Best Games for Linux of 2013 / Page 4

Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

January 24, 2008

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 83/100

This tower defense strategy game follows Tikiman, a forest defender who must protect his offspring from waves of monsters. Enemies advance along paths toward his...

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...

Painkiller: Hell & Damnation - Heaven's Above

Action, Shooter, Horror, DLC, Top-down view, Futurism (Future)

June 20, 2013

Steam: 47/100

An add-on for Painkiller: Hell & Damnation that shifts the action from a first-person perspective to a top-down shooter. It features five campaign maps...

Nimble Quest

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

March 28, 2013

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This arcade action game with role-playing elements centers on a party of heroes that moves constantly through stages while fighting enemy hordes. The player steers...

Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians

Arcade, Music game, Indie, Adventure

August 6, 2013

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This musical adventure with arcade elements follows Beatbuddy, an ethereal creature who awakens and sets out to save his companions and his own immortality. Along...

Tales of Maj'Eyal

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Roguelike, Turn-based, Dungeons

December 12, 2013

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Tales of Maj'Eyal is an exciting tactical RPG with turn-based combat and top-down view in a fantasy setting. You can create a unique character by choosing from a...

Chaos Engine

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Steampunk, Cooperative (co-op)

August 29, 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 40/100

Chaos Engine is a steampunk top-down shooter with cooperative play, originally developed for the Amiga by The Bitmap Brothers. Abstraction Games restored the game...

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...

Monster Loves You!

Role-playing game, Adventure, Side view, Casual game, Indie, Simulation

March 18, 2013

Steam: 78/100

Monster Loves You! — a fun adventure with role-playing elements and a side view. Become a monster born in a slime-covered vat. Grow up and turn into a...

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)

Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Strategy, Role-playing game

October 30, 2012

Steam: 95/100

A tactical role-playing game with tower-defense elements, Defender's Quest centers on real-time battles in which individual heroes take the place of defensive...

FORCED

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)

October 24, 2013

Players: 5/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 72/100

FORCED is an arcade action RPG with puzzle and tactical elements. From one to 4 players can take part in the game at the same time. The character of the game is a...

Democracy 3

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Turn-based, Indie

October 14, 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A political simulation about governing an industrialized Western nation. The player takes the role of a president or prime minister and seeks solutions to crime...

Megabyte Punch

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie, Adventure, Combat robots

October 15, 2013

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A fighting game with beat ’em up elements set in a computer world, Megabyte Punch lets players assemble a combat robot from parts taken from defeated creatures. The...

Knights of Pen and Paper

Arcade, Role-playing game, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie

October 30, 2012

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A turn-based, pixel-art role-playing game built around a fantasy tabletop session. The player controls both the adventurers and the game master, who shapes the...

Nightmares from the Deep: The Siren's Call

Puzzle, Logic, Hidden Objects

July 24, 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

A hidden-object puzzle game in which the player must answer the siren’s call and defeat the cruel Mayor Murray and his sea monster, the...

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...

Sid Meier's Civilization 5: Brave New World

Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Isometric, Top-down view, Turn-based

July 8, 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 85/100

An expansion for Sid Meier's Civilization 5 that adds international trade and new ways to pursue cultural and diplomatic influence in the turn-based strategy...

Foul Play

Arcade, Action, Indie, Casual game

September 18, 2013

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This side-scrolling co-op action game unfolds entirely on a theatre stage, where daemon-hunter Baron Dashforth reenacts episodes from his life, from the deserts of...

Anomaly Korea

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Action, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

December 20, 2012

Players: 4/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 86/100

A real-time strategy game with a top-down view, Anomaly Korea follows a human squad fighting an invasion by alien robots in Korea. The expansion campaign to Anomaly...

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...

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...

AI War: Vengeance of the Machine

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie

June 17, 2013

Steam: 100/100

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...

Snapshot

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie, Casual game

August 30, 2012

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Snapshot is a side-scrolling adventure arcade puzzle game. The game will tell the story of a cute robot named Peak, who is collecting mysterious energy scattered...

Earth 2150 Trilogy

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Collection, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

November 7, 2005

Players: 10/10

Steam: 77/100

Earth 2150 Trilogy is a collection of three real-time strategy games set in the distant future, where humanity faces conflict across space and betrayal within its...

Gratuitous Space Battles

Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space

November 16, 2009

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A space strategy game centered on large battles between fleets of massive ships. The player takes the role of an admiral, assembling ships from modules, arranging a...

Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Online, Action

September 19, 2008

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest is a real-time strategy game with arcade elements, set in a digital world where tribes fight over Darwinia’s resources. Once...

Hero of the Kingdom

Role-playing game, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game, Adventure

December 20, 2012

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Hero of the Kingdom is an adventure strategy game with RPG elements and an isometric camera view. The game tells the story of a young hero whose father is kidnapped...

The Bridge

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Arcade

February 22, 2013

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Bridge is a two-dimensional logic game that will allow you to look at physics and perspective from a different angle. You have to walk on the ceiling, explore...

Dwarfs!?

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Free game, Casual game

May 4, 2011

Steam: 79/100

An arcade strategy game about overseeing an underground Dwarf colony and gathering as much gold as possible before the caves and their monsters bring the settlement...

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...

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...

Electronic Super Joy

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Music game, Indie

August 23, 2013

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A hard platformer set in a world of electronic music follows Captain Lewis as he resists the tyranny of the evil Groove-Wizard, who has seized control and stolen...

Hive (2013)

Board / Group Game, Turn-based, Logic, Indie

February 8, 2013

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...

Snuggle Truck

Arcade, Action, Racing, Casual game, Indie

April 27, 2011

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Snuggle Truck is an arcade driving game about delivering a load of quirky animals to the zoo without letting them fall out or get hurt. The player steers a truck...

Chainsaw Warrior

Board / Group Game, Turn-based, Card game, Strategy

September 24, 2013

Players: 1/10

Steam: 64/100

A turn-based card strategy game based on a solo board game, set in Manhattan in 2032. A spatial rift unleashes hordes of creatures into New York, and an...

Fields of War

Online, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots

May 30, 2013

Fields of War are online games with a third-person view with elements of action, shooter and robot simulator from developers from Thermal Erosion studio. The main...

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...

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...