Action 2021 for Linux — top best games in the Action genre

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting

Early Access: Linux → 2 February 2021

Players: 8.5/10

A fantasy sandbox with survival elements. You can play alone or with others, exploring the world and gathering resources, finding and raiding tombs, building bases...

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Side view, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

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

Players: 8.6/10

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...

Lost Ruins

Arcade, Side view, Anime / Manga, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Slasher, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 13 May 2021

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Lost Ruins is a hardcore side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with a retro theme. The girl wakes up in the twilight of the dungeon. She doesn't remember...

Viscerafest

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

Early Access: Linux → 20 May 2021; Game released: Linux → 14 April 2025

Players: 7.3/10

A fast-paced arena shooter set in the year 3796. Mercenary Caroline with a strong desire for violence dreams only of a wedding. She already has a boyfriend, but the...

Danger Scavenger

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Cyberpunk, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Danger Scavenger is a dynamic arcade shooter with an isometric camera view in a cyberpunk setting. Deadly effective, highly skilled, invisible to indifferent...

Steel Assault

Arcade, Platformer, Action, Side view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 September 2021

Metacritic: 76/100

Steel Assault is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the near future of post-apocalyptic America. You...

Boyfriend Dungeon

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Boyfriend Dungeon is an isometric action role-playing game in a fantasy setting. You can find powerful weapons in locked chests. But unlike other role-playing...

Aeon Drive

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Cyberpunk, Side view

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2021

Aeon Drive is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in a sci-fi setting. The action takes you to the neon-lit streets of Neo-Barcelona. You will try on the role of...

Savage Lands

Action, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2021

Savage Lands is an action game with survival elements and a first-person view in a fantasy setting. A huge open world awaits you, where there is only one goal...

Astalon: Tears of the Earth

Action, Indie, Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2021

Players: 6.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer in a fantasy setting. The game follows three heroic explorers who travel through a...

Destructive Physics - Destruction Simulator

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

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

Players: 6.3/10

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...

Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare

Arcade, Side view, DLC, Fighting, Action

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Streets Of Rage 4 — Mr. X Nightmare — an expansion for the old-school side-scrolling beat 'em up Streets of Rage 4. After the events of the original game, our...

Lost Islands

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Online, Exploration, Open world, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 3 May 2021

A survival RPG with an open world to explore. The player gets his own food and looks for supplies to create various items. For example, to explore dark dungeons...

Battle Axe

Action, Adventure, Arcade, Top-down view, Slasher, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2021

Battle Ax is an arcade action-slasher adventure game with a top-down view in a fantasy setting. The events of the game take place in the fairy-tale world of Mercia...

Black Widow: Recharged

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Shooter, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2021

Black Widow: Recharged is a re-release of the cult classic twin-stick shooter starring Spider. In the game you have to defend your web from the onslaught of...

Scrapvival

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Free game, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Linux → 22 November 2021

Scrapvival is an atmospheric multiplayer shooter with survival elements and a first-person view. The game will take you to a landfill where the main threat is...

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 April 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an adventure RPG puzzle game with horror elements and an isometric view. You are a nice baby turnip who was declared an enemy of...

Sunshine Manor

Isometric, Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Horror, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2021

Sunshine Manor is a mystical horror adventure with action elements and an isometric view. Daring to spend the night at the haunted Sunshine Manor, little Ada...

Rain on Your Parade

Action, Isometric, Comedy, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 April 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

A fun arcade game with an isometric camera view. A mischievous cloud wants to ruin the lives of absolutely everyone on the planet. She travels the world inventing...

Miska's Cave

Free game, Arcade, Runner, Side view, Fighting, Action, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 28 January 2021

Miska's Cave is a free-to-play side-scrolling arcade action runner where you take control of a fighting rabbit named Miska who wants to conquer the cave. The only...

Luna's Fishing Garden

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Simulation, Platformer, Side view

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2021

Luna's Fishing Garden is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with life simulation elements. The game will tell the story of young Casey, who ends up on a...

Secret Agent HD

Arcade, Side view, Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 30 June 2021

Secret Agent HD is a re-release of the old-school action-adventure platformer with a side view, where you get into the role of Agent 006 — the only hope of...

