Space for Linux — top best games in the Space genre / Page 2

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Music game, Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2013

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Beat Hazard is a musical arcade shooter with a top-down view and elements of a rhythm game. In the game, you will control a spaceship to upbeat music. Each track in...

Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares

Strategy, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Space

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares is a turn-based strategy game. Includes some game mechanics from Master of Magic, as well as new gameplay features. Three new...

GoD Factory: Wingmen

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 29 August 2014

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 76/100

GoD Factory: Wingmen is a team-based multiplayer space action game from Nine Dots Studio. Two teams of 4 people each will have to fight each other in various space...

Habitat: A Thousand Generations in Orbit

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2016

Steam: 32/100

This physics-based space strategy game with action elements follows an effort to save humanity after Earth becomes uninhabitable. The player leads a team of...

Drox Operative

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 16 April 2014

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 74/100

A space action RPG in which a captain from the Drox Operative guild works among rival alien races. Long after the Drox vanished, their guild still takes contracts...

Star Ruler 2

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Space, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 27 March 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

A space-based 4X real-time strategy game about expanding an empire and competing for galactic dominance. The player explores star systems, colonizes planets, and...

Stellaris: Infernals

Strategy, Simulation, Sandbox, Science fiction, Space, Grand strategy

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2025

Steam: 41/100

Players can explore burning worlds — a new type of planet with its own districts, events, and archaeological sites. The developers have also added two origins...

Interplanetary

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Space, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2015

Steam: 85/100

Interplanetary is an exciting strategy game with turn-based combat in a sci-fi setting. You will become a participant in interplanetary battles, where space...

X Rebirth: The Teladi Outpost

Simulation, DLC, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Action, Space

Game released: Linux → 11 December 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 76/100

An expansion for X Rebirth, adding a new star system with two sectors and numerous missions. One sector contains a massive Teladi space station with factories and...

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...

Blight's Grasp

Space, Third-person view, Action, Adventure, Science fiction, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2025

Steam: 89/100

The main character explores an alien planet to find his lost sister and a cure to save this world. You'll have to look for energy cores to repair broken portals...

Space Run

Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Space

Game released: Linux → 13 June 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Space Run is an exciting tower defense strategy game set in a sci-fi setting. You have to try on the role of a space courier and transport various cargo from one...

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...

Salvagers

Role-playing game, Educational game (Education), Top-down view, Roguelike, Science fiction, Space, Action, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

The player leads a small team of explorers who land on abandoned space stations. You need to collect equipment, lost weapons, forgotten treasures - everything you...

The Abandoned Planet

Puzzle, Science fiction, Hidden Objects, Space, Adventure, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 29 August 2024

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

An atmospheric adventure game that immerses the player in the world of a mysterious and forgotten planet. As the player explores abandoned ruins and wild...

Star Shift Rebellion

Top-down view, Tactics, Science fiction, Exploration, Space, Japanese role-playing game, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 9 February 2024

Steam: 93/100

The game takes place in a mining colony on the Outer Rim that is under occupation. With the help of a hacked android, the rebels are trying to gain freedom. There...

VoidExpanse

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Open world

Game released: Linux → 2 April 2015

Steam: 68/100

An open-world, top-down science-fiction action RPG about a spaceship pilot exploring the far reaches of space. The player mines asteroids, trades, completes story...

Grocket

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Old school, Space

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2022

Steam: 89/100

A free top-down arcade puzzle game where the player controls a rocket and travels through dangerous space locations, overcoming obstacles, magnetic zones...

Lost Orbit

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This space arcade action game follows Harrison, a maintenance worker and astronaut stranded in deep space after his ship is destroyed, as he tries to make his way...

Bik: A Space Adventure

Adventure, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2014

Steam: 94/100

Bik: A Space Adventure is a side-scrolling indie pixel adventure. Your hero is a boy who went on a hike with friends, but at one of the rest stops he is abducted by...

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...

Pixel Starships

Role-playing game, Online, Strategy, MMO, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Free game, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Space

Game released: Linux → 23 May 2023

Players: 9/10

Steam: 73/100

A pixel space strategy with elements of management. In the game, you can design your own starship, select a crew, upgrade systems and go exploring the galaxy...

