Best Games for Linux of 2014 / Page 4

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy

January 30, 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This comedic adventure follows an octopus posing as a human father and trying to keep his true nature secret from his family. In Octodad: Dadliest Catch, the hero...

Crusader Kings 2: Rajas of India

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

March 25, 2014

Steam: 44/100

Crusader Kings 2: Rajas of India is an addition to the global real-time strategy game that expands the capabilities of government. The expansion expands the map...

Magnetic By Nature

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Action

November 10, 2014

Steam: 76/100

A science-fiction platformer about the last surviving robot, who journeys through forgotten ruins to reactivate its friends. The levels are built without...

LEGO Minifigures Online

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval

October 29, 2014

Players: 5.5/10

LEGO Minifigures Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Funcom and released in 2014. The game recreates a toy world whose...

Land of Labyrinth

Action, Adventure, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

July 4, 2014

Land of Labyrinth is a third-person action-adventure game with puzzle and fantasy elements. Sven, a young adventurer searching for his missing father, must navigate...

The Fall

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Science fiction, Indie

May 30, 2014

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 73/100

The Fall is an adventure shooter with a view of the side of the science fiction setting, which will tell about artificial intelligence trying to save its master...

Card City Nights

Card game, Indie, Collectible card game (CCG)

February 14, 2014

Steam: 89/100

This card-based adventure takes place in a city full of card enthusiasts and oddballs. The protagonist collects eight legendary cards to enter the biggest...

Roommates

Visual novel, Comedy, Anime / Manga

February 12, 2014

Steam: 75/100

This comedy visual novel with life-simulation elements follows Max and Anne through their first year of college and dorm life. The protagonist shares the dorm with...

Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Casual game

April 19, 2012

Steam: 91/100

This hidden-object adventure puzzle follows a museum owner who sets out after an undead pirate has kidnapped her daughter. The pirate plans to resurrect his beloved...

BlazeRush

Arcade, Action, Racing, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie

October 28, 2014

Players: 6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 66/100

BlazeRush is an arcade survival racer set in a futuristic world, where the focus is on fighting for position: cars have no health, levelling system or brakes...

Beyond Gravity

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Casual game

June 22, 2014

Steam: 88/100

Beyond Gravity is an arcade game with elements of action, platformer and indie game from developers from the Qwiboo studio. The game is published by Qwiboo. It...

Braveland Wizard

Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Side view, Casual game

December 4, 2014

Steam: 80/100

Braveland Wizard is a turn-based strategy game with a side view in a fantasy setting. Continuation of the classic game in the spirit of "Heroes of Might and Magic...

The Impossible Game

Action, Indie, Side view, Platformer, Music game

April 20, 2010

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 64/100

The player taps the jump screen and tries to navigate the orange square while avoiding traps to reach the end of the level. Any mistake will result in instant death...

Battle Nations

Strategy, Online, Free game

September 18, 2014

Steam: 73/100

This online strategy game is set on the continent of Ateria, where war has broken out against a rebel threat. The player builds and manages a city, gathers...

Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now

Action, Zombies, Indie

June 4, 2014

Steam: 86/100

An isometric shooter about fighting zombies and monsters in an apocalyptic city. In the story mode, the protagonist moves through levels, meets characters, takes on...

Bridge Constructor Medieval

Simulation, Casual game, Indie

September 15, 2014

Steam: 80/100

This bridge-building simulation is set in the age of knights and castles. In Bridge Constructor Medieval, the player builds crossings to supply a city and protect...

IO (2007)

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

December 5, 2014

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A physics-based platformer about guiding a ball through puzzle-filled levels using momentum and changes in size. Growing or shrinking the ball affects its speed and...

Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo

Adventure, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Point & Click

December 27, 2006

Players: 7/10

Steam: 97/100

This children’s adventure and puzzle game takes place at the Cartown Zoo, where the grand opening is at risk: food is running low, and all the baby animals are...

Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal"

Arcade, Adventure, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Casual game

November 22, 2006

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 96/100

This children’s point-and-click adventure follows the secret agent SPY Fox as he searches for Mr. Udderly, rescues the cows, and tries to stop William the Kid from...

Knightmare Tower

Arcade, Action, Hack and slash, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Slasher

August 31, 2012

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

A fantasy action arcade game in which a hero fights upward through a tower, rescuing princesses and escaping rising boiling lava. The ascent is filled with monsters...

