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

Rem Survival - a game in the Survival genre

Early Access: Linux → 5 March 2021

Steam: 75/100

This open-world post-apocalyptic survival game takes place among abandoned structures, mutated enemies, and radiation zones. Players scavenge resources and scrap...

StarsOne

Survival, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 8 April 2016

Steam: 73/100

StarsOne is a survival action game about searching for missing colonists on a distant planet. After an emergency landing scatters the crew across different regions...

ARK: Scorched Earth

Online, Action, DLC, First-person view, Survival, Adventure, Open world

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 74/100

ARK: Scorched Earth is an addition to the multiplayer action game with a first-person view Ark: Survival Evolved. The addition will give you a completely new...

Egypt: Old Kingdom

Strategy, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Indie, Survival

Game released: Linux → 24 May 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Egypt: Old Kingdom is a fascinating turn-based strategy with an isometric camera view, for the creation of which even scientists from the Russian Academy of...

Buck Up And Drive!

Action, Racing, Arcade, Anime / Manga, Survival, Procedural generation, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 11 January 2022

Steam: 91/100

Buck Up And Drive! — arcade survival race in the anime genre with procedural generation and third-person view. An endless racing game inspired by classic arcade...

UnReal World

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Open world, Survival, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2016

Steam: 93/100

This turn-based role-playing game with survival and roguelike elements is set in the ancient North, in Iron Age Finland. The player chooses one of nine cultures and...

Life in Bunker

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Roguelike, Simulation, Survival

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2016

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 55/100

Life in Bunker is a top-down real-time management strategy game. The game is entirely dedicated to the construction and organization of life in a bunker. As a...

Chernobyl: Origins

Adventure, Survival horror, Exploration, Visual novel, Survival, Horror

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2023

Players: 7/10

Steam: 85/100

The events of the game take place in 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The main character is a scientist from a secret laboratory located in the depths of...

Ruins To Fortress

Online, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting, Free game

Early Access: Linux → 13 December 2024; Game in development: Linux → 2026

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 65/100

A pixel game with multiplayer support in which gamers explore a post-apocalyptic island. You need to collect resources to build shelters and craft equipment. You...

Marble Age: Remastered

Strategy, Simulation, Survival

Game released: Linux → 3 November 2020

Steam: 85/100

This turn-based historical strategy game with survival elements follows the growth of a settlement in Ancient Greece, which can develop into Athens, Corinth, or...

CounterAttack: Uprising

Side view, Online, Survival

Game released: Linux → 12 March 2019

Steam: 90/100

This side-scrolling space shooter follows a rebellion by the Automations, machines created by humanity that now threaten to destroy their makers. The player pilots...

Dead Maze

Action, Horror, MMO, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Survival, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 67/100

Dead Maze is a free-to-play multiplayer action role-playing game with an isometric camera view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. Players must team up to...

Shortest Trip to Earth

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Space, Survival

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2019

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 75/100

Shortest Trip to Earth is a top-down management strategy game set in a sci-fi setting. You have to go on an adventure across the vast expanses of the universe...

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, City Building, Survival, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2025

Steam: 69/100

The player is building a space base. You can arrange different buildings both vertically and horizontally. Each of the five planets has its own characteristics...

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...

Escapists: The Walking Dead

Arcade, Adventure, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies, Survival, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2015

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Escapists: The Walking Dead is a pixel adventure based on the famous zombie universe of The Walking Dead. The events of the game follow the canon of the original...

Near Death

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Survival, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 2 August 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Near Death is an indie action adventure game with a first-person view and horror elements. The events of the game will take you to the cold corridors of a research...

Frost

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Card game, Tactics, Survival

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2016

Steam: 17/100

Frost is a board card strategy game in a fantasy setting, created by famous artist Jerome Bodine. The game is inspired by projects such as Dominion and Ascension...

Smoke and Sacrifice

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Survival

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2018

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Smoke and Sacrifice is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view. You will try on the role of a girl named Sachi, who goes in search of her child. The...

FROM ASHES, BLOOM

Fantasy, Top-down view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Isometric

Game released: Linux → 11 March 2024

Steam: 92/100

A funny minimalistic game in which the gamer protects the Earth from humanity. The location contains the oldest tree, which is being attacked by opponents. There...

Signs of Life

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Sandbox, Survival

Early Access: Linux → 27 January 2014

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 80/100

This science-fiction survival sandbox platformer follows a survivor of a colony ship’s destruction. Escaping in a small pod, the protagonist is left with no...

