Adventure 2025 for Linux — top best games in the Adventure genre

Hollow Knight: Silksong - a game in the Adventure genre

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

Game released: Linux → 4 September 2025

VGTimes: 8.2/10

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 91/100

A sequel to the hardcore action platformer Hollow Knight. The game takes you to a new world — the fallen kingdom of Pharlum, where silk and song rule. Here, Hornet...

That's Not My Neighbor

Indie, Logic, Puzzle, Casual game, Simulation, Adventure, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 11 March 2025

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 88/100

A simulator with elements of science fiction and a light raid of Horror, where events unfold in a residential complex inhabited by two-friendly creatures. The...

Slender Threads

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2025

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Atmospheric quest, where reality is intertwined with nightmares. Harvey, a wandering salesman, is in a small town of Villa Ventat. Its days are filled with...

MISERY

Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Exploration, Old school, Survival, Post-apocalyptic, Online

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2025

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 83/100

Post-apocalyptic action game about a nuclear disaster with old-school graphics in the spirit of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. After a nuclear disaster, the bunker becomes the last...

The Seance of Blake Manor

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Mysticism / Supernatural, Detective

Game released: Linux → 27 October 2025

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 89/100

A first-person noir detective mystery. The events unfold in late 19th-century Ireland, within the walls of a mysterious hotel where a séance to summon spirits is...

Marvel Cosmic Invasion

Arcade, Adventure, Comics, Beat them all, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Linux → 1 December 2025

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Classic arcade action in the Marvel universe with pixel graphics and exciting command gameplay. Annigilus leads his deadly army and only the greatest heroes are...

The End of the Sun

Adventure, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Fantasy, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Open world, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2025

Players: 8/10

Steam: 97/100

An adventure game inspired by Slavic mythology and ancient culture. By exploring the world during major festivals that change with the seasons, you can immerse...

Vaudeville

Adventure, Detective, Procedural generation, Text quest, Sandbox, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 28 November 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 48/100

An unusual detective adventure, the main feature of which is that dialogues with NPCs in it are generated in real time using artificial intelligence. The game takes...

Shadows of the Past

Action, Third-person view, Free game, The Lord of the Rings, Fantasy, Medieval era, Adventure, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 5 September 2025

A fan remake lord of the rings: concuest (2009) with updated graphics and improved gameplay. The game is created on the Unreal Engine 5, so the world of Middle...

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Comedy, Detective

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2025

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A bright adventure about a duck detective, set in a campsite where ghosts may have appeared. You need to examine evidence, question suspects, and analyze the data...

Dawnfolk

Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Casual game, City Building, Fantasy, Old school, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2025

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A fantasy strategy game about a kingdom consumed by all-encompassing darkness. As the ruler, you must restore the devastated lands, manage resources, and build...

Demonschool

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Visual novel, Tactics, Comedy, Japanese role-playing game, Isometric

Game released: Linux → 19 November 2025

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 74/100

A tactical RPG with an unusual approach to combat, where every move is also an action. The story takes place on a mysterious island, where the boundary between the...

NODE: The Last Favor of the Antarii

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 28 August 2025

Steam: 91/100

The game takes you to an abandoned nuclear complex from the Cold War, where the ruins of Soviet technology are intertwined with something otherworldly. As an...

The Roottrees are Dead

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2025

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

A detective adventure in the spirit of Return of the Obra Dinn, but set in the 90s. The main character is a young investigative journalist trying to establish the...

OFF

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

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2025

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

The player plays the role of a certain Puppeteer, who is helped by an entity named Butter. Together they will try to cleanse the eerie and hopeless world inhabited...

Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Side view, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 28 January 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 77/100

While the southern rats are trying to return to their usual way of life after the great war between rodents and frogs, an ancient and indescribable evil has...

Wheel World

Third-person view, Sports game, Bicycles, Casual game, Open world, Adventure, Racing

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2025

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 68/100

An open-world adventure game where the fate of the universe rests on the pedals. The protagonist, young racer Kat, embarks on a journey through the mysterious...

World of Goo 2

Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Adventure, Construction

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2025

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The continuation of the colorful puzzle World of Goo. The player connects colorful balls, building various structures out of them to reach the end of the level...

Old Skies

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Point & Click, Science fiction, Exploration, Old school

Game released: Linux → 23 April 2025

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The main character works as a temporary tourist agent in the near future: for a substantial fee, wealthy clients book excursions to their own past or to historical...