MouseCraft

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

July 8, 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 72/100

MouseCraft is a puzzle game about guiding mice to their goal as the cat scientist Schrödinger works on a mysterious mouse-powered machine. Players stack Tetromino...

Blackwell Epiphany

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

April 24, 2014

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Blackwell Epiphany is a point and click adventure game from the developers of Wadjet Eye Games. This is the fifth and final part of the Blackwell Legacy quest saga...

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink

Hidden Objects, Adventure, Casual game

August 8, 2013

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Set in a steampunk world, this detective adventure follows a series of strange earthquakes that are destroying cities and the disappearance of Dr. Ambrose Ink. His...

Dark Arcana: The Carnival

Hidden Objects, Adventure, Casual game

October 28, 2014

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This adventure follows the search for a young mother who has disappeared after a mysterious carnival arrives in town. The investigation spans two worlds: the...

BloodNet

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Cyberpunk, Point & Click

October 17, 2014

Steam: 62/100

This cyberpunk role-playing game with horror elements is set in Manhattan in 2094, where freelance operative Ransom Stark becomes a vampire and searches for a cure...

Fleet Defender

Simulation, Flight Simulator, First-person view

February 23, 1995

Steam: 82/100

A flight simulator centered on the F-14 Tomcat and carrier-based operations with the U.S. Navy. The pilot begins with training at Oceania Naval Air Station in...

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy

Role-playing game, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Text quest

July 13, 2012

Steam: 79/100

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy is a text adventure with role-playing elements in a fantasy setting. In the game you will find yourself in an amazing world where...

Sid Meier's Colonization

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based, Adventure

May 24, 1995

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

This turn-based strategy game follows the colonization of the New World, with the player leading one of four European powers and establishing settlements in newly...

Last Tinker: City of Colors

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Indie

May 12, 2014

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This third-person action adventure takes place in Colortown, a world built around creativity, emotion, and collaboration. Koru, a boy from the city’s slums, sets...

Tower of Guns

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Replayability, Comics

March 4, 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A fast-paced first-person shooter with roguelike elements, Tower of Guns sends players through a tower whose levels, enemies, and power-ups change with each run...

X-Plane 10 Global

Simulation, Flight Simulator, Open world, Online

July 14, 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 70/100

This open-world flight simulator models aircraft ranging from gliders to airliners and the Space Shuttle. In X-Plane 10 Global, the player pilots an aircraft while...

Mountain

Simulation, Music game, Indie, Casual game

June 28, 2014

Steam: 85/100

Mountain is an indie simulator that will allow you to become the god of an entire mountain. Forests grow on it, fireflies fly and day turns into night. In addition...

Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek

Hidden Objects, Adventure, Point & Click

September 1, 2011

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This hidden-object detective adventure takes place in a small town in Vermont. After a powerful storm, the heroine wakes by the roadside with no memory of recent...

Demon Hunter: Chronicles from Beyond

Casual game, Hidden Objects, Adventure

December 4, 2014

Steam: 64/100

An adventure and hidden-object game set in 1930s America. Dawn Harlock returns to her family estate on Iowa Island to investigate the mysterious death of her...

Putt-Putt Enters the Race

Adventure, Educational game (Education), Casual game, Point & Click

December 12, 2006

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 96/100

This point-and-click adventure for children follows Putt-Putt, a small convertible, and his friend Pep as they get ready for the Cartown 500. Before the race, they...

Castle Breakers

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Q2 2014

Castle Breakers is a third-person role-playing game with a mixture of action, fantasy and indie games from the masters at Black Black Beast. The game is published...

Last Door

Arcade, Adventure, Point & Click, Horror

March 1, 2013

Steam: 94/100

Last Door — In the point anfd click adventure, the player controls a character, moves him through various locations, collects and uses items to advance the...

Anomaly Defenders

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

May 29, 2014

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A futuristic tower defense game in the Anomaly series, where aliens repel a human counterattack and protect their homeworld. Unlike earlier entries, attacking...

Dungeon Defenders Eternity

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Cooperative (co-op)

July 22, 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 48/100

A fantasy action RPG with tower-defense elements, Dungeon Defenders Eternity follows a team of heroes defending Etheria from the army of the Old Ones. Players...

Spy Chameleon: RGB Agent

Arcade, Stealth, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie

June 11, 2014

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This arcade-puzzle game with stealth elements follows a chameleon secret agent who changes color to blend into the surroundings and avoid detection. Across five...