Side view for Linux — top best games in the Side view genre / Page 10

Odium To the Core - a game in the Side view genre

Game released: Linux → 11 May 2018

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 85/100

Odium To the Core is a dynamic arcade action game with a side view. You will take control of an amazing furry animal, which will have to go through dangerous caves...

Eternum EX

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2018

Steam: 84/100

Eternum EX is a classic side-scrolling action platformer with pixel graphics. Sir Arthur became old, too old. He lost everything he had and loved. With great...

Underhero

Role-playing game, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Turn-based, Adventure, Puzzle, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2018

Steam: 91/100

Underhero is a role-playing puzzle platformer with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of a chosen hero who is...

Bite the Bullet

Action, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Role-playing game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2020

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Bite the Bullet is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with RPG elements. In this game you have to eat opponents in order to upgrade your character...

Bro, where's My head???

Puzzle, Arcade, Side view, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Comics, Casual game, Logic

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2021

Steam: 90/100

Bro, where's my head??? is a humorous puzzle platformer with a side view in a fantasy setting. In the game you have to help a certain Odin from the land of darkness...

Guntech 2

Arcade, Shooter, Side view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Action

Game released: Linux → 16 February 2022

Steam: 100/100

Guntech 2 is a fast-paced side-scrolling arcade shooter with 4-person co-op in a sci-fi setting. The game has 5 different worlds: Training, Virus, Dark Worlds...

Tap Ninja

Side view, Arcade, Roguelike, Action, Adventure, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 17 March 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 78/100

Tap Ninja is an adventure arcade clicker with role-playing elements and a side view in a medieval setting. In the game you have to try on the role of a warlike...

A Building Full of Cats

Logic, Side view, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2022

Steam: 99/100

A cute puzzle in which you need to look for cats in pictures. The player moves through a six-story building, examines the interiors of the rooms and tries to find...

Bearcycle

Free game, Side view, Racing, Motorcycle racing, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op), Stunts, Bicycles

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2023

Steam: 94/100

Free hurricane racing about a bear on a motorcycle. The clubfooted hero sets out to travel through a dense forest, along uneven rails in the suburbs and do...

Hidden Cats: The last of cats

Free game, Side view, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2024

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 97/100

The player travels through a mysterious post-apocalyptic world and tries to find all the hidden cats. There are more than a hundred animals in the hand-drawn...

Residual

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Survival, Exploration, Action

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2021

Steam: 66/100

A lonely explorer makes an emergency landing on a strange planet that holds an ancient secret. The character explores a procedurally generated world, gathers food...

The Pedestrian

Puzzle, Logic, Side view

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2020

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The Pedestrian is a 2.5D puzzle platformer in which a pedestrian icon moves through public signs set within a dynamic 3D world. This textless adventure conveys its...

Snapshot

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 1 October 2013

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Snapshot is a side-scrolling adventure arcade puzzle game. The game will tell the story of a cute robot named Peak, who is collecting mysterious energy scattered...

Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This side-scrolling action platformer with puzzles is set in Albatropolis, a land ruled by a totalitarian penguin regime. Hardboiled Chicken sets out to assassinate...

Cryptark

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

Game released: Linux → 20 June 2017

Steam: 83/100

Space arcade shooter with a side view. The player takes on the role of a futuristic mercenary who earns money from government contracts and attacks space stations...

Exile's End

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

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2015

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Exile's End is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer set in a futuristic setting. The game takes place in the distant future, where the megacorporation...

Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle

Arcade, Puzzle, Side view, Virtual Reality (VR), Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 1 May 2015

Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game that supports HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices. Together with the cute girl...

I Am The Hero

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2017

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 65/100

I Am The Hero is an arcade action game with fighting game elements and a side view. The events of the game will tell the story of a mysterious hero with a glorious...

Vambrace: Cold Soul

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Vambrace: Cold Soul is an adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. The King of Shadows has cursed the great city of Icenair, causing...

How We Got Here

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Arcade, Free game

Game released: Linux → 18 May 2021

Steam: 84/100

How We Got Here is a rather unusual side-view pixel adventure game about the adventures of a robot on a floating island. The main character discovers that in...

Magic Rampage

Action, Free game, Role-playing game, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 24 May 2022

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 94/100

Magic Rampage is a free action platformer with RPG elements and a side view in a fantasy setting. There are several classes to choose from in the game, including...

Templar

Action, Platformer, Side view, Demons, Metroidvania, Slasher

Game released: Linux → 14 January 2025

Steam: 79/100

A prequel to Templar 2, telling the story of the last Templar knight who must save humanity. The world is plunged into chaos caused by the red plague, under the...

Jets'n'Guns Gold

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 January 2009

Steam: 87/100

Jets'n'Guns Gold is an arcade game mixed with action, shooter and flight simulator from the developers from the Rake in Grass studio. The main publisher...

Pixel Piracy

Role-playing game, Arcade, Simulation, Platformer, Indie, Sandbox, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 52/100

BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Runner

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2013

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A side-scrolling rhythm platformer where progress through each level is tied to music and the character’s actions. In Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien...

Hot Tin Roof

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania, Side view, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 20 February 2015

Steam: 70/100

This noir mystery combines platforming, exploration and Metroidvania elements as private investigator Emma Jones investigates a series of grisly murders. Her...

Galacide

Arcade, Shooter, Beat them all, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 28 July 2015

Steam: 82/100

Galacide is a side-scrolling arcade shooter from the developers behind the fighting game Blade Symphony. You have to prevent the invasion of hostile aliens to save...

Death by Game Show

Arcade, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 January 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 50/100

Death by Game Show is an arcade strategy game in the tower defense genre with a side view. The project is steeped in comic book culture and largely follows the...

Fox n Forests

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 May 2018

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Fox n Forests is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with pixel graphics. You will play as a lively representative of nature, the fox cub Fox. In the game...

Fall Part 2: Unbound

Action, Adventure, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2018

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This side-scrolling action adventure continues the story of a dystopian world through the perspective of Arid, an AI infected by an unknown program. After breaking...

Dragon Bros

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2017

Steam: 85/100

This 2D side-scrolling action platformer draws on retro run-and-gun games. A team of young dragons sets out to rescue their kidnapped mother after the robotic...

Axe, Bow & Staff

Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2016

Steam: 63/100

This fantasy pixel-art side-scroller combines runner mechanics with RPG elements and cooperative play. Players control heroes who battle enemies, support their...

Eternal Return (2017)

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2017

Steam: 51/100

Eternal Return is a hardcore side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. In the role of a glorious knight, you have to go to the cursed castle and deal with all its...

De Mambo

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 17 October 2017

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 69/100

De Mambo is an arcade platform action game for one to four players, who battle on destructible arenas. Its controls revolve around a single button: how long it is...

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...

Magibot

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 18 December 2017

Steam: 60/100

Magibot is a side-scrolling arcade adventure puzzle platformer. The adventures of ILO, a small magical robot sent by people to the planet in search of the last hope...

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...

3 Minutes to Midnight

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 22 August 2024

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The game takes place in Mexico, where the peace of people is disturbed by a huge explosion. At this moment, Betty Anderson wakes up and needs to regain her memory...

Himno

Action, Platformer, Free game, Side view, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 26 April 2019

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 89/100

Himno is a free-to-play side-scrolling action platformer that combines parkour mechanics, old-school pixel art, and an endless supply of procedurally generated...

WarriOrb

Arcade, Side view, Platformer, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 76/100

WarriOrb is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. In a Victorian-era fantasy world, a war rages between industrial superpowers. As...

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Best Games in the Side view genre for Linux (Game released)