Post-apocalyptic for Linux — top best games in the Post-apocalyptic genre

The Long Dark - a game in the Post-apocalyptic genre

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 1 August 2017

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Post-apocalyptic action adventure with first-person view and survival elements. The game tells the story of pilot Will McKennzie, who caught his plane in a...

Project Zomboid

Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Zombies

Early Access: Linux → 8 November 2013

Players: 8.4/10

A zombie apocalypse is about to occur in the world of Project Zomboid. So far, humanity has not understood what happened, but the houses still have water and...

Wasteland 3

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 28 August 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Wasteland 3 is a continuation of the post-apocalyptic role-playing game with turn-based combat in the Wasteland universe. The events of the new part will take place...

Metro 2033 Redux

Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 15 April 2015

Players: 8.2/10

The Metro universe tells the story of the inhabitants of Moscow, whose city was destroyed by a nuclear strike in 2013. The only salvation turned out to be the...

ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game

Role-playing game, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 19 December 2018

Players: 8.7/10

ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. The game takes place in the...

Unturned

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

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

Players: 7.9/10

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...

The Wandering Village

Business / Management, Strategy, Side view, Futurism (Future), In real time, Post-apocalyptic, City Building

Early Access: Linux → 14 September 2022; Game released: Linux → 17 July 2025

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

A city-building simulator where the settlement is built not on the ground, but on the back of a giant wandering creature named Onbu. The world around is poisoned by...

Despot's Game

Indie, Strategy, In real time, Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Roguelike

Early Access: Linux → 14 October 2021; Game released: Linux → 29 September 2022

A futuristic post -apocalyptic strategy, where a group of survivors needs to get out of a gloomy labyrinth. The path is full of dangers, but the weapon and...

The Last Plague: Blight

Third-person view, Survival, Crafting, Construction, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 3 October 2024

Players: 6.7/10

A mysterious disease consumed the protagonist’s village, but he managed to escape. Now the character finds himself alone in the wild, where he must find food and...

Metro: Last Light Redux

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Collection, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 15 April 2015

Players: 8/10

Metro: Last Light Redux is an improved version of the post-apocalyptic shooter with a first-person view. The Metro universe tells the story of Moscow residents...

VEIN

Action, Shooter, Simulation, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Zombies

Early Access: Linux → 24 October 2025; Game in development: Linux → 2029

Players: 8.8/10

Multiplayer sandbox with survival elements and an open world. In the near future, an apocalypse has occurred: zombies roam the Earth, most people have died, and...

ATOM RPG Trudograd

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Turn-based, DLC

Early Access: Linux → 11 May 2020; Game released: Linux → 13 September 2021

Players: 8/10

ATOM RPG Trudograd — an expansion for the post-apocalyptic role-playing game with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie...

Dome Keeper

Business / Management, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Action, Roguelike, Old school, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Dome Keeper is an exciting post-apocalyptic survival game with roguelike elements, a side view and resource management. As you progress, you will have to mine...

Dead Age 2

Role-playing game, Horror, Side view, Turn-based, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 12 March 2021; Early Access: Linux → 16 July 2020

Players: 8/10

Dead Age 2 is a continuation of the action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. 10 years after the first...

Death Road to Canada

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Death Road to Canada is a top-down action RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. You will go to the center of a full-scale invasion of the living dead. Having taken...

Death Trash

Role-playing game, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Linux → 5 August 2021; Game in development: Linux → 2026

Players: 10/10

Death Trash is a post-apocalyptic isometric role-playing game with horror elements in a futuristic setting. You'll be sent into a world filled with large creatures...

Dead Age

Role-playing game, Horror, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Dead Age is an action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. You will go to a world where you will forever have to...

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead

Logic, Puzzle, Side view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 19 November 2020

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead is another crossover in the bridge-building puzzle game Bridge Constructor, this time meeting famous characters from the...

Wasteland 2

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2014

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Wasteland 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the post-apocalyptic role-playing game with turn-based combat that inspired the Fallout series. Just like in the original...

