Free game 2017 for Linux — top best games in the Free game genre

Bendy and the Ink Machine - a game in the Free game genre

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Free game

Game released: Linux → 27 April 2017

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Bendy and the Ink Machine is an episodic adventure with horror elements and a first-person perspective. Visually, the game is made in the style of the first...

Once on a windswept night

Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2017

Steam: 86/100

This metafictional visual novel follows a traveller seeking patrons in the distant land of Desservir. After being betrayed by a goblin and left on the cold moors...

Unturned

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

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 hostile players...

Once Upon an All Hallow's Eve

Simulation, Visual novel, Free game

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2017

Steam: 83/100

This otome visual novel follows college student Cara Lee, who finds herself alone in a dark forest after a landslide. Before the start of her final semester, she...

Chasing Styx

Free game, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2017

Steam: 84/100

This run-and-gun action game with bullet-hell elements follows Cerberus, guardian of the Underworld, after a herd of woodland rabbits wanders into the realm of the...

Totemori

Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 February 2017

Steam: 86/100

A local multiplayer brawler about building towers while trying to bring down those built by opponents. Building blocks fall from the sky, and towers can be fitted...

Tanki Online

Online, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Tanks, Mini-game / browser-based, Free game

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2017

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 59/100

Tanki Online is a shareware multiplayer arcade tank simulator with a third-person view. In the game, you can build your own futuristic tank using a different...

Connected Hearts - Visual novel

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 August 2017

Steam: 89/100

A thriller, mystery, and fantasy visual novel follows a protagonist who has a strange dream shortly after moving away. In it, he meets Alice, who tells him that he...

Chroma Blast

Free game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2017

Steam: 82/100

Chroma Blast is an arcade twin-stick shooter in which a ship battles waves of enemies. Players control the ship and gradually upgrade its arsenal of 31 weapons. The...

Sky Force Reloaded

Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Free game, Arcade, Action

Game released: Linux → 29 November 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Sky Force Reloaded is an arcade scrolling shooter in which players pilot a combat aircraft through futuristic environments and battle enemy forces. Stages feature...

Humanity Must Perish

Free game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 25 September 2017

Steam: 80/100

This comedic visual novel follows Kyuu, an android tasked with saving Earth from destruction at humanity’s hands. She believes people must either be exterminated or...

The Last Weekend

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2017

Steam: 61/100

The Last Weekend is a visual novel with quest elements, set around a group of young people staying at a remote hotel. The player chooses one of four characters...

McOsu

Free game, Music game, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2017

Steam: 91/100

This circle-clicking rhythm game is a practice client for osu!(standard) beatmaps, with options for customizing gameplay. McOsu is developed separately from osu...

Faeria

Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Free game, Tactics, Online

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Faeria is a card-based tactical strategy game in a fantasy setting. You have to fight on a playing field consisting of hexagons, mine gold and mana, acquire...

Wander No More

Free game, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 18 February 2017

Steam: 84/100

This choice-free visual novel follows Kouichirou Nabatame, a former samurai, and Chiyo, an orphaned girl from a village. After deserting his kingdom, Kouichirou...

MINDNIGHT

Free game, Online, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 4 August 2017

Steam: 83/100

MINDNIGHT is an online social-deduction strategy game set in a cyberpunk version of San Francisco in 2038, where hackers try to breach networks protected by...

Total War: Warhammer - Bretonnia

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Free game, Action

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2017

Steam: 82/100

Total War: Warhammer — Bretonnia is a free addition to the fantasy strategy with the game mechanics of the Total War game series in the Warhammer universe...

家有大貓 Nekojishi

Visual novel, Free game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2017

Steam: 92/100

A visual novel about feline beast-men, Taiwanese folklore, and a world of gods and spirits. In Nekojishi, the player follows the story and makes decisions shaped by...

Wild Terra Online

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 18 December 2017

Players: 5.2/10

Steam: 60/100

Wild Terra Online is a free-to-play multiplayer role-playing simulator of life in a medieval world. The main feature of the project is that there are absolutely no...

Lines X Free

Puzzle, Casual game, Free game

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2017

Steam: 93/100

This Numberlink-based puzzle game challenges players to connect colored tiles on a grid by finding paths between them. Lines X Free features 50 puzzles, with...

