Exploration for Linux — top best games in the Exploration genre / Page 5

A Webbing Journey - a game in the Exploration genre

Platformer, Third-person view, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world, Puzzle

Early Access: Linux → 19 May 2025

Steam: 98/100

A bright adventure about a little spider who helps the homeowners solve problems. There are different rooms and many items to interact with. For example, you can...

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...

Apple Crumble

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Casual game, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game in development: Linux → 2026

A quest with an interesting concept — an 84-year-old grandmother suspects her relatives and acquaintances of trying to kill her. To find out the truth, it is...

Octopus City Blues

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Kaf Kafkarian is a cowardly middle-aged octopus drug addict with a tentacle trimmer who lives in a city built around a giant octopus. Kaf succumbed to bizarre...

Fractal Space

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

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Players: 8.6/10

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

Peek a Boo

Action, Horror, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Adventure, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 1 November 2022

Steam: 36/100

Peek a Boo is a free first-person horror adventure about boy scouts who find themselves in a dark house inhabited by a demon. The heroes will have to find the...

The Legend of Lumina

Top-down view, Metroidvania, Indie, Puzzle, Logic, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2024

Steam: 98/100

A Sokoban style game with non-linear progression. The gameplay is inspired by early Zelda games, with an emphasis on puzzle solving rather than combat. There are...

Deep Space Corridor

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Mysticism / Supernatural, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 3 April 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Atmospheric horror about the search for anomalies, unfolding in the confined corridors of a mysterious space station. The story begins with the awakening in the...

Bridgebourn

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Isometric, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Exploration, Fantasy, Old school

Game in development: Linux → 2026

A role-playing action game about a treasure hunter who is cursed during one of his journeys. He sets off to the mysterious lands of the Feylands to lift the curse...

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...

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander

Role-playing game, Strategy, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Turn-based, Exploration, Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a management strategy with role-playing elements in a sci-fi setting. You have to take command of an old powerful base that was...

Therais Book

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, First-person view, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Adventure, Exploration

Early Access: Linux → 26 March 2021

Players: 7/10

Steam: 60/100

Therais Book is a free-to-play multiplayer role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. Incredible adventures await you in the open world with...

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: 81/100

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...

Storm the Swan

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Casual game, Comedy, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2024

Steam: 98/100

A game made in the spirit of retro Gameboy adventures. The main character moves to a cute village inhabited by animal characters. You can explore locations and...

Atollo

Top-down view, Arcade, Procedural generation, Exploration, Open world

Game released: Linux → 3 August 2025

Steam: 87/100

A pixel adventure where the player controls a ship. You need to fight enemy ships, meet funny islanders and collect magic eggs to awaken the kraken. The map is...

A Night Before the Deadline

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Runner, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2021

Steam: 75/100

A free adventure game with minimalist graphics and an atmospheric soundtrack. The story tells about a developer named Joe, who stays in the office late at night to...

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...

Overfall

Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Side view, Exploration, Survival

Game released: Linux → 17 May 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 75/100

Overfall is a side-scrolling turn-based action RPG in a fantasy setting. You have to go on a long and dangerous journey in search of the missing king. Having set...

Hypernova: Escape from Hadea

Strategy, Isometric, In real time, Science fiction, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, City Building, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 6 September 2017

Steam: 74/100

Mondealy

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Visual novel, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 9 August 2023

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Mondealy is an adventure life simulator with visual novel and RPG elements. In the game, you will try on the role of Michael — an ordinary guy who managed to...

Helium Rain

Free game, Space, Simulation, Strategy, Indie, Exploration, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2018

Steam: 79/100

A free space simulator in which the player manages his own company. During the passage, you can trade resources, buy ships and entire stations. In addition, the...

Wish Upon a Cat

Adventure, Top-down view, Exploration, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2025

Steam: 96/100

The heroes set off on a journey through the worlds of various games in the Odencat series to track down a cat who dives into other dimensions. You can communicate...

Fourmiworld

Platformer, Puzzle, Sandbox, Side view, Exploration, Open world, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 August 2025

Steam: 98/100

A game about an explorer of a strange world revolving around a dying star. Along the way, the girl finds the remains of a lost civilization, meets strange creatures...

Dungeon Divers

Top-down view, Logic, Roguelike, Dungeons, Fantasy, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 30 August 2024

Steam: 78/100

The player explores random pixel dungeons, solving puzzles. There may be unique conditions for completing the level. Also, items with mysterious powers are...

City of None

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

Game in development: Linux → 2027

Old-school metroidvania from the creators of Celeste and TowerFall. Players need to explore a dark metropolis inhabited by strange spirits, fierce beasts...

EPONYMOUS

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2017

Steam: 69/100

EPONYMOUS is an action-adventure game with a first-person view in which you have to make your way through various rooms, find a way out and open doors. At the same...

Mythic Origins

Action, Roguelike, MMO, Dungeons, Role-playing game, Procedural generation, Online, Exploration, Open world, Slasher, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2022

Steam: 69/100

Mythic Origins is a cooperative action RPG in the roguelike genre with elements of exploration and an open world. You have to discover a new world full of...

LandTraveller

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Fantasy, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

A hybrid of classic RPG and modern indie sandbox, combining a randomized environment and a hand-built...

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...

Amazing Frog?

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Indie, Sandbox, Open world, Exploration

Early Access: Linux → 21 November 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 94/100

An open-world physics sandbox turns Swindon into a playground for farting ragdoll frogs that can be flung around by collisions. In Amazing Frog?, players explore...

Expand

Arcade, Top-down view, Puzzle, Exploration, Adventure, Music game

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2015

Steam: 91/100

Expand is a minimalist top-down arcade puzzle game where you need to guide a pink square through a circular maze that constantly rotates, unfolds and expands around...

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 12 August 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is a continuation of the action-adventure Anodyne. You take on the role of Nova, a nanoscavenger tasked with collecting dangerous nanodust...

Pnevmo-Capsula: Domiki

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

Game released: Linux → 4 October 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

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...

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...

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...

Influent

Simulation, Strategy, Educational game (Education), Logic, Indie, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2014

Players: 7/10

Steam: 73/100

Influent is a language learning game that focuses on vocabulary and pronunciation. You will be able to immerse yourself in a fully interactive 3D environment where...

Make Sail

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Simulation, Construction, Exploration

Early Access: Linux → 30 March 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 53/100

Make Sail is a fun adventure arcade game where you can build fancy ships on your own and travel through a world filled with water. The essence of the game is to...

IDID:IT

Adventure, First-person view, Logic, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Detective

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2020

IDID:IT (Inexplicable Deaths In Damipolis: Inner Thoughts) is a first-person noir adventure in the spirit of old black and white films. The plot of the game...

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...

Oniria Crimes

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Isometric, Fantasy, Logic, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 3 December 2020

Steam: 76/100

Oniria Crimes is an indie adventure with "Pont & Click" mechanics set in a pixelated dream world called "The Dream". A serial killer has begun to operate in dreams...

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre for Linux