Exploration for Linux — top best games in the Exploration genre / Page 4

Wolfhound - a game in the Exploration genre

Action, Platformer, Side view, Exploration, Old school, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Old-school metroidvania with a side view, set on a mysterious island in the Bermuda Triangle, where a secret Nazi base is hidden. The player takes on the role of...

Flotilla

Strategy, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2010

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A turn-based space strategy game with tactical combat in three-dimensional space, Flotilla puts the player in command of a fleet traveling through the galaxy. The...

Dude, Where Is My Beer?

Casual game, Comics, Indie, Side view, Adventure, Puzzle, Comedy, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 5 November 2020

Steam: 75/100

An unusual adventure, the main character of which is trying to uncover a conspiracy with the disappearance of the Pilsner beer in the city of Oslo. To investigate...

A Tiny Sticker Tale

Puzzle, Logic, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 5 October 2023

Steam: 97/100

A miniature adventure about changing the world with the help of stickers. You can take something from the world around you, turn it into a sticker and place it in...

Dreaming Isles

Top-down view, Exploration, Dungeons, Crafting, Farm Simulator

Game released: Linux → 13 January 2025

Steam: 51/100

Tube farm simulator in the spirit of Stardew Valley. As you progress, you can join pirates, participate in sea battles, restore world trade, learn magic, explore...

Cat Squeeze

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 1 July 2026

Steam: 100/100

Cozy puzzle with watercolor drawing takes you on a journey through colorful mazes as a curious fluffy cat. In each level, you need to find the exit by carefully...

the static speaks my name

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Free game, Exploration, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 August 2015

Steam: 81/100

A short psychological adventure from the first person. The game tells the story of a man's last night, obsessed with a painting of two palm trees. He spends time in...

Tibor: Tale of a Kind Vampire

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 23 December 2024

Steam: 100/100

This fantasy jump-and-run platformer follows Tibor, a young artist turned into a vampire by an evil countess. Still kind, Tibor sets out to reunite with his beloved...

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...

Run Shiba Run!

Platformer, Third-person view, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2026

Steam: 96/100

The game takes place in Shiba Park, where someone has left their pet unattended. Now the dog is running around the park, trying to eat as many cookies as possible...

Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok

Action, Roguelike, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Fantasy, Exploration, Role-playing game

Early Access: Linux → 15 December 2022; Game released: Linux → 26 April 2024

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 88/100

After Ragnarok, Yggdrasil, the World Tree, lost almost all of its energy needed to support the Nine Realms. Only a few heroes survived the End of the World...

Tanglewood

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2018

Steam: 92/100

Tanglewood is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. The plot of the game tells about a creature named Nimn, who has gone too far from his beloved home and...

Fractal Space

Adventure, Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Science fiction, Exploration

Game in development: Linux → 2027

Players: 8.7/10

Fractal Space is an adventure quest with a first-person view in a fantasy...

Resolutiion

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2020

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Resolutiion is a top-down action-adventure game set in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in a dystopian future world where you have to collect pieces of...

Please, Touch The Artwork 2

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Comedy, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2024

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A relaxing game in which you have to look for objects in paintings. A gamer helps a lost skeletal artist find his way home in a surreal, hand-drawn universe. This...

Самый дорогой человек

Free game, Visual novel, Adventure, Exploration, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 26 June 2024

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 94/100

The visual novel is not only about the emergence of artificial self-awareness, but also about the true essence of loneliness. This is a game about...

No Longer Home

Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Visual novel, Arcade, Point & Click, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2021

Steam: 60/100

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...

A Bavarian Tale - Totgeschwiegen

Third-person view, Detective, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2023

Players: 6/10

Steam: 77/100

The game takes place in the picturesque Bavarian village of Wolpertshofen, full of dark secrets, unexplained events and social tensions, in 1866. A detective comes...

Miniatures

Visual novel, Casual game, Exploration, Adventure, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2024

Steam: 90/100

A collection of four graphic adventures about childhood. The player follows the story and interacts with certain objects. The stories merge imagination and reality...

Lonesome Village

Adventure, Fantasy, Puzzle, Top-down view, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 1 November 2022

Steam: 72/100

A relaxing pixel game about a coyote without the battles. The character must uncover the village's mysterious magical past and save it from the hands of evil. The...

Pharaonic

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Side view, Exploration, Slasher, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2016

Steam: 77/100

Pharaonic is a side-scrolling action RPG that will take players to Ancient Egypt. You have to explore the cursed kingdom to solve the riddle of the Red Pharaoh. The...

