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

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Randy And Teddy Adventure Road - a game in the Platformer genre
Randy And Teddy Adventure Road
Puzzle, Platformer, Side view, Action, Exploration, Comics
Game released: Linux → 3 September 2021
Steam: 89/100
The main character named Randy and his puppy Teddy go through levels with challenges and puzzles. There are 5 different worlds: training, stone, sand, metal and...
Residual - a game in the Platformer genre
Residual
Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Survival, Exploration, Action
Game released: Linux → 9 September 2021
Steam: 66/100
A lonely explorer makes an emergency landing on a strange planet that holds an ancient secret. The character explores a procedurally generated world, gathers food...
Frogatto & Friends - a game in the Platformer genre
Frogatto & Friends
Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Sandbox, Side view, Arcade
Game released: Linux → 16 July 2010
Players: 5.5/10
Steam: 94/100
Frogatto & Friends is a third-person action game with platformer and sandbox...
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle - a game in the Platformer genre
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Action, Platformer, Third-person view
Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010
Steam: 50/100
This platform action game follows Alex Kidd as he searches for his missing father, King Thor, on the planet Paperock. His family suspects that Thor was kidnapped by...
Worms: Reloaded Game of the Year Edition - a game in the Platformer genre
Worms: Reloaded Game of the Year Edition
Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Turn-based
Game released: Linux → 25 November 2010
Worms: Reloaded Game of the Year Edition is a third-person arcade turn-based strategy game with platformer elements. Experience the visuals of a new high-definition...
Gateways - a game in the Platformer genre
Gateways
Puzzle, Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie
Game released: Linux → 9 July 2013
Steam: 89/100
Metacritic: 72/100
Gateways is a puzzle platformer in which a scientist explores a huge laboratory filled with many mysteries. You can use teleporters to jump from one place to...
Volgarr the Viking - a game in the Platformer genre
Volgarr the Viking
Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie
Game released: Linux → 13 September 2013
Players: 10/10
Steam: 84/100
Metacritic: 76/100
Volgarr the Viking is a hardcore arcade platformer in which the Viking hero fights enemies and navigates deadly traps across a series of dangerous worlds. The game...
Munin - a game in the Platformer genre
Munin
Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Casual game
Game released: Linux → 10 June 2014
Players: 5/10
Steam: 82/100
Metacritic: 68/100
This puzzle-platformer set in Norse mythology follows Munin, Odin’s messenger, on a journey through Yggdrasil to reclaim her power. The player moves mountains and...
Pixel Piracy - a game in the Platformer genre
Pixel Piracy
Role-playing game, Arcade, Simulation, Platformer, Indie, Sandbox, Side view, Roguelike
Game released: Linux → 31 July 2014
Players: 8/10
Steam: 62/100
Metacritic: 52/100
Hot Tin Roof - a game in the Platformer genre
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 murders. Her...
Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon - a game in the Platformer genre
Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon
Arcade, Action, Platformer, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Exploration
Game released: Linux → 6 August 2015
Players: 10/10
Steam: 91/100
This action-puzzle adventure follows a spider exploring an abandoned estate built by a secret society. In Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon, the player weaves webs...
Evo Explores - a game in the Platformer genre
Evo Explores
Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie
Game released: Linux → 16 May 2016
Steam: 91/100
Evo Explores is an arcade puzzle game with platforming elements. You have to go to a fantastic reality and help the space traveler Evo, who is trying to explore a...
Underhero - a game in the Platformer genre
Underhero
Role-playing game, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Turn-based, Adventure, Puzzle, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Linux → 19 September 2018
Steam: 91/100
Underhero is a role-playing puzzle platformer with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of a chosen hero who is...
Tomb Rumble - a game in the Platformer genre
Tomb Rumble
Free game, Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, MMO, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Adventure
Game released: Linux → 15 September 2021
Steam: 72/100
Tomb Rumble is a free-to-play side-scrolling pixel platformer with an MMO component in which players compete to find treasure. The game features hundreds of levels...
