Side view for Linux — top best games in the Side view genre / Page 5

Don't Byte Your Tongue - a game in the Side view genre

Side view, Platformer, Puzzle, Arcade, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2023

Steam: 100/100

The main character jumps on platforms, trying to get as high as possible. Each jump must be made as if life depends on it, since one mistake can return the...

Pocket Bravery

Arcade, Fighting, Online, Side view

Game released: Linux → 31 August 2023

Steam: 89/100

A colorful fighting game inspired by classic games of the nineties. The events of the game unfold around Nuno and his comrades who are trying to investigate the...

Banana

Side view, Clicker, Free game, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 23 April 2024

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 78/100

A minimalistic and casual game in which the gamer clicks on a banana. The task is to call as many as possible. Every three and eighteen hours a random banana may...

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...

Toki Tori 2

In real time, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Metroidvania, Open world, Side view

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2013

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This open-world puzzle adventure follows Toki Tori, a young chicken tasked with saving a forest island from a floating crystal and strange pollution. Along the way...

GunSlugs 2

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Arcade, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2015

Steam: 56/100

A side-scrolling arcade platformer about the elite Gunslugs squad fighting the Black Duck Army, which has returned with alien technology and is taking its war to...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge - Dimension Shellshock

DLC, Side view, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Comics, Beat them all, Arcade, Online, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 August 2023

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 87/100

The Neutrino alien race from Dimension X needs help again: Shredder is planning to take over the entire multiverse by moving between dimensions. The add-on...

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...

Alwa's Awakening

Adventure, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2017

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Alwa's Awakening is a classic side-scrolling adventure platformer. The main character Zoya really loves video games. And one day, when she sat at the monitor and...

Penarium

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

Game released: Linux → 22 September 2015

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This 2D arena platforming game is set in a sinister circus where contestants must entertain a cruel crowd. Willy tries to survive the show by running, jumping and...

Way of the Passive Fist

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Futurism (Future), Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 March 2018

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Way of the Passive Fist is a side-scrolling 2D arcade fighting game. As a mysterious traveler, you will go on a dangerous adventure around the world in search of...

Saga Of Sins

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

Game released: Linux → 30 March 2023

Steam: 76/100

The game takes place in a dark fantasy world with demons, monsters and dark magic. There are several characters available that you can switch between during battle...

World of Goo 2

Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Adventure, Construction

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2025

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The continuation of the colorful puzzle World of Goo. The player connects colorful balls, building various structures out of them to reach the end of the level...

Chicken Assassin: Reloaded

Clicker, Action, Side view, Casual game, Comedy, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 28 June 2016

Steam: 94/100

A humorous clicker about fighting cock Min McCallister, who went on a journey to save his kidnapped girlfriend Candy. The game features 11 missions, an endless mode...

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...

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today

Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 April 2015

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today is an atmospheric “point and click” adventure with a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. A terrible epidemic turns...

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...

Iconoclasts

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

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2018

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Iconoclasts is a side-scrolling arcade action-platformer adventure game. You have to get used to the role of the brave girl Robin, who is engaged in the destruction...

My Brother Rabbit

Adventure, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2018

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 78/100

My Brother Rabbit is a colorful adventure with lots of puzzles and a side view in a fantasy setting. After parents find out that their daughter is seriously ill...

Book of Travels

Role-playing game, MMO, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2021

Steam: 72/100

Book of Travels is a unique side-scrolling multiplayer RPG. Inspired by classics of the genre, this serene adventure will transport you to a fairytale world. In the...

Lost Ruins

Arcade, Side view, Anime / Manga, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Slasher, Adventure, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 13 May 2021

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Lost Ruins is a hardcore side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with a retro theme. The girl wakes up in the twilight of the dungeon. She doesn't remember...

Aeon Drive

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Cyberpunk, Side view, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2021

Steam: 75/100

Aeon Drive is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in a sci-fi setting. The action takes you to the neon-lit streets of Neo-Barcelona. You will try on the role of...

Return to Monkey Island

Adventure, Side view, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2022

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Many years have passed since the last battle between Guybrush Threepwood and his nemesis, the zombie pirate LeChuck. Elaine Marley, his only love, is distracted...

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

Arcade, Platformer, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2012

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in which you become an alien bubble and try to destroy all of humanity. The game...

Mighty No. 9

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

Game released: Linux → 21 June 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Mighty No. 9 is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer that is the spiritual successor to the Mega Man series. At the beginning of the 21st century, there was a...

Prehistorik

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Adventure, Side view

Game released: Linux → 17 November 2017

Steam: 90/100

Prehistorik is a platform game about a hunter from the T-Bone Tribe who sets out in search of food. The journey takes the hero across Antarctica’s ice fields...

Bridge Constructor

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

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Bridge Constructor is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. Using the proposed materials, you have to build the strongest bridge that can withstand various types of...

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...

KWAAN

Arcade, Role-playing game, Online, Adventure, Side view

Game released: Linux → 21 January 2016

Players: 10/10

KWAAN is an adventure, online role-playing game in pixel style. The main task of the players is to maintain the Kvaan tree of life. By completing mini-tasks against...

Saviorless

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy, Indie, Slasher

Game released: Linux → 2 April 2024

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A dark action-platformer in which two main characters try to escape the cursed lands known as the Smiling Isles. The main characters realize that they are inside...

Super Chibi Knight

Role-playing game, Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Slasher

Game released: Linux → 24 June 2015

Steam: 87/100

Super Chibi Knight is an action-adventure RPG with platforming elements and a side view. The game takes place in the kingdom of Oukoku, which is threatened by 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...

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...

1993 Space Machine

Cooperative (co-op), Arcade, Side view

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2016

Steam: 74/100

A side-scrolling space shoot ’em up inspired by classic arcade shooters, in which a band of mercenaries seizes a terraforming machine and begins building an army...

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Visual novel, Point & Click, Comedy, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Demetrios — The BIG Cynical Adventure is a fun visual novel with puzzles and a side view. The main character is a slob living in Paris named Björn Thonen. One...

Candle

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

Game released: Linux → 11 November 2016

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Candle is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in a fantasy setting. You have to take on the role of the brave young man Teku, who is trying to save the shaman from...

One Dog Story

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2017

Steam: 71/100

One Dog Story is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with RPG elements. You have to take on the role of a dog (EO-43) from a mysterious underground...

Vagante

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

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Vagante is a side-scrolling action RPG platformer that features permadeath and procedurally generated levels. A dangerous adventure awaits you in a dark fantasy...

Ganbare! Super Strikers

Role-playing game, Football, Sports game, Turn-based, Tactics, Side view, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 26 July 2018

Steam: 85/100

Ganbare! Super Strikers is a unique turn-based sports RPG focused on football. You will find non-standard football matches, where victories will increase the levels...

The Last Train

Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game, Simulation, Side view, Post-apocalyptic, Trains, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2018

Players: 1/10

Steam: 97/100

The Last Train is an indie role-playing simulator with elements of a post-apocalyptic adventure. You play the role of one of the last surviving train drivers in...

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