Walking Simulator for Linux — top best games in the Walking Simulator genre

Sitter - a game in the Walking Simulator genre

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Walking Simulator, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2026

VGTimes: 6.8/10

Steam: 75/100

At the center of the story is Detective Ethan Sanders, whose 70-year-old grandmother, Olivia, is the victim of a brutal murder. Her caregiver, Clara...

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Comedy, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 27 April 2022

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 90/100

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an improved version of the office adventure with a first-person view. You will play the role of office plankton...

The End of the Sun

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Detective, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2025

Players: 8/10

Steam: 98/100

An adventure game inspired by Slavic mythology and ancient culture. By exploring the world during major festivals that change with the seasons, you...

Amnesia: Rebirth

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Puzzle, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A psychological horror game from the first-person perspective, continuing the traditions of the Amnesia series through a personal and unsettling...

103 - a game in the Walking Simulator genre

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Exploration, Walking Simulator, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 21 December 2018

Steam: 72/100

This first-person mystery adventure is about Lily, who tries to recover her memories after a terrible incident during a night out with friends. Since...

Santa Claws

Exploration, Walking Simulator, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 13 December 2019

Steam: 68/100

This first-person Christmas horror minigame combines exploration with walking-simulator gameplay. Left home alone on Christmas Eve, the protagonist...

Gone Home

Adventure, First-person view, Visual novel, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2013

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Gone Home is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the story of Caitlin Greenbriar, who returned home from a trip to...

Before I Forget

Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2020

Steam: 87/100

This first-person narrative exploration game follows Sunita, a woman living with early-onset dementia. Alone in her house, she tries to make sense of...

Title_Pending

Adventure, Walking Simulator, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2022

Steam: 95/100

This adventure game follows a playtester exploring the liminal spaces of an unfinished game and trying to uncover the mystery behind JMC Gaming...

The Stanley Parable

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Comedy, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 17 October 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 88/100

The Stanley Parable is an indie project with a first-person view. The player plays the role of office plankton Stanley, who has spent his whole life...

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 10 September 2013

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a continuation of the first-person horror adventure Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The game completely inherits the ideas of...

Fibrillation HD

Walking Simulator, Horror, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 April 2017

Steam: 89/100

Fibrillation is a first-person philosophical and mystical horror story about Ewan Berrington, who wanders through mysterious places trying to work...

Neverending Nightmares

Action, Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2014

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Neverending Nightmares is a side-scrolling adventure horror game. You have to get used to the role of Thomas — a man who has fallen into a long...

Firewatch

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 9 February 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Firewatch is an indie adventure with a first-person view, developed by former developers of The Walking Dead and BioShock 2. The action takes place...

The Longing

Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Arcade, Platformer, Point & Click, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 5 March 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The Longing is an unusual game, the main feature of which lies in its length. The fact is that it will take 400 days to complete the game. Even if a...

Mutazione

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Walking Simulator, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2019

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 78/100

An atmospheric side-scrolling adventure in a fantastic setting. Over 100 years ago, a meteorite fell on a tropical resort. Almost all the inhabitants...

E-Files

Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Old school, Walking Simulator, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 29 October 2026

Steam: 100/100

An atmospheric horror game in the spirit of classic PlayStation 1-era titles, focused on investigating a mysterious story involving secret documents...

The First Tree

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 14 September 2017

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 75/100

The First Tree is an atmospheric adventure with a third-person view. The game intertwines two stories: a boy who is trying to find his father and a...

Tacoma

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Walking Simulator, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 2 August 2017

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Tacoma is a futuristic adventure with a first-person view from the creators of Gone Home. The main story of the game is hidden behind the façade. You...

The Gardens Between

Adventure, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Hidden Objects, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 20 September 2018

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The Gardens Between is a side-scrolling fantasy adventure from Australian developers The Voxel Agents. The events unfold around the girl Ariana and...

