The Best 1990s Games for Linux - Page 5

Update : Terminator 2D: No Fate added at rank #11.
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PUP BOY COWBOY: Infinite Desert Edition (2025)

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Dive into a classic arcade-style shooter featuring slick gameplay, goofy enemies, and increasing difficulty that’ll push your reflexes to the edge.

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  • shooter
  • noir
  • 3d
  • comic
  • shoot-em-up
  • stylized
  • 1990s
  • minimalist
  • action-adventure
  • book
  • arena
  • dystopian
  • fps
  • comedy
  • first-person

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The Ghost of Alcantra (2025)

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The Ghost of Alcantra is a free kinetic romance/mystery vn that alternates between two perspectives, one focusing on a blossoming romantic relationship, and another focused on unraveling a murder mystery.

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  • philosophical
  • visual-novel
  • romance
  • emotional
  • immersive
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • linear
  • simulation
  • text
  • life
  • detective
  • comedy
  • stylized
  • first-person

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tranceWave NEO (2024)

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tranceWave NEO is a classic arcade twin-stick shmup, inspired by others in the "trance shooter" genre. Move, shoot, survive, and aim for a high score!

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  • twin-stick
  • top-down
  • psychedelic
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • 1990s
  • abstract
  • 1980s
  • modern
  • minimalist
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • old-school
  • arcade
  • atmospheric

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The Shadow Over Cyberspace (2025)

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Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.

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  • lovecraftian
  • choices
  • horror
  • lgbtq
  • hacking
  • 1990s
  • visual-novel
  • cyberpunk
  • sci-fi
  • historical
  • alternate
  • text
  • multiple-endings
  • psychological
  • conversation

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Time of War - Airstrike (2024)

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Dogfight through time! Upgrade your plane, from biplanes to modern fighter jets. Face off against historical and futuristic foes, and dominate the skies!

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  • 3d
  • shoot-em-up
  • transportation
  • flight
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • real-time
  • historical
  • alternate
  • tactical
  • simulation
  • family-friendly
  • fight
  • war

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Sees Game (2023)

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Play as Sees in a reimagined take of the classic Snake game. Eat apples and compete with your friends for the hi-score!

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  • 1990s
  • memes
  • cartoony
  • top-down
  • comedy
  • pixel
  • parody
  • 2d
  • cute
  • casual
  • arcade
  • strategy
  • funny
  • old-school
  • racing

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Terminal Madness - The Awakening (2023)

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Terminal Madness 2 Awakening is the sequel and continues the story of Crypto, who tries to achieve his dream and become the greatest hacker in the world. Help Crypto to overcome all odds and immerse yourself in this fun, classic styled point and click adventure game.

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  • hacking
  • comedy
  • point-and-click
  • 1990s
  • walking-simulator
  • visual-novel
  • logic
  • cyberpunk
  • cartoony
  • action-adventure
  • detective
  • futuristic
  • third-person
  • colourful
  • 2d

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Gore Crush (2024)

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Crush body parts together in this gory soft physics puzzle game. Create disgusting combos as your smash together like body parts keeping your bloody abattoir from overflowing as you chase ever higher scores.

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  • dark
  • attack
  • score
  • gore
  • demons
  • stylized
  • 1990s
  • physics
  • colourful
  • 1980s
  • relaxing
  • dystopian
  • gothic
  • pixel
  • 2d

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The Darkness Below (2024)

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Embark on an epic journey into "The Darkness Below", a homage to the golden era of 90's cRPGs, with grid-based movement, turn-based combat and 2.5D perspective. Wander a vast and colorful fantasy world filled with puzzles, exotic creatures, forgotten dungeons and ancient guardians.

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  • rpg
  • party
  • 2.5d
  • movement
  • 1990s
  • lore
  • dungeon-crawler
  • old-school
  • colourful
  • grid
  • magic
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • first-person
  • open-world

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The Patient (2024)

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Dr. Ellen Reed returns to work as a therapist only to discover an inpatient has been mistakenly dosed with a deadly mutative drug. With hospital records erased due to a power outage, she must work overnight to identify and discreetly euthanize the affected patient before it's too late.

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  • horror
  • 1990s
  • time-management
  • choices
  • psychological
  • immersive
  • survival-horror
  • retro
  • dark
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • simulation
  • first-person
  • management
  • 3d

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