Can't Drive This

Arcade, Online, Action, Racing, Third-person view, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 18 March 2021

Can't Drive This is a top-down, third-person cooperative arcade action racing game. The essence of the game is that while you are participating in the race, someone...

Total War: Three Kingdoms - Fates Divided

Action, Strategy, DLC, Isometric, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 11 March 2021

Players: 9/10

Total War: Three Kingdoms — Fates Divided is an add-on for a large-scale historical strategy from the Total War series. The expansion brings new chapters in...

PULSAR: Lost Colony

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Virtual Reality (VR)

Early Access: Linux → 15 September 2015; Game released: Linux → 22 June 2021

PULSAR: Lost Colony is a unique co-op spaceship management simulator inspired by FTL and Space Station 13. You will explore a vast galaxy that is randomly...

The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Online, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Linux → 2 July 2021

The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time is an action-adventure sandbox with a third-person view, co-op and stealth. In the game you will control a squad of fighting...

Break Iron Man 3D

Action, Third-person view, Comics, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Break Iron Man 3D is a game about Iron Man in which he has to fly and dodge meteorites falling on him. The main task is to hold out as long as...

Indicted

Adventure, Action, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Linux → 29 October 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Indicted is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view and survival elements. Seeking redemption, Detective Arthur decides to take on his latest case...

MAZEMAN

Action, Arcade, Fantasy / Medieval, Isometric, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 8 October 2021

MAZEMAN is an arcade action-adventure fantasy game with an isometric view. You have to enter the labyrinth and search for the key, while avoiding all kinds of...

The House (2021)

Adventure, Action, First-person view, Horror

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2021

The House (2021) is a first-person horror game set in a mansion where dozens of people have disappeared. The main character must get to the bottom of the truth and...

UNHERD

Adventure, Platformer, Free game, Indie, Action, Old school, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 15 February 2021

Players: 3.6/10

UNHERD is a free-to-play adventure puzzle platformer with a third-person perspective. The game tells the story of a brave chinchilla who wakes up in a fantasy world...

Rogue Star Rescue

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Top-down view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Roguelike, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 4 February 2021

Rogue Star Rescue is a fast-paced, cooperative top-down roguelike shooter with tower defense elements set in a sci-fi setting. A massive Rogue Star formed from...

Tomb Rumble

Free game, Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, MMO, Online, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2021

Tomb Rumble is a free-to-play side-scrolling pixel platformer with an MMO component in which players compete to find treasure. The game features hundreds of levels...

Meow Pow

Sports game, Action, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Arcade, Football, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2021

Meow Pow is an arcade soccer game with action elements and co-op. This is an energetic, fast game. With intuitive controls and fluid physics-based movement, players...

Luminyte

Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Slasher, Top-down view, Arcade, Fantasy, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2021

Luminyte is a top-down arcade action-adventure game in the fantasy genre with roguelike elements. Complete darkness surrounds you. Only the old lantern you found...

SCP: Escape Together

Adventure, Action, Horror, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, First-person view

Early Access: Linux → 7 January 2021

Players: 5.5/10

SCP: Escape Together is an action-horror adventure with a first-person view and co-op based on the 2012 horror film SCP: Containment Breach. You'll team up or...

Eddie Hill in the Curse of the Skull Medallion

Side view, Platformer, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2021

Eddie Hill in the Curse of the Skull Medallion is an indie side-scrolling platformer with action elements. In this adventure, Eddie has to find a skull medallion...

Mighty Tactical Shooter: A Turn-Based Shoot 'Em Up

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Beat them all, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game canceled: Linux → 19 May 2021

Anticipation Rating: 4.2/10

Mighty Tactical Shooter: A Turn-Based Shoot 'Em Up is a dynamic arcade shooter with turn-based combat and a top-down view in a sci-fi setting. A ship badly damaged...

Real Cars Extreme Racing

Racing, Action, Simulation, Online, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Real Cars Extreme Racing is a fast-paced, third-person arcade racing game featuring 30 supercars, 180 tracks, and multiple game modes including career...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2021 for Linux