Roguelike 2015 for Linux — top best games in the Roguelike genre

Caves of Qud - a game in the Roguelike genre

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Procedural generation, Open world

Early Access: Linux → 15 July 2015; Game released: Linux → 5 December 2024

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 91/100

A turn-based RPG from the minds of Sproggiwood. The game world is generated anew each time, offering unique adventures with each visit. The environment can be...

Crypt of the NecroDancer

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

Game released: Linux → 23 April 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

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

Game released: Linux → 30 October 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 91/100

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...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

First-person view, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Logic, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 8 October 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 98/100

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...

Nuclear Throne

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Nuclear Throne is a dynamic arcade action game with roguelike elements and a top-down view. Having chosen one of 12 unique characters and armed with an arsenal of...

Barony

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

Game released: Linux → 23 June 2015

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 90/100

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...

Out There

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

Game released: Linux → 2 April 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 75/100

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...

Templar Battleforce

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Turn-based, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where the Templar Knights wage war in Leviathan battle mechs. Their squad faces Xenos, rogue...

Steredenn

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Arcade, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 1 October 2015

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Steredenn is a side-scrolling sci-fi shooter. You have to destroy enemies using a large arsenal of weapons, accompanied by beautiful heavy music. And of course...

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...

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...

Paper Dungeons

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

Game released: Linux → 26 March 2015

Steam: 48/100

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...

Siralim

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Free game, Roguelike, Procedural generation, Dungeons

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2015

Steam: 83/100

Siralim is an indie action role-playing game in the bagel genre. In this game you have to fight your way through randomly generated dungeons and complete randomized...

Bard's Gold

Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Action

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2015

Steam: 82/100

A platforming roguelite with action elements, Bard's Gold follows a bard as he journeys through eerie worlds in search of the goblin who stole his gold. The player...

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...

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...

Dungeon Crawlers

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2015

Steam: 50/100

This turn-based strategy game brings a comedic ghost-hunting concept to a dungeon setting. Its gameplay centers on tactical, turn-based encounters, with a...

Eternal Step

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

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2015

Steam: 60/100

Eternal Step is an action role-playing game with a top-down procedurally generated world in a fantasy setting. The main character will have to climb the highest...

Cardinal Quest 2

Role-playing game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 23 November 2015

Steam: 91/100

Cardinal Quest 2 is a turn-based roguelike set in a world threatened by a mysterious force. After a Minotaur devastates the forests and a Dragon returns to the...

Sublevel Zero

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 8 October 2015

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Sublevel Zero is a procedurally generated space shooter with a first-person view. Players will have to explore locations on a spaceship and destroy crowds of...

Waves 2: Notorious

Roguelike, Shooter, Top-down view, Cyberpunk, Procedural generation, Arcade

Early Access: Linux → 16 December 2015

Steam: 92/100

Waves 2: Notorious — top-down shooter with roguelike elements. You play as the “Runner,” plunging into cyberspace to engage in virtual combat within corporate...

Starship Rubicon

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 July 2015

Steam: 94/100

This arcade space shooter with roguelike elements follows a pilot tasked with saving humanity’s survivors after Earth is destroyed and finding them a new home. A...

Pixel Dungeon

Roguelike, Role-playing game, Dungeons

Game released: Linux → 29 May 2015

Steam: 88/100

This pixel-art roguelike sends a hero into the depths of a dungeon in search of the Amulet of Yendor, a powerful artifact in its world. The dungeon has 25 randomly...

Abomination Tower

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

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2015

Steam: 77/100

Abomination Tower is an arcade indie platformer with a side view and generated levels. You have to control a headless hero who wants to escape beyond the level. To...

Vulture for NetHack

Role-playing game, Roguelike, Procedural generation

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...

Catacomb Kids

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 20 February 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Catacomb Kids is a procedurally generated platform roguelike about children venturing into the Catacombs in search of wealth, knowledge, power, or escape. The...

Illuminascii

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

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2015

Steam: 53/100

This first-person shooter with ASCII visuals and roguelike and RPG elements follows a conspiracy by the ILLUMINASCII organisation to establish a New World Order...

Voyage to Farland

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

Game released: Linux → 27 June 2013

Steam: 91/100

A turn-based roguelike about a wanderer searching for a missing sister in the forested Iya Gorge. The region is filled with dangerous creatures and mysteries, and...

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Best Games in the Roguelike genre of 2015 for Linux