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

Lost Ruins - a game in the Adventure genre

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...

Despot's Game

Indie, Strategy, In real time, Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Roguelike

Early Access: Linux → 14 October 2021; Game released: Linux → 29 September 2022

A futuristic post -apocalyptic strategy, where a group of survivors needs to get out of a gloomy labyrinth. The path is full of dangers, but the weapon and...

Griftlands

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Card game

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Griftlands is an adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat from the creators of Don't Starve and Invisible, Inc.. You have to recruit a team of thugs and...

Dead Age 2

Role-playing game, Horror, Side view, Turn-based, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 12 March 2021; Early Access: Linux → 16 July 2020

Players: 8/10

Dead Age 2 is a continuation of the action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. 10 years after the first...

Cooking Companions

Adventure, Horror, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Mysticism / Supernatural, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 7 October 2021

An unusual visual novel with elements of psychological horror, hiding a dark story behind a cute and almost carefree facade. The events unfold in the forests of the...

Escape Simulator

Logic, Puzzle, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Adventure

Game released: Linux → 19 October 2021

Players: 10/10

Escape Simulator is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. Alone or together with a friend, you can go explore mysterious rooms in which many riddles...

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...

Melvor Idle

Casual game, Role-playing game, Indie, Adventure, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 19 November 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Casual game in the style of RuneScape. The gamer creates a character and levels up their skills by completing quests, exploring the world, and battling monsters...

Encodya

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Encodya is an exciting side-scrolling point and click adventure set in a sci-fi setting. Neo-Berlin, 2062. Tina is a nine-year-old orphan who lives with SAM-53, her...

Bonfire Peaks

Logic, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Isometric

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2021

The main character explores a voxel island with over 200 puzzles available. The locations are multi-level and consist of cubes. Some items can be moved to go higher...

Song of Farca

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Interactive movie, Logic, Visual novel, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2021

Players: 10/10

Song of Farca is a detective adventure with visual novel elements in a cyberpunk setting. The game takes place in the near future, where technology has become...

Ayo the Clown

Role-playing game, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Linux → 28 July 2021

Metacritic: 75/100

Ayo the Clown is an adventure platformer with a variety of puzzles and role-playing elements. You have to help the cute clown Ayo in search of his missing dog Bo...

Bad End Theater

Indie, Adventure, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Bad End Theater is a pixelated puzzle adventure with visual novel elements in which you explore the creepy stories of a cast of characters. The decisions made...

The Captain

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Strategy, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 3 December 2021

Players: 10/10

The Captain is a side-scrolling adventure platformer with RPG elements. You have to try on the role of a young spaceship captain who, by chance, finds himself on...

Vagrus - The Riven Realms

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Open world, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 5 October 2021; Early Access: Linux → 22 July 2020

A role-playing game focused on storytelling, exploring an open world, and strategic management. At the center of the story is the vagrus — the leader of a caravan...

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...

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...

Rhythm Doctor

Role-playing game, Adventure, Music game, Indie, Side view

Early Access: Linux → 26 February 2021; Game released: Linux → 7 December 2025

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 89/100

An unusual musical rhythm game in which every keystroke becomes the pulse of life. Here, medicine and music intertwine: synchronizing keystrokes at the right moment...

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...

Impostor Factory

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2021

Metacritic: 80/100

Impostor Factory is a new adventure from the creators of Finding Paradise and To the Moon. The main characters of the series, Dr. Rosalyn and Dr. Watts, will go to...

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...

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...

Mail Mole

Arcade, Third-person view, Adventure, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2021

Metacritic: 72/100

Mail Mole is an adventure arcade action platformer with a third-person view, in which you get into the role of a funny postman mole named Molty. The postal mole has...

Alchemic Cutie

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

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2021

Alchemic Cutie is a cute top-down adventure RPG. The game takes place on the colorful island of Wimba, where you manage your own jelly farm. You will explore...

Kathy Rain: Director’s Cut

Adventure, Side view

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2021

Metacritic: 87/100

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is a side-scrolling point and click adventure. Extended version of the plot: with a longer final part, hundreds of lines of additional...

Svoboda 1945: Liberation

Adventure, Historical, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 3 August 2021

The story unfolds in a small village called Svoboda on the Czech-German border, where the main character arrives to investigate a long-standing conflict. However...

NoseBound

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2021

NoseBound is a classic point and click side-scrolling adventure with a noir style. The game tells the story of private detective Ray Hammond, who is trying to catch...

Tandem: A Tale of Shadows

Adventure, Puzzle, Platformer, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Young Emma and her teddy bear try to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the famous magician Thomas Kane. The game takes place in five worlds, imbued with the...

The Wild Case

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2021

Players: 8.3/10

The Wild Case is an indie point and click adventure puzzle game with supernatural elements. In this game, players meet a variety of colorful characters, experience...

A Year Of Springs

Adventure, Visual novel, Arcade, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2021

A Year Of Springs is an adventure arcade visual novel that tells the stories of three girls Haru, Erika and Manami, who are going through difficult times. Join...

No Longer Home

Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Visual novel, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2021

Metacritic: 73/100

No Longer Home is an exciting adventure game with visual novel elements. Bo and Ao are graduating from university and are about to leave the apartment they've lived...

How We Got Here

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 18 May 2021

How We Got Here is a rather unusual side-view pixel adventure game about the adventures of a robot on a floating island. The main character discovers that in...

Arausio

Free game, Historical, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2021

Arausio is a free-to-play, first-person adventure game in which you explore a faithful recreation of the ancient Theater of Arausio and uncover the mystery behind...

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...

Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

Adventure, Role-playing game, Isometric, Indie, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Nanotale — Typing Chronicles is a fantasy adventure RPG with puzzle elements. You will follow Rosalind, a novice chronicler, on her journey of knowledge...

Mutropolis

Adventure, Puzzle, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 18 February 2021

Metacritic: 71/100

A science fiction adventure set on the abandoned planet Earth in the year 5000. The protagonist and a team of archaeologists are exploring the ruins of an ancient...

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...

Martial Law

Adventure, Side view, Visual novel, Free game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 December 2021

Martial Law is a free side-scrolling adventure with visual novel elements. Its main character is one of the inhabitants of communist Poland, abandoned to the mercy...

The Old Prison

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

Game released: Linux → 2 August 2021

The Old Prison is a first-person horror adventure with survival elements. The game tells the story of a character who decides to go on a trip this weekend. So he...

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...

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Best Games in the Adventure genre of 2021 for Linux