Roguelike for Linux — top best games in the Roguelike genre / Page 2

Nordhold - a game in the Roguelike genre

Roguelike, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Casual game, Procedural generation, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2025

The player controls the medieval Scandinavian village and protects it from the waves of opponents. 8 species of defense towers help to cope with all types of...

Handmancers

First-person view, Tactics, Roguelike, Fantasy, Collectible card game (CCG)

Early Access: Linux → 5 May 2026; Game in development: Linux → I квартал 2027

The player collects a deck of cards and battles various monsters in a "Rock, Paper, Scissors" style. There are several factions with their own fighting styles...

Fogpiercer

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Card game, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Roguelike, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2026

Players: 6/10

A sci-fi card roguelike where the survival of humanity depends on the correctly assembled train composition, tactical decisions, and the ability to use every...

Slice & Dice

Turn-based, Strategy, Roguelike, Dungeons, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2024

Players: 10/10

A turn-based roguelike where the main mechanic is dice. There are five heroes available in the game, each of which has its own unique dice. The main goal is to get...

Huntdown: Overtime

Action, Shooter, Cyberpunk, Roguelike, Side view, Old school

Early Access: Linux → 7 May 2026; Game in development: Linux → 2027

Players: 6.6/10

Prequel to the action-platformer Huntdown. The events unfold in futuristic New Detroit in the year 2084 — a grim metropolis where corporations have replaced...

Death by Scrolling

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Roguelike, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2025

A pixelated roguelike RPG set in the chaotic depths of Purgatory. The player chooses one of several characters with unique abilities and progresses through endless...

Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court

Role-playing game, Action, DLC, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 19 June 2017

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court is an add-on for a unique party-based side-scrolling RPG with turn-based combat. The add-on introduces a new campaign, the action...

Stick It to the Stickman

Action, Fighting, Platformer, Beat them all, Roguelike, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy

Early Access: Linux → 18 August 2025; Game in development: Linux → 23 September 2026

Players: 10/10

An unusual roguelike that combines dynamic action and platformer elements, where the player acts as an office worker - Stickman, striving for career heights. The...

Vagante

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Vagante is a side-scrolling action RPG platformer that features permadeath and procedurally generated levels. A dangerous adventure awaits you in a dark fantasy...

Out There

Science fiction, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, In real time, Side view, Top-down view, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 2 April 2015

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Out There is a fantasy adventure indie roguelike with elements of real-time strategy and a side view. In this game, you play as an astronaut who woke up from...

This War of Mine: The Little Ones

Strategy, Adventure, DLC, Business / Management, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2016

Players: 9.3/10

This War of Mine: The Little Ones is an expansion to the side-scrolling management strategy adventure This War of Mine. The addition tells the story of young...

Dungeon Rushers

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 6 September 2016

Players: 1/10

Dungeon Rushers is a fantasy role-playing game with turn-based combat where you go on a dungeon exploration. All levels are generated randomly and are fraught with...

Haste

Action, Roguelike, Third-person view, Platformer, Parkour, Open world, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2025

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Supersonic action with procedural generation of levels. The game talks about a heroine traveling through a destroying universe. Players need to go through the level...

Stoneshard

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Early Access: Linux → 6 February 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Stoneshard is a tactical RPG with roguelike elements and an open world from the creators of 12 is Better Than 6. You will embark on a grand journey across the...

Across the Obelisk

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Roguelike, Online, Strategy, Side view, Turn-based

Early Access: Linux → 8 April 2021; Game released: Linux → 16 August 2022

Across the Obelisk is a role-playing roguelike in a fantasy setting with turn-based battles, a side view and the ability to collect a powerful deck of cards. In the...

Mars Survivors

Science fiction, Shooter, Top-down view, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2023

Players: 4.9/10

The player controls a survivor on the planet Mars and confronts waves of mutated monsters. Several characters and more than 10 types of weapons are available. The...

Space Crew: Legendary Edition

Action, Science fiction, Space, Business / Management, Indie, Roguelike, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2020

The player, as a captain, controls a spaceship. It is necessary to recruit crew members, explore the galaxy and confront aliens. The legendary edition of Space...

Becoming Saint

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2025

The game takes place in medieval Italy. The gamer increases the number of their followers to capture cities. Sometimes, difficult moral choices will have to be...

Wizard of Legend

Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 15 May 2018

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Wizard of Legend is a dynamic top-down action game in a fantasy setting. Your main goal is to become the most powerful wizard. And to do this, you have to clear...

