Best Games for Linux of 2015 / Page 3

Battle of Empires: 1914-1918

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Tactics, Historical, Action

July 22, 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 68/100

This real-time tactical strategy game depicts battles of the First World War through story campaigns and multiplayer combat. Missions feature trench fighting...

12 Labours of Hercules

Strategy, Casual game, Puzzle

March 23, 2015

Steam: 90/100

This time-management adventure and casual strategy game follows Hercules through a world inspired by Greek mythology. After Hades kidnaps his wife, the hero sets...

9 Clues 2: The Ward

Hidden Objects, Adventure, Casual game

July 23, 2015

Steam: 90/100

This hidden-object adventure follows an investigation at a psychiatric hospital on a secluded island in 1950s America. A young detective and her partner answer a...

SLAMMED!

Indie, Role-playing game, Wrestling

June 28, 2013

Steam: 93/100

This text-based interactive wrestling RPG follows an aspiring professional wrestler and the shift from a scripted steel-cage match to a real fight. The story...

A Wise Use of Time

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

September 4, 2015

Steam: 79/100

A text-based science-fiction adventure about a person who can freeze time. The power makes it possible to rob a casino, rescue a celebrity, or escape death, but...

LocoSoccer Classic

Sports game, Indie, Strategy

December 10, 2015

Steam: 64/100

A physics-based soccer game in which a team scores goals to win cups and unlock customization items. Players choose a difficulty and control five footballers split...

Without Within 2

Indie, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

November 9, 2015

Steam: 90/100

A visual novel about Vinty, who travels to Melbourne to meet her idol, the star Excelia. Along the way, she receives reminders from her mother and sister and...

Flight of the Paladin

Action, Indie, Adventure

October 23, 2015

Steam: 53/100

A fast-paced top-down shooter in which a knight of light battles creatures of darkness. In Campaign Mode, the hero fights increasingly numerous enemies, with each...

Cross Set

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle, Free game

November 17, 2015

Steam: 77/100

Cross Set is a number puzzle played on a square grid of up to 9×9 cells. The goal is to fill every row and column with the numbers from 1 to the grid’s size while...

Victor Vran

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

July 24, 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This isometric action RPG follows demon hunter Victor as he battles monsters in a dark fantasy world. Combat involves dodging attacks, jumping and using special...

Jotun

Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie

September 29, 2015

Players: 7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Jotun is a hand-drawn action adventure game set in the world of Norse mythology. In the game, you will try on the role of Toru, a Viking warrior who died an...

Always The Same Blue Sky...

Visual novel, Casual game, Anime / Manga

May 21, 2015

Steam: 77/100

This visual novel follows a teenager transferred to a school on a remote island and the connection between two young people who help each other make sense of a...

Invisible Apartment

Free game, Anime / Manga, Visual novel

March 2, 2015

Steam: 70/100

A cyberpunk visual novel about a girl hacker trying to find her place in a modern high-tech society. The story explores surveillance, hacking, artificial...

Zombie Exodus

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Text quest, Indie

December 4, 2011

Steam: 84/100

Zombie Exodus is a role-playing adventure horror game with a first-person view. You'll create your own character and fight your way out of a zombie-infested city to...

Social Justice Warriors

Educational game (Education), Arcade, Japanese role-playing game

May 12, 2014

Steam: 50/100

This satirical role-playing game recasts fantasy RPG heroes as social justice advocates facing internet trolls. Players choose a paladin, cleric, mage, or rogue...

Queen's Quest: Tower of Darkness

Adventure, Casual game, Hidden Objects

September 10, 2015

Steam: 65/100

This hidden-object adventure inspired by a Grimm fairy tale is set in a magical kingdom, where a sorcerer kidnaps the newborn daughter of a royal heiress and turns...

Train Valley

Business / Management, Top-down view, Trains, Indie, Replayability

September 16, 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 88/100

A railway management puzzle set across different historical eras, with the goal of connecting cities and keeping trains moving safely. The player lays tracks...

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked

Action, DLC, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Survival, Indie

December 1, 2015

Players: 7/10

Steam: 95/100

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked is an add-on for the isometric survival action game Don't Starve. It adds new characters and creatures, several locations and seasonal...

Valhalla Hills

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

August 24, 2015

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A strategy and simulation game about Vikings who are denied entry to Valhalla after death. Turned away by Odin, they travel through dangerous mountains toward a...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

First-person view, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Logic, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

October 8, 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a co-op VR puzzle game about defusing a bomb. One of the participants has an explosive device with a timer on the screen, but...

