Roguelike for Linux — top best games in the Roguelike genre / Page 7

Vulture for NetHack - a game in the Roguelike genre

Role-playing game, Roguelike, Procedural generation, Dungeons, Sandbox, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2015

Steam: 72/100

An isometric graphical interface for the roguelike NetHack presents its dungeons in a point-and-click format while retaining the original keyboard commands. The...

Hand of Fate

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Indie, Roguelike, Card game

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Hand of Fate is an indie role-playing adventure game with elements of action and strategy, with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. You have to play with a...

Lost Sea

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

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2016

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 59/100

An action-adventure roguelike set in the Bermuda Triangle, Lost Sea follows a survivor stranded on a mysterious island after a freak storm. To escape, the player...

Sproggiwood

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Roguelike, Adventure, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2014

Steam: 79/100

Sproggiwood is an arcade RPG with action and roguelike elements with an isometric view. You are a simple farmer from the peaceful island of Clog. One moment you are...

CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience

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

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

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

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...

Children of Morta: Paws and Claws

Role-playing game, DLC, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2020

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Children of Morta: Paws and Claws is a top-down RPG expansion set in a fantasy setting. Night hunters, creatures of the day. They howl, growl, hiss, and snarl: but...

Hive Jump 2: Survivors

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Roguelike, Science fiction, Exploration, Arcade

Early Access: Linux → 29 May 2024; Game released: Linux → 10 September 2024

Steam: 80/100

After a squad of brave paratroopers is killed in an intergalactic ambush, the only surviving member of the team embarks on a path of retribution and engages in...

Star of Providence

Indie, Action, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2017

Steam: 96/100

Star of Providence is a top-down action roguelike with procedurally generated levels, following a lone ship exploring an abandoned facility in search of wealth...

Steam Marines

Roguelike, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 September 2014

Steam: 52/100

This tactical roguelike follows a squad of marines making their way through the decks of a besieged steampunk spaceship. The player commands up to four marines...

Convoy

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 78/100

In a post-apocalyptic future, this tactical roguelike follows a squad crossing a wasteland to find parts for a broken spaceship. The group travels in combat...

Curious Expedition

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2016

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Curious Expedition is a procedurally generated adventure role-playing game set in the 19th century. You can feel like a real explorer and discoverer. Choose one of...

Life in Bunker

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Roguelike, Simulation, Survival

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2016

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 55/100

Life in Bunker is a top-down real-time management strategy game. The game is entirely dedicated to the construction and organization of life in a bunker. As a...

Space Tyrant

Strategy, Indie, Roguelike, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 27 February 2018

Steam: 83/100

Space Tyrant is a 4X space strategy game with roguelike elements in which players will build a terrifying space fleet, lay waste to planets, destroy enemy fleets...

Star Vikings Forever

Arcade, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Side view, Match-3 (Three in a row), Science fiction, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2016

Steam: 90/100

Star Vikings Forever is an arcade strategy game with role-playing elements and a side view. Your task will be to assemble your invincible team of Vikings and fight...

I Hate Running Backwards

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Beat them all, Indie, Roguelike, Action, Runner

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 65/100

I Hate Running Backwards — a dynamic arcade action game with a top-down view in the "Serious Sam" universe. You will engage in a bone-crushing battle against...

Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2015

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This pixel-art RPG with roguelike elements follows the threat posed by the Sons of Dawn, a cult seeking to awaken an ancient god. The player forms a party of three...

Monsters and Monocles

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

Early Access: Linux → 16 August 2016

Steam: 63/100

Monsters and Monocles — an arcade cooperative shooter with a top-down view and pixel graphics. You will face huge crowds of monsters that are eager for large-scale...

Deep Sixed

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Roguelike, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 12 February 2018

Steam: 85/100

Deep Sixed is an amazing simulator with a third-person view and roguelike elements. A secret corporation with a monopoly on the technology necessary to “bend space...

Stellaris: Ancient Relics

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

Game released: Linux → 4 June 2019

Steam: 69/100

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...

Urtuk: The Desolation

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Roguelike, Post-apocalyptic, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 27 February 2021

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 87/100

Urtuk: The Desolation is a dark open-world tactical RPG with hardcore gameplay. There will be no elves, gnomes, dragons and other classic creatures in the game...

