Free game for Linux — top best games in the Free game genre

CHAOTIC VIRUS - a game in the Free game genre

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Free game, Roguelike, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2026

Steam: 33/100

A dynamic action roguelike where you control a cell protecting the body from waves of dangerous viruses. Defeating enemies grants experience needed...

Dota 2

Role-playing game, Strategy, Hack and slash, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, MOBA

Game released: Linux → 19 July 2013

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Dota 2 is a continuation of the legendary team tactical and strategic game with role-playing game elements, in which each player controls one hero...

Team Fortress 2

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Free game

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2007

Players: 8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 92/100

A class-based multiplayer first-person shooter built around team battles and distinct tactical roles. Team Fortress 2 offers several game modes and...

Everlasting Summer

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Visual novel, Free game

Game released: Linux → 19 November 2014

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 89/100

This visual novel follows Semyon, an ordinary young man who falls asleep on a bus in winter and wakes up in the heat of summer beside the pioneer...

Firestone – Idle Clicker Online RPG

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Online, MMO, Free game, Fantasy, Clicker

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2024; Early Access: Linux → 26 September 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 71/100

A fantasy MMO clicker where players assemble a team of brave heroes and set out to fight evil. As they progress, they can upgrade their skills and...

Portal: Revolution

Free game, Action, First-person view, Science fiction, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 6 January 2024

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Free fan modification for Portal 2. The game offers an original story with new characters, set between Portal and Portal 2. The plot follows a test...

Modern Tanks: War Tank Games

Free game, Tanks, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 27 February 2018

Steam: 54/100

A third-person arcade tank shooter featuring PvP battles between armored vehicles from the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Players choose a tank...

Fishing Planet

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, First-person view, Sports game, Free game, Online, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2015

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 84/100

Fishing Planet is a free-to-play sport fishing simulator with a first-person view. You can choose your gear and go on an exciting fishing trip...

Dr. Frank's Build a Boyfriend

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2018

Steam: 88/100

This comedy BL visual novel with point-and-click adventure elements follows Dr. Frank, who sets out to create artificial life after his boyfriend...

Outcast Tales

Role-playing game, Strategy, Turn-based, Comics, Indie, Free game, Tactics, Side view, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2026

Steam: 95/100

The player assembles a squad of heroes and travels through a dangerous world. The main feature is the interaction between the characters. You need to...

Last Epoch

Role-playing game, Action, Online, MMO, Hack and slash, Isometric, Free game, Fantasy, Slasher

Game released: Linux → 21 February 2024

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A free-to-play action RPG set in a fantasy world where players travel back in time to save time from the Void. Humanity is forced to live underground...

Albion Online

Role-playing game, MMO, Isometric, Historical, Free game, Open world

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2018

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Albion Online is a free-to-play, isometric camera-based, multiplayer role-playing game set in a medieval setting that is the spiritual successor to...

Shooting Hurts

Free game, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 September 2018

Steam: 92/100

An action game about a newly generated AI, C.R.E-3d, created to test an experimental energy weapon. The Energy Projectile Converter uses the...

Fallstreak

Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 19 October 2018

Steam: 82/100

Fallstreak is a linear visual novel blending dark fantasy and psychological thriller elements. It follows Adelise Cotard, a young girl who enters a...

Quaver

Free game, Music game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 August 2022

Steam: 91/100

Quaver is a free, open-source competitive rhythm game in which players perform music charts and compare scores on leaderboards. It offers four-key...

Crusader Kings 2

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Historical, Free game, Grand strategy, Medieval era

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2012

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Crusader Kings 2 is a free-to-play sequel to the global real-time strategy game. Like the first part, Crusader Kings 2 simulates the system of feudal...

Amorous

Free game

Game released: Linux → 13 April 2018

Steam: 83/100

Amorous is a dating simulator featuring anthropomorphic characters, set in a neon-lit nightclub. Players create a character and meet the club’s...

Your Dry Delight

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 August 2018

Steam: 95/100

Set in 1920s Cleveland during Prohibition, this historical visual novel follows detective Richter as he investigates the city’s liquor business. He...

Multibombers

Indie, Free game, Action

Early Access: Linux → 23 September 2018

Steam: 68/100

A first-person multiplayer strategy game based on the Bomberman series, in which players use bombs to eliminate their opponents and be the last ones...

Becalm

Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 January 2019

Steam: 84/100

A casual game about a peaceful boat journey through magical waters toward the sunset. From a first-person perspective, the player takes in the...