Caromble!

Arcade, Pinball, Arkanoid, Indie, Science fiction, Old school, Action

August 28, 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 73/100

A three-dimensional puzzle game that combines elements of physics, pinball, and platforming. In the story, the player discovers ancient powers to stop an impending...

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi

Visual novel, Anime / Manga

May 15, 2015

Steam: 95/100

This sound novel is a supernatural mystery about a series of deaths and disappearances in the village of Hinamizawa. The story begins in June of the 58th year of...

Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

September 1, 2014

Steam: 82/100

This comedic visual novel follows a cast of characters whose genders are changed by unforeseen and absurd circumstances. Players choose from thirteen protagonists...

Disillusions Manga Horror

Indie, Adventure, Horror

April 6, 2013

Steam: 61/100

This first-person adventure horror follows two friends, DiS and Vigil, as they enter a haunted house featured in the newspapers. While exploring, they uncover...

RFLEX

Action, Casual game, Indie

August 26, 2015

Steam: 91/100

RFLEX is a neo-arcade action game centered on dodging hazards and chasing high scores across a series of levels. Players tackle five challenging stages, trying to...

Mu Complex

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle

October 24, 2015

Steam: 79/100

This adventure puzzle game follows a hacker infiltrating a secret corporate complex alone to uncover its hidden secrets. The investigation suggests that someone...

Champion of the Gods

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

July 17, 2015

Steam: 85/100

This text-based role-playing game is set in a world inspired by ancient Greek myth, where a hero’s fate is bound up with the gods and the struggle to save their...

The Dwarf Run

Role-playing game, Indie, Adventure

October 21, 2015

Steam: 74/100

This old-fashioned RPG with turn-based combat and point-and-click adventure elements follows a young dwarf, Dalain Stonecruncher, and his companions on an...

Among the Heavens

Casual game, Simulation, Match-3 (Three in a row)

November 6, 2015

Steam: 87/100

A casual tavern-management game set in a fantasy world, where two friends, Cid and Markus, set out to restore an old establishment. Playing as Cid, the player...

War for the Overworld

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Isometric, Dungeons, Sandbox, Business / Management

April 2, 2015

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 65/100

War for the Overworld is a real-time strategy game with god simulator elements and an isometric camera view, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Overlord and...

Verdun

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical, Cooperative (co-op), MMO

April 28, 2015

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Verdun is an online first-person shooter set in the First World War. Realistic gameplay awaits you, allowing you to feel the horror of war. The game features...

Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces

Online, Strategy, DLC, In real time, Isometric, Historical

September 2, 2015

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces is a stand-alone multiplayer expansion for the historical real-time strategy Company of Heroes 2. In the game, you will lead...

Cities: Skylines - After Dark

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Business / Management, Simulation, City Building

September 24, 2015

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

After Dark is an add-on for the city-planning simulator Cities: Skylines. It adds day and night cycles to the game. The mayor will need to provide entertainment and...

Celestian Tales: Old North

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

August 10, 2015

Steam: 69/100

Celestian Tales: Old North is an adventure RPG with Japanese-style turn-based combat. The game takes place in a colorful fantasy world, where six brave heroes must...

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Replayability

October 30, 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 85/100

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It adds over 100 hours of content, including the new...

Plug & Play

Indie, Casual game, Adventure

March 5, 2015

Steam: 84/100

A surreal interactive animation about a world of plugs, drawn by Michael Frei and coded by Mario von Rickenbach. The player interacts with the scenes as characters...

99 Waves to Die

Action, Indie

April 9, 2015

Steam: 78/100

99 Waves to Die is a twin-stick arcade shooter inspired by arcade games and 8-bit home computers and consoles of the 1980s. The player pilots a ship and fights off...

Gunnheim

Action, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

August 10, 2015

Steam: 40/100

Gunnheim is a top-down cooperative shooter about Viking warriors armed with guns. When the Lord of Death gets drunk during Ragnarok and chaos breaks loose, the...

Asphyxia

Visual novel, Indie, Simulation

August 4, 2015

Steam: 86/100

Asphyxia is a visual novel about Samantha Coleridge, who is struggling with depression after a falling-out with her best friend, Lillian Wordsworth. A school trip...

The Way We All Go (2015)

Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

March 24, 2015

Steam: 86/100

A horror visual novel with romance elements, set in a Japanese village in the 1980s. Atcchan returns to his hometown two years after leaving, with only three days...