Roguelike for Linux — top best games in the Roguelike genre / Page 3

Fogpiercer - a game in the Roguelike genre

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

Game in development: Linux → 17 July 2026

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...

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...

Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania

DLC, Action, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Roguelike, Platformer, Gothic

Game released: Linux → 6 March 2023

Metacritic: 88/100

An expansion for the hardcore side-scrolling action roguelike Dead Cells, which brings original content inspired by Castlevania to the game. The main character...

Out of Space

Strategy, Online, Roguelike, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2020

Out of Space is an online indie strategy game about team survival on board a spaceship. You have to collect resources, fight off attacks from hostile aliens...

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...

AuroraRL

Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Science fiction

Early Access: Linux → 8 April 2016

AuroraRL is a sci-fi RPG with turn-based combat and a procedurally generated world. You have to become the captain of a large starship and go to conquer space. The...

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 → 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...

Hell is Other Demons

Adventure, Action, Shooter, Side view, Roguelike, Indie, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2019

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...

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...

Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot

Top-down view, Roguelike, Action, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2024

A game from the creators of Despot's Game and Despotism 3k. The gamer controls a green jelly that confronts hundreds of enemies. You can use different weapons and...

Lost Sea

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

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2016

Metacritic: 59/100

Elsie

Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Action, Futurism (Future), Old school, Combat robots

Game released: Linux → 10 September 2024

A fast-paced platformer with vibrant pixel art and an emphasis on fast-paced combat and acrobatic moves. The player takes on the role of Elsie, a brave heroine who...

We Need To Go Deeper

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

Game released: Linux → 1 August 2019

Players: 10/10

Survivor Squad

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2013

Survivor Squad is a top-down arcade game with RPG, action, strategy, tactical and roguelike elements from developers from Endless Loop Studios. The main publisher...

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...

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...

Danger Gazers

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Roguelike, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 2 January 2020

Players: 7.2/10

Danger Gazers is a cooperative dynamic top-down scrolling shooter with roguelike elements in a post-apocalyptic setting. In the game you will have to use a vast...

Darkest Dungeon: The Color of Madness

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

Game released: Linux → 19 June 2018

Players: 10/10

Darkest Dungeon: The Color of Madness is an expansion for a unique side-scrolling party-based RPG with turn-based combat. The add-on has added a new type of task...

Rezrog

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

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2017

Players: 8.2/10

Rezrog is a turn-based role-playing game set in a fantasy world, designed in the style of tabletop games. You will visit numerous dungeons that are randomly...

Receiver 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2020

Players: 9.8/10

Receiver 2 is a continuation of the realistic first-person shooter. The game fully simulates the internal parts of each firearm based on manufacturers' schematics...

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...

Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court

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

Game released: Linux → 19 June 2017

Players: 7.7/10

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...

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...

Rogue Star Rescue

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Top-down view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Roguelike, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 4 February 2021

Rogue Star Rescue is a fast-paced, cooperative top-down roguelike shooter with tower defense elements set in a sci-fi setting. A massive Rogue Star formed from...

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...

Gonner 2

Indie, Platformer, Arcade, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2020

Gonner 2 is a sequel to the brutally challenging 2D platformer with roguelike elements and procedurally generated levels. Hikk returns again, and this time he will...

Rogue Clone

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

Game released: Linux → 1992

Rogue Clone is a classic top-down turn-based role-playing game in a fantasy setting. You will go on dangerous adventures through randomly generated dungeons...

Paper Dungeons

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Board / Group Game, Logic, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 26 March 2015

Paper Dungeons is a role-playing logic action game with elements of a bagel and a board game. You start each dungeon as a new board from a long adventure set: each...

Robothorium

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Combat robots, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2019

Robothorium is a tactical role-playing game with turn-based combat in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Dungeon Rushers. As an artificial intelligence, you will...

Stellaris: Ancient Relics

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

Game released: Linux → 4 June 2019

Stellaris: Ancient Relics is an add-on for the global real-time space strategy Stellaris. In the expansion, you'll uncover the ruins of long-dead civilizations on...

Stellaris: Federations

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

Game released: Linux → 17 March 2020

Stellaris: Federations is an add-on for the global real-time space strategy Stellaris. The addition will significantly expand the arsenal of diplomatic techniques...

Songbringer

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Songbringer is a top-down sci-fi RPG adventure with a procedurally generated world. The events of the game will tell about a hero who did not want to save the world...

Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, DLC

Game released: Linux → 6 January 2022

Players: 7.4/10

Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea is an expansion for the hardcore side-scrolling action-slasher inspired by the Dark Souls series. In the expansion, you will...

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...

Eagle Island

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Eagle Island is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer. Discover the birdlife of Eagle Island with Quil and his faithful owl companion Koji. You'll explore...

Pairs & Perils

Collectible card game (CCG), Roguelike, Tactics, Turn-based, Casual game, Fantasy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 January 2025

The player explores dungeons where he fights opponents. In battles, you need to memorize and combine creature and weapon cards for attacks. During breaks, you can...

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Chess game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2022

Players: 10/10

A strategy game with roguelike elements that reimagines chess. The player takes control of a black king with a shotgun, who must defeat an army of white pieces and...

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...

Feral Fury

Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 3 April 2017

Players: 7/10

Feral Fury is a top-down shooter from the developers of the...

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...

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Best Games in the Roguelike genre for Linux