Action 2020 for Linux — top best games in the Action genre

Metro Exodus - a game in the Action genre

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Open world

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Continuation of the Metro shooter series. This time, the events will go beyond the familiar Moscow metro and allow you to explore the world of post-apocalyptic...

Friday Night Funkin'

Action, Music game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 1 November 2020

Players: 7.4/10

Friday Night Funkin' is a musical action game with elements of adventure. This is a game where you have to perform musical feats to get closer to your girlfriend...

Metro Exodus - Sam's Story

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2020

Players: 5.8/10

Steam: 78/100

Metro Exodus — Sam's Story is a story addition for the post-apocalyptic first-person shooter Metro Exodus. The addition is dedicated to the former American...

Streets of Rage 4

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2020

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Streets of Rage 4 is a continuation of the iconic side-view beatmap from the 90s. You will find bright graphics made in the style of comics, as well as characters...

Carrion

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2020

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The game's protagonist is a creature created in a laboratory that managed to escape from a glass container and start hunting its creators. The huge complex and its...

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Side view, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Early Access: Linux → 19 February 2020; Game released: Linux → 21 January 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Skul: The Hero Slayer is a side-scrolling pixel platformer. People have attacked the demon fortress and are trying to destroy their leader. Most of the inhabitants...

Black Mesa

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Remake, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 6 March 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Black Mesa is a remake of the most legendary adventure shooter with a first-person view, Half-Life. The events of the game completely repeat the story of the...

ScourgeBringer

Action, Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

ScourgeBringer is a dynamic action-platformer with a side view and roguelike elements from the creators of NeuroVoider. The events of the game unfold in a...

Huntdown

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Action

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2020

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Huntdown is an arcade side-scrolling pixel shooter with platforming elements in a sci-fi setting. You will go to a dark world of the future, where the police have...

Besiege

Puzzle, Logic, Sandbox, Simulation, Strategy, Action, Medieval era

Early Access: Linux → 28 January 2015; Game released: Linux → 18 February 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 94/100

A construction game in which the player creates unique medieval siege engines and uses them to destroy fortified fortresses. Players can build siege weapons...

Desperados 3

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Stealth, In real time, Isometric, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Desperados 3 is the continuation of the popular tactical strategy series Desperados from the creators of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. The game allows you...

Prodeus

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

Early Access: Linux → 9 November 2020; Game released: Linux → 23 September 2022

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Prodeus is a fast-paced first-person shooter set in a sci-fi setting, inspired by the DOOM 64 and Quake series. You can expect realistic blood, modern...

Iratus: Lord of the Dead

Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 April 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Iratus: Lord of the Dead — a party-based RPG with roguelike elements and a side view, inspired by the popular Darkest Dungeon and Dungeon Keeper. An enraged...

Unrailed!

Arcade, Online, Action, MMO, Business / Management, Trains, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 23 September 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Unrailed! is a crazy multiplayer action game in which you have to build a railway in an endless procedurally generated world. Together with your friends, you will...

Hellpoint

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2020

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Hellpoint is an action role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in the future on the Irid Novo space station, which...

Drive-By Hero

Casual game, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2020

Steam: 53/100

An arcade-style action shooter set in a post-apocalyptic United States, where an epidemic has turned people into zombies. The hero fights enemies, takes on bosses...

Vigil: The Longest Night

Arcade, Side view, Action, Role-playing game, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 14 October 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Vigil: The Longest Night is a 2D platformer with RPG elements and a side view, inspired by the Castlevania and Salt and Sanctuary series. You have to go together...

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed is a hardcore side-scrolling action slasher expansion inspired by the Dark Souls series. Two new locations await you, in which there will...

One Step from Eden

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, Card game, Roguelike, Replayability

Game released: Linux → 26 March 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 78/100

One Step from Eden is an action-adventure game with elements of a card roguelike, where you will need to build a powerful deck, attack opponents with spells, find...

Fury Unleashed

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Comics, Side view, Online, Action, Replayability

Game released: Linux → 8 May 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Fury Unleashed is a 2D arcade platformer with a side view, made in a comic book style. You will play as the cool Scumbag, a comic book hero whose goal is to save...

BANG! BANG! Totally Accurate Redneck Simulator

Casual game, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 May 2020

Steam: 94/100

This casual physics-based shooter-puzzler follows a drunken gunman trying to hit targets without shooting himself with a ricochet. In BANG! BANG! Totally Accurate...

