Best Games for Linux of 2016 / Page 7

May 31, 2016

Steam: 72/100

The Way of Life Free Edition is a walking simulator about everyday experiences seen through the eyes of three characters at different stages of life: an adult, an...

hackmud

Indie, Simulation, MMO

September 22, 2016

Steam: 78/100

This multiplayer role-playing game takes place in a retro-futuristic cyberpunk internet, where players inhabit digital personas amid abandoned networks, hidden...

Happy Room

Simulation, Action, Sandbox

December 19, 2016

Steam: 90/100

This action sandbox simulator is set in a laboratory where weapons are tested on artificially grown human clones. The player oversees the trials and attempts to...

MYTH - Steam Edition

Visual novel, Indie, Horror

October 28, 2016

Steam: 88/100

This horror visual novel follows Meito Tanabe, who lives in a world of light without shadows. Shimon, a girl who has a shadow, brings him to the world of...

Polandball: Can into Space!

Casual game, Indie, Role-playing game

June 15, 2016

Steam: 93/100

This casual role-playing game follows Polandball on a mission to break through Earth’s atmosphere and reach the Moon, proving the other countryballs wrong. The...

Aozora Meikyuu

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

January 27, 2016

Steam: 83/100

This romance visual novel follows Aoi Takamatsu, who left school and became a shut-in after a failed confession of love. One warm summer day, while out shopping, he...

Buried: An Interactive Story

Indie, Adventure, Text quest

January 21, 2016

Steam: 95/100

This text-based adventure follows logger Roger Hastings, who wakes to find his crew missing and has no memory of what happened. As he searches for them, he uncovers...

Jelly Killer

Indie, Casual game, Action

March 24, 2016

Steam: 81/100

This retro platformer combines action and puzzles with a story about a sentient biological weapon that escapes from a laboratory in 2784. After decades of zombie...

Cards of Cthulhu

Card game, Roguelike, In real time

October 11, 2016

Steam: 73/100

This card-based role-playing roguelike is set in a sci-fi world styled after low-budget horror films. The protagonist builds a deck of spells to fight Cthulhu’s...

A Boy and His Blob

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view, Adventure, Remake

October 13, 2009

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A Boy and His Blob is a fascinating puzzle-platformer with a side view in a sci-fi setting, which is a remake of David Crane's A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on...

King Oddball

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

September 27, 2012

Players: 7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This arcade puzzle game follows a king who swings a boulder with his tongue and uses it to destroy targets. The player chooses when to release the rock, with...

Poly Bridge

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Construction, Simulation

July 12, 2016

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 73/100

The game allows you to build bridges from different parts. Buildings must comply with the laws of physics, especially those parts that relate to the resistance of...

Hard West: Scars of Freedom

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Adventure, Role-playing game

March 3, 2016

Steam: 81/100

Hard West: Scars of Freedom is an addition to the turn-based tactical western. The story of the DLC tells the story of a woman named Liberty, who at one time was...

Candle

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie, Puzzle

November 11, 2016

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Candle is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in a fantasy setting. You have to take on the role of the brave young man Teku, who is trying to save the shaman from...

Glitchspace

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

May 5, 2016

Steam: 72/100

Glitchspace is a first-person adventure puzzle game. You are about to enter an amazing electronic world where you need to find a place called "Glitchspace" - a...

War for the Overworld: Heart of Gold

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

May 27, 2016

Steam: 77/100

War for the Overworld: Heart of Gold is an addition to the real-time management strategy and fantasy setting. You will create your own dungeons with your own...

Life in Bunker

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Roguelike, Simulation, Survival

February 25, 2016

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 55/100

Life in Bunker is a top-down real-time management strategy game. The game is entirely dedicated to the construction and organization of life in a bunker. As a...

Hero Generations: ReGen

Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Roguelike, Side view, Grand strategy, Open world

August 19, 2016

Steam: 56/100

Hero Generations: ReGen is a cartoon strategy with role-playing game elements and turn-based battles in a fantasy setting. You will go explore a procedurally...

Agenda

Simulation, Strategy, Indie

September 21, 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 43/100

Agenda is a strategic simulator in which you have to manage an independent international agency and, with its help, achieve world domination. You will be able to...

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Vive la France

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

December 5, 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Euro Truck Simulator 2 — Vive la France is an add-on for a truck driver simulator with first- and third-person views. The addition introduces more than 20...

