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

Zezenia Online - a game in the Exploration genre

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2016

Steam: 68/100

Zezenia Online is a medieval 2D MMORPG in which characters explore the world, complete quests, and fight monsters and other players. Players choose...

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...

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...

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...

Naev

Space, Exploration, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2017

Steam: 80/100

Naev is a top-down space game about exploring the galaxy, trading, and combat. Players travel between planets and moons, earning money through trade...

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...

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...

Miniatures

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

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2024

Steam: 95/100

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

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...

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...

Colossal Cave 3D

Adventure, Exploration, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 20 January 2023

Steam: 90/100

The main character goes on a timeless journey through caves filled with treasures, creatures and challenging puzzles. There are 14 different regions...

Rise of the Third Power

Role-playing game, Japanese role-playing game, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 10 February 2022

Steam: 88/100

A turn-based RPG set in Rin, where the political climate of late-1930s Europe meets the Age of Sail. In the aftermath of the Great War, the continent...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

This real-time strategy game with tower-defense elements follows the Scynthians as they leave their home planet, Hadea, to escape their star’s...

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...

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...

Black Ice

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

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2014

Steam: 95/100

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Legend of Lumina

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

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2024

Steam: 97/100

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

Interstellaria

Space, Exploration, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2015

Steam: 53/100

This real-time space exploration and crew management sim follows a fleet travelling across the galaxy in search of adventure and profit. In...

HyperRogue

Open world, Exploration, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2015

Steam: 97/100

A puzzle roguelike built around tactical positioning unfolds on a hyperbolic plane, where the world’s geometry affects movement and exploration. A...

Airscape - The Fall of Gravity

Exploration, Casual game, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2015

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This fast-paced action platformer with shifting gravity follows a deep-sea Dumbo octopus kidnapped by a mechanical alien race. The octopus sets out...

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...

Deadnaut

Space, Exploration, Survival horror

Game released: Linux → 9 December 2014

Steam: 67/100

This squad-based survival horror game sends a team to explore the derelict ships of extinct civilizations. Five Deadnauts investigate their...

Santa Claws

Exploration, Walking Simulator, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 13 December 2019

Steam: 68/100

This first-person Christmas horror minigame combines exploration with walking-simulator gameplay. Left home alone on Christmas Eve, the protagonist...

Monster Crown

Japanese role-playing game, Exploration, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2021

Steam: 65/100

A role-playing game about exploring the dark Crown Island, threatened by a power-hungry young woman. The player makes pacts with monsters, offering...

Elegy for a Dead World

Adventure, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 65/100

An adventure about exploring three dead worlds and writing stories about their long-vanished societies. The settings draw inspiration from the poetry...

BioGun

Side view, Metroidvania, Action, Platformer, Open world, Exploration, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2024

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 87/100

The main character, named Beck, goes on a journey to save all dogs from extinction caused by an ominous virus. The character explores the crazy...

Penko Park

Horror, Exploration, Hunting / Fishing

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2020

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Penko Park is an exploration game set in an abandoned wildlife park inhabited by mysterious creatures. The player photographs them, looking for...

Aground

Exploration, Open world, Survival

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2020

Steam: 93/100

This survival RPG begins on an uninhabited island where the last human survivors are stranded after a crash. For humanity to have a future, they must...

ΔV: Rings of Saturn

Space, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 21 July 2023

Steam: 93/100

A science-fiction mining simulator set among the dense, mineral-rich rings of Saturn, where ship movement and equipment follow physical laws. The...

ARIDA: Backland's Awakening

Casual game, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 16 August 2019

Steam: 90/100

This single-player survival adventure is set in the Brazilian backlands of the nineteenth century, where a severe drought has disrupted daily life...

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre for Linux (Game released)