Action 2015 for Linux — top best games in the Action genre / Page 4

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

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This space arcade action game follows Harrison, a maintenance worker and astronaut stranded in deep space after his ship is destroyed, as he tries to make his way...

MadOut

Arcade, Action, Racing, Indie, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 38/100

MadOut is an arcade racing action game with a third-person view. Unlike other games where you can only knock your opponent off the track, this game will allow you...

Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

This action-puzzle adventure follows a spider exploring an abandoned estate built by a secret society. In Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon, the player weaves webs...

Brawl (2015)

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2015

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This horror-themed arena game combines bomb-based arcade combat with MOBA elements in the dark Emporium. Players choose from eight characters, each with a backstory...

Warlocks vs Shadows

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

Game released: Linux → 19 August 2015

Steam: 58/100

An action RPG and brawler set in a fantasy world overrun by shadow monsters. Players control a powerful Warlock and fight through hordes of enemies using magic...

Overruled!

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 60/100

A side-scrolling multiplayer brawler where players change the rules and objectives in the middle of a match. The winner is the player with the most points, but the...

TULPA

Arcade, Action, Horror, Platformer, Indie, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2015

Steam: 73/100

TULPA is an arcade game with elements of action, horror, platformer and indie game from Encryptique Studios. The game is published by Rising Star Games...

BlackHole

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 February 2015

Steam: 86/100

BlackHole is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer with a variety of puzzles in a sci-fi setting. When Ender's spaceship is sucked into a black hole, the crew...

Grave

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 March 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Grave is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. The surreal world of the game will give you a huge space to explore with mystical, strange...

Defend Your Life

In real time, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 3 April 2015

Steam: 82/100

This tower defense strategy game takes place inside the human body, where its defenders fend off attacks by viruses and bacteria. Battles unfold in different...

Square Heroes

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2015

Steam: 85/100

This comedic action shooter follows a genetically engineered hero who joins the Galactic Tournament after saving humanity. With that purpose fulfilled, the hero...

Kung Fury: Street Rage

Arcade, Fighting, Beat them all, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2015

Steam: 89/100

oO

Action, Arcade, Music game, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

oO is an arcade action game. In this game you have to control a ball that moves in a circle and jump from the inside to the outside in time. You will find exciting...

Coffin Dodgers

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

Game released: Linux → 8 July 2015

Players: 4.1/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 41/100

Coffin Dodgers is a racing arcade action game with a third-person view. You are about to go to the most unusual village for the elderly, where mind-blowing races on...

Starship Rubicon

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 July 2015

Steam: 94/100

This arcade space shooter with roguelike elements follows a pilot tasked with saving humanity’s survivors after Earth is destroyed and finding them a new home. A...

Capsule Force

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2015

Steam: 80/100

This multiplayer arcade game, styled after 1980s space anime, centers on a battle for control of the galaxies. In competitive matches, teams shoot at one another...

Poncho

Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Action

Game released: Linux → 3 November 2015

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 63/100

This puzzle-platforming adventure follows Poncho, a robot exploring a ruined world where humanity has vanished and only robots remain. The journey leads toward the...

Invisible, Inc. Contingency Plan

Action, Strategy, Stealth, DLC, Turn-based, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2015

Steam: 90/100

Invisible, Inc. Contingency Plan is an add-on to the spy action game that adds new missions and achievements. Players will be able to explore new locations...

Knight Squad

Arcade, Action, Indie, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2015

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Top-down arena battles bring together one to eight players in matches featuring medieval weapons, lasers, and miniguns. Knight Squad offers both team and solo...

Stardust Vanguards

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Futurism (Future), Slasher

Game released: Linux → 30 January 2015

Steam: 82/100

Stardust Vanguards is a local dueling arcade game that combines fast-paced combat with summoned reinforcements and random events involving space pirates. Defeating...

