Top-down view 2015 for Linux — top best games in the Top-down view genre

Undertale - a game in the Top-down view genre

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2015

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 92/100

An RPG with a unique combat system, where each battle can be completed without a single blow. Instead of the usual violence, there are conversations, mercy, and...

Prison Architect

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Construction, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2015

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Prison Architect is a top-down real-time management strategy game. Players will have to build and develop a real prison. Moreover, it will be necessary to organize...

Caves of Qud

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Procedural generation, Open world

Early Access: Linux → 15 July 2015; Game released: Linux → 5 December 2024

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 91/100

A turn-based RPG from the minds of Sproggiwood. The game world is generated anew each time, offering unique adventures with each visit. The environment can be...

Sunless Sea

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Exploration, Survival

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Sunless Sea is a dark, H.P. Lovecraft-inspired role-playing adventure set in the universe of London Has Fallen. You have to take the helm of a Victorian steamship...

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Replayability

Game released: Linux → 30 October 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 85/100

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It adds over 100 hours of content, including the new...

Dungeon Warfare

Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2015

Steam: 95/100

A strategy game in the tower defense genre, where the role of the dungeon defender is assigned not to towers, but to numerous deadly traps. Spikes, rotating blades...

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 March 2015

Players: 9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a continuation of the dynamic top-down action game. The main action takes place parallel to the events of the original Hotline...

Absolute Drift

Arcade, Racing, Top-down view, Sports game, Open world

Game released: Linux → 29 July 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Absolute Drift is a racing arcade game that will make you a true drifting master. On each track, you must get the maximum score by smashing various objects, doing...

Warhammer Quest

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Strategy, Board / Group Game

Game released: Linux → 7 January 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 67/100

A fantasy role-playing strategy game based on the Warhammer Quest tabletop game, it sends a band of adventurers into the dangerous dungeons of the Warhammer World...

Out There

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...

Nuclear Throne

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Nuclear Throne is a dynamic arcade action game with roguelike elements and a top-down view. Having chosen one of 12 unique characters and armed with an arsenal of...

Train Valley

Business / Management, Top-down view, Trains, Indie, Replayability

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 88/100

A railway management puzzle set across different historical eras, with the goal of connecting cities and keeping trains moving safely. The player lays tracks...

Galak-Z

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 29 October 2015

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A top-down space action game, GALAK-Z combines two-dimensional dogfights with procedurally generated worlds and physics-driven combat. The player pilots an...

Heroes of Steel

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2015

Steam: 77/100

Heroes of Steel is a classic role-playing game with turn-based combat and a top-down view in a fantasy setting. You have to control a party of four brave heroes to...

Crusader Kings 2: Horse Lords

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Top-down view, Tactics, Medieval era, Simulation, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 67/100

Crusader Kings 2: Horse Lords is an expansion for the real-time strategy game. The expansion reveals the full potential of nomadic peoples — the Mongols and other...

Sky Force Anniversary

Arcade, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Beat them all, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2015

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Sky Force Anniversary is an arcade scrolling shooter set in futuristic aerial battles against waves of enemies and powerful bosses. Missions challenge the player to...

RymdResa

Arcade, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 20 August 2015

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 64/100

RymdResa is a space adventure with roguelike and RPG elements, following a pilot who has lost their home and searches for a new one in a vast, unfamiliar universe...

Assault Android Cactus

Arcade, Shooter, Beat them all, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 23 September 2015

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 83/100

This arcade twin-stick shooter is set in a science-fiction universe and follows Junior Constable Cactus, who answers a distress call and becomes stranded aboard a...

Europa Universalis 4: El Dorado

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2015

Steam: 61/100

Europa Universalis 4: El Dorado — This Central and South America expansion introduces new religions and impressive theaters of exploration that will force you...

Devouring Stars

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 July 2015

Steam: 65/100

Devouring Stars is a minimalistic real-time strategy that takes you into space, where you, playing as Something, will fight with other equally incomprehensible and...