Space Crew: Legendary Edition

Action, Science fiction, Space, Business / Management, Indie, Roguelike, Comedy, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2020

Steam: 77/100

The player, as a captain, controls a spaceship. It is necessary to recruit crew members, explore the galaxy and confront aliens. The legendary edition of Space...

Baldi's Basics Plus

Action, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Comedy, Old school, Procedural generation

Early Access: Linux → 12 June 2020

Steam: 97/100

A stealth roguelike with horror elements that parodies cheap educational games from the 1990s. Behind the bright, deliberately simple graphics lies an unusual...

Roguescape

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Arcade, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Role-playing game, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 11 June 2020

Players: 6.8/10

Roguescape — A side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with roguelike elements in the spirit of the NES era. You have to explore the dungeon, fight...

Avorion

Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Sandbox, Exploration, Construction

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 89/100

This cooperative space sandbox follows an expedition across a galaxy divided by a cataclysm. A ring of torn hyperspace fabric blocks access to its center, where the...

9 Monkeys of Shaolin

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Historical, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

9 Monkeys of Shaolin is a side-scrolling co-op arcade action game from the creators of Redeemer. Expect thrilling gameplay based on the techniques of the ancient...

Chronicon

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

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 94/100

Chronicon is a top-down action RPG in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in a fictional setting, in which, with the help of a magical device, the chosen ones...

Shing!

Action, Indie, Adventure, Side view, Fighting, Beat them all, Slasher

Game released: Linux → 28 August 2020

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 79/100

Shing! — a dynamic action-adventure with a side view, where you will play the role of a deadly ninja and begin to chop down hordes of demons. In the game you...

Dead Inside

Adventure, Action, Third-person view, Horror, Futurism (Future), Shooter

Game released: Linux → 20 April 2020

Players: 10/10

Dead Inside is a third-person action-horror game developed by one person. Seventeen years have passed since that damned spaceship disappeared into outer space...

HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed

Action, Shooter, Indie, First-person view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Arcade, Tactics, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 27 April 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Co-op shooter with tower defense elements. In the game you have to fight for the future of plastic life. Together with three friends, you will go on an epic...

Destructive Physics - Destruction Simulator

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Indie, God Simulator, Sandbox

Early Access: Linux → 2 April 2020; Game released: Linux → 20 August 2021

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 78/100

Destructive Physics — Destruction Simulator is a full-fledged destruction simulator with a first-person view. In the game you can slow down time, cause an...

The Unholy Society

Action, Indie, Adventure, Comics

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2020

Steam: 62/100

Unholy Society is an indie action adventure game in the point and click genre. The first part of BonBon's crazy adventures, inspired by 80's and 90's movies, comic...

From the Depths

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Construction, Sandbox, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2020

Steam: 90/100

A vehicle-building sandbox with strategy and simulation elements, From the Depths lets players assemble war machines from blocks and command them in battles across...

Perfect Vermin

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

Game released: Linux → 7 November 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 93/100

Perfect Vermin is an indie first-person action adventure with puzzle elements. Your task is simple: exterminate all the vermin. The sledgehammer provided to you is...

OBEY

Strategy, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2020

Steam: 82/100

OBEY is an asymmetrical multiplayer game built around players commanding their opponents and sometimes following their orders in turn. Each player decides whether...

Total War: Three Kingdoms - Mandate of Heaven

Strategy, Isometric, In real time, Turn-based, DLC, Historical, Action

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Total War: Three Kingdoms — Mandate of Heaven is an add-on for a large-scale historical strategy from the Total War series. 182 Internal conflicts plague the...

Them's Fightin' Herds

Arcade, Fighting, Indie, Anime / Manga, Action

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Them's Fightin' Herds is a 2D arcade fighting game created by fans of the My Little Pony animated series, where you will fight and explore the mysterious lands of...

Superhot: Mind Control Delete

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Superhot: Mind Control Delete — A stand-alone add-on for a puzzle shooter with a first-person view. The game includes roguelike elements, so the gameplay...

Beyond a Steel Sky

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Third-person view, Action, Puzzle, Point & Click, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Beyond a Steel Sky is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting, which is a continuation of the cult Beneath a Steel Sky. In the game...

Dying Light: Hellraid

Action, Arcade, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2020

Players: 8/10

Steam: 41/100

Dying Light: Hellraid is an add-on for dynamic action in an open world with a first-person view and a zombie apocalypse setting. The new chapter will make you feel...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2020 for Linux