Side view for Linux — top best games in the Side view genre / Page 3

Out There - a game in the Side view genre

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...

The Dark Queen of Mortholme

Action, Adventure, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Casual game, Gothic

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

The player takes on the role of the Dark Queen of Mortholme, the final boss of the game, and fights a tenacious hero who tries to defeat the enemy time after time...

Comix Zone

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Post-apocalyptic, Comics, Side view

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2010

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Comix Zone is an arcade action game with fighting game elements and a side view in the style of comics. Sketch Turner is an artist based in New York. One day...

Shovel Knight: King of Cards

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

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2019

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Shovel Knight: King of Cards is the final standalone campaign for the side-scrolling arcade action platformer Shovel Knight. You have to get used to the role of the...

Vigil: The Longest Night

Arcade, Side view, Action, Role-playing game, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 14 October 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Vigil: The Longest Night is a 2D platformer with RPG elements and a side view, inspired by the Castlevania and Salt and Sanctuary series. You have to go together...

Gravity Circuit

Action, Platformer, Combat robots, Beat them all, Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 July 2023

Steam: 95/100

The game takes place in a future world where intelligent robots face an old enemy — the Virus Army. Many years ago the villains were defeated, but now they...

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 22 August 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is an expanded version of a dynamic arcade fighting game with a side view in an anime style. The game features many interesting female...

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap

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

Game released: Linux → 8 June 2017

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap is a side-scrolling remake of the legendary arcade action platformer. The game tells the story of a valiant knight who was turned into...

Kingdom Eighties

Strategy, Side view, Construction, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Exploration, City Building

Game released: Linux → 26 June 2023

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A new part of the Kingdom microstrategy series. The main character is trying to protect his family and the city from attacks by mysterious monsters. Neighboring...

My Night Job

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Survival horror, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2016

Steam: 82/100

My Night Job is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. Players have to go to an abandoned building where nightmarish monsters are rampant. And over 60 types of...

Mooseman

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

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2017

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Mooseman is a side-scrolling arcade platformer set in a fantasy setting. Long ago, the world was created from the shell of a duck egg by a god named Yen. In the dim...

Cyber Shadow

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Anime / Manga, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2021

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Cyber Shadow is a dynamic side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The world has been taken over by synthetic life forms. A desperate cry for help...

Axiom Verge 2

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

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2022

Players: 9/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Axiom Verge 2 is a continuation of the side-scrolling pixel action platformer in a sci-fi setting. In the sequel you will find new characters, skills and game...

Super Bunny Man

Online, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Comedy, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2023

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 89/100

Chaotic puzzle platformer with co-op for up to four people. The game tells the story of funny guys in bunny costumes who go on a difficult journey through time and...

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...

Pikuniku

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 24 January 2019

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Pikuniku is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle adventure game. You have to go to a mysterious game world where you need to uncover a conspiracy and restore the...

Blue Wednesday

Side view, Visual novel, Music game, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 28 August 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

A game about a boy named Morris. The main character plays the piano and walks around the city, where he communicates with various characters. There are many...

Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kitten

Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Dungeons, Fantasy, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Slasher, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2024

Steam: 79/100

Hardcore indie platformer with roguelike elements and dungeons. The player takes on the role of a brave hero who, at the command of the eccentric Lady Tallowmere...

Feudal Alloy

Role-playing game, Arcade, Action, Side view, Medieval era, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 17 January 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Feudal Alloy is a fun side-scrolling action RPG in which the main character is an aquarium fish dressed in medieval armor. Bandits attacked the protagonist’s home...

Awesomenauts

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Free game, Side view, MOBA

Game released: Linux → 29 May 2013

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Awesomenauts is a free-to-play 2D side-scrolling MOBA action game. The events of the game will take you to the distant year 3587, in which there is a great...

Ultimate Chicken Horse

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

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in the style of Super Meat Boy. You have to create levels with a huge number of traps and other...