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...

Dungeon Divers

Top-down view, Logic, Roguelike, Dungeons, Fantasy, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 30 August 2024

Steam: 78/100

The player explores random pixel dungeons, solving puzzles. There may be unique conditions for completing the level. Also, items with mysterious powers are...

HYPERDROP: A Pachinko Roguelite

Arcade, Pinball, Roguelike, Casual game, Strategy

Game in development: Linux → 2027

A dynamic roguelite where each new run turns the game field into an unpredictable scoring machine. The empty space with holes gradually fills with various elements...

KeeperRL

Simulation, Roguelike, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 29 February 2024

Steam: 83/100

This retro dungeon simulator combines roguelike and RPG elements, casting the player as an evil keeper building a fortress in a procedurally generated world. The...

Shigatari

Role-playing game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2017

Steam: 97/100

A samurai role-playing game built around roguelike progression and permadeath. Players fight brutal, strategic katana duels and combine techniques from seven...

Magicite

Arcade, Role-playing game, Online, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2014

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 83/100

Magicite is an action role-playing platformer with procedurally generated levels. The player, together with his friends, will have to explore the dungeons. The game...

Starward Rogue

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Role-playing game, Dungeons, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 22 January 2016

Steam: 89/100

Starward Rogue is a futuristic top-down arcade game. The player will take on the role of a space marine who must rescue his colleague Rodney from a huge alien ship...

DragoDino

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 June 2017

Steam: 76/100

DragoDino is a side-scrolling arcade platformer with procedurally generated levels. You need to help the little dragon get to the top of the giant...

Evertried

Strategy, Tactics, Roguelike, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Board / Group Game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2021

Steam: 71/100

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...

Tower Survivors

Free game, Indie, Fantasy, Top-down view, Action, Roguelike, Casual game, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Arcade

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2023

Steam: 67/100

Free clone of the popular Vampire Survivors. The evil Necromancer has escaped from the tower and flooded the kingdom with his minions, who are chasing the main...

Nora and Frank

Top-down view, Roguelike, Action, Comedy, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 1 August 2025

Steam: 87/100

A post-apocalyptic game in which goblin engineer Nora and her friend Frank, a suitcase mimic, fight their way through hordes of enemies. The girl wants to save her...

Rogue's Tale

Roguelike, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2014

Steam: 74/100

This turn-based dungeon crawler is set in Frostmourn Keep and the dungeons beneath it, in the World's End Mountains. The goal is to overthrow the current king and...

Eldritch

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2013

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A first-person fantasy horror game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and the works of H. P. Lovecraft. The player explores strange worlds, uncovers ancient...

Enchanted Cave 2

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Roguelike, Indie, Dungeons

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2015

Steam: 90/100

Enchanted Cave 2 is a top-down action RPG in the roguelike genre. You'll delve into a strange cave with a seemingly endless supply of treasure, strategically...

Woodpunk

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

Game released: Linux → 22 November 2018

Steam: 68/100

Woodpunk is a dynamic action game with roguelike elements and a top-down view in a medieval setting. You will play the role of a skilled inventor who accidentally...

Sunset World Online

Online, Role-playing game, MMO, Platformer, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Roguelike, Side view, Tactics

Early Access: Linux → 2 March 2022

Steam: 64/100

Sunset World Online is a side-scrolling adventure online role-playing game with platforming elements. You can gather your group and go on an adventure to the edge...

Luminyte

Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Slasher, Top-down view, Arcade, Fantasy, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2021

Steam: 85/100

Luminyte is a top-down arcade action-adventure game in the fantasy genre with roguelike elements. Complete darkness surrounds you. Only the old lantern you found...

Tears of Vanfell — Chapter 1

Dungeons, Adventure, Slasher, Top-down view, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 14 September 2024

Players: 10/10

A co-op game for up to four people where you explore procedurally generated locations and fight monsters. During the adventure, you can gain powerful abilities...

Lords of Ravage: Dread Knights

Role-playing game, Tactics, Roguelike, Turn-based, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Gothic

Game released: Linux → 11 January 2025

Steam: 91/100

Prologue to Lords of Ravage, in which you can learn about the events preceding the original game. The main character is one of the Lords of Ruin in the service of...

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Best Games in the Roguelike genre for Linux