Son Of Nor

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2015

Steam: 48/100

Metacritic: 54/100

This third-person fantasy action-adventure takes place in the desert world of Noshrac, where humanity’s ancient enemy, the Sarahul, has returned after a long peace...

Centauri Sector

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

Game released: Linux → 24 June 2015

Steam: 50/100

A top-down tactical space action game about defending the Tabula Rasa system from repeated attacks by space pirates. The player commands a fleet that starts with a...

Survivor Squad: Gauntlets

Action, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2015

Steam: 63/100

This strategy-action game follows a squad of survivors fighting infected enemies and trying to reach extraction. Line of sight is central to combat: squad members...

Mayan Death Robots

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Side view, Turn-based, Strategy, Online

Game released: Linux → 20 November 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A turn-based artillery strategy set during the Mayan civilization, which is under threat from alien war machines. Players choose a robot and fight in an arena...

Switch Galaxy Ultra

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

Game released: Linux → 20 November 2015

Steam: 35/100

Switch Galaxy Ultra is a futuristic arcade racing game in which the player travels across the galaxy collecting tantalum for Dakur Technology. At high speed, the...

UpvoidMiner

Action, First-person view, Indie

Game canceled: Linux → 23 August 2015

UpvoidMiner is a first-person action game with indie game elements from developers from Upvoid Studios. The game is published by Upvoid Studios. Sometimes the game...

Abomination Tower

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Action

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2015

Steam: 77/100

Abomination Tower is an arcade indie platformer with a side view and generated levels. You have to control a headless hero who wants to escape beyond the level. To...

Reassembly

Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Construction, Space, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2015

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 94/100

A space sandbox with action and strategy elements, Reassembly has players designing ships and exploring a procedurally generated universe. Resources are used to...

Crash Drive 2

Racing, Online, Action

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2015

Steam: 90/100

A multiplayer arcade game about free-roaming and performing stunts in unusual vehicles, including buses, tanks and monster trucks. Across four open worlds, players...

Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri

Action, Strategy, In real time, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Simulation, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2015

Steam: 96/100

A science-fiction first-person shooter with tactical squad command follows the fight to protect a colony on Centauri. The player leads Strike Force Centauri against...

Feist

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Feist is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer. The game combines a minimalist art style and physics reminiscent of Limbo. As a small black animal, you will...

Reign of Bullets

Arcade, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 19 August 2015

Steam: 84/100

Reign of Bullets is a side view arcade game with shooter elements from developers from the Critical Bit studio. The game is published by Critical...

Tinertia

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Linux → 3 September 2015

Steam: 97/100

Tinertia is a futuristic action-platformer set on a dying planet, where the robot Weldon is trapped among ruins and sentient machines. To survive, he must climb...

Ceres (2015)

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2015

Steam: 52/100

Ceres — real-time space strategy. Players will take control of a squadron of spaceships and take part in battles, trade and exploration of solar systems. It...

Eternal Step

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2015

Steam: 60/100

Eternal Step is an action role-playing game with a top-down procedurally generated world in a fantasy setting. The main character will have to climb the highest...

Spellsworn

Arcade, Online, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game

Early Access: Linux → 2 November 2015

Steam: 89/100

Spellsworn is a multiplayer arcade action game with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. By choosing one of the many wizards, you will go to a variety of...

Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons

Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 9 January 2015

Steam: 44/100

This real-time tactical strategy game follows the Black Talons mercenary company, stranded in the Oberon system after the Tzanar Union captures the planet Genai. To...

Super Galaxy Squadron

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

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A fast-paced vertical shooter in which players pilot one of 17 ships. The game features multiple modes, while its forgiving health system and gradual difficulty...

MagNets

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 January 2015

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 49/100

MagNets is a fun arcade action platformer with an isometric camera view. In the game you will fight in various arenas to restore order in the Polar City. To do...

MadOut Ice Storm

Arcade, Action, Racing, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 September 2015

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 42/100

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2015 for Linux