Challenge of the Five Realms

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2015

Steam: 90/100

This fantasy role-playing adventure follows the Prince of Alonia as a spreading darkness threatens the multi-dimensional world of Nhagardia. The evil lord Grimnoth...

Templar Battleforce

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Turn-based, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where the Templar Knights wage war in Leviathan battle mechs. Their squad faces Xenos, rogue...

Hyperdrive Massacre

Arcade, Beat them all, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sports game, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 85/100

Hyperdrive Massacre is a top-down arcade action game made in the style of the 80s. The game features local multiplayer in which you and your friends can fight...

Eternal Step

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2015

Steam: 60/100

Eternal Step is an action role-playing game with a top-down procedurally generated world in a fantasy setting. The main character will have to climb the highest...

12 is Better Than 6

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 November 2015

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 59/100

12 is Better Than 6 is a hardcore top-down action game from indie developers from the studio Ink Stains Games. The game will tell the story of a Mexican who lost...

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...

Good Snowman Is Hard to Build

Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Open world, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2015

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 93/100

Good Snowman Is Hard to Build is a top-down puzzle game in which you have to build snowmen, so that they really are snowmen, and not some shapeless towers. The...

ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS

Action, Indie, Top-down view, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 1 May 2015

Steam: 82/100

An arcade action game about rockets battling in space arenas. Players pilot a rocket, fly through space and fire at opponents, leaving glowing trails...

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Online, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 18 August 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 86/100

This science-fiction real-time strategy game stages large-scale battles between armies across multiple planets. Players command forces on land, at sea, in the air...

DungeonRift

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game

Early Access: Linux → 1 July 2015

Steam: 100/100

A top-down action RPG about fighting through shifting dungeons, collecting loot and reaching the exit portal. After enemies are defeated, the Rift rebuilds the...

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...

Little Cells

Arcade, Top-down view, Match-3 (Three in a row), Action, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2015

Steam: 81/100

Little Cells is an entertaining top-down arcade game. Through the prism of a microscope you will find yourself in the plant world of constantly multiplying cells...

NotTheNameWeWanted

Arcade, Indie, Action, Horror, Adventure, Top-down view, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 3 July 2015

Steam: 89/100

NotTheNameWeWanted is a top-down arcade action game that is a parody of the popular GTA series. You will find amazing graphics, incredible sound, spectacular...

Solar Shifter EX

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 September 2015

Steam: 47/100

Metacritic: 53/100

This science-fiction shoot ’em up follows humanity’s war against a powerful alien race preparing to destroy the Sun. After the humans’ defeat, pirate raiders scour...

Rogue Continuum

Arcade, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view

Early Access: Linux → 15 September 2015

Rogue Continuum is a top-down arcade game with shooter and beat-em-all elements from the masters at Rocktastic Games. The main publisher of the game is Rocktastic...

Enchanted Cave 2

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Roguelike, Indie, Dungeons

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2015

Steam: 90/100

Enchanted Cave 2 is a top-down action RPG in the roguelike genre. You'll delve into a strange cave with a seemingly endless supply of treasure, strategically...

Gathering Sky

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2015

Players: 3.7/10

Steam: 92/100

This adventure follows a flock of birds on a journey across the sky. The flight begins with a single bird: the player can steer it and grow the flock or let the...

Wild Season

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Farm Simulator, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 8 December 2015

Steam: 24/100

This farming-life simulation with visual novel and RPG elements follows a character who leaves the big city to start a farm in the south. After a storm, the...

Sparkle 3 Genesis

Arcade, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2015

Steam: 60/100

Sparkle 3 Genesis is a continuation of the meditative arcade game with a top-down view. As in previous parts of the series, you have to take control of a...

Super Galaxy Squadron

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Beat them all, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A fast-paced vertical shooter in which players pilot one of 17 ships. The game features multiple modes, while its forgiving health system and gradual difficulty...

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Best Games in the Top-down view genre of 2015 for Linux