Action 2017 for Linux — top best games in the Action genre / Page 5

Face It - A game to fight inner demons - a game in the Action genre

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2017

Steam: 58/100

This 3D platformer combines puzzles with a maze of feelings, turning darker aspects of consciousness into monsters and traps and brighter states of mind into powers...

Pressure Overdrive

Arcade, Action, Racing, Top-down view, Comedy, Online, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 66/100

Pressure Overdrive is a racing arcade action game with a top-down view. You have to get behind the wheel of an unusual vehicle and join the ranks of La Protesta in...

Maybot Run

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 19 October 2017

Steam: 100/100

Maybot Run is a crazy arcade runner with a side view. Run through randomly generated levels, collect bonuses, taxes and votes. Jump over crazy enemies from angry...

TTV2

Indie, Action, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 11 September 2017

Steam: 86/100

A retro-styled arcade game about navigating mazes with quick reflexes, TTV2 is a sequel to Trip to Vinelands. This indie project features original audio and artwork...

Unexplored

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Roguelike, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2017

Steam: 89/100

Unexplored is a top-down action RPG with randomly generated levels. An exciting journey through dungeons with many mysteries and challenges awaits you. The game...

Eternal Return (2017)

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2017

Steam: 51/100

Eternal Return is a hardcore side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. In the role of a glorious knight, you have to go to the cursed castle and deal with all its...

Tiles

Action, Puzzle, Indie, Replayability

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2017

Steam: 71/100

Tiles is a unique puzzle game that will challenge your mind and burn your fingertips. It's simple, you need to move from green tiles to red ones, clearing the blue...

Splody

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 21 March 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Splody is an explosive top-down arcade game in Japanese style. The game is built on the classic ideas of the popular "Bomberman", only now you have the opportunity...

Orbt XL

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2017

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Orbt XL is a dynamic top-down action puzzle game in a sci-fi setting. Stay in orbit while avoiding obstacles or being sucked into a black...

SmuggleCraft

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

Game released: Linux → 24 May 2017

Steam: 90/100

SmuggleCraft is a sci-fi racing arcade game with a third-person view. You have to try on the role of a space smuggler and go to the vastness of various planets to...

DragoDino

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

Game released: Linux → 20 June 2017

Steam: 76/100

DragoDino is a side-scrolling arcade platformer with procedurally generated levels. You need to help the little dragon get to the top of the giant...

Blood Feed

Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 19 July 2017

Steam: 73/100

This first-person shooter follows a former soldier who returns to the deserted town of Insectville and tries to discover what happened to its residents, including...

Divided We Fall

Strategy, Online, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Tactics, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 October 2017

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 55/100

Divided We Fall is a multiplayer tactical real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view during the Second World War. The game invites you to immerse...

Press X to Not Die

Adventure, Interactive movie, Horror, Action, First-person view, Comedy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2017

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 89/100

Press X to Not Die is a fun interactive action game, much like a trash zombie movie, that makes fun of all the classic tropes and stereotypes. The game plays in the...

Slash It 2

Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Action, Music game, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 24 January 2017

Steam: 88/100

Slash It 2 is an indie musical adventure game. The goal is to press letters, numbers and enter words at the right time and in the right...

UBERMOSH:WRAITH

Action, Indie, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2017

Steam: 93/100

UBERMOSH:WRAITH is an arcade action game and the fourth entry in the UBERMOSH series. In an arena filled with enemies and bullets, the player cuts down projectiles...

Gemstone Keeper

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2017

Steam: 100/100

Gemstone Keeper is a 2D side-view arcade action game. You have to explore multi-level caves, defend against monsters in the form of symbols and find rare gems. Any...

Rumpus

Online, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 12 April 2017

Steam: 100/100

Rumpus is a side-scrolling co-op action platformer for 2-4 players. You have to fight in various arena locations, using a variety of skills and abilities of the...

Nongünz

Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2017

Steam: 70/100

Nongünz is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer. You will go on dangerous adventures through dungeons, where a wide variety of monsters and a myriad of traps...

Greedy Guns

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

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2017

Steam: 73/100

This 2D run-and-gun platformer follows a team of mercenaries sent to explore alien worlds and retrieve artifacts and DNA samples for HOLO CORP. The team takes on...

