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

Square Heroes - a game in the Action genre

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...

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...

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

Masterplan

Action, Strategy, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 4 June 2015

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Set in the 1970s, this tactical, squad-based heist game presents its action from a 2D top-down perspective. The player plans robberies and chooses whether to rely...

Little Cells

Arcade, Top-down view, Match-3 (Three in a row), Action, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2015

Steam: 81/100

Little Cells is an entertaining top-down arcade game. Through the prism of a microscope you will find yourself in the plant world of constantly multiplying cells...

Spectra: 8bit Racing

Arcade, Action, Racing, Platformer, Music game, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 July 2015

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 56/100

A vibrant game in which the gamer controls a ship and rides along intricate ribbons of light to the original soundtrack from Chipzel (“Super Hexagon”, “Size Does...

Zotrix

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 24 July 2015

Steam: 35/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Zotrix is an arcade space shooter inspired by arcade games from the 1980s and early 1990s. The player escorts a cargo ship through deep space and fights aliens in...

WonderCat Adventures

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 11 September 2015

Steam: 76/100

WonderCat Adventures is a runner-platformer about a cat trying to escape mysterious caves and find its way home after a UFO crash. Along the way, WonderCat searches...

Air Brawl

Action, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 5 November 2015

Steam: 78/100

A multiplayer action game about aerial dogfights, where success depends on piloting skill and the use of weapons with different effects. Some weapons slow...

Hot Tin Roof

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania, Side view, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 20 February 2015

Steam: 70/100

This noir mystery combines platforming, exploration and Metroidvania elements as private investigator Emma Jones investigates a series of grisly murders. Her...

Battle for the Sun

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2015

Steam: 26/100

Battle for the Sun is a first-person action game with shooter elements from the masters of Appsolutely Studios. The main publisher of the game is Appsolutely...

Bloodbath Kavkaz

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Rustbucket Rumble

Online, Action, Platformer, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 4 May 2015

Steam: 56/100

Rustbucket Rumble is a team-based, side-scrolling arena action game set on an Earth abandoned by humanity. The machines left behind continue the rivalry between two...

Interloper

Online, Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 21 May 2015

Steam: 84/100

Interloper is a real-time strategy game in which players compete for control of territory rather than trying to destroy one another. Capturing the map means...

Quadrant (2014)

Action, First-person view, Indie, Horror, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2015

Steam: 66/100

Set in 1979, this first-person science-fiction horror game takes place at a secret research facility after a small hazardous-materials cleanup team is sent to...

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