Kona 2: Brume

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Exploration, Detective, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 18 October 2023

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 80/100

The game takes place in Canada in 1970. A certain haze cut off a small mining village from the whole world. Private detective Karl Faber is trying to...

Arausio

Free game, Historical, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Point & Click, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2021

Steam: 95/100

Arausio is a free-to-play, first-person adventure game in which you explore a faithful recreation of the ancient Theater of Arausio and uncover the...

Beginner's Guide

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 1 October 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Beginner's Guide is an indie adventure from the creator of The Stanley Parable. The game tells the story of a man who tries his best to figure out...

Isle of Jura

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2022

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 76/100

The fishing simulator, where players in the role of a girl named Jura are exploring a beautiful island, looking for artifacts, communicate with local...

Trees Hate You

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Comedy, Walking Simulator

Game in development: Linux → 16 November 2026

A hardcore platformer with an absurd sense of humor, where the main enemy becomes the trees. The forest here lives by its own rules: branches hinder...

Deep Space Corridor

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Mysticism / Supernatural, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 3 April 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Atmospheric horror about the search for anomalies, unfolding in the confined corridors of a mysterious space station. The story begins with the...

Proteus

Arcade, First-person view, Indie, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 8 April 2013

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This first-person exploration game takes place on dreamlike islands where the surroundings shape the soundtrack. The procedurally generated islands...

Beyond Eyes

Adventure, Third-person view, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2015

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 57/100

This third-person adventure follows Rae, a blind girl who sets out to find her missing cat, Nani. Traumatized by an accident in early childhood, Rae...

Mind: Path to Thalamus

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 5 August 2014

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Mind: Path to Thalamus is a puzzle-adventure game played from a first-person perspective. The setting will be a fantastic surreal world. The main...

All Our Asias

Role-playing game, Adventure, Visual novel, Walking Simulator, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2018

Steam: 80/100

A surreal 3D adventure about Yuito, a Japanese-American man who enters the supernatural Memory World of his dying father. A 31-year-old hedge fund...

Fox! Hen! Bag!

Casual game, Walking Simulator, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 13 July 2020

Steam: 95/100

A casual first-person adventure based on a classic riddle, in which the player must take a group of friends to another mountain using a tramway car...

Forgotten Fields

Adventure, Walking Simulator, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2021

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Forgotten Fields is a narrative game about Sid, a struggling writer who returns to his childhood home shortly before it is sold. He visits old...

ENA: Dream BBQ

Adventure, First-person view, Free game, Comedy, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 26 March 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

A surreal adventure that expands the ENA universe in an interactive format. Ena embarks on a quest to find the mysterious Boss, around whom the...

Montague's Mount

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 19 November 2013

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 39/100

Montague's Mount is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and horror elements. The events of the game will take you to a gloomy Irish...

BABBDI

First-person view, Casual game, Simulation, Exploration, Walking Simulator, Free game

Game released: Linux → 22 December 2022

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 97/100

A short adventure in which you need to escape from an abandoned area. You need to use different found objects and collect...

Thirty Flights of Loving

Arcade, First-person view, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2012

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A short first-person story about a heist gone wrong, involving schemers and criminals entangled in romance. The player explores the world and...

Jotunn - Day of Judgement

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Fantasy, Casual game, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2022

Steam: 86/100

Jotunn — Day of Judgment is a free first-person horror game with exploration elements, in which the goal is to escape from the mysterious...

That Dragon, Cancer

Adventure, First-person view, Interactive movie, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 12 January 2016

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

That Dragon, Cancer is an interactive adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the sad story of parents who lost their son to cancer. It is...

Rainswept

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Detective, Visual novel, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 1 February 2019

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Rainswept is a side-scrolling adventure detective game with a variety of puzzles. Detective Michael Anderson is sent to the small town of Pineview to...

Apple Crumble

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Casual game, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game in development: Linux → 3 December 2026

A quest with an interesting concept — an 84-year-old grandmother suspects her relatives and acquaintances of trying to kill her. To find out the...

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Best Games in the Walking Simulator genre for Linux