Best Games for Linux of 2013 / Page 5

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

October 28, 2009

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...

Receiver

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Simulation, Indie, Roguelike

June 18, 2012

Steam: 86/100

A first-person shooter with roguelike elements, Receiver follows a player exploring a building complex overrun by automated turrets and hovering shock drones while...

Teleglitch: Die More Edition

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Indie

July 24, 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This top-down roguelike shooter with pixel graphics is set in a grim future, where a small planet on the edge of habitable space hosts a secret research facility...

Element4l

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Action

May 24, 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Element4l is an experimental platform game about four elements bound together on a journey to shape life. Nature and the sun stand in their way, while progress...

Hammerwatch

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Dungeons

August 12, 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 80/100

A fantasy action-adventure hack-and-slash in pixel art follows a climb through Castle Hammerwatch. The castle can be explored solo or in co-op, as players fight...

Skyward Collapse

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Simulation, Indie

May 23, 2013

Steam: 49/100

A turn-based strategy game in the god-game genre, Skyward Collapse casts the player as the Creator, tasked with keeping two warring factions in balance on the...

Solar Flux

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Logic, Indie, Strategy, Puzzle

August 15, 2013

Steam: 78/100

This puzzle strategy game follows an effort to save dying stars in a perishing universe. The player pilots a ship through zero gravity, collecting fragments of...

Out of the Park Baseball 14

Simulation, Baseball, Business / Management, Sports game

April 15, 2013

Metacritic: 86/100

Out of the Park Baseball 14 — baseball-themed management simulator. You can create your own dream team and lead it to victory in the national cup tournament...

Salvation Prophecy

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Simulation, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

July 1, 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 65/100

This futuristic military action game with role-playing and simulation elements follows a war for galactic dominance between human, mutant, and robotic factions. As...

Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Sports game, Indie

December 6, 2013

Steam: 88/100

This arcade game follows a space traveler who jumps through a wormhole, crash-lands on a desert planet, and finds an interstellar casino where visitors play air...

Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel

January 27, 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai is an adventure game with a mixture of anime/manga game and visual novel from the masters of Banpresto Co., Ltd...

MirrorMoon EP

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Futurism (Future), Exploration, Puzzle

September 4, 2013

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 73/100

MirrorMoon EP — atmospheric adventure puzzle game with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. The game takes you on a surreal space adventure on an unknown...

World War 2: Panzer Claws

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Third-person view, Historical, Sandbox, Tanks

September 20, 2002

Players: 1/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 61/100

A real-time strategy game about World War II battles in Europe, where the player commands Allied, German, Russian, or French Resistance forces. Its campaigns span...

Dungeon Hearts

Role-playing game, In real time, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game, Indie, Strategy

March 28, 2013

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This puzzle RPG combines tile-matching with real-time combat. Runes move along a stream, and the player aligns them to attack enemies, defend against their moves...

Trichrome

Arcade, Puzzle

July 25, 2013

Trichrome is an arcade game with a dash of puzzle from the masters at Sean Puckett Studio. The game is published by Canadian Indie and Sean...

Shattered Haven

Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

March 18, 2013

Steam: 38/100

This post-apocalyptic action puzzle game follows the Williams family as they struggle to survive in a world where animals turn into violent creatures and the earth...

Super Splatters

Action, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

June 26, 2013

Steam: 74/100

Super Splatters is an arcade puzzle game about launching elastic creatures through levels, with liquid physics affecting their movement. The player sends the...

Skyward Collapse: Nihon no Mura

Strategy, DLC, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie, Simulation

August 27, 2013

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for Skyward Collapse that brings the Japanese faction to Luminith. The faction has a powerful military and a pantheon whose gods each have three god...

Royal Trap

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie

February 23, 2013

Royal Trap is an adventure with a mixture of visual novel and indie game from developers from the studio Hanako Games. The game is published by Hanako Games, the...

KnightShift (Director's Cut Special Edition)

Role-playing game, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox

December 31, 2003

Steam: 76/100

This fantasy game combines a role-playing campaign with real-time strategy, and the two parts can be played together or separately. In the RPG, the hero explores...

Inherit the Earth 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric

February 17, 2013

Inherit the Earth 2 is an isometric RPG with an adventure twist from developers at The Dreamers Guild. The main publishers of the game are New World Computing, Inc...

