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

Wax Heads - a game in the Exploration genre

Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 5 May 2026

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

A cozy simulation of a music store, infused with the spirit of punk culture, vinyl, and warm human stories. Among the shelves of records...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Epistory: Typing Chronicles

Action, Adventure, Isometric, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 March 2016

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Epistory: Typing Chronicles is an adventure game with action elements. The story follows a writer who asks his muse to help him write a book...

Therais Book

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

Jotunn - Day of Judgement

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Fantasy, Casual game, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2022

Steam: 86/100

Jotunn — Day of Judgment is a free first-person horror game with exploration elements, in which the goal is to escape from the mysterious...

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...

The Campsite

Free game, Adventure, Puzzle, Old school, Exploration, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2025

Steam: 88/100

A free short quest with a retro schedule about the team of adventure seekers, which went to the night forest in search of a mysterious treasure. The...

Apple Crumble

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

Game in development: Linux → 3 December 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...

Valley

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Exploration

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2016

Players: 8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Valley is a first-person sci-fi adventure from the developers of Slender: The Arrival. The main character of the game is dressed in a special...

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...

BABBDI

First-person view, Casual game, Simulation, Exploration, Walking Simulator, Free game

Game released: Linux → 22 December 2022

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 97/100

A short adventure in which you need to escape from an abandoned area. You need to use different found objects and collect...

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...

Blue Wednesday

Side view, Visual novel, Music game, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 28 August 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

A game about a boy named Morris. The main character plays the piano and walks around the city, where he communicates with various characters. There...

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy

Role-playing game, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Open world, Fantasy, Adventure, Exploration

Early Access: Linux → 12 December 2024; Game released: Linux → 16 December 2025

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 75/100

A turn-based role-playing game about a wanderer traveling through the lands of New Draconia. One day, a mysterious artifact falls into the hands of...

Dreaming Sarah

Metroidvania, Puzzle, Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2015

Steam: 90/100

The girl Sarah got into an accident and is in a coma. You need to explore the dream world, collect objects and communicate with strange characters to...

Echoes of Vasteria

Adventure, Business / Management, Top-down view, Casual game, Exploration, Fantasy, Side view

Game released: Linux → 10 August 2025

Steam: 74/100

A pixel adventure where the main character wanders around an endless world and fights on his own, allowing the player to focus on strategy. You will...

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...

Thirty Flights of Loving

Arcade, First-person view, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2012

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A short first-person story about a heist gone wrong, involving schemers and criminals entangled in romance. The player explores the world and...

Octopus City Blues

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game in development: Linux → 2027

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...

Curious Expedition

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2016

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Curious Expedition is a procedurally generated adventure role-playing game set in the 19th century. You can feel like a real explorer and discoverer...

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...

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...

Kujlevka

Adventure, First-person view, Visual novel, Business / Management, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 6 April 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 91/100

1992 In the midst of the confusion reigning in the country, another unexpected test falls on the heads of the Kuzhlevites, residents of an ordinary...

Koira

Adventure, Casual game, Exploration, Puzzle, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2025

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The adventure, whose main character travels through the musical forest with a puppy. You need to get acquainted with the local inhabitants and solve...

A Night Before the Deadline

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

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2021

Steam: 76/100

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

Vessels

Exploration, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 December 2020

Steam: 95/100

This narrative adventure follows a mysterious being trapped in a spaceship airlock with no memories and no way out. The crew suspects something is...

APICO

Exploration, Business / Management, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2022

Steam: 91/100

This beekeeping simulation with exploration and sandbox elements follows a character who leaves the city to return to the family home in Port APICO...

Feeble Files

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Point & Click, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 14 June 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Feeble Files is a third-person adventure from the developers of Adventure Soft Publishing Ltd.. The game is published by Adventure Soft Publishing...

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...

Supraland

Action, Shooter, Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Exploration, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2019

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Supraland is an exciting action platformer with a first-person view. In the game you have to solve fun puzzles, explore the environment, find secrets...

Kredolis

Adventure, Puzzle, First-person view, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2022

Steam: 54/100

Kredolis is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place on a small island that remains from Atlantis. A...

Mondealy

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

Game released: Linux → 9 August 2023

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 93/100

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...

Dark Traveller

Free game, Exploration, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 16 March 2023

Steam: 47/100

A free-to-play adventure puzzle game in which the protagonist travels through the fabric of time and space to save his homeland. The game has...

7Groves

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

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2024

Steam: 67/100

A relaxing game in which the gamer leisurely strolls through beautiful and surreal forests that look like paintings come to life. Along the way, you...

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...

Old Skies

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Point & Click, Science fiction, Exploration, Old school

Game released: Linux → 23 April 2025

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The main character works as a temporary tourist agent in the near future: for a substantial fee, wealthy clients book excursions to their own past or...

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre for Linux