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

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...

Lord of the Dark Castle

Role-playing game, Turn-based, Action

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2015

Steam: 73/100

A turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler with strategy elements, Lord of the Dark Castle follows a hero exploring a shifting dungeon and fighting its monsters. Turns...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Z.A.R.

Arcade, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 1 May 2015

Steam: 78/100

Set in 2097, this futuristic first-person shooter follows a crisis on planets where supercomputers control automated resource mining. After a meteorite strikes the...

Blues and Bullets

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

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2015

Steam: 60/100

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Robot vs Birds Zombies

Casual game, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2015

Steam: 38/100

This action puzzle game follows a robot built by survivors to fight birds that have turned into zombies after contracting avian influenza. The player controls the...

Kidnapped

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

Game released: Linux → 4 August 2015

Steam: 51/100

This first-person psychological horror game follows Sebastian Lee, a resident of Stirling, Scotland, who vanished without a trace and wakes up captive in the winter...

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...

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...

Radium

Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2015

Steam: 81/100

A minimalist physics-based skill game about guiding a ball through levels with two tractor beams. The beams exert force on the ball, and some stages require...

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...

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...

I Can't Escape: Darkness

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

Game released: Linux → 17 September 2015

Steam: 76/100

This first-person horror adventure traps its protagonist in a living dungeon and sets the goal of finding a way out while the Darkness pursues them. Its corridors...

Mystik Belle

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2015

Steam: 86/100

Mystik Belle is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. You have to go to the amazing school of magic Hagmore. Freshman witch Bella...

Vapour

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

Game released: Linux → 3 July 2015

Steam: 36/100

This experimental first-person horror game combines elements of classic and modern horror with the fast-paced action of a shooter. The protagonist, a warlock named...

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...

Never Alone: Foxtales

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

Game released: Linux → 28 July 2015

Steam: 83/100

An expansion for Never Alone, in which Nuna and Fox travel across the waters of Northwest Alaska to rescue a new friend. The companions paddle a sealskin canoe...

Duet

Arcade, Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 4 August 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Duet is an arcade game about guiding two linked spheres, orbiting a shared center, through mazes of falling obstacles. The player turns them left or right to dodge...

Void Invaders

Indie, Action, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2015

Steam: 88/100

An arcade shoot-’em-up inspired by classic games such as Galaga and Space Invaders. Players fight through more than 40 levels, facing dozens of enemy types and...

Sublevel Zero

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 8 October 2015

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Sublevel Zero is a procedurally generated space shooter with a first-person view. Players will have to explore locations on a spaceship and destroy crowds of...

Animal Gods

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

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2015

Steam: 16/100

Metacritic: 50/100

This 2D top-down adventure follows the fall of the Animal Gods, sacred beings turned into haunted beasts by toxic fumes from a bronze industry. Thistle, a small and...

Uebergame

Free game, Action, Online

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2015

Steam: 54/100

An open-source multiplayer shooter built around casual deathmatch matches across a range of scenarios. Players can also create their own levels with the in-game...

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...

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...

Taimumari: Definitive Edition

Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2015

Steam: 77/100

A retro-style platformer about Himari, a young wizard travelling through different periods of time to restore its disrupted flow. The story takes place in Zaria...

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...

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...

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...

Riddled Corpses

Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 2 June 2015

Steam: 68/100

An arcade-style twin-stick shooter inspired by 8- and 16-bit games, Riddled Corpses follows a hero fighting through hordes of enemies to destroy the source of evil...

Alien Robot Monsters

Strategy, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 September 2015

Steam: 83/100

This sci-fi tower defense game follows colonists battling hostile robots on a planet capable of supporting human life. An expedition sends a colony ship and a small...

Flight of the Paladin

Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2015

Steam: 53/100

A fast-paced top-down shooter in which a knight of light battles creatures of darkness. In Campaign Mode, the hero fights increasingly numerous enemies, with each...

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...

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