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

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...

Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok

Action, Roguelike, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Fantasy

Early Access: Linux → 15 December 2022; Game released: Linux → 26 April 2024

Players: 6.9/10

After Ragnarok, Yggdrasil, the World Tree, lost almost all of its energy needed to support the Nine Realms. Only a few heroes survived the End of the World...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

First-person view, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Logic, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 8 October 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a co-op VR puzzle game about defusing a bomb. One of the participants has an explosive device with a timer on the screen, but...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 30 October 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 85/100

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It adds over 100 hours of content, including the new...

Danger Scavenger

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Cyberpunk, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Danger Scavenger is a dynamic arcade shooter with an isometric camera view in a cyberpunk setting. Deadly effective, highly skilled, invisible to indifferent...

Chronicon

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

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Chronicon is a top-down action RPG in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in a fictional setting, in which, with the help of a magical device, the chosen ones...

Moon Hunters

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 10 March 2016

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 62/100

Moon Hunters is a top-down cooperative RPG set in a fantasy setting. You have to team up with three friends and go to an ancient world that changes with each new...

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...

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...

Pathway

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 11 April 2019

Metacritic: 69/100

Pathway is an amazing tactical strategy game with turn-based combat and a top-down view. The events of the game will take you to 1936, when German military...

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...

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...

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...

Crawl

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 11 April 2017

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Crawl is a fast-paced action roguelike with side-scrolling RPG elements. The game features a variety of dungeons that are randomly generated. The game is designed...

Crypt of the NecroDancer

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Music game, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 23 April 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Crypt of the NecroDancer is a unique indie game where everything moves to the rhythm of the music of Danny Baranowski, the composer of Super Meat Boy and the...

Stellaris: Apocalypse

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

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2018

Players: 6.5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Stellaris: Apocalypse is an add-on for the global real-time space strategy Stellaris. In the add-on, you will have access to the most destructive weapons, Colossus...

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...

Evertried

Strategy, Tactics, Roguelike, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2021

Evertried is an isometric tactical strategy with turn-based battles and roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. In a world of unshakable order, the Tower is a...

Immortal Redneck

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2017

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Immortal Redneck is a fast-paced first-person shooter with roguelike elements. You will find unique arenas that are generated randomly, a wide arsenal of weapons...

Stellaris: Utopia

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

Game released: Linux → 6 April 2017

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Stellaris: Utopia is an expansion for the global real-time space strategy game Stellaris. The expansion features new megastructures, Dyson spheres, ring worlds...

Lost Sea

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

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2016

Metacritic: 59/100

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...

Sail Forth

Action, Roguelike, Warships / Submarines, Cooperative (co-op), Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 21 December 2022

A procedural naval adventure featuring classic naval action and exploring beautiful landscapes. In the game you can travel through a variety of landscapes, expand...

Nordhold

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...

We Need To Go Deeper

Action, Steampunk, Roguelike, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 1 August 2019

Players: 10/10

Paranautical Activity

Action, Shooter, Indie, Roguelike, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2013

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 48/100

Paranautical Activity is a dynamic indie shooter with a first-person view and roguelike elements. The game features randomly generated levels, super-fast gameplay...

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager

Role-playing game, Strategy, Horror, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Early Access: Linux → 20 March 2020; Game released: Linux → 29 April 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager is a dark role-playing roguelike with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. You have to build a...

Tangledeep

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 1 February 2018

Tangledeep is a Japanese-style top-down indie roguelike RPG. You find yourself in amazing underground villages from which you have to find a way out to the surface...

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...

Nunholy

Action, Roguelike, Hack and slash, Adult game, Fantasy, Anime / Manga, Isometric

Game released: Linux → 17 January 2025

Players: 8.6/10

A fantasy action game in which militant nuns go into dark dungeons to destroy vampires and cleanse the world of evil. By defeating enemies, you can absorb their...

XCOM 2: Collection

Strategy, Tactics, Roguelike, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Collection

Game released: Linux → 1 February 2018

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 77/100

XCOM 2: Collection — the complete edition of the turn-based strategy game XCOM 2, which includes not only the original game but also previously released DLCs and...

Meganoid

Action, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2017

Meganoid is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer with roguelike elements. As a mysterious hero, you have to go into dungeons and destroy as many enemies as...

Tales of Maj'Eyal

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

Game released: Linux → 12 December 2013

Players: 7.1/10

Tales of Maj'Eyal is an exciting tactical RPG with turn-based combat and top-down view in a fantasy setting. You can create a unique character by choosing from a...

Stellar Interface

Shooter, Indie, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 21 November 2016

A hardcore shooter made in the style of NES games. In a randomly generated universe and random perks, no journey will be the same. The game has over 100 perks and...

Buoyancy

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 30 August 2019

Buoyancy is a real-time city planning and management simulator with an isometric camera view in a post-apocalyptic setting. In the game you have to build a real...

Gambonanza

Turn-based, Chess game, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 1 May 2026

VGTimes: 7.6/10

The game offers a completely new take on classic chess, turning it into a dynamic roguelike where the goal is not just to checkmate the king, but to capture every...

Roguelike

Best Games in the Roguelike genre for Linux