Guac & Load

Horror, Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Zombies, Survival, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2025; Early Access: Linux → 12 July 2025

Steam: 100/100

The player manages a restaurant where true chaos reigns. You will have to cook dishes in the kitchen, deliver orders to guests, and work at the cash register to...

Out of Reach

Survival, Open world, Online

Game released: Linux → 13 July 2018

Steam: 53/100

This online open-world survival game follows a shipwrecked castaway stranded on an archipelago after a storm. To stay alive, the player gathers food and resources...

Hide & Hold Out - H2o

Survival, MMO, Action

Early Access: Linux → 9 April 2016

Steam: 51/100

Hide & Hold Out - H2o is a multiplayer survival game set in a world where a catastrophe has raised the oceans, leaving survivors to shelter on a reef. Players...

Frozen State

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, Indie, Survival

Game released: Linux → 5 August 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 63/100

This role-playing game with action and horror elements is set in a retro-futuristic world plunged into a man-made ice age. The protagonist becomes stranded in the...

Terraformers

Futurism (Future), Strategy, Simulation, Turn-based, Business / Management, Isometric, Procedural generation, Survival

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Terraformers is a turn-based strategy game with management elements and an isometric view. You have to lead the first human settlement on Mars. Earth sends its...

Heads Will Roll: Downfall

Free game, Adventure, Role-playing game, Adult game, Survival, Turn-based, Strategy, Roguelike, Historical

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2022

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 67/100

Heads Will Roll: Downfall — a free prologue for the turn-based role-playing strategy game with visual novel elements Heads Will Roll: Reforged. The game is set in...

Aleprok

Action, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting, Adventure, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2025

Steam: 85/100

Cooperative game where you need to explore various locations, gather resources, survive, build, and defend your city. There is a variety of weapons that need to be...

Overfall

Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Side view, Exploration, Survival

Game released: Linux → 17 May 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 75/100

Overfall is a side-scrolling turn-based action RPG in a fantasy setting. You have to go on a long and dangerous journey in search of the missing king. Having set...

LifeZ - Survival

Action, Isometric, Simulation, Role-playing game, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2018

Steam: 68/100

LifeZ — Survival is a fun sandbox action game with an isometric camera view in an open world. The game takes place during a zombie apocalypse, where you will...

Fistful of Frags

Action, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Survival

Game released: Linux → 9 May 2014

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 91/100

This multiplayer first-person shooter is set in the Wild West, where fast-paced firefights revolve around slow but powerful weapons. Players can compete in...

Savage Lands

Action, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Survival, Open world, Online

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2021

Steam: 55/100

Savage Lands is an action game with survival elements and a first-person view in a fantasy setting. A huge open world awaits you, where there is only one goal...

Landnama

Strategy, Isometric, Survival, Medieval era, Construction, Puzzle, City Building

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2023

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 74/100

The game takes place in the 9th century, where the gamer controls one of the first Viking settlements in Iceland. There is only one resource available &mdash...

Before

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, MMO, Survival, Open world

Game canceled: Linux → January 2019

Anticipation Rating: 7.5/10

Before is an exciting management strategy set in ancient times, where you have to hunt mammoths and other animals of that era. An entire tribe will be under your...

The Agony

Indie, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 June 2017

Steam: 58/100

The Agony — adventure indie horror with a first-person view. Do you often wonder what lies beneath our cities? Sewers, bomb shelters, scientific facilities...

ICY

Role-playing game, Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2017

Steam: 85/100

A post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. The player creates a character and leads a group of survivors across the White Wasteland. Attributes are...

Pixel Horizons

First-person view, Action, Survival, Crafting, Construction, Sandbox, Science fiction, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2025

Steam: 66/100

The main character finds himself on the mysterious island and tries to survive. It is necessary to explore locations and fight with monsters. In this case, it is...

Pretend

Free game, Arcade, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Tactics, Casual game, Strategy, Survival

Game released: Linux → 6 January 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 56/100

Pretend is a casual multiplayer online game about social deduction. The game is very similar to Among Us, but instead of a space base, the action takes place in...

Zafehouse Diaries 2

Zombies, Survival, Horror

Game released: Linux → 17 June 2017

Steam: 72/100

A strategy game about surviving a zombie apocalypse, in which a small group of people tries to endure the outbreak and complete its objectives. Each hour, the...

Astral Terra

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world, Survival, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → summer 2014

Players: 1/10

Steam: 33/100

This fantasy sandbox combines RPG and survival elements in a procedurally generated smooth-voxel world that can be reshaped and rebuilt. As a Planar Warden, the...

Survival

Best Games in the Survival genre for Linux