HYPERFIGHT

Free game, Fighting, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 7 March 2019

Steam: 89/100

HYPERFIGHT is an arcade fighting game focused on fast one-on-one duels where every hit can be decisive. Players risk points to gain access to a...

Second Chance

Free game, Visual novel

Early Access: Linux → 22 November 2018

Steam: 84/100

Second Chance is a visual novel about Leslie, who loses his memories of the past and finds himself at a train station in a small city above the...

DAMNOSAUR

Free game, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 November 2018

Steam: 91/100

DAMNOSAUR is an arcade shooter about dinosaurs that have travelled from the time of their destined extinction to the present. Proh and her...

Perceptions of the Dead

Free game, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2017

Steam: 91/100

This visual novel follows three stories in a world where ghosts are real and more dangerous things wait beyond the veil. They involve a missing...

Garden of Oblivion

Free game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2018

Steam: 87/100

A short horror game that combines visual novel and point-and-click elements, Garden of Oblivion follows Reven, a teenager who wakes in a dreamlike...

Arcadia

Free game, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 1 November 2019

Steam: 73/100

A contemporary visual novel about technological progress, isolation, and the desire to hold on to the past. Roman has recently joined the luxurious...

BattleCON: Online

Free game, Strategy, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 3 September 2018

Steam: 71/100

A strategic card battler built around duels between fighters with distinct abilities and combat styles. Each character has a fixed set of skills and...

Star Conflict

Online, Simulation, MMO, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Free game, Open world

Game released: Linux → 27 February 2013

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Star Conflict — shareware multiplayer action simulator in a sci-fi setting. You will be able to take the helm of a space starship and take part...

Fare Thee Well

Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2018

Steam: 93/100

A short kinetic visual novel about a wanderer cursed with eternal youth and condemned to roam without a home. In the winter of 1967, he enters a bar...

Red Eclipse

Free game, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 19 December 2019

Steam: 86/100

A fast-paced first-person arena shooter focused on agile movement. In Red Eclipse, players use seven main weapons and can move with parkour, impulse...

Paint Warfare

Online, Free game, Parkour

Game released: Linux → 6 March 2022

Steam: 87/100

Paint Warfare is an online arena shooter that combines firefights with parkour across maps using jetpacks, double jumps, dashes and boost ramps...

The King's Request: Physiology and Anatomy Revision Game

Adventure, Role-playing game, Free game

Game released: Linux → 25 June 2018

Steam: 94/100

An adventure role-playing game about reviewing anatomy and physiology, where knowledge of the human body helps defeat opponents. The hero sets out on...

Word Game

Puzzle, Exploration, Strategy, Text quest, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 21 January 2022

Steam: 93/100

A puzzle game set in a world where words not only form narratives but also represent objects, characters, and places. The player controls “I” and...

4D Minesweeper

Puzzle, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2018

Steam: 93/100

This puzzle adapts classic Minesweeper rules to four dimensions: each square can have up to 80 neighbors, making the relationships between squares...

東方翠神廻廊〜 Faith in the Goddess of Suwa.

Free game, Visual novel, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 8 April 2024

Steam: 78/100

This Touhou Project-inspired RPG takes place in Gensokyo, where a maze of overgrown trees and flowers appears after a day of rain. To restore the...

Unturned

Online, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Sandbox, Survival, Zombies

Early Access: Linux → 7 July 2014; Game released: Linux → 7 July 2017

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Unturned is a multiplayer sandbox action game with a first-person view. The main goal here is to survive by defending yourself from zombies and...

Session Seven

Free game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 March 2019

Steam: 87/100

This point-and-click adventure and interactive story follows Ryan, an estranged father and husband who wakes up beaten and locked in a cellar. With...

Intrepid

Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 22 December 2018

Steam: 50/100

This sci-fi escape room takes place aboard a malfunctioning spaceship: the protagonist wakes in a cryo-pod to find the other crew members dead. To...

Doomtrooper CCG

Free game

Early Access: Linux → 3 August 2020

Steam: 74/100

A digital adaptation of the Doomtrooper collectible card game, set in the Mutant Chronicles universe. Players build a squad from Warrior cards and...

Her Lie I Tried To Believe

Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 2 April 2018

Steam: 80/100

A short kinetic novel about Tim’s long-standing hatred of a girl he sees as a rival, and the destructive consequences of their relationship. He does...

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Best Games in the Free game genre for Linux