Arcade 2017 for Linux — top best games in the Arcade genre / Page 2

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap - a game in the Arcade genre

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 8 June 2017

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap is a side-scrolling remake of the legendary arcade action platformer. The game tells the story of a valiant knight who was turned into...

Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!

Business / Management, In real time, Strategy, Simulation, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 14 September 2017

Steam: 90/100

Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! is an arcade restaurant management simulator that will give you complete control over absolutely everything. You can go the hard way...

Alien Rampage

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2017

Steam: 90/100

Alien Rampage is an arcade action platformer about an alien whose ship has crash-landed on a planet overrun by mutants. With its cargo lost, the protagonist sets...

One Dog Story

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2017

Steam: 71/100

One Dog Story is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with RPG elements. You have to take on the role of a dog (EO-43) from a mysterious underground...

Brigador: Up-Armored Edition

Arcade, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Action, Science fiction, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2017

Steam: 94/100

Brigador: Up-Armored Edition — improved version of the original Brigador with refined controls, lighting, and revised mechanics. The main character is a heavily...

Aztez

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Beat them all, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 August 2017

Steam: 80/100

Aztez is a monochrome mix of bitmap and turn-based strategy that tells the story of the Aztec empire. The game's plot takes place in the Aztec Empire before the...

Forma.8

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 February 2017

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This Metroidvania action-adventure follows forma.8, a small exploration probe stranded alone on the surface of an alien planet after an accident. To survive, it...

Prehistorik

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Adventure, Side view

Game released: Linux → 17 November 2017

Steam: 90/100

Prehistorik is a platform game about a hunter from the T-Bone Tribe who sets out in search of food. The journey takes the hero across Antarctica’s ice fields...

AER Memories of Old

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2017

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 71/100

AER Memories of Old is an adventure arcade platformer with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game tells the story of a girl who can turn into a bird...

Rise and Shine

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 13 January 2017

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Rise & Shine is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with colorful graphics. The game takes place on the planet where the characters from their classic games...

Locomancer

Simulation, Indie, Arcade, Virtual Reality (VR), First-person view, Trains, Action, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2017

Steam: 84/100

Locomancer is an exciting arcade game with a first-person view for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality and Valve Index. In the game...

Battlesloths 2025: The Great Pizza Wars

Arcade, Action, Online, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2017

Steam: 82/100

A multiplayer twin-stick shooter about sloths battling for pizza. Battlesloths 2025: The Great Pizza Wars is a sequel to Battlesloths in which players compete...

Black the Fall

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2017

Players: 5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Black the Fall is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer whose main goal is to tell the story of a hero escaping the communist system. Solve puzzles to avoid...

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...

Dragon Bros

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

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2017

Steam: 85/100

This 2D side-scrolling action platformer draws on retro run-and-gun games. A team of young dragons sets out to rescue their kidnapped mother after the robotic...

Hell-Copter

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Helicopters, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2017

Steam: 66/100

This third-person arcade shooter puts players in control of an experimental military drone defending the planet from an attack and taking on enemy air support...

Charlie Murder

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Board / Group Game, Beat them all, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Punk rock band Charlie Murder faces an apocalypse brought on by rival death metal group Gore Quaffer and its legions of evil. In this role-playing beat ’em up...

GRIDD: Retroenhanced

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

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2017

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 79/100

GRIDD: Retroenhanced is a vibrant arcade cyberpunk shooter with a fantastic soundtrack, elements generated during the game and electrifying graphics. Guide your...

Slash It Ultimate

Action, Music game, Indie, Arcade, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2017

Steam: 70/100

Slash It Ultimate is an indie musical action game with arcade elements. The goal of the game is to play the rhythm of the song in various game modes and compete...

Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 28 September 2017

Steam: 82/100

Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends is an adventure arcade puzzle game in the match-3 genre. Take on the role of Mary Gilbert, world-renowned botanist and keeper of the...

UBERMOSH:WRAITH

Action, Indie, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2017

Steam: 92/100

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...

Cryptark

Arcade, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Roguelike, Action, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 20 June 2017

Steam: 83/100

Space arcade shooter with a side view. The player takes on the role of a futuristic mercenary who earns money from government contracts and attacks space stations...

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...

Randall

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

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2017

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 38/100

Randall is a side-scrolling arcade platformer set in a futuristic setting. The events of the game take place in the distant and dark future on a planet that is...

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...

Color Jumper

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

Game released: Linux → 1 November 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

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...

Polyball

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op), Racing

Game released: Linux → 1 December 2017

Steam: 75/100

Polyball is an arcade action-platformer with a third-person view that is the modern equivalent of rolling ball games. The game offers more than 60 different levels...

Bleed 2

Arcade, Action, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 February 2017

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Bleed 2 is a continuation of the fun arcade action game with a side view. As in the original, you will again have to save the world from an impending disaster in...

Magibot

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

Game released: Linux → 18 December 2017

Steam: 60/100

Magibot is a side-scrolling arcade adventure puzzle platformer. The adventures of ILO, a small magical robot sent by people to the planet in search of the last hope...

Ellipsis

Arcade, Action, Indie, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 25 January 2017

Steam: 96/100

Ellipsis — A top-down neon skydiving shooter where you control a futuristic spaceship. The main task — Avoid all sorts of obstacles on your way. In the...

Imprint-X

Arcade, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2017

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Imprint-X is a top-down arcade puzzle game for mobile platforms. You will be able to go into the minds of robotic creatures that are infected with a deadly virus...

Wells

Arcade, Action, Indie, Steampunk, Side view

Game released: Linux → 30 January 2017

Steam: 73/100

Wells is a side-view arcade action game in steampunk style. You will go on dangerous adventures and face off against hordes of enemies, giant bosses and massive...

Brave Furries

Free game, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2017

Steam: 83/100

Brave Furries is a puzzle game with cute furry monsters who go in search of a princess in the castle of an evil wizard. He kidnapped the furry princess, taking half...

Grass Cutter - Mutated Lawns

Action, Simulation, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 24 March 2017

Steam: 88/100

This arcade action game with simulation and puzzle elements centers on mowing lawns overrun by dangerous mutations. The player takes the role of a lawnmower...

Robot Named Fight

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

Game released: Linux → 7 September 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Robot Named Fight is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer in a sci-fi setting. You will go on a dangerous journey through a randomly generated world in order...

SEUM: The Drunk Side of the Moon

Arcade, Action, DLC, Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

SEUM: The Drunk Side of the Moon is an add-on for an arcade action platformer with a first-person view that combines the ideas of Quake 3 and the complexity of...

Riders of Asgard

Arcade, Side view, Motorcycle racing, Sports game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2017

Steam: 92/100

Riders of Asgard — a fun racing arcade game with a side view, where you, as a medieval Viking, have to compete on medieval BMX bikes. As you complete...

Dimension Drive

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Anime / Manga, Action

Game released: Linux → 7 December 2017

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Dimension Drive is an arcade fantasy shooter with a top-down view in a comic book style. The game has the ability to teleport, single player mode and co-op mode. In...

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...

Reflection of Mine

Puzzle, Arcade, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2017

Steam: 75/100

This psychological puzzle game unfolds in the mind of Lilly Witchgan, a girl with dissociative identity disorder, and asks which of her personalities is real. Its...

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Best Games in the Arcade genre of 2017 for Linux (Game released)