Arcade 2019 for Linux — top best games in the Arcade genre

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Open world, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2019

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Forager is a fun top-down arcade clicker game with RPG elements, inspired by Stardew Valley, Terraria and Zelda. You will explore everything around, create objects...

Dicey Dungeons

Arcade, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Card game, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2019

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Dicey Dungeons — an exciting card-based turn-based game with RPG elements and a simplified roguelike from the creators of Super Hexagon and VVVVVV. In the...

We Were Here Together

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

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2019

Players: 7.7/10

A story about two companions trapped within the icy walls of an ancient citadel, where every room oozes mystery and the joker's laughter echoes through the gloomy...

A Short Hike

Adventure, Indie, Logic, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2019

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

A Short Hike is an adventure arcade game with a top-down view. The game will take you to the expanses of the colorful mountains of Hawk Peak Provincial Park. You...

Stone Story RPG

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

Early Access: Linux → 8 August 2019

Players: 8.2/10

Stone Story RPG is an unusual adventure role-playing game with a side view and ASCII animation. The game takes place in a dark world where monsters and sinister...

Deadly Days

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Action, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2019

Deadly Days is an arcade action strategy game with bagel elements and a top-down view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. In the game you will control a group of...

ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove

Arcade, Action, Adventure, In real time, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 1 March 2019

Sky Racket

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

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2019

Metacritic: 72/100

Sky Racket is an adventure arcade shooter with a side view in a sci-fi setting. The game features a unique combination of genres that mixes classic shoot'em up and...

Xeno Crisis

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2019

Xeno Crisis is a top-down arcade shooter with roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. Alone or together with a friend, you have to try on the role of a brave marine...

Urban Trial Playground

Arcade, Stunts, Motorcycle racing, Side view

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2019

Metacritic: 67/100

Urban Trial Playground is a side-view arcade racing game where you have to do various stunts on a motorcycle. The game takes you to the sunny beaches of California...

Khan VS Kahn

Arcade, Indie, Strategy, Turn-based, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2019

Khan VS Kahn is an arcade strategy game with turn-based combat and a top-down view, in which two races compete with each other. The game combines aspects of...

Little Misfortune

Adventure, Side view, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 18 September 2019

Players: 9.2/10

Little Misfortune is an exciting side-scrolling interactive adventure. In the game you will try on the role of the little girl Ramirez Hernandez, who goes on a...

Shovel Knight: King of Cards

Arcade, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2019

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Shovel Knight: King of Cards is the final standalone campaign for the side-scrolling arcade action platformer Shovel Knight. You have to get used to the role of the...

Fantasy Strike

Arcade, Fighting, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2019

Metacritic: 76/100

Fantasy Strike is a side-scrolling arcade fighting game in a fantasy setting. The game has many characters with their own special skills and techniques. But it's...

Electronic Super Joy 2

Arcade, Action, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: Linux → 9 August 2019

Players: 5.3/10

Electronic Super Joy 2 is a free-to-play hardcore action platformer with a pixelated side view. The game involves a lot of running and jumping, making your way...

One Drop Bot

Indie, Puzzle, Roguelike, Platformer, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2019

Players: 5.5/10

One Drop Bot is a hardcore third-person puzzle platformer that puts you in the role of a cute robot. He must pass tests and solve logic puzzles, collecting health...

Bloody Chronicles Act 1 - Secret Operation

DLC, Simulation, Adventure, Indie, Anime / Manga, Arcade, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2019

Players: 10/10

Bloody Chronicles Act 1 — Secret Operation is an add-on for a visual novel adventure with elements of a Japanese-style dating simulator. It adds two new...

Dead End Job

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Side view

Game released: Linux → 13 December 2019

Players: 7.9/10

Dead End Job is a 2D top-down cartoon shooter in a fantasy setting. You have to get used to the role of an efficient ghost hunter and carry out various contracts to...

Earthshine

Adventure, Visual novel, Arcade, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 December 2019

Earthshine is an adventure visual novel. The game tells the story of two travelers who are trying to cross the desert, but get into trouble. The heroes head to the...

A.N.N.E.

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Early Access: Linux → 26 June 2019; Game in development: Linux → 2027

A.N.N.E. is an adventure platformer with RPG elements and a side view. The game tells the story of robot Number25, accused of loving another robot A.N.N.E. Love...

From Orbit

Arcade, Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2019

From Orbit is a sci-fi arcade action game with real-time strategy elements and a top-down view. In the game you have to control the crew of a spaceship traveling...

Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Tactics, Side view

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2019

Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics is a side-scrolling tactical arcade action game where you take control of an elite squad of soldiers trying to destroy the Black Duck army...

Eagle Island

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Eagle Island is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer. Discover the birdlife of Eagle Island with Quil and his faithful owl companion Koji. You'll explore...

Endless Fables 4: Shadow Within

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 3 October 2019

Endless Fables 4: Shadow Within — the fourth part of the adventure puzzle game in the "hidden object" genre. The famous anthropologist Pamela Cavendish returns to...

Akuto: Showdown

Arcade, Action, Online, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2019

Akuto: Showdown is an isometric multiplayer action game where you will fight with swords against other players in various arenas. The game itself takes place in...

Byte Driver

Arcade, Action, Racing, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2019

Byte Driver — arcade retrowave race in which the main character drives along the roads and fights with other cars. Self-driving cars have become self-aware...

Woven

Adventure, Indie, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 15 November 2019

Woven is an arcade action-puzzle adventure with a third-person view. The events of the game take place in a fairy-tale world consisting of wool, cotton and fabric...

Bloody Chronicles - New Cycle of Death Visual Novel

Simulation, Adventure, Indie, Anime / Manga, Arcade, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 2 August 2019

Bloody Chronicles — New Cycle of Death Visual Novel is an adventure visual novel with elements of a Japanese-style dating simulator. The plot tells the story...

Shotgun Farmers

Arcade, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Shotgun Farmers is a fun multiplayer first-person shooter where you use weapons that sprout from the ground. All battles take place on farmland, where the amount of...

Mushroom Crusher Extreme

Arcade, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 10 May 2019

Mushroom Crusher Extreme is an isometric arcade game in a fantasy setting and pixel graphics. The main character, Zenon, is a battle mage who must repel an invasion...

KIDS

Indie, Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2019

Players: 10/10

KIDS is a short interactive animated game created by Michael Frei and Mario von Rickenbach. The passage is designed to last up to 30 minutes and will allow you to...

Space Grunts 2

Arcade, Role-playing game, Card game, Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Futurism (Future)

Early Access: Linux → 24 September 2019; Game released: Linux → 27 May 2020

Space Grunts 2 is a continuation of the card role-playing game with strategy elements and turn-based battles in a sci-fi setting. You will once again take on the...

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Best Games in the Arcade genre of 2019 for Linux