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 1 March 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Heroes of Hammerwatch is an indie role-playing game with action elements in a medieval setting. Explore procedurally generated levels, destroying enemies and...

GoNNER

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2016

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 79/100

GoNNER is a brutally challenging 2D platformer with roguelike elements and procedurally generated levels. The game tells the story of the friendship between Hiccup...

Dicey Dungeons

Arcade, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Card game, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Dicey Dungeons — an exciting card-based turn-based game with RPG elements and a simplified roguelike from the creators of Super Hexagon and VVVVVV. In the...

Space Haven

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Roguelike

Game in development: Linux → 2026; Early Access: Linux → 21 May 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Space Haven is a management simulator with roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. You have to assemble your own team and go into outer space in search of a new...

Beyond Words

Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Roguelike, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2026

The player battles opponents by creating various combinations of letters. Each field is unique, and the conditions and objectives can change. There are over 300...

Home Behind

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Home Behind is a procedurally generated side-scrolling adventure RPG. You have to become a refugee who is fleeing a devastating war from his country to Europe...

CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience

Action, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Early Access: Linux → 20 September 2018; Game released: Linux → 1 May 2020

Players: 7.4/10

CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience is a side-scrolling survival game with roguelike elements. You have to find the answer to the question: “If you were...

Dungeons 3

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Isometric, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 13 October 2017

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Dungeons 3 is an isometric real-time strategy game with elements of a management game in a fantasy setting. You will witness the conquest of the upper world by the...

Ziggurat

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Ziggurat is a first-person shooter with roguelike elements, inspired by the Hexen and Painkiller series. You have to put on the skin of a sorcerer and go...

Dungeon Souls

Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 2 December 2016

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Dungeon Souls is an isometric role-playing action game set in a fantasy world. As a brave hero, you will venture into randomly generated dungeons to battle...

One Step from Eden

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, Card game, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 26 March 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 78/100

One Step from Eden is an action-adventure game with elements of a card roguelike, where you will need to build a powerful deck, attack opponents with spells, find...

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...

Stellaris: Nemesis

Strategy, Roguelike, Futurism (Future), In real time, DLC

Game released: Linux → 15 April 2021

Stellaris: Nemesis is an expansion for the global real-time space strategy game Stellaris. In it, you will determine the fate of a galaxy descending into chaos...

An Amazing Wizard: Prologue

Action, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2024

Players: 10/10

Free prologue for the game An Amazing Wizard about a magician. The main character can learn and use more than 100 spells in battles, further strengthening them with...

A Long Way Down

Strategy, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 28 August 2020

Players: 6.7/10

A Long Way Down is a fun side-scrolling card strategy game set in a fantasy setting. In the game you have to try on the role of Sam, who finds himself in the...

Barony

Role-playing game, Roguelike, First-person view, Indie, Action, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 23 June 2015

Players: 7.4/10

Barony is a cooperative action-adventure game with a first-person view and roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. You have to explore dangerous dungeons full of...

Sandwalkers

Role-playing game, Strategy, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Roguelike, Fantasy, Construction

Game released: Linux → 8 April 2025

The player gathers a team of brave travelers and sets off to explore hostile lands. The heroes must cross a desert with an eternal storm and establish trade and...

Cloaks and Capes

Platformer, Roguelike, Fantasy, Side view, Free game

Game released: Linux → 14 October 2022

Players: 10/10

A dark pixel game about a magician who wants to resurrect his son. The main character, together with the ashes of the child, sets off to free the city from demons...

Die in the Dungeon

Roguelike, Strategy, Turn-based, Card game, Procedural generation, Casual game

Early Access: Linux → 21 February 2025; Game in development: Linux → 2026

Players: 10/10

A card roguelike where the usual cards are replaced with cubes. Each die unlocks unique abilities: attacking, healing, enhancing or copying the abilities of other...

Dungeon Raid: Zero Floor

Turn-based, Card game, Tactics, Roguelike, Dungeons, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2025

The main character descends into a dark dungeon and tries to reach the final boss. You need to collect various cards, use them in battles or combine them with each...

Soul of the Dungeon

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Free game, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 1 August 2025

A free roguelike with waves of enemies, set in a dark dungeon filled with monsters and dangers. Players must fight against increasingly stronger opponents, collect...

Roguelike

Best Games in the Roguelike genre for Linux