Best Games for Linux of 2014 / Page 4

Arcade, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Adventure

May 28, 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Monochroma is an atmospheric puzzle platformer with horror elements and a side view. The game takes place in a gloomy industrial world. You will...

A Wizard's Lizard

Role-playing game, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Mini-game / browser-based, Roguelike, Indie

June 16, 2014

Steam: 69/100

An isometric action RPG with roguelike elements, A Wizard's Lizard follows a wizard’s loyal pet lizard on a quest to rescue its master in Amberfall...

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Platformer, Music game, Puzzle, Indie

October 16, 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A minimalist puzzle platformer in which obstacles are tied to the rhythm of electronic music. The player controls a geometric shape in an abstract...

Lethal League

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Baseball, Sports game, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Online

August 27, 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Lethal League is a side-scrolling arcade sports game that can be played cooperatively by up to four people. You will go to fight in various arenas...

Blade Symphony

Action, Fighting, Slasher, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Tactics

May 7, 2014

Steam: 67/100

Blade Symphony is a dynamic slasher game with a third-person view, where you have to compete in fencing. You can fight in tactical sword fights with...

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...

OTTTD

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

May 22, 2014

Steam: 79/100

This futuristic tower defense strategy game combines real-time strategy and RPG elements in a military campaign across parallel dimensions. The...

Saturday Morning RPG

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Side view, Indie

April 5, 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Saturday Morning RPG is a fantastic side-scrolling RPG with turn-based combat. The developers took inspiration from cartoons and the culture of the...

Rising Angels: Reborn

Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

October 31, 2013

Steam: 81/100

A science-fiction visual novel about Natalie Puccile, a Special Investigations and Tactics officer tasked with discovering the fate of a research...

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...

Harvester

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click

September 25, 1996

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 53/100

This third-person horror adventure takes place in a strange town filled with unfamiliar people and inexplicable sights. The protagonist’s supposed...

Pajama Sam: Lost and Found

Arcade, Action, Casual game, Adventure, Point & Click

December 31, 1998

Steam: 58/100

This children’s arcade game follows a hero who jumps and glides through unusual worlds, collecting toys and avoiding dangers. In Pajama Sam, players...

Loren The Amazon Princess

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

January 15, 2014

Steam: 83/100

This fantasy role-playing game with tactical turn-based combat follows Princess Loren on a search for her missing mother, the Queen of the Amazons...

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...

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...

Europa Universalis 4: The Art of War

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

October 30, 2014

Steam: 52/100

An expansion for Europa Universalis 4, The Art of War focuses on the Thirty Years’ War and political instability between church and state. It adds...

Mount & Blade: Warband – Viking Conquest

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, DLC, Slasher, Third-person view, Historical, Open world, Medieval era

December 11, 2014

Steam: 69/100

An expansion for Mount & Blade: Warband, transporting players to the harsh Viking era of the 9th century. Britain and the coasts of Northern Europe...

Silent Service 2

Simulation, Action, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Historical

November 6, 2014

Steam: 69/100

A World War II submarine simulator in which the player carries out combat missions against enemy ships. Silent Service 2 features new targets and...

Tales from the Dragon Mountain: The Strix

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Hidden Objects, Point & Click

February 20, 2014

Steam: 47/100

This hidden-object adventure with puzzles follows Mina, who is haunted by dreams of a fire consuming her grandmother Kate’s house. Seeking to...

Vangers

Action, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Racing, Adventure

August 26, 1998

Players: 9/10

Steam: 96/100

Vangers is a top-down racing action game set in a fantasy setting. Humanity learned to colonize new worlds thanks to technology and esotericism, but...

OlliOlli

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Sports game, Indie, Skateboards

January 21, 2014

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This skateboarding arcade game revolves around landing tricks and maintaining control through obstacle-filled levels. Players perform more than 120...

Jagged Alliance: Flashback

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Role-playing game

May 15, 2014

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 38/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Jagged Alliance: Flashback is the incredible return of the Jagged Alliance series of tactical strategies. The game takes place during the Cold War on...

BOMB: Who let the dogfight?

Action, Flight Simulator, Indie, Third-person view, Simulation

August 1, 2014

Steam: 62/100

BOMB: Who let the dogfight? — a multiplayer arcade flight simulator with a third-person view. The game takes place in a fascinating...

CLR: Cannons Lasers Rockets

Action, MMO, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Space

February 4, 2014

Steam: 25/100

This space arcade with MOBA elements centers on ship-to-ship combat, with 2D battles set in a 3D environment. Players attack with cannons, lasers and...

100% Orange Juice

Arcade, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Card game, Anime / Manga, Online

May 16, 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

100% Orange Juice is an arcade adventure puzzle game with elements of a board card game. You will travel to an amazing world where dogs, people and...

J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

September 12, 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This science-fiction puzzle adventure follows Rachel Manners, an astrobiologist who awakens aboard a damaged spacecraft to find that she is the...

Rock Boshers DX

Action, Adventure, Indie

October 23, 2012

Steam: 89/100

This arcade action-adventure casts the young Queen Victoria in an alternate history, stranded on Mars and trying to escape home. Styled as a...

Mind: Path to Thalamus

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Walking Simulator

August 5, 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...

LISA: The Painful

Role-playing game, Side view, Comedy, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure

December 15, 2014

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A dark role-playing game in a post-apocalyptic world, full of dark humor and unexpected stories. Going in search of the protagonist's daughter, the...

Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted School House

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

August 29, 1996

Steam: 98/100

This underwater point-and-click adventure follows Freddi Fish and Luther as they investigate a ghost haunting a schoolhouse and the disappearance of...

Octodad: Dadliest Catch

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...

Journey of a Roach

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Point & Click

November 4, 2013

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This point-and-click adventure unfolds in a post-apocalyptic world where mutated insects have settled in a bomb shelter after a nuclear war. Two...

Deadly 30

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Slasher, Platformer, Indie, Zombies

January 8, 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 80/100

Deadly 30 is a retro-style survival horror game set in a zombie-infested world, where the goal is to survive 30 days and nights while fighting off...

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...