Science fiction 2016 for Linux — top best games in the Science fiction genre

Soul Axiom - a game in the Science fiction genre

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 29 February 2016

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 51/100

This first-person science-fiction adventure unfolds in Elysia, a digital world where memories and dreams become reality. After a soul is uploaded, the protagonist...

Space Food Truck

Card game, Turn-based, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2016

Steam: 71/100

This cooperative sci-fi card game follows the crew of a space food truck as they explore a procedurally generated galaxy in search of unusual ingredients. Players...

ChromaGun

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 16 February 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 72/100

ChromaGun is an action-adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. You will become the world's first tester of a modern gun and go through specially created...

Polynomial 2 - Universe of the Music

Indie, Action, Science fiction

Early Access: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 79/100

This space shooter and music visualizer unfolds among stars and glowing fractal nebulae. The player fights invaders with rockets and lasers, while fractal flowers...

Breached

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2016

Steam: 47/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Breached is a first-person sci-fi adventure with management elements. You take on the role of Kor Valoth, a time traveler trying to survive in the desert of the...

Planet Stronghold: Colonial Defense

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Card game, Visual novel, Science fiction, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2016

Steam: 74/100

Planet Stronghold: Colonial Defense is a sci-fi card game with visual novel elements. The events of the game will take place in the early times of the human colony...

MechRunner

Action, Third-person view, Combat robots, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2016

Players: 1/10

Steam: 50/100

An endless action game about piloting a combat mech against the robotic forces of the secret organization O.S.O. After Soviet intelligence discovers an alien...

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...

Duskers

Exploration, Space, Roguelike, Tactics, Top-down view, Science fiction, Horror

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2016

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 83/100

The player controls a drone and explores abandoned spaceships to find means of survival and learn how the universe turned into a giant graveyard. Dangerous...

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...

Goat Simulator: Waste of Space

Arcade, Action, DLC, Third-person view, Science fiction, Simulation, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 87/100

Goat Simulator: Waste of Space is an addition to the fantastic arcade sandbox with a third-person view, Goat Simulator. The addition will send our goat to conquer...

StarDrive 2: Sector Zero

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Turn-based, Science fiction, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 75/100

StarDrive 2: Sector Zero is an add-on to the sci-fi strategy with turn-based battles in space StarDrive 2. It introduces large-scale changes to the structure of the...

Duke of Alpha Centauri

Arcade, Indie, Shooter, Science fiction, Side view, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 29 December 2016

Steam: 76/100

Duke of Alpha Centauri is a fantastic arcade side-scrolling indie shooter. The main goal of our game is to have fun blasting hordes of different types of enemies...

The Away Team: Lost Exodus

Top-down view, Simulation, Text quest, Adventure, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2016

Steam: 73/100

The scientific and fantastic adventure of the AI-Pilot of the last inter-star ship of the Earth, which is instructed to find a house for his team-the last remnants...

We Are the Dwarves

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Indie, Adventure, Action, Stealth, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2016

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 60/100

We Are the Dwarves is a fantasy real-time tactical strategy game. In the company of three dwarf astronauts, players will have to go after the new Sun — a...

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Best Games in the Science fiction genre of 2016 for Linux