Deep Space Survivor

Shooter, Space, Top-down view, Roguelike, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 20 June 2022; Game released: Linux → 5 August 2024

Steam: 100/100

A top-down space shooter where everything is tied to survival among waves of enemy ships. Controls are minimalistic: just the WASD or arrow keys to move the ship...

Master of Orion (2016)

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Space

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2016

Players: 8/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Master of Orion (2016) — restart of the popular space strategy with turn-based battles. The new game inherited the main philosophy of the original: explore...

Into the Void (2015)

Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Business / Management, Adventure, Tactics, Turn-based, Space

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2015

Steam: 45/100

Into the Void (2015) is a fantastic turn-based strategy game with an isometric view and RPG elements. You will be able to completely command your faction. Create...

Helium Rain

Free game, Space, Simulation, Strategy, Indie, Exploration, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2018

Steam: 79/100

A free space simulator in which the player manages his own company. During the passage, you can trade resources, buy ships and entire stations. In addition, the...

Retrobooster

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2014

Steam: 100/100

Retrobooster is a 2.5D arcade shooter about piloting a nimble ship through strange worlds filled with enemies and hazards. Its flight controls use thrust and...

XenoRaptor

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2014

Steam: 81/100

This top-down space shooter follows a cyberdragon battling an armada of space skeletons. The player salvages parts from defeated enemies to build weapons and equips...

Cycle 28

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

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2018

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Cycle 28 is a top-down arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. You will get into the role of Lieutenant Olivia Bergen, who, due to an unusual coincidence, is separated...

CyberHive

Futurism (Future), Simulation, Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Adventure, Indie, Anime / Manga, Survival, Space, Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2020

Steam: 77/100

CyberHive is a real-time role-playing strategy with elements of science fiction and anime. You are the commander of the Melistara (Star Bee), and you have a swarm...

Unnamed Space Idle

Free game, Science fiction, Casual game, Space, Clicker, Simulation

Early Access: Linux → 28 July 2023

Steam: 92/100

The game takes place in the distant future, where alien invaders are trying to completely destroy humanity. The player controls a space fighter and fights enemies...

Reassembly

Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Construction, Space, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2015

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 94/100

A space sandbox with action and strategy elements, Reassembly has players designing ships and exploring a procedurally generated universe. Resources are used to...

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...

Low Oxygen

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

Game released: Linux → 16 March 2023

Steam: 89/100

The game is about an astronaut who crash lands on an alien planet while trying to find a way to get to Earth again. He must navigate through 50 rooms filled with...

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander

Role-playing game, Strategy, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Turn-based, Exploration, Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a management strategy with role-playing elements in a sci-fi setting. You have to take command of an old powerful base that was...

Meeple Station

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Space

Early Access: Linux → 17 January 2019; Game released: Linux → 10 April 2020

Steam: 57/100

Meeple Station is an isometric management simulator set in a sci-fi setting, inspired by the game RimWorld. You will need to build your own space station and...

Astral Shipwright

Free game, Space, Simulation, Science fiction, Futurism (Future), Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 11 November 2022

Steam: 62/100

A free space simulator about building ships for intergalactic travel. Players take on the role of the captain of a small tugboat who invests in increasingly...

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack

Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Collection, Futurism (Future), Online, Space

Game released: Linux → март 2001

Steam: 90/100

This futuristic strategy centers on humanity's colonization of space and the struggle among seven factions on a single planet. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Planetary...

Kinetic Void

Simulation, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2013

Steam: 17/100

Kinetic Void is a space simulation game with action elements, focused on exploring a procedurally generated galaxy. There is no main storyline: the player chooses...

X³: Reunion (Collector's Edition)

Simulation, Action, Flight Simulator, Business / Management, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Space, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 1 July 2013

Steam: 73/100

X³: Reunion (Collector's Edition) is a first-person simulator with elements of action, flight simulator and business simulator from the masters from the...

Space

Best Games in the Space genre for Linux