The Dark Queen of Mortholme

Action, Adventure, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Casual game, Gothic

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

The player takes on the role of the Dark Queen of Mortholme, the final boss of the game, and fights a tenacious hero who tries to defeat the enemy time after time...

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy

Role-playing game, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Open world, Fantasy, Adventure, Exploration

Early Access: Linux → 12 December 2024; Game released: Linux → 16 December 2025

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 75/100

A turn-based role-playing game about a wanderer traveling through the lands of New Draconia. One day, a mysterious artifact falls into the hands of the hero, which...

ENA: Dream BBQ

Adventure, First-person view, Free game, Comedy, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 26 March 2025

Steam: 98/100

A surreal adventure that expands the ENA universe in an interactive format. Ena embarks on a quest to find the mysterious Boss, around whom the ambitions and...

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Doom of Icewind Dale

DLC, Role-playing game, Adventure, Fantasy, Cooperative (co-op), Old school, Action, Online

Game released: Linux → 21 February 2025

Steam: 76/100

Events of additions unfold in the Arctic wilderness of the infamous valley of the icy wind, which is inhabited by snow goblins, ice trolls, Yeti and not only. The...

The Campsite

Free game, Adventure, Puzzle, Old school, Exploration, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2025

Steam: 87/100

A free short quest with a retro schedule about the team of adventure seekers, which went to the night forest in search of a mysterious treasure. The night sortie...

Blight's Grasp

Space, Third-person view, Action, Adventure, Science fiction, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2025

Steam: 89/100

The main character explores an alien planet to find his lost sister and a cure to save this world. You'll have to look for energy cores to repair broken portals...

The Drifter

Adventure, Horror, Point & Click, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2025

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 84/100

A dark story inspired by King, Crichton, and Carpenter. The main character constantly moves from one job to another, never staying in one place for long. One day...

The Children of Clay

Puzzle, Horror, Detective, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 7 March 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

A short archaeological game in which you need to study the ancient artifact in order to reveal its dark secret. There are different tools, for example, a magnifier...

Chernobyl Breakout

Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2025

Players: 10/10

A co-op game set in the exclusion zone. The protagonist is a soldier who survived a helicopter crash. You must navigate dangerous terrain, scavenge for supplies...

Koira

Adventure, Casual game, Exploration, Puzzle, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2025

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The adventure, whose main character travels through the musical forest with a puppy. You need to get acquainted with the local inhabitants and solve puzzles to find...

Asylum

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

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 83/100

The main character once ended up in a psychiatric hospital-a place full of pain and suffering. He dreamed of forgetting this horror, but the memories did not let...

Salvagers

Role-playing game, Educational game (Education), Top-down view, Roguelike, Science fiction, Space, Action, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

The player leads a small team of explorers who land on abandoned space stations. You need to collect equipment, lost weapons, forgotten treasures - everything you...

Fragile Reflection

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Old school, Zombies, Survival horror, Horror

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2025

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 74/100

The old Japanese town of Nankofuraku is shrouded in a haze of memories and pain. When Karyo Ito returns there to her family, she discovers not a cozy village, but a...

Simon the Sorcerer Origins

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Comedy, Fantasy, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2025

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Prequel to the legendary adventure saga about Simon the Wizard. The main character is a stubborn teenager. His parents have to move because he was expelled from...

Tempopo

Puzzle, Music game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 74/100

A bright game, the action of which unfolds on the islands located among the clouds, where flowers from the garden of the khan turned out. The player controls the...

Lady Umbrella

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 October 2025

Steam: 69/100

An adventure in which the player assumes the role of special agent Francesca De Angelis. She infiltrated Italy's last mafia family but was betrayed. Now the...

Rhythm Doctor

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

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

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 98/100

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...

Construction Runner

Free game, Runner, Third-person view, Casual game, Parkour, Platformer, Adventure, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 16 March 2025

Steam: 75/100

Free Runner, in which the player rushes along the construction site, dodging various obstacles. The longer it is possible to hold out, the more points you can earn...

Boxville 2

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 26 June 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

The game takes place in a city made of boxes, where the belly of the can. The mayor orders two friends to arrange fireworks in honor of the holiday. But something...

Find All 7: Japan

Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 15 May 2025

Steam: 97/100

The game takes place on the street of a Japanese town where a festive festival is taking place. You need to look at a picture with many details and look for various...

Sauna of the DEAD

Zombies, Top-down view, Action, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Adventure, Old school, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 4 February 2025

Steam: 97/100

The pixel game, the action of which takes place in the sauna of the underground world, where the main character turned out to be. The character fights with zombies...

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Best Games in the Adventure genre of 2025 for Linux