SurfsUp - a game in the Platformer genre
SurfsUp
Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Online, Racing, Platformer, First-person view, Free game, Runner
Game released: Linux → 7 July 2025
Steam: 85/100
A multiplayer air surfing game where you can jump on ramps and perform tricks. There are daily random maps and global leaderboards. Various cosmetic items and...
Blocks That Matter - a game in the Platformer genre
Blocks That Matter
Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Platformer, Casual game
Game released: Linux → 19 August 2011
Steam: 81/100
Metacritic: 72/100
This platform puzzle game follows a tiny robot called Tetrobot, the last hope of indie developers Alexey and Markus. The robot drills blocks made of different...
Cats are Liquid - a game in the Platformer genre
Cats are Liquid
Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Adventure
Game released: Linux → 25 July 2016
Players: 9.7/10
Steam: 93/100
Cats are Liquid is a funny arcade platformer with a side of the side, where you have to take a cat under control, which behaves as if it is a drop of liquid. The...
The Free Ones - a game in the Platformer genre
The Free Ones
Adventure, Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Parkour
Game released: Linux → 12 July 2018
Players: 9/10
Steam: 78/100
The Free Ones is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with lots of puzzles. You will try on the role of a slave miner trying to free other prisoners and...
Orphan - a game in the Platformer genre
Orphan
Arcade, Adventure, Stealth, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Action
Game released: Linux → 31 October 2018
Players: 6.8/10
Steam: 59/100
Orphan is a 2D dark platformer with stealth elements and a side view. The main character is an orphan who survived an alien attack on Earth. You have to solve...
Bite the Bullet - a game in the Platformer genre
Bite the Bullet
Action, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Role-playing game, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: Linux → 13 August 2020
Players: 6.8/10
Steam: 52/100
Metacritic: 64/100
Bite the Bullet is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with RPG elements. In this game you have to eat opponents in order to upgrade your character...
Counterpact - a game in the Platformer genre
Counterpact
Side view, Shooter, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Platformer
Game released: Linux → 31 December 2023
Steam: 90/100
A multiplayer game in which two teams fight against each other. There are seven characters, each with their own set of mechanics. Heroes have many alternative...
Slumbering Feline - a game in the Platformer genre
Slumbering Feline
Free game, Adventure, Side view, Platformer, Metroidvania, Fantasy, Casual game, Indie
Game released: Linux → 7 March 2025
Steam: 72/100
The story of Momo, who has lost his way in a strange dream and is trying to get out of it. It is necessary to use magical equipment to fight enemies and discover...
ROM CHECK FAIL - a game in the Platformer genre
ROM CHECK FAIL
Arcade, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Platformer, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Arkanoid
Game released: Linux → 25 March 2008
ROM CHECK FAIL is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, shooter, flight simulator, platformer, fantasy game and arkanoid from developers from Farbs...
Captain 'S': The Remake - a game in the Platformer genre
Captain 'S': The Remake
Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Comics
Game released: Linux → 28 February 2009
Captain 'S': The Remake is a third-person action game with platforming elements from the developers of Computer Emuzone Games Studio. The game is...
Ristar - a game in the Platformer genre
Ristar
Action, Platformer, Third-person view
Game released: Linux → 13 September 2010
Steam: 100/100
A platformer about Ristar, a star who comes from the depths of space to oppose the tyrant Greedy. He has plunged the galaxy of Valdi into misery and darkness, and...
Rustbucket Rumble - a game in the Platformer genre
Rustbucket Rumble
Online, Action, Platformer, Indie, Free game
Game released: Linux → 4 May 2015
Steam: 56/100
Rustbucket Rumble is a team-based, side-scrolling arena action game set on an Earth abandoned by humanity. The machines left behind continue the rivalry between two...