Stellar Interface

Shooter, Indie, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Top-down view, Side view, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 21 November 2016

Steam: 77/100

A hardcore shooter made in the style of NES games. In a randomly generated universe and random perks, no journey will be the same. The game has over 100 perks and...

Lost Islands

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Online, Exploration, Open world, Role-playing game, Logic

Game released: Linux → 3 May 2021

Steam: 32/100

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...

Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

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

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 77/100

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...

Duskers

Exploration, Space, Roguelike, Tactics, Top-down view, Science fiction, Horror

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2016

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 83/100

The player controls a drone and explores abandoned spaceships to find means of survival and learn how the universe turned into a giant graveyard. Dangerous...

Thyria: Step Into Dreams

Strategy, Turn-based, Free game, Tactics, Side view, Dungeons, Exploration, Fantasy, Role-playing game, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 7 October 2023

Steam: 72/100

The main action takes place in the world of dark fantasy. Warrior Tyria travels with the Guardians through the dreams of the cursed inhabitants to perform various...

Randy And Teddy Adventure Road

Puzzle, Platformer, Side view, Action, Exploration, Comics

Game released: Linux → 3 September 2021

Steam: 89/100

The main character named Randy and his puppy Teddy go through levels with challenges and puzzles. There are 5 different worlds: training, stone, sand, metal and...

Mortimer: First Launch

Adventure, Casual game, Third-person view, Exploration, Puzzle, Stealth, Open world, Free game

Game released: Linux → 18 December 2024

Steam: 88/100

An adventure set in a whimsical version of a Florida park located near the Kennedy Space Center. Mortimer the Raccoon explores the world around him, solves puzzles...

Residual

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Survival, Exploration, Action

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2021

Steam: 66/100

A lonely explorer makes an emergency landing on a strange planet that holds an ancient secret. The character explores a procedurally generated world, gathers food...

Quest of Dungeons

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Dungeons, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2014

Steam: 78/100

This turn-based dungeon crawler with 16-bit retro visuals follows a group of heroes confronting the Dark Lord, who has stolen all the light. Players choose a...

Hot Tin Roof

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania, Side view, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 20 February 2015

Steam: 70/100

This noir mystery combines platforming, exploration and Metroidvania elements as private investigator Emma Jones investigates a series of grisly murders. Her...

Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

This action-puzzle adventure follows a spider exploring an abandoned estate built by a secret society. In Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon, the player weaves webs...

Fall Of The Dungeon Guardians

Role-playing game, First-person view, Dungeons, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Fall Of The Dungeon Guardians is a first-person RPG set in a dungeon world. The protagonist is a guard who was hired to guard a prison. During his shift, strange...

Ara Fell

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Exploration, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 2 June 2016

Steam: 94/100

Ara Fell is an indie role-playing adventure in a fantasy setting with pixel graphics. A large open world awaits you to explore with many mysteries and mystical...

Space Commander: War and Trade

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 5 November 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 67/100

Space Commander: War and Trade is a fantasy-style tactical action RPG with real-time management elements and an isometric view. You will have to create your fleet...

Pineapple on pizza

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

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2023

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 97/100

Free short adventure. The main character finds himself on an island with dancing people. He simply explores the territory, gets to know the inhabitants, until he...

North Shore

Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Exploration

Game in development: Linux → 2026

An adventurous action game about a lonely child who embarks on a journey across endless icy expanses on skates, where harsh reality meets naive and fragile...

Fugl

Exploration, Casual game, Simulation

Early Access: Linux → 14 September 2017

Steam: 84/100

A casual exploration simulator in which the player controls a shape-shifting bird and flies freely through varied natural environments. There are no timers or set...

Hive Jump 2: Survivors

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Roguelike, Science fiction, Exploration, Arcade

Early Access: Linux → 29 May 2024; Game released: Linux → 10 September 2024

Steam: 80/100

After a squad of brave paratroopers is killed in an intergalactic ambush, the only surviving member of the team embarks on a path of retribution and engages in...

Star Shift Rebellion

Top-down view, Tactics, Science fiction, Exploration, Space, Japanese role-playing game, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 9 February 2024

Steam: 93/100

The game takes place in a mining colony on the Outer Rim that is under occupation. With the help of a hacked android, the rebels are trying to gain freedom. There...

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre for Linux