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

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 2 November 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Unpacking is a meditative arcade puzzle game with an isometric camera view, where you can relive the familiar experience of taking items out of boxes and putting...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dead Cells: Fatal Falls

Arcade, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Dead Cells: Fatal Falls is a hardcore side-scrolling action slasher expansion inspired by the Dark Souls series. Two new locations await you, in which there will be...

SkateBIRD

Arcade, Third-person view, Sports game, Skateboards

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2021

Metacritic: 59/100

SkateBIRD is a dynamic racing arcade game with a third-person view about birds on skateboards. Expect the familiar gameplay of skate simulators, several platforms...

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...

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...

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...

Utopos

Arcade, Shooter, Online, Top-down view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2021

The game takes us to an era when humanity has spread across asteroids, turning space battles into the galaxy's primary pastime. Here, pilots compete not for...

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...

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...

Industry Idle

Arcade, Free game, Simulation, Business / Management, Roguelike, Clicker

Early Access: Linux → 29 March 2021; Game released: Linux → 13 September 2024

Players: 10/10

A production simulator with clicker elements, where everything revolves around factories, resources and precise calculations. Here, every step is a decision, every...

Race On Ice 2020 Pro

Arcade, Racing, Third-person view, Sports game, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 3 December 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Race On Ice 2020 Pro is a free-to-play, third-person arcade racing game where you compete in competitive seasons to get first place. The games have multiple racers...

Introvert: A Teenager Simulator

Free game, Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Role-playing game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2021

Players: 10/10

Introvert: A Teenager Simulator is a free-to-play arcade side-scrolling adventure game with role-playing elements. In the game, the main character is told a...

Gaia Project

Arcade, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2021

Gaia Project is a top-down arcade turn-based strategy game. Each player controls one of 14 factions, attempting to peacefully colonize the Terra Mystica galaxy...

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...

Pnevmo-Capsula: Domiki

Arcade, Steampunk, Third-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 October 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Pnevmo-Capsula: Domiki is an exciting arcade puzzle game with a third-person view in a steampunk setting. In the game you will find the surroundings of the Soviet...

Your Chronicle

Role-playing game, Adventure, Arcade, Free game, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2021

Your Chronicle is a free-to-play text role-playing game with arcade clicker elements in a fantasy setting. The game offers many stories, plots, quests and endings...

Bro, where's My head???

Puzzle, Arcade, Side view, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2021

Bro, where's my head??? is a humorous puzzle platformer with a side view in a fantasy setting. In the game you have to help a certain Odin from the land of darkness...

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...

Race On Ice 2021 Pro

Arcade, Racing, Third-person view, Sports game, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2021

Race On Ice 2021 Pro is a free-to-play, third-person arcade racing game where you compete in competitive seasons to get first place. The games have multiple racers...

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...

Crash Drive 3

Arcade, Racing, Online, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2021

Metacritic: 68/100

Crash Drive 3 is an indie arcade racing game with a third-person view and online elements. You will experience incredible fun in this game. You will be able to...

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...

Pretend

Free game, Arcade, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Tactics

Game released: Linux → 6 January 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Pretend is a casual multiplayer online game about social deduction. The game is very similar to Among Us, but instead of a space base, the action takes place in...

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...

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...

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...

Hexio

Arcade, Puzzle, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 September 2021

Hexio is a minimalistic top-down arcade puzzle game. Enjoy relaxing gameplay across 96 carefully designed levels. As you progress, you need to connect the dots to...

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Best Games in the Arcade genre of 2021 for Linux