Gunmetal Arcadia Zero - a game in the Platformer genre
Gunmetal Arcadia Zero
Arcade, Side view, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher
Game released: Linux → 15 November 2016
Steam: 69/100
Gunmetal Arcadia Zero is an old-school side-scrolling action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will find five heroes to choose from, bagel elements, an 8-bit...
Flinthook - a game in the Platformer genre
Flinthook
Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure
Game released: Linux → 18 April 2017
Players: 7.7/10
Steam: 73/100
Metacritic: 78/100
Flinthook is a side-scrolling action platformer from the creators of Mercenary Kings and Curses N Chaos. You have to play as a little guy who destroys many enemies...
Dragon Bros - a game in the Platformer genre
Dragon Bros
Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Casual game
Game released: Linux → 31 May 2017
Steam: 85/100
This 2D side-scrolling action platformer draws on retro run-and-gun games. A team of young dragons sets out to rescue their kidnapped mother after the robotic...
Dungreed - a game in the Platformer genre
Dungreed
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike, Indie
Game released: Linux → 15 February 2018
Players: 8/10
Steam: 93/100
Dungreed is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with roguelike elements. The events of the game will take you to a dark fantasy world, where an entire...
Himno - a game in the Platformer genre
Himno
Action, Platformer, Free game, Side view, Adventure
Game released: Linux → 26 April 2019
Players: 8.9/10
Steam: 89/100
Himno is a free-to-play side-scrolling action platformer that combines parkour mechanics, old-school pixel art, and an endless supply of procedurally generated...
Grocket - a game in the Platformer genre
Grocket
Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Old school, Space
Game released: Linux → 9 September 2022
Steam: 89/100
A free top-down arcade puzzle game where the player controls a rocket and travels through dangerous space locations, overcoming obstacles, magnetic zones...
Low Oxygen - a game in the Platformer genre
Low Oxygen
Casual game, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Space
Game released: Linux → 16 March 2023
Steam: 89/100
The game is about an astronaut who crash lands on an alien planet while trying to find a way to get to Earth again. He must navigate through 50 rooms filled with...
Tankazooka - a game in the Platformer genre
Tankazooka
Indie, Side view, Casual game, Arcade, Platformer, Adventure
Game released: Linux → 30 April 2025
Steam: 94/100
The tank was moving with its convoy, but ran over a mine and broke down. Now you need to go through different levels, using the cannon to move to catch up with your...
Bombun - a game in the Platformer genre
Bombun
Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Adventure, Comedy
Game released: Linux → 27 March 2026
Steam: 95/100
The rabbit fights against an army of drones sent by her former friend. The robots are trying to capture her flying fortress and destroy everything around. You need...
Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville - a game in the Platformer genre
Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville
Arcade, Action, Platformer, Adventure, Metroidvania
Game released: Linux → 14 March 2014
Steam: 84/100
This action-platform adventure in a Metroidvania style follows the Powerpuff Girls as they explore Townsville and try to recover their lost powers. Blossom, Bubbles...
Sportsfriends - a game in the Platformer genre
Sportsfriends
Action, Platformer, Sports game, Indie, Free game
Game released: Linux → Q1 2014
Steam: 80/100
Metacritic: 82/100
This collection of local multiplayer games brings together sports contests, duels, and a physical party game. BaraBariBall features retro-styled fights, Super Pole...
Hell is Other Demons - a game in the Platformer genre
Hell is Other Demons
Adventure, Action, Shooter, Side view, Roguelike, Indie, Platformer, Arcade
Game released: Linux → 20 May 2019
Steam: 92/100
Hell is Other Demons is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer with roguelike elements. The game has you exploring a vast, hand-crafted world filled with...
Mable & The Wood - a game in the Platformer genre
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...
Dispersio 3 - a game in the Platformer genre
Dispersio 3
Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Science fiction, Dungeons, Puzzle
Game released: Linux → 18 November 2025
Steam: 91/100
A pixel game where the main character tries to escape from a secret military base. As the character progresses, they encounter various challenges, such as wind or...
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