January 2017 - games, that were released this month for Linux

January 2, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 81/100

A difficult platformer built around repeating levels until they are completed. Players tackle the stages again and again, and can challenge friends. Up to five new...

Artillerists

Strategy, Indie

January 2, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 71/100

This turn-based isometric strategy game centers on a military conflict between two colonies, where the struggle for resources and power shapes the battles. In...

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+

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

January 3, 2017 → Linux

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. The addition has expanded possibilities for creating...

Redneck Rampage

Action, Shooter, First-person view

January 4, 2017 → Linux

Players: 10/10

Steam: 77/100

A first-person shooter about two characters trying to get home to Hickston after crash-landing a UFO in the desert. Their route takes them through jackalope farms...

Milkmaid of the Milky Way

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

January 5, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a pixel adventure game in soft colors, telling the story of a cute girl who suddenly finds herself in a space opera. It all started in...

Pictopix

Logic, Puzzle, Replayability

January 5, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 96/100

Pictopix is a logic puzzle game based on nonograms: players use clues to color cells on a grid and reveal an image. Puzzles can be solved through logic without...

Avenger Bird

Indie, Adventure, Casual game

January 5, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 72/100

This pixel-art side-scrolling platformer follows a bird on a quest to rescue its kidnapped chicks. The adventure spans four worlds connected by an open...

MHRD

Simulation, Indie, Puzzle

January 5, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 88/100

This puzzle game centers on designing hardware circuits at the Microhard startup amid the technology of the 1980s. The player writes designs in the MHRD hardware...

Lily's Day Off

Comedy, Adventure, Anime / Manga

January 6, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 87/100

This comedy visual novel follows a chance encounter between the protagonist and popular singer Lilypad Lily. After waking up by the side of the road beside her, the...

Detention

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

January 12, 2017 → Linux

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Detention is an indie puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. At Greenwood High School, located in a remote mountainous area, two students are trapped...

Rise and Shine

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Shooter

January 13, 2017 → Linux

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Rise & Shine is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with colorful graphics. The game takes place on the planet where the characters from their classic games...

I Am The Hero

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Adventure

January 16, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 65/100

I Am The Hero is an arcade action game with fighting game elements and a side view. The events of the game will tell the story of a mysterious hero with a glorious...

Galaxy Admirals

Strategy

January 17, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 78/100

Galaxy Admirals is a turn-based space strategy game about destroying an opponent’s base in combat. Two military bases stand on a hexagonal field, where players...

Torn Tales

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

January 17, 2017 → Linux

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 50/100

Torn Tales is an action role-playing game with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. The events of the game take place in the world of various fairy tales...

Hive Jump

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Roguelike

January 18, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 68/100

Hive Jump is a futuristic side-scrolling action platformer. In the 24th century, humanity is at war with a hostile alien race. Space Corporation J.U.M.P. remains...

Once Upon an All Hallow's Eve

Simulation, Visual novel, Free game

January 19, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 83/100

This otome visual novel follows college student Cara Lee, who finds herself alone in a dark forest after a landslide. Before the start of her final semester, she...

Queen Of Thieves

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

January 20, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 60/100

Queen Of Thieves is a fantasy RPG with Japanese-style dating sim elements. For a long time, three sisters Joanna, Kira and Talia lived their own lives. They...

Da Capo 3 R

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Fantasy

January 20, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 96/100

This romantic visual novel follows a new student at Weather Vane, a school of magic hidden in a pocket dimension beneath 1950s London. Built on three floating...

Frequent Flyer

Action, Indie, Casual game

January 20, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 88/100

An arcade shoot ’em up inspired by classic games in the genre, where a plane faces successive waves of enemies. The goal is to survive for as long as possible by...

Slash It 2

Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Action, Music game, Casual game

January 24, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 88/100

Slash It 2 is an indie musical adventure game. The goal is to press letters, numbers and enter words at the right time and in the right...

Alpacapaca Dash

Indie, Casual game, Runner

January 24, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 91/100

Alpacapaca Dash is an endless runner with shooter elements, in which alpacas make their way through a changing, dark world. The player runs and jumps, dodges...

Cayne

Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Free game

January 24, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 80/100

Cayne is a shareware adventure horror game with an isometric camera view. The game's events revolve around a pregnant woman named Hadley, who is about to give...

Memoranda

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

January 25, 2017 → Linux

Players: 10/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Memoranda is an atmospheric 2D point and click adventure filled with stories from Haruki Murakami. The game tells the story of the main character, who suffers from...

Ellipsis

Arcade, Action, Indie, Shooter

January 25, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 96/100

Ellipsis — A top-down neon skydiving shooter where you control a futuristic spaceship. The main task — Avoid all sorts of obstacles on your way. In the...

Vector 36

Racing, Construction, Space

January 25, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 80/100

This physics-based racing game centers on competitions across the terraformed surface of Mars, where pilots steer vehicles that skim above the ground. Players...

Normal Lost Phone

Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

January 26, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A Normal Lost Phone is an indie puzzle game in which you have to investigate a smartphone lost on the street. You will study the owner's private life, his messages...

Imprint-X

Arcade, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Casual game, Adventure

January 26, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Imprint-X is a top-down arcade puzzle game for mobile platforms. You will be able to go into the minds of robotic creatures that are infected with a deadly virus...

Love Ribbon

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

January 27, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 91/100

This visual novel follows Iris as her younger sister Zoey moves in with her and transfers to her school, setting the stage for a forbidden attraction between the...

Sakura Agent

Visual novel, Adventure, Casual game

January 27, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 80/100

This adventure visual novel follows Akira, an agent protecting the world from incursions by strange creatures from another dimension. He is assisted by his aide and...

True or False 2

Trivia, Comedy, Puzzle

January 27, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 86/100

A quiz with elements of humor and puzzle-solving, True or False 2 challenges players to decide which statements are true and which are false. Some unusual claims...

UBERMOSH:WRAITH

Action, Indie, Arcade

January 29, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 93/100

UBERMOSH:WRAITH is an arcade action game and the fourth entry in the UBERMOSH series. In an arena filled with enemies and bullets, the player cuts down projectiles...

Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game

January 30, 2017 → Linux

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories is a Japanese-style turn-based strategy RPG. More than 200 characters await you to create a squad, a new Dark Court system where good is...

Wells

Arcade, Action, Indie, Steampunk, Side view

January 30, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 73/100

Wells is a side-view arcade action game in steampunk style. You will go on dangerous adventures and face off against hordes of enemies, giant bosses and massive...

Quote

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie

January 31, 2017 → Linux (Early Access)

Steam: 72/100

Quote — an adventure role-playing action game with an isometric camera view. Once, Bliss, the god of ignorance and foolishness, destroyed all knowledge to protect...

Angels with Scaly Wings

Adventure, Simulation, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Indie

January 31, 2017 → Linux

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Angels with Scaly Wings is a unique dating simulator with dragons, presented in the form of a visual novel. Acting as a representative of humanity, the player needs...

Linelight

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle, Virtual Reality (VR)

January 31, 2017 → Linux

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 77/100

The player controls a light line and goes through puzzle levels or intricate labyrinths. Each mechanic is intuitive, and the difficulty of tasks increases...