Titus the Fox: To Marrakech and Back

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2017

Steam: 83/100

This platform action game follows the fox Titus on a journey across the Sahara to rescue his kidnapped love, Foxy. He travels on foot, by skateboard and on a magic...

Radar Warfare

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Free game, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2017

Steam: 75/100

Radar Warfare is a shareware top-down real-time arcade strategy game for mobile platforms. You have to take control of your own army and go against countless...

Battlevoid: Sector Siege

Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2017

Steam: 58/100

Battlevoid: Sector Siege is a top-down sci-fi action strategy game for mobile platforms. You have to manage 12 space stations and a fleet of 10 ships, explore the...

Bombernauts

Action, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 29 December 2017

Steam: 74/100

Bombernauts is an online multiplayer action game in which robots battle across arenas with destructible voxel terrain. Players drop bombs to knock opponents off the...

Blaite

Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 2 January 2017

Steam: 81/100

A difficult platformer built around repeating levels until they are completed. Players tackle the stages again and again, and can challenge friends. Up to five new...

Zangeki Warp

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

Game released: Linux → 15 February 2017

Steam: 76/100

Zangeki Warp is a Japanese-style side-scrolling arcade shooter. You have to take control of a futuristic warship that has unique hyperspace jump capabilities. And...

CropDuster Supreme

Arcade, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 23 February 2017

Steam: 90/100

An arcade action game about Buster, who sets out to win the heart of his crush using an unusual weapon: flatulence. Fueled by burritos from the “Burrito Hut,” he...

Stonekeep

Role-playing game, In real time, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Action

Game released: Linux → 24 March 2017

Players: 7/10

Steam: 92/100

A first-person fantasy role-playing game set in dark underground passages and other realms inhabited by faeries, goblins and the living dead. The hero journeys...

Go Go Electric Samurai

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

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2017

Steam: 73/100

Go Go Electric Samurai is a minimalist arcade action game with a third-person view. Expect dynamic and exciting battles on futuristic aircraft accompanied by an...

SubTerra

Action, In real time, Top-down view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Role-playing game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 18 September 2017

Steam: 67/100

SubTerra is a role-playing game about humanity, banished from Earth’s surface to an underground world where the remnants of civilization live under the shadow of...

Pray for Death

Action, Fighting, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2017

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 85/100

This fighting game centers on a contest arranged by Death, where warriors from different times and worlds battle for the prize of life. The competitors include...

Color Jumper

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

Game released: Linux → 1 November 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 85/100

This abstract puzzle platformer centers on color matching and precise movement, with the goal of reaching the exit in each level. The player controls a block with a...

Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE

Action, Virtual Reality (VR), Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 November 2017

Steam: 85/100

A first-person VR shooter set during Earth’s final battle against the invading legions of Mental. Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE is a prequel to Serious Sam: The First...

DED

Free game, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2017

Steam: 81/100

DED is a dynamic shoot ’em up about rescuing a kidnapped granddaughter and tracking down those behind the crime. After the murder of his daughter and son-in-law...

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter

Action, Virtual Reality (VR), Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 March 2017

Steam: 87/100

This arcade first-person shooter sends Sam back in time to ancient Egypt to battle hordes of enemies. Its campaign spans 15 levels containing more than 80 hidden...

Stardrift Nomads

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

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2017

Steam: 100/100

Stardrift Nomads is an arcade space shooter set in outer space with a top-down view. You will use the features of your ships and work together with other players to...

Riptale

Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 27 April 2017

Steam: 86/100

Riptale is a hardcore, fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer. In the role of a deadly ninja, you have to go down into the caves, where many treasures and...

Machine Hunt

Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 May 2017

Steam: 53/100

Machine Hunt is a first-person shooter about armed humans fighting machines intent on destroying humanity. When an advanced weapons base goes dark, George Flow is...

Total War: Warhammer - Norsca

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Action

Game released: Linux → 10 August 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Total War: WARHAMMER — Norsca is an addition to the fantasy strategy with the game mechanics of the Total War series of games in the Warhammer universe. The...

The Caribbean Sail

Adventure, Action, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2017

Steam: 93/100

This adventure and action sailing sim follows a crew crossing the Atlantic, where food supplies can determine whether they survive the voyage. Players choose a...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2017 for Linux