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

Curious Expedition - a game in the Exploration genre

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. Choose one of...

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. Players, in the role...

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 exo-suit L.E.A.F...

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

InnerSpace

Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic, Exploration, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2018

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 65/100

InnerSpace is a post-apocalyptic atmospheric adventure with a third-person view. The game will take you to a destroyed world, which, unlike the Fallout series, is...

Merchant of the Skies

Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Business / Management, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 87/100

Merchant of the Skies is a real-time management strategy with a side view. In the game, you will act as the captain of an airship, who will have to trade, collect...

Mable & The Wood

Adventure, Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Horror, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2019

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Mable & The Wood is a side-scrolling Metroidvania adventure with horror elements set in a dark fantasy world. The plot tells the story of a mysterious girl named...

The Garden Path

Simulation, Business / Management, Adventure, Top-down view, Sandbox, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2024

Steam: 70/100

A meditative life simulator with unusual graphics, where time flows the same way as in the real world. As the player progresses, he extracts resources, trades...

DOGWALK

Adventure, Puzzle, Walking Simulator, Casual game, Exploration, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2025

Steam: 97/100

A boy and a big adorable dog explore a winter forest. You need to explore locations and collect various items to decorate a snowman. The game locations are created...

MewnBase

Crafting, Exploration, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2023

Steam: 92/100

MewnBase is a 2D exploration and survival game about a space cat stranded on an uncharted, barren planet without enough food or essential gear. The player explores...

SkateBIRD

Arcade, Third-person view, Sports game, Skateboards, Exploration, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2021

Steam: 85/100

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...

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...

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 multiple endings, side...

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 night sortie...

FALLSTRUKTUR

Action, Platformer, First-person view, Parkour, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

A short game of 20-60 minutes, the main character of which descends into a geometric dream world. You need to jump on different platforms and winding branches of...

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...

Anodyne

Arcade, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 22 March 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Anodyne is a 2D action-adventure set in the surreal dream world of a human named Young. The protagonist explores natural, urban, and abstract locations, speaks with...

Black Ice

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Steampunk, Exploration, Cyberpunk, Open world

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2014

Steam: 78/100

This first-person cyberpunk shooter with role-playing elements takes place in an open cyberspace where corporations protect their data with artificial intelligence...

Planet Centauri

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world

Early Access: Linux → 3 June 2016

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 73/100

Planet Centauri is an action RPG and sandbox adventure about developing a planet and protecting the native Chloridian species from the Night Walkers. The player...

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...

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...

The Away Team: Lost Exodus

Top-down view, Simulation, Text quest, Adventure, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2016

Steam: 73/100

The scientific and fantastic adventure of the AI-Pilot of the last inter-star ship of the Earth, which is instructed to find a house for his team-the last remnants...

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...

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...

My brother lives in a canyon

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

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2021

Steam: 92/100

My brother lives in a canyon is a casual adventure game with exploration elements and a first-person view. You play as Jake and start walking down the path to meet...

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...

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 puzzles to find...

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 Webbing Journey

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

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...

Kairo

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2012

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This first-person 3D adventure takes place in a lost world of abstract architecture and ancient monuments. The player explores unusual rooms and solves puzzles by...

Dino Hazard: Chronos Blackout

Adventure, Role-playing game, Open world, Top-down view, Exploration, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 22 December 2023

Steam: 88/100

The game takes place on a tropical island in 2147. A group of people are trapped in a high-tech base and must survive against malicious artificial intelligence...

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...

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...

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...

Soulless: Ray of Hope

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 18 October 2016

Steam: 71/100

Soulless: Ray of Hope — a dark puzzle-platformer in the spirit of Limbo about a "ray of hope," a lonely white creature. The game tells the story of Elin's...

Kanun 1919

Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game in development: Linux → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A detective adventure set in a gloomy Russian province at the beginning of the 20th century. As a messenger, the player needs to deliver an important telegram to...

We Are the Dwarves

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Indie, Adventure, Action, Stealth, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2016

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 60/100

We Are the Dwarves is a fantasy real-time tactical strategy game. In the company of three dwarf astronauts, players will have to go after the new Sun — a...

Batography

Free game, Adventure, Side view, Exploration, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2025

Steam: 97/100

A colorful game about a bat, which went to the adventure to take the perfect photo of the moon. Exploring the city flooded with moonlight, you can get acquainted...

A Night Before the Deadline

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

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2021

Steam: 77/100

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...

Unrest

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Exploration, Visual novel, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2014

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This story-driven role-playing adventure is set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India, where five ordinary people struggle to survive in the famine-stricken...

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre for Linux