Maia

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Simulation, Science fiction

December 3, 2013

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 39/100

Maia is a real-time management strategy game with an isometric camera view set in a science fiction environment. You will need to build a colony on a rather...

Fish vs. Crabs

Arcade, Isometric, Logic, Tactics

November 13, 2013

Fish vs. Crabs is an isometric arcade game with elements of a tactical game from developers from the Swift Creek Games studio. The game is published by Swift Creek...

Chuck's Challenge 3D

Puzzle, Isometric, Indie, Sandbox, Arcade, Construction, Logic

November 8, 2013

Steam: 81/100

This isometric puzzle game follows Woop, a purple alien navigating a universe of challenges created by Chuck Sommerville in search of an exit. Across the levels...

Signal Ops

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op)

April 5, 2013

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Signal Ops is a tactical stealth shooter in which agents are directed from the relative safety of a control room. During missions, the team plants evidence, steals...

Syder Arcade

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

October 24, 2013

Steam: 84/100

This multidirectional scrolling shoot ’em up draws on the style of 1990s Amiga games. The player pilots a starship and battles waves of alien invaders. Progress...

Valley Without Wind 2

Arcade, Strategy, Platformer, Turn-based, Action, Indie

February 18, 2013

Steam: 48/100

This fantasy game combines platforming action with turn-based strategy. A mage who has infiltrated the circle of the evil Demonaica gains the same power of...

Eryi's Action

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

November 19, 2013

Steam: 89/100

Eryi's Action is an arcade game with elements of action, platformer, anime or manga and fantasy games from the Xtal Sword studio. The game is published by Nyu...

Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign

Strategy, Historical, Turn-based, Indie

October 17, 2013

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This turn-based operational wargame covers the 1942–43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front of World War II. The campaign can be played from either the Axis or...

Voyage to Farland

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

June 27, 2013

Steam: 91/100

A turn-based roguelike about a wanderer searching for a missing sister in the forested Iya Gorge. The region is filled with dangerous creatures and mysteries, and...

Papo & Yo

Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

August 14, 2012

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Papo & Yo is an unusual platformer, which is based on the author of his childhood fear of an alcoholic father. You play for the little boy KVICO, who fell into the...

Football Manager 2014

Simulation, Strategy, Football, Business / Management, Sports game, Turn-based

October 30, 2013

Metacritic: 85/100

Football Manager 2014 is a football management simulator in which you become the manager of a football team and lead it to success. The game has over a thousand...

RetroWorld

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future)

December 11, 2013

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

RetroWorld is an arcade game with a touch of action and adventure from the masters from the Scary Pixel studio. The game is published by Scary...

Savant: Ascent

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Music game

December 4, 2013

Steam: 93/100

This arcade action-platformer follows the Alchemist, a mechanical wizard cast from his tower by a mysterious orb that turns his surroundings into dangerous enemies...

Sanctum 2: The Last Stand

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Strategy

December 12, 2013

Steam: 93/100

An expansion for Sanctum 2 in which Core Guardians fend off increased Lume activity across four new maps, including a remake of the classic Arc map. New defensive...

Company of Heroes 2: Southern Fronts Mission Pack

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Isometric, Historical

December 10, 2013

Steam: 65/100

An expansion for Company of Heroes 2 set amid Red Army and Wehrmacht battles in the southwest of the USSR in early 1943, during the spring rasputitsa. Its 10...

Jack Lumber

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

August 16, 2012

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This arcade puzzle game follows Jack, a lumberjack seeking revenge on the tree that killed his granny. He hates trees but loves animals, so he must take care not to...

Shivah

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Point & Click, Indie

November 21, 2013

Steam: 82/100

Shivah is a side-scrolling pixel point and click adventure. Russell Stone is a Jewish rabbi in a poor synagogue in New York. He is a godly man with a problem. The...

Violett

Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

December 13, 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This fantasy point-and-click adventure follows Violett, a rebellious teenager whose parents move her from the city to an old house in the countryside. After...

Not The Robots

Isometric, Logic, Indie, Strategy, Action

December 12, 2013

Steam: 80/100

A stealth roguelike about a robot in an office building that eats furniture while avoiding security. A mysterious story gradually explains the strange...