And The Quakes Of Ruin is a top-down arcade game with a mix of action, shooter, adventure, platformer, puzzle and indie game from Tasty Poison Games. The...

Amazing Frog?

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Indie, Sandbox, Open world, Exploration

Early Access: Linux → 21 November 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 94/100

An open-world physics sandbox turns Swindon into a playground for farting ragdoll frogs that can be flung around by collisions. In Amazing Frog?, players explore...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2014 for Linux