Action 2015 for Linux — top best games in the Action genre / Page 3

JumpJet Rex - a game in the Action genre

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Runner, Racing

Game released: Linux → 22 April 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This 2D platformer with time-trial elements follows Rex, a Tyrannosaurus in jet boots trying to save the dinosaurs from a giant asteroid. Across more than 40...

NotTheNameWeWanted

Arcade, Indie, Action, Horror, Adventure, Top-down view, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 3 July 2015

Steam: 89/100

NotTheNameWeWanted is a top-down arcade action game that is a parody of the popular GTA series. You will find amazing graphics, incredible sound, spectacular...

Bard's Gold

Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Action

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2015

Steam: 82/100

A platforming roguelite with action elements, Bard's Gold follows a bard as he journeys through eerie worlds in search of the goblin who stole his gold. The player...

Blues and Bullets

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Detective

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2015

Steam: 65/100

Blues and Bullets is a third-person, noir-style action-adventure episodic game. A long coat, booze, a gun, and talking to yourself are all part of our protagonist...

3D Paraglider

Free game, Simulation, Sports game, Third-person view, First-person view, Online, Action

Game released: Linux → 3 August 2015

Steam: 46/100

Free paragliding flight simulator. Paragliders are lightweight, free-flying gliders without a rigid structure. Flights on it can last many hours and cover many...

UBERMOSH

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2015

Players: 1.2/10

Steam: 94/100

UBERMOSH is a cyberpunk arcade shooter with an isometric view. Just like a pinball table or a slot machine, this game is designed to give you an adrenaline rush in...

Satellite Reign

Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 28 August 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Satellite Reign is a futuristic real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view in a cyberpunk style. You have to manage a team of four agents, each of whom...

ROOT

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 November 2015

Steam: 75/100

ROOT is a first-person action game with elements of stealth and cyberpunk style. Cyberterrorism is a dangerous profession where risks have real consequences...

Knights of the Sky

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

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2015

Steam: 52/100

Knights of the Sky — flight simulator with first person view. You are a hunter tracking down Germany's most famous pilots, including the infamous Baron...

Slinki

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 15 April 2015

Steam: 77/100

This 2.5D action-platformer follows Slinki, a rabbit whose once-peaceful forest has been overrun by hostile mutated creatures. To reach the Forest’s Core and find...

Second Coming: Tactical Training

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Casual game, Online

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2015

Steam: 100/100

This multiplayer science-fiction first-person shooter pits players against one another across large maps in several game modes. In Second Coming: Tactical Training...

Action Henk

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

Game released: Linux → 11 May 2015

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Action Henk is a fun arcade runner with a third-person view. As the fearless Hank, you have to conquer the crazy and wonderful world of toys. You will run, jump...

Stick 'Em Up 2: Paper Adventures

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 27 July 2015

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 71/100

This run-and-gun platformer follows stick-figure characters fighting across levels made of paper and card. Players fly a helicopter over city rooftops while firing...

INK

Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 August 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 87/100

INK is a color-based platformer about navigating levels with invisible terrain, gradually revealing the surroundings with paint. The goal is to defeat every enemy...

Cross of the Dutchman

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 September 2015

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Cross of the Dutchman is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view. The game takes place in medieval Western Europe in the province of Frisia, at the...

World War 2 GI

Action, First-person view, Historical

Game released: Linux → 13 November 2015

Steam: 45/100

This first-person historical shooter centers on the Allied landings in Normandy on D-Day. The player takes the role of a soldier in the 101st Airborne Division...

Sky Battles

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2015

Steam: 68/100

This arcade flight shooter centers on aerial battles against giant monsters, including robots, sea creatures, dragons and Krakens. Across ten missions, pilots must...

Galacide

Arcade, Shooter, Beat them all, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 28 July 2015

Steam: 82/100

Galacide is a side-scrolling arcade shooter from the developers behind the fighting game Blade Symphony. You have to prevent the invasion of hostile aliens to save...

Magicka 2: Ice, Death and Fury

Arcade, Action, DLC, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 15 December 2015

Steam: 61/100

Magicka 2: Ice, Death and Fury is an addition to the collective arcade adventure about wizards. Events will take players to Aldreheim Castle, where all the wizards...

Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball

Action, First-person view, Sports game, Combat robots, Indie, Shooter, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2015

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This futuristic first-person sports shooter centers on dodgeball matches in arenas styled as skate parks and neon-lit dance clubs. The player controls a one-wheeled...

VoidExpanse

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Open world

Game released: Linux → 2 April 2015

Steam: 68/100

An open-world, top-down science-fiction action RPG about a spaceship pilot exploring the far reaches of space. The player mines asteroids, trades, completes story...

Cosmochoria

Arcade, Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 27 April 2015

Steam: 86/100

Cosmochoria is an arcade action-adventure about a tiny pink cosmonaut who finds himself in a distant galaxy and sets out to bring life back to its barren planets...

Noct

Online, Action, Horror, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2015

A top-down multiplayer horror game that combines survival and RPG elements. The main character, who survived the apocalypse, will have to explore the wasteland...

Dungeon Crawlers

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2015

Steam: 50/100

This turn-based strategy game brings a comedic ghost-hunting concept to a dungeon setting. Its gameplay centers on tactical, turn-based encounters, with a...

Mushroom 11

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Mushroom 11 is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. Controlling an amorphous organism, you have to overcome flocks of strange mutated creatures and...

Planet Diver

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 December 2015

Steam: 85/100

Planet Diver is an arcade action game about astronauts who explore the liquid part of unknown planets using their special diving suit. Players will have to fly to...

Pix the Cat

Arcade, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2015

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This arcade game follows Pix the Cat through digital mazes, where the cat hatches ducklings, forms a line behind him and guides them to target circles while...

Aaru's Awakening

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 23 February 2015

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 59/100

A hand-drawn 2D action platformer set in the dangerous mythical world of Lumenox. The player controls Aaru, a mythical creature on a quest to defeat an evil...

Trapped Dead: Lockdown

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 59/100

An isometric action RPG set in a small American town overrun by the living dead. The protagonist enters just before the military locks down the town and fights...

Lost Orbit

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...

Expander

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 1 December 2015

Steam: 100/100

Expander is an indie puzzle game from the developers of All Civilized Planets. Players will have to collect stars and adjust the width of the controllable block so...

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...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2015 for Linux (Game released)