Best Games for Linux of 2013 / Page 5

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

November 18, 2013

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Crusader Kings 2: Sons of Abraham is an addition to the global real-time strategy game, where the gameplay is focused on the Abrahamic religions &mdash...

Spirits (2010)

Indie, Strategy, Action

November 11, 2010

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This action-puzzle game follows spirits of fallen leaves as they set out for home in autumn. The player guides them toward their destination by changing the wind...

La•Mulana

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Metroidvania, Indie

June 27, 2005

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 82/100

La•Mulana is an archaeological action-platformer about exploring ancient ruins said to hold the Secret Treasure of Life, the beginning of all civilization. Players...

Sword of the Stars: The Pit

Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Procedural generation

February 21, 2013

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A turn-based role-playing game set in the science-fiction universe of Sword of the Stars, where an expedition ventures into an ancient alien facility beneath the...

AdventurOS

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

December 17, 2013

AdventurOS is an arcade-style RPG, platformer, fantasy and indie game from the masters at Eveland Games. The game is published by Eveland...

Organ Trail: Director's Cut

Arcade, Logic, Zombies, Indie, Strategy

August 9, 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 86/100

This retro zombie survival game follows a group of five travelling west in a station wagon. Along the way, the player scavenges for supplies and fights the undead...

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...

Zigfrak

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

November 1, 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 71/100

This space-based action RPG is set amid a human civil war on a galactic scale, complicated by the invasion of technologically superior aliens. During the campaign...

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...

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...

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Going East!

Simulation, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Open world

September 19, 2013

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 83/100

Euro Truck Simulator 2 — Going East! — an add-on for a truck driver simulator with first- and third-person views. The expansion introduces new roads and...

Beat Hazard

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...

Wooden Sen'SeY

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

December 5, 2013

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Wooden Sen'SeY is an action platformer set in a humorous “Japan Steam Rock” universe. It follows Goro, a village chief seeking revenge across a series of levels...

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...

BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Runner

February 26, 2013

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A side-scrolling rhythm platformer where progress through each level is tied to music and the character’s actions. In Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien...

Detective Case and Clown Bot: Murder in the Hotel Lisbon

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

December 5, 2013

Steam: 86/100

This point-and-click adventure follows an investigation into a bizarre incident at the Hotel Lisbon: a man died from 14 stab wounds to the back while peacefully...

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...

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...

God of Blades

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Fighting, Indie, Side view

September 27, 2012

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Endless runner God of Blades offers a prog-rock aesthetic and swordplay in an atmosphere very reminiscent of classic '80s fantasy. You know, the kind of fantasy...

Stealth Bastard

Arcade, Stealth, Platformer, Indie

November 5, 2011

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This arcade stealth platformer sends an unarmed, unarmoured hero into a deadly facility, where the goal is to reach the exit without being caught by its security...

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...

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...

Dead Sky

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Indie, Zombies

November 22, 2013

Steam: 37/100

Set amid a mysterious outbreak, this isometric survival shooter takes place in contaminated areas overrun by hordes of mutated creatures. The player fights enemies...

Zen Bound 2

Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

April 2, 2010

Steam: 90/100

A puzzle game about painting wooden sculptures by wrapping them in rope. Each level presents a spatial challenge that players solve by inspecting the object and...

Novelist

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Logic, Indie, Stealth, First-person view

December 10, 2013

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This stealth adventure follows novelist Dan Kaplan as he tries to finish the most important book of his career while also being a good husband and father. During...

Eldritch

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike

October 21, 2013

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A first-person fantasy horror game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and the works of H. P. Lovecraft. The player explores strange worlds, uncovers ancient...

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...

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...

Bide (2013)

Arcade, Platformer, Indie

July 19, 2013

Bide (2013) is an arcade game with a mixture of platformer and indie game from developers from the EvolvingPoet Media studio. The main publisher of the game is...

Domino Arena

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

November 26, 2013

Domino Arena is an arcade game with puzzle elements and indie games from the masters from the Gamieon studio. The game is published by...

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...

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...

Kinetic Void

Simulation, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

March 20, 2013

Steam: 17/100

Kinetic Void is a space simulation game with action elements, focused on exploring a procedurally generated galaxy. There is no main storyline: the player chooses...

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...

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Stealth

April 24, 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This tactical stealth game follows a crew of thieves as they case buildings and carry out heists while avoiding security. The cast includes a lock-picking...

Gravity Badgers

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

November 28, 2013

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 48/100

A physics-based arcade puzzle game follows Captain T Bayback, a badger venturing into deep space to save his friends, family and the universe from the Evil Honey...

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...

Grave Digger

Action, Horror, Isometric, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Stealth, Survival horror

May 30, 2013

Steam: 73/100

This stealth action-adventure blends whimsical English comedy with grim, Dickensian horror. The player controls Fagus, a grave robber who sneaks through graveyards...

Montague's Mount

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

October 9, 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 island, where for...

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...