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

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...

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...

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...

Awesomenauts: Cynical Vinnie & Total Spike

Action, Strategy, DLC, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 April 2014

Steam: 100/100

An add-on for Awesomenauts, this content gives Vinnie and Spike a skin depicting them as members of the Royal British Digital Society of Well-Mannered Gentlemen...

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...

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...

Din's Curse

Role-playing game, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2014

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This real-time fantasy RPG follows a hero cursed by the god Din to spend a second life serving others; redemption depends on helping the inhabitants of towns. In...

Meltdown (2014)

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2014

Steam: 87/100

This tactical arcade shooter is set in a sci-fi world and follows Zed as he tries to escape a remote space station after a system malfunction. Enemies have distinct...

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...

Sunrider

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Free game

Game released: Linux → II квартал 2014

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 92/100

This science-fiction role-playing game with visual novel elements follows Captain Kayto Shields after his homeworld is conquered and his nation falls under enemy...

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...

Astral Terra

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world, Survival, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → лето 2014

Players: 1/10

Steam: 33/100

This fantasy sandbox combines RPG and survival elements in a procedurally generated smooth-voxel world that can be reshaped and rebuilt. As a Planar Warden, the...

BlazeRush

Arcade, Action, Racing, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2014

Players: 6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 66/100

BlazeRush is an arcade survival racer set in a futuristic world, where the focus is on fighting for position: cars have no health, levelling system or brakes...

Action

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