Gnomoria

Sandbox, City Building, Strategy

February 23, 2016

Steam: 73/100

A sandbox village-management game about a group of gnomes settling new lands and growing their small community into a kingdom. Each playthrough takes place in a...

Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition

Adventure, Indie, Platformer

March 25, 2016

Steam: 96/100

This old-school adventure platformer follows a hero who sings his way through a strange world of floating platforms, colorful enemies, and inexplicable phenomena...

Kindred Spirits on the Roof

Visual novel, Anime / Manga

February 12, 2016

Steam: 97/100

This romantic visual novel follows Toomi Yuna, a student who meets two ghosts on the roof of her girls’ academy. Enoki Sachi and Nagatani Megumi fell in love after...

CUPID - A free to play Visual Novel

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

March 4, 2016

Steam: 87/100

A gothic visual novel about revenge and the different faces of love, set in 18th-century France. After her friend Catherine dies, Rosa blames her fiancé, Marquis...

Lucid9: Inciting Incident

Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

April 14, 2016

Steam: 90/100

This mystery visual novel is set in the fictional metropolis of Isamu in 2018. In the story’s first part, high school student Yama Ishimoto confronts a string of...

UBERMOSH:BLACK

Action, Indie, Arcade

February 17, 2016

Steam: 89/100

This arcade action game in the UBERMOSH series centers on short, 90-second combat runs. The player cuts bullets with a sword, fires heavy guns and blasts enemies...

Sixtieth Kilometer

Visual novel, Indie

August 25, 2016

Steam: 78/100

This visual novel follows passengers on a commuter train that stops beside a pink fog. A man who steps outside dies, leaving the others trapped in the train with no...

Cellar

Arcade, Top-down view, Horror

March 23, 2016

Steam: 100/100

This top-down arcade horror game follows Lily as she explores the dark cellar beneath her house in search of her missing teddy bear. Rendered in pixel art, it draws...

DMT: Dream Dealer Trip

Action, Indie, Casual game

September 25, 2016

Steam: 52/100

This experimental first-person walking simulator takes the player into dreams and follows a journey between worlds. As the surroundings are explored, it remains...

Starlight Vega

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

April 14, 2016

Steam: 92/100

This visual novel follows Aria, a high-school student who accidentally frees the demon Lyria from a stone while exploring her grandfather’s old house with her...

The Hero Project: Redemption Season

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

April 8, 2016

Steam: 63/100

This text-based role-playing adventure follows a superpowered contestant in a reality show for heroes, where winning votes may be the key to saving a sister. The...

Purgatory

Strategy

June 22, 2016

Steam: 59/100

Purgatory is a tactical turn-based strategy game about a protagonist whose death marks the beginning of events in the afterlife. To return to the world of the...

Woodle Tree 2: Worlds

Adventure, Action, MMO

September 16, 2016

Steam: 61/100

This open-world platform adventure follows the son of the hero who saved the world in the previous game. A black substance that drains energy and life from living...

Selma and the Wisp

Indie, Adventure, Casual game

August 4, 2016

Steam: 62/100

This eerie platform adventure follows a child alone in the darkness, facing her worst nightmare. Lights offer a glimmer of hope, while a wisp leads the way through...

Secret Santa

Indie, Strategy

December 1, 2016

Steam: 90/100

Secret Santa is a 2D arcade stealth game in which Santa sneaks into houses at night to leave presents by the Christmas trees. The player must deliver the gifts...

Rive

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Beat them all, Indie, Side view

September 13, 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

RIVE is a futuristic shooter-platformer about space scavenger Roughshot, who becomes trapped aboard a mysterious starship and has to form an unexpected alliance...

Gunscape

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Online

March 1, 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Gunscape is a first-person shooter built around a level editor that uses a block-placement interface. Players can create single-player campaigns, co-op maps and...

Soul Axiom

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Science fiction

February 29, 2016

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 51/100

This first-person science-fiction adventure unfolds in Elysia, a digital world where memories and dreams become reality. After a soul is uploaded, the protagonist...

Sol Trader

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Simulation, Indie

June 6, 2016

Steam: 61/100

Sol Trader is a new sci-fi game that puts people and their relationships at the forefront. It's a mix of 2D, classic top-down arcade action with deep, tactical...

Echoes of Aetheria

Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie, Steampunk

January 15, 2016

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Echoes of Aetheria is a turn-based role-playing game in steampunk style, from the creators of the game Skyborn. The events of the game begin with a wedding, where...