Best Games for Linux of 2014 / Page 5

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Roguelike, Adventure, Procedural generation

October 24, 2014

Steam: 79/100

Sproggiwood is an arcade RPG with action and roguelike elements with an isometric view. You are a simple farmer from the peaceful island of Clog. One moment you are...

Derrick the Deathfin

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

October 9, 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Derrick the Deathfin is a unique side-scrolling arcade adventure game with a world made entirely of paper. You will plunge into a bizarre underwater world, where...

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...

Rogue's Tale

Roguelike, Role-playing game, Indie

March 28, 2014

Steam: 74/100

This turn-based dungeon crawler is set in Frostmourn Keep and the dungeons beneath it, in the World's End Mountains. The goal is to overthrow the current king and...

Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade

Visual novel, Adventure, Indie

November 11, 2014

Steam: 78/100

This detective visual novel takes place in a dark world ravaged by a pandemic, where five clans rule under the authority of an immortal undead king. Young...

Merchants of Kaidan

Strategy, Simulation, Role-playing game

November 10, 2014

Steam: 59/100

This trading role-playing game follows a merchant seeking to regain his wealth and honor and avenge his father’s murder. Starting with a single cart and a small...

War in a Box: Paper Tanks

Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

July 4, 2014

Steam: 72/100

This tower defense strategy game centers on a battle against paper tanks escaping from a toy box and threatening to make a mess in a room. The player places...

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 Door

Arcade, Adventure, Point & Click, Horror

March 1, 2013

Steam: 95/100

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...

Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, Isometric, Futurism (Future)

February 25, 2014

Steam: 70/100

This futuristic arcade platformer with shooter elements follows galactic heroine Serena S as she sets out to punish the Space Prince for trolling her on Spacebook...

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...

99 Levels To Hell

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Shooter

February 19, 2014

Steam: 58/100

This fantasy platform shooter sends the hero into dungeons filled with monsters, traps, and a path leading to the devil. Each run generates a new set of levels...

1001 Spikes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

January 18, 2011

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This arcade platformer with puzzle elements follows Aban Hawkins as he searches the ruins of Ukampa in South America for his missing father, archaeologist Jim...

Rex Rocket

Arcade, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Action, Adventure, Indie

June 25, 2014

Steam: 71/100

Set in Earth’s distant future, this 2D platformer follows a former war hero trying to stop a starship’s rogue artificial intelligence. The player chooses Captain...

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...

140

Platformer, Music game, Puzzle, Indie

October 16, 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

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, colorful world...

Space Hulk: Ascension

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Tactics, Role-playing game

November 12, 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This turn-based tactical strategy game, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, follows a squad of Space Marine Terminators exploring ancient vessels lost in the...

Daedalus: No Escape

Arcade, Beat them all, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action, Online

October 28, 2014

Steam: 80/100

Daedalus: No Escape is a dynamic top-down arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. You will act as a brave space marine and go to clear a large spaceship. A horde of...

Last Federation

Simulation, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Space

April 18, 2014

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Last Federation is a fascinating global strategy game with turn-based combat in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place in the distant future in the...

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...

Robotex

Indie, Casual game, Action

November 18, 2014

Steam: 30/100

This science-fiction action game with puzzles follows humanity’s search for a new home: the only planet discovered is inhabited by hostile monsters. The protagonist...

Journal

Indie, Adventure, Walking Simulator

February 17, 2014

Steam: 78/100

This narrative adventure unfolds in a hand-painted world and follows a young girl as she faces the choices and responsibilities of growing up. The story explores...

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...

Akaneiro: Demon Hunters

Role-playing game, Online, Hack and slash, Isometric, Free game, Action, Indie

November 25, 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 35/100

Metacritic: 53/100

An action RPG set in a dark fantasy interpretation of Edo-era Japan, where Japanese folklore meets elements of Little Red Riding Hood. Players hunt mythical...

Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet

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

April 6, 2000

Steam: 97/100

This point-and-click adventure with educational elements follows a hero who reaches an island caught in a dispute between fats and sweets. A chase after some...

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...

Under a Killing Moon

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Point & Click, Detective

June 16, 2009

Players: 1/10

Steam: 96/100

This detective adventure with elements of a comedy thriller unfolds in a futuristic world in December 2042. Private investigator Tex Murphy must stop evil forces...

Nekro

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Q1 2014

Nekro is an isometric RPG with action, hack and slash and fantasy games from DarkForge and darkForge Games LLC. The game is published by DarkForge and darkForge...

Hack 'n' Slash

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie, Slasher

September 9, 2014

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Hack 'n' Slash is a fantasy puzzle adventure about a hero who defies a wizard’s restrictions and sets out to discover why the kingdom has fallen into disarray...

GoD Factory: Wingmen

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

August 29, 2014

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 76/100

GoD Factory: Wingmen is a team-based multiplayer space action game from Nine Dots Studio. Two teams of 4 people each will have to fight each other in various space...

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...

Starwhal: Just the Tip

Arcade, Fighting, Indie, Side view, Online, Casual game

September 29, 2014

Players: 5.8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Starwhal: Just the Tip is a side-scrolling multiplayer arcade fighting game featuring exciting space battles between narwhals, cetacean mammals armed with a long...

Shopkeeper

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

October 23, 2014

Steam: 20/100

This point-and-click narrative adventure follows a man who must choose the right antique to impress a wealthy relative. His choice will have dreadful...

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 character created...

Planet Stronghold

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Visual novel, Indie

May 5, 2014

Steam: 72/100

Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi RPG adventure with turn-based combat. You will play as a recruit who ends up serving at the most famous human outpost in the galaxy...

LYNE

Puzzle, Logic, Casual game

March 17, 2014

Steam: 95/100

LYNE is a minimalist logic puzzle game about linking shapes with paths and filling the board. Its simple premise leads to intricate routes that call for careful...

CoH 2 - The Western Front Armies: Oberkommando West

Strategy

June 23, 2014

Steam: 74/100

This strategic army for Company of Heroes 2 represents Oberkommando West on the Western Front of World War II. Despite Germany’s weakened wartime economy, its...

Ichi

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

June 12, 2014

Steam: 84/100

Ichi is a casual puzzle game controlled with a single button. Each level challenges the player to collect golden rings by rotating objects, using teleporters...

Pyrite Heart

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

September 25, 2014

Steam: 66/100

This visual novel follows Princess Ahri Remono, who accepts a challenge after a feud with her brother and leaves the Imperial Palace to study beyond its walls. On...

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...