The Best 2D scroller Games for Linux - Page 3

Update : Terminator 2D: No Fate added at rank #38.
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Professor Doctor Jetpack (2024)

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Professor Doctor Jetpack is a physics based lunar lander game, in which you embark on a dangerous journey to ... control your jetpack. Also to save the world.

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  • precision
  • platform
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • physics
  • pixel
  • flight
  • parody
  • cartoony
  • hand-drawn
  • funny
  • arcade
  • atmospheric
  • controller-support
  • casual

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Primal Light (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.

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  • platform
  • precision
  • beautiful
  • retro
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • old-school
  • linear

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Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps & Beans 2 (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

After the shipwreck in Africa, Bud and Terence save a village from criminals and make their way home on a raft loaded with bananas. But of course it wouldn't be a Bud and Terence adventure if everything went according to plan.

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  • 4-player
  • local
  • 2d
  • cooperative
  • 1980s
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • comedy
  • family-friendly
  • retro
  • funny
  • fight
  • arcade
  • party
  • relaxing

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Penguin Panic (2025)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

A penguin's life is never easy. Even more so when you're a penguin mother, looking to protect her eggs. Penguin Panic is a cute platformer and features simple controls, secret challenges and cheerful graphics. A fast-paced action game that no one will want to put down.

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  • 2d
  • platform
  • casual
  • colourful
  • grand-strategy
  • scroller
  • cute
  • 1990s
  • cartoony
  • fast-paced
  • family-friendly
  • action
  • strategy
  • nature

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Elsie (2024)

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Linux Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Elsie is a technicolour, hyperkinetic, rogue-like action-platformer filled with procedurally generated levels, an army of robots to blast through, and a wide scope of items & weaponry to make each run unique. Master countless magitek weapons and abilities in order to embrace the chaos.

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  • rogue-like
  • 2d
  • perma-death
  • modern
  • scroller
  • platform
  • procedural
  • bullet-hell
  • robots
  • futuristic
  • pixel
  • replay-value
  • retro

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Sunblaze (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Lead Josie, aka. Sunblaze into a superhero training simulator built by her dad, a retired protagonist fighting the evils of our universe. Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging levels, an awesome story, a superb soundtrack, and a beautiful game design.


  • platform
  • superhero
  • unforgiving
  • precision
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • training
  • stylized
  • scroller
  • controller-support
  • cartoony
  • cute
  • pixel
  • story
  • robots

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!AnyWay! (2022)

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Anyway is a 2D platformer adventure in which every day is not the same: There are some secret rules to this place which can change from day to day. So be cautious, it may be dangerous out there!

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  • 2d
  • platform
  • action-adventure
  • precision
  • family-friendly
  • scroller
  • colourful
  • metroidvania
  • casual
  • character
  • atmospheric
  • comic
  • attack
  • score
  • sandbox

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Hack and Slime (2022)

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early access Linux PC Windows

What could be scarier than a massive dungeon-tower infested with skulls, ogres, and dragons? That those same monsters ride the largest multinational in the world with it. You know; business is business.

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  • scroller
  • rpg
  • hack-and-slash
  • 1990s
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action-adventure
  • magic
  • pixel
  • action
  • colourful
  • comedy
  • 2d
  • medieval
  • funny
  • platform

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Tres-Bashers (2021)

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Tres-Bashers is a 2D monster-bashing adventure featuring a big interconnected map full of cryptids, secrets, and more! Find 40 different monster types and whack 'em with your baseball bat!

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  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • lore
  • scroller
  • 1990s
  • action-adventure
  • magic
  • horror
  • pixel
  • 1980s
  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • colourful
  • funny
  • cute

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o---o (2023)

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An arcade game styled after classic titles of the first generation of consoles. Gameplay set in the cybernetic sphere, accompanied by electronic music matching the game's visuals.

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  • precision
  • arcade
  • futuristic
  • psychedelic
  • music
  • platform
  • minimalist
  • illuminati
  • 2d
  • fast-paced
  • scroller
  • runner

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