Action 2014 for Linux — top best games in the Action genre / Page 3

Sproggiwood - a game in the Action genre

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Roguelike, Adventure, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2014

Steam: 79/100

Sproggiwood is an arcade RPG with action and roguelike elements with an isometric view. You are a simple farmer from the peaceful island of Clog. One moment you are...

Silent Service 2

Simulation, Action, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Historical

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2014

Steam: 69/100

A World War II submarine simulator in which the player carries out combat missions against enemy ships. Silent Service 2 features new targets and scenarios, with...

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...

LOVE

Platformer, Indie, Side view, Arcade, Old school, Action

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2014

Steam: 92/100

A minimalist game with a retro aesthetic and an emphasis on challenge without being unfair. The game features an innovative revival system, 16 levels and an...

Toribash

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Turn-based, Free game, Online

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2014

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 53/100

This turn-based fighting game uses ragdoll physics and lets players control a fighter through their joints, designing moves for each bout. Each joint has four...

Stunt Runner

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → Q2 2014

Stunt Runner is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer, puzzle and indie game from developers from Kermdinger Studios. The main publisher of the game...

Orborun

Action, Indie, Racing

Game released: Linux → 5 September 2014

Steam: 86/100

Orborun is an indie action racing game. You have to control your Orbot to collect goods, avoid obstacles and the dangerous world of Orbo. You will complete levels...

Flockers

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Strategy, Action

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2014

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 64/100

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Ziggurat

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Ziggurat is a first-person shooter with roguelike elements, inspired by the Hexen and Painkiller series. You have to put on the skin of a sorcerer and go...

Thief Town

Action, Indie, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2014

Steam: 78/100

A local multiplayer stealth action game set in a pixel-art version of the Wild West, where players compete in an arena filled with identical characters. Each player...

Volt

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2014

Steam: 70/100

This puzzle platformer follows a battery that escapes while being taken for recycling and tries to get out of an industrial facility. Without legs, the heroine...

Q*bert: Rebooted

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 8 July 2014

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 50/100

This arcade puzzle game centers on jumping across a pyramid of blocks, combining the classic 2D Q*bert mode with a 3D reimagining called Rebooted. In both versions...

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...

So Many Me

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Platformer, Logic, Indie, Action, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2014

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 78/100

So Many Me is a puzzle platformer about a creature who can control many clones of himself, joining forces to save a world threatened by an ancient evil. The hero...

Screencheat

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2014

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 71/100

A competitive first-person shooter in which every fighter is invisible, forcing players to locate opponents by looking at their screens. Matches use split-screen...

Contact Vector

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Tactics

Game released: Linux → 18 June 2014

Contact Vector is an isometric action game with elements of strategy and tactical game from developers from Magnosphere studio. The game is published by...

Shiny The Firefly

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2014

Steam: 76/100

A platform adventure about Shiny, a firefly searching for his children, scattered across a mysterious garden after an accident. The garden is home to dangerous...

Space Run

Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Space

Game released: Linux → 13 June 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Space Run is an exciting tower defense strategy game set in a sci-fi setting. You have to try on the role of a space courier and transport various cargo from one...

Gigantic Army

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Indie, Runner

Game released: Linux → 6 March 2014

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Gigantic Army is a classic side-scrolling arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the 21st century, where Earth is at war with the Ramulons, an...

Fistful of Frags

Action, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Survival

Game released: Linux → 9 May 2014

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 91/100

This multiplayer first-person shooter is set in the Wild West, where fast-paced firefights revolve around slow but powerful weapons. Players can compete in...

Prophour23

Action, Strategy, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2014

Steam: 58/100

A fast-paced real-time strategy game in which the player builds an organism from different organs and tries to withstand mounting odds. Organs can be connected in...

Flashout 2

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

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2014

Steam: 56/100

Flashout 2 is a third-person racing action game set in a fantasy world. This game offers a new look at racing thanks to a modernized career mode, major changes to...

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...

Nekro

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → Q1 2014

Nekro is an isometric RPG with action, hack and slash and fantasy games from DarkForge and darkForge Games LLC. The game is published by DarkForge and darkForge...

Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Adventure, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2014

Steam: 84/100

This action-platform adventure in a Metroidvania style follows the Powerpuff Girls as they explore Townsville and try to recover their lost powers. Blossom, Bubbles...

SPY Fox in "Hold the Mustard"

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2014

Steam: 51/100

An arcade action-adventure about SPY Fox, who sets out to save the world’s ketchup supply from the villainous King Konglomerate. The agent pilots the M.E.S.S. ship...

Black Ice

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Steampunk, Exploration, Cyberpunk, Open world

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2014

Steam: 78/100

This first-person cyberpunk shooter with role-playing elements takes place in an open cyberspace where corporations protect their data with artificial intelligence...

Super Roman Conquest

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → summer 2014

Super Roman Conquest is an action, platformer and fantasy arcade game from SeaCliff Interactive. The game is published by SeaCliff...

Freddi Fish & Luther's Maze Madness

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 86/100

This arcade puzzle game follows Freddi Fish and Luther as they navigate a maze of underwater caves and collect scattered kelp seeds. Players explore more than 50...

Putt-Putt and Pep's Dog on a Stick

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Adventure, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 1 May 2014

Steam: 88/100

This arcade game follows Pep, a dog hopping on a stick to collect goodies before his rivals catch up. Players make their way through levels, navigating obstacles...

Chicken Invaders 4

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 98/100

Chicken Invaders 4 is a top-down, sci-fi arcade action game. They came without warning, squawking menacingly, their ruffled feathers darkening the sun. An invasion...

Snow Light

Action, Adventure, Interactive movie, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2014

Steam: 25/100

A visual novel about Snow Light, a professional spy carrying out missions in a futuristic world where peace between nations is fragile. As natural resources grow...

Fotonica

Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2014

Steam: 87/100

FOTONICA is a first-person arcade platformer about running, jumping, and moving at high speed through abstract environments. Its mostly two-color vector visuals use...

Ku: Shroud of the Morrigan

Action, Slasher, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Steampunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 March 2014

Steam: 32/100

Ku: Shroud of the Morrigan is a fantastic slasher game with action elements and an isometric view. Set in a future Ireland devastated by techno-magic war and...

Secrets of Raetikon

Action, Adventure, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This 2D action-adventure with an open world takes place in the Alps, where a bird explores the wilderness and traces of an ancient culture. The player flies through...

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...

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...

Bazalth: Don't Trust The Signs

Action, Shooter, Isometric, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → Q4 2014

Bazalth: Don't Trust The Signs is an action game with an isometric view with a dash of shooter from developers from the Helium Games studio. The game is...

BOMB: Who let the dogfight?

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

Game released: Linux → 1 August 2014

Steam: 62/100

BOMB: Who let the dogfight? — a multiplayer arcade flight simulator with a third-person view. The game takes place in a fascinating "dieselpunk" universe...

Boson X

Action, Arcade, Runner

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2014

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Boson X is an arcade runner set inside a particle accelerator, where the character navigates a subatomic space without conventional floors or ceilings. The aim is...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2014 for Linux (Game released)