Trial by Viking

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

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2016

Steam: 75/100

Trial by Viking is a side-scrolling action role-playing platformer in a fantasy setting. As a brave Viking, you have to conquer many dangerous dungeons, fraught...

Beat Cop

Adventure, Indie, Side view, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 30 March 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Beat Cop is a side-scrolling adventure detective game with pixel graphics. The game takes place in New York in the 80s. Former detective Jack Kelly was framed for...

Whispering Willows

Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural, Horror

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Whispering Willows is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a mysterious mansion. The plot centers on Elena Elkhorn. She goes to the estate in search...

39 Days to Mars

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2018

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 71/100

39 Days to Mars is a side-scrolling co-op steampunk puzzle adventure. The game will tell the story of Sir Albert Weeks and his pilot Clarence Baxter, who decided to...

VVVVVV

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 26 July 2011

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 85/100

VVVVVV is an arcade indie platformer with a side view. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension explorers who have crashed and lost contact with each...

Catmaze

Metroidvania, Platformer, Action, Adventure, Role-playing game, Exploration, Fantasy, Anime / Manga, Side view

Game released: Linux → 25 May 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 83/100

Catmaze is an action adventure game in the Metroidvania genre with elements of anime and fantasy. Cats have always been the link between the worlds of Yav and Navi...

Zombie Night Terror

Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Zombies, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 July 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Zombie Night Terror is a side-view management strategy set in the world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to control a squad of zombies, whose goal is to infect...

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a side-scrolling action platformer. You have to go explore the dark lands where the curse has fallen. Evil is penetrating...

Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story

Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Side view, Survival horror

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2020

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story is a side-view horror adventure in cyberpunk style. The game takes place in 2083 in Neo-Hong Kong. The main character is a young girl...

9 Monkeys of Shaolin

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Historical, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

9 Monkeys of Shaolin is a side-scrolling co-op arcade action game from the creators of Redeemer. Expect thrilling gameplay based on the techniques of the ancient...

Apotheon

Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 3 February 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Apotheon — A fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer. The main character Nikandreos will have to climb Mount Olympus to gain the power of the gods. Only...

Seasons after Fall

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Side view, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Seasons after Fall is a side-view arcade adventure in a fantasy setting. The main character is a wild fox who fell under the control of the spirit of the forest. He...

Upward

Platformer, Indie, Free game, Side view, Casual game, Procedural generation, Parkour

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2026

Steam: 100/100

A free platformer with procedural level generation, where the main goal is to survive as long as possible. Each new run offers a unique combination of locations...

Wonder Boy in Monster World

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania, Side view, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 2 May 2012

Steam: 100/100

Monsters have overrun a fantasy land, leaving its citizens afraid for their lives as they wait for a hero to restore peace. Wonder Boy in Monster World is an action...

Lethal League

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Baseball, Sports game, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Lethal League is a side-scrolling arcade sports game that can be played cooperatively by up to four people. You will go to fight in various arenas, where the main...

Dog Sled Saga

Simulation, Racing, Business / Management, Side view, Indie, Sports game

Game released: Linux → 22 September 2016

Steam: 94/100

Dog Sled Saga is a pixelated sled racing game with management simulator elements and a side view. You have to harness horse-drawn dogs to a sleigh and participate...

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed is a hardcore side-scrolling action slasher expansion inspired by the Dark Souls series. Two new locations await you, in which there will...

Chronicle of Innsmouth: Mountains of Madness

Adventure, Horror, Point & Click, Side view, Old school, Detective

Game released: Linux → 23 March 2021

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A detective adventure in the spirit of Lovecraftian horror, inspired by the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The story unfolds around private detective Lown...

Worms Reloaded

Strategy, Turn-based, Side view, Online

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2010

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Worms Reloaded is the legendary return of the fast-paced side-scrolling team strategy game. The game offers multiplayer play for up to four people and with a...

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