Despotism 3k

Side view, In real time, Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Indie, Simulation, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2018

Players: 10/10

Despotism 3k is a side-scrolling real-time strategy game in a post-apocalyptic style. Humanity is enslaved by artificial intelligence and this is great because we...

Sheltered

Role-playing game, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: Linux → 15 March 2016

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Sheltered is a procedurally generated adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. After many died in a nuclear holocaust, you are lucky enough to survive in a...

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today

Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: Linux → 10 April 2015

Metacritic: 70/100

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today is an atmospheric “point and click” adventure with a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. A terrible epidemic turns...

ATOM RPG 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Open world

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A continuation of a tactical CRPG focused on a deep storyline and variability. The plot unfolds in a world of alternative history, where the Cold War ended in a...

Anomaly 2

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Action, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Science fiction, Isometric, Online, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 15 May 2013

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Anomaly 2 is a fantastic arcade action game with elements of tower defense and real-time strategy. Years after the 2018 invasion of Earth, the planet is overrun by...

Left 4 Dead 3

Action, Shooter, Horror, Hack and slash, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Not officially announced: Linux → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 7.8/10

The game is a prequel to Left 4 Dead and tells about the first month of infection. Six chapters, four characters, one of which fights with fists and has a unique...

Paradigm

Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2017

Metacritic: 85/100

Paradigm is a surreal point and click adventure in which you take on the role of a handsome mutant named Paradigm. The game takes place in the post-apocalyptic city...

Oil Rush

Strategy, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 23 March 2012

Oil Rush is a third-person strategy game with a touch of warship simulator from the developers from the UNIGINE Corp. studio. The game is published by UNIGINE...

RadSpire

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Survival, Fantasy

Early Access: Linux → 1 May 2026; Game in development: Linux → 2027

An adventure action game focused on survival, set in a post-apocalyptic world where remnants of technology intertwine with unstable magic. The ruined lands hide...

InnerSpace

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

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2018

Players: 6.4/10

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...

Overland

Strategy, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2019

Metacritic: 72/100

Overland is a post-apocalyptic tactical strategy with survival elements. The characters try to work together to survive another day in North America. Each level is...

Deadly Days

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Action, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2019

Deadly Days is an arcade action strategy game with bagel elements and a top-down view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. In the game you will control a group of...

Escapists: The Walking Dead

Arcade, Adventure, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2015

Players: 6.2/10

Escapists: The Walking Dead is a pixel adventure based on the famous zombie universe of The Walking Dead. The events of the game follow the canon of the original...

ZEPHON

Strategy, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2024

The world collapsed under the onslaught of catastrophe, leaving behind a twisted Earth where mutated creatures hunt amidst the ruins and broken war machines wander...

NEO Scavenger

Role-playing game, Strategy, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 December 2013

Players: 8/10

NEO Scavenger is a turn-based strategy with role-playing elements and turn-based combat. In the game, you will need to survive in post-apocalyptic Michigan, travel...

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human

Arcade, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human is an arcade platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The events of the game take place in the distant future, where life...

Retro Commander

Free game, Strategy, Top-down view, In real time, Post-apocalyptic, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Online

Early Access: Linux → 11 May 2022; Game released: Linux → 24 November 2023

A free real-time strategy game in a post-apocalyptic setting. In this world, catastrophic events often occur, and at the same time, local residents constantly wage...

GNAW

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Metroidvania

Game in development: Linux → 2026

The game takes place in the decaying city of New Dino, which must be saved from destruction. Players take on the role of Mac Ripley, a dinosaur with supernatural...

Warzone 2100

Strategy, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2006

Players: 9.1/10

Three Dead Zed

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2014

Three Dead Zed — a hand-drawn platformer where players are asked to control an experimental zombie. He can transform into other forms, which allows him to...

Dead Maze

Action, Horror, MMO, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Free game

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Dead Maze is a free-to-play multiplayer action role-playing game with an isometric camera view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. Players must team up to...

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Best Games in the Post-apocalyptic genre for Linux