Shooter 2016 for Linux — top best games in the Shooter genre

Rise of the Tomb Raider - a game in the Shooter genre

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 9 February 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Rise of the Tomb Raider is an action-adventure game with a third-person view that follows the new adventures of Lara Croft. The game takes place in Russia, in a...

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a continuation of the futuristic role-playing game with a first-person view, stealth elements and cyberpunk style. The year 2027 was a...

Dead Island

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Open world, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Dead Island is an action role-playing game with elements of horror, shooter and first-person view. The heroes of the Game are tourists who had to deal with the...

Enter the Gungeon

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Beat them all, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Enter the Gungeon is a top-down arcade shooter from the developers at Dodge Roll. The roguelike takes place in the ever-changing fortress of Gungeon, which is a...

Hitman

Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 11 March 2016

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Hitman is an episodic stealth action game with a third-person view, which is a continuation of the popular series of games about Agent 47. The game tells the story...

SUPERHOT

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

SUPERHOT is a first-person shooter-puzzle game from the Polish studio SUPERHOT Team. The main feature of the game mechanics is the passage of time — only...

Shadows of Kurgansk

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Survival, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 65/100

Shadows of Kurgansk is an action shooter with a first-person view and horror elements in a post-apocalyptic world. You have to survive in a Zone where zombies live...

Dead Island: Riptide

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 60/100

A first-person action game about surviving a zombie apocalypse, continuing the story of Dead Island. After escaping Banoi, the heroes find themselves aboard a...

Sven Co-op

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Free game

Game released: Linux → 22 January 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Cooperative action game set in the Half-Life universe, where teamwork plays a key role. Players unite to face computer-controlled enemies, solve puzzles, and...

Bug Butcher

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

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2016

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Bug Butcher is a futuristic side-scrolling arcade action platformer. Over the course of more than 50 levels, you will have to face countless hordes of aliens alone...

Devil Daggers

Arcade, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 18 February 2016

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Devil Daggers is an arcade shooter in the spirit of the 90s with a first-person view. Battles take place in vast arenas where endless hordes of monsters are...

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - System Rift

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Stealth, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 23 September 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided — System Rift is an addition to the futuristic action role-playing game with stealth elements Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The story...

Syndrome

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Survival horror, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 56/100

Syndrome is a classic action-horror game with a first-person view. The main character wakes up from cryosleep on a spaceship, but cannot find his crew members...

Butcher

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 5 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Butcher is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer set in a futuristic setting. The game is based on the best shooters from the 90s. You have to get used to the...

Hybrid Wars

Action, Shooter, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2016

Steam: 67/100

Hybrid Wars is a sci-fi action game with an isometric camera view. The events take place in 2060, in which massive wars of war machines take place. You will play as...

Excubitor

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2016

Steam: 40/100

Excubitor is an arcade game with action, shooter and strategy elements from the Tesseract Interactive studio. The game is published by Kasedo Games. Overall, the...

Heroes of Loot 2

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher, Dungeons, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2016

Players: 1.1/10

Steam: 80/100

Heroes of Loot 2 is a top-down action role-playing game in a fantasy setting. The second part has retained all the characteristic qualities of the backstory and is...

NeuroVoider

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

Game released: Linux → 31 August 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 85/100

NeuroVoider is a top-down cooperative arcade shooter with procedurally generated levels. Players will take on the role of preserved human brains, whose task is to...

King Oddball

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This arcade puzzle game follows a king who swings a boulder with his tongue and uses it to destroy targets. The player chooses when to release the rock, with...

Kick Ass Commandos

Arcade, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Shooter, Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 18 November 2016

Steam: 91/100

Kick Ass Commandos is a furious top-down retro shooter. The main character's task is very simple: destroy everything in his path, simultaneously rescuing captured...

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...

Rive

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Beat them all, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

RIVE is a futuristic shooter-platformer about space scavenger Roughshot, who becomes trapped aboard a mysterious starship and has to form an unexpected alliance...

X Rebirth: Home of Light

Simulation, Action, Shooter, DLC, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Space

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2016

Players: 6/10

Steam: 90/100

X Rebirth: Home of Light is a large-scale add-on for the space action simulator. It adds three new star systems, missions, technologies, an updated trading system...

Rogue Stormers

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This arcade platform shooter blends run-and-gun action with roguelike and RPG elements in the medieval city of Ravensdale, where a mysterious substance has turned...

Lovely Planet Arcade

Arcade, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2016

Steam: 79/100

Lovely Planet Arcade is a colorful arcade shooter with a first-person view, which is a continuation of Lovely Planet. Players will have to shoot at simple enemies...

GoNNER

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view, Indie, Platformer, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 56/100

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...

Switch 'N' Shoot

Action, Shooter, Indie, Futurism (Future), Top-down view, Arcade, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 18 October 2016

Steam: 96/100

Switch 'N' Shoot is a vertical shoot 'em up shooter about once again saving the Earth from an alien threat. You are the pilot of a future space fighter with only...

Transmissions: Element 120

Free game, Action, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2016

Steam: 94/100

This short single-player shooter is set in the Half-Life universe and places its protagonist in an unexplained location at an unknown time. The player wields a...

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...

Blacksea Odyssey

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 77/100

Blacksea Odyssey — a two-dimensional indie shooter with a top-down view, where you have to hunt giant space monsters. The player will try on the role of a...

Super Destronaut

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Arcade, Space

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2016

Steam: 85/100

Super Destronaut is a retro space action game with pixel graphics in the spirit of arcade machines. The player controls a spaceship and fights against invaders. For...

Stellar Interface

Shooter, Indie, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Top-down view, Side view, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 21 November 2016

Steam: 78/100

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...

Bit Blaster XL

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Action

Game released: Linux → 22 January 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Bit Blaster XL is a dynamic arcade shooter with a top-down view set in a sci-fi environment. You will take control of a small spaceship that needs to withstand...

Chasing Dead

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Tanks, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2016

Steam: 61/100

Chasing Dead is a first-person sci-fi action game with horror elements and the ability to control futuristic technology. The game begins with a strange phenomenon...

IS Defense

Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 19 April 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

IS Defense is a first-person shooter from the developers of the game Hatred. The events of the game take players to 2020, where the terrorist organization "Islamic...

Demon's Crystals

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2016

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Demon's Crystals is an arcade shooter with an isometric camera view. You have to guide Urican demons through dangerous locations, destroying other monsters and...

Bot Vice

Shooter, Isometric, Adventure, Arcade, Cyberpunk, Anime / Manga, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2016

Steam: 93/100

Bot Vice is an adventure arcade shooter in the cyberpunk genre with an isometric view. In this game you have to demonstrate your skills and reactions. You can take...

Gunscape

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Gunscape is a first-person shooter built around a level editor that uses a block-placement interface. Players can create single-player campaigns, co-op maps and...

Tumbleweed Express

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Indie, Steampunk, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 89/100

This arcade action game with strategy and route-defense elements is set in the American West of 1885, where entrepreneur Dirigibaus has monopolized trade with a...

Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble

Indie, Action, Top-down view, Adventure, Role-playing game, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2016

Players: 4.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble is an exciting retro adventure with role-playing elements and a top-down view. The game tells the story of Princess Remedy...

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Best Games in the Shooter genre of 2016 for Linux (Game released)