Warspear Online

Role-playing game, MMO, Fantasy / Medieval, Mini-game / browser-based, Free game, Old school

Game released: Linux → 2 November 2017

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 58/100

Warspear Online is a free-to-play multiplayer role-playing game in a fantasy setting. You can expect dynamic battles in real time, changes in the appearance of...

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment

Arcade, DLC, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Side view, Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2017

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment is a free add-on for owners of the side-scrolling arcade platformer Shovel Knight. You have to take the other side of the...

Robocraft

Role-playing game, Simulation, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Combat robots, Construction

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2017

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Robocraft is a shareware multiplayer robot simulator in which you have to build your own personal robot and then send it to fight with other similar creatures of...

CS2D

Free game, Shooter, Online

Game released: Linux → 15 November 2017

Steam: 89/100

CS2D is a top-down multiplayer shooter in which two teams fight in matches with different objectives. Matches can be played online, over a local network or against...

Tank Force

Tanks, Third-person view, Action, Simulation, MMO, Casual game, Online, Historical, Free game

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2017

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 65/100

A dynamic game about tank battles in 10x10 format. In battles, various modern tanks and their modifications created in the Russian Federation, NATO countries or the...

DED

Free game, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2017

Steam: 81/100

DED is a dynamic shoot ’em up about rescuing a kidnapped granddaughter and tracking down those behind the crime. After the murder of his daughter and son-in-law...

BRAIN / OUT

Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, Side view, Free game

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2017

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 80/100

BRAIN / OUT is an online shooter with a side view. You have to fight on the territory of the post-Soviet space. Fight not for glory or country, but simply for...

Heroes of Dire

Free game, Role-playing game, MMO

Game released: Linux → 15 March 2017

Steam: 68/100

Heroes of Dire is a tactical role-playing MMO about guild warfare against monsters and other players. A hero assembles a squad of fighters and leads it through...

Kitten Adventures in City Park

Adventure, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 8 September 2017

Steam: 93/100

This children's adventure quest follows a kitten helping its owner, Masha, find items lost after a celebration in the park. The player searches in places where the...

Pirate: Plague of the Dead

Action, Adventure, Warships / Submarines, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 13 October 2017

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Pirate: Plague of the Dead is a free-to-play action adventure game dedicated to pirate sea battles for mobile platforms. You will take on the role of Captain Jack...

Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes

Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 22 December 2017

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 77/100

Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes is a top-down turn-based indie strategy game in a fantasy setting. In this game you will take command of a small army and move across...

welcome to heaven

Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2017

Steam: 74/100

An adventure game about disillusionment with religion, presenting heaven as a monument to its emerging problems. The player judges sinners and decides who is worthy...

Microtransaction Simulator

Free game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 14 September 2017

Steam: 85/100

This clicker-style simulator revolves around collecting random loot and running a shop. The player unlocks achievements, gathers and sells items, then uses the...

Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

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

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2017

Steam: 96/100

Four years after the end of the Great War and the death of her mother, the girl is still trying to cope with the consequences of the past and get used to her new...

Ambre - a heartbreaking kinetic novel

Free game, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2017

Steam: 75/100

This kinetic visual novel follows Tristan Mallory, a depressed thirty-year-old man who finds a lost little girl in a park and takes her into his home. Their...

Emily is Away Too

Adventure, Visual novel, Free game, Indie, Simulation, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Emily is Away Too is an interactive text adventure with pixel graphics, which is the ideological successor to Emily is Away. Expect more expanded dialogue options...

Summer Nightmare

Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 6 December 2017

Steam: 55/100

This mystery-survival adventure follows Riel, a schoolboy whose nightmare is linked to the real world. In a school much like his own, students are forced into a...

Cayne

Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Free game

Game released: Linux → 24 January 2017

Steam: 80/100

Cayne is a shareware adventure horror game with an isometric camera view. The game's events revolve around a pregnant woman named Hadley, who is about to give...

Sounds of Her Love

Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2017

Steam: 90/100

A romantic visual novel about two students growing closer at an international school in Tokyo. The protagonist, a transfer student of Japanese and English heritage...

Evening Surprise

Free game, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2017

Steam: 89/100

This comedy visual novel follows Max and his girlfriend Ann, who are happy together until Ann prepares a surprise for him. The story unfolds over several ordinary...

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Best Games in the Free game genre of 2017 for Linux (Game released)