The Best Action-adventure Games for Linux

Update, : Vessels of Decay added at rank #43.
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M.E.A.T. (2021)

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Playstation 4 Linux PC Windows

M.E.A.T. is a pixel art RPG game in a horror sci-fi setting, with renowned fight, movement and character development systems. Unravel the mystery of a sinister substance and become the hero of a small Canadian city during the Gold Rush era.

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  • america
  • character
  • rpg
  • dungeon-crawler
  • first-person
  • horror
  • isometric
  • action-adventure
  • customization
  • open-world
  • pixel
  • fps
  • gore
  • exploration
  • shooter

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Resolutiion (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Resolutiion is a fast-paced action-adventure created by two angry German brothers leading a band of vagrants who loaded it with lovely pixels, dirty jokes, deep ideas and badassemotional tunes for 20 hours of punishing combat, rewarding exploration, and layered storytelling. Will you be the player or will you be played? In the Infinite Empire nothing is as it seems.Explore a fractured future, gathering weird weapons and stories, to piece together the past: a friend betrayed, a family broken, worlds at war. To solve the mystery of the Cradles take on a multi-cultural-mashup of cynical gods, emotional machines, zealots, luddites, and furry critters in a world that doesn’t care if it confuses or kills you — oh hey, a kitty!


  • action-adventure
  • soundtrack
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • boss-fight
  • exploration
  • dystopian
  • metroidvania
  • mystery
  • boss
  • story
  • cyberpunk
  • assassin
  • atmospheric
  • fight

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Harmony's Odyssey (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Harmony’s Odyssey is a 3D fantasy adventure puzzle game set on mythical dioramas full of riddles, perky creatures and magic. Embark on a fantastic journey through remote fabled lands tangled by a rowdy cat and bring peace to its inhabitants.

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  • platform
  • puzzle
  • character
  • relaxing
  • family-friendly
  • logic
  • magic
  • action-adventure
  • local
  • cute
  • cartoony
  • 3d
  • customization
  • fantasy
  • colourful

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Cold Heart (2021)

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Mac OS Linux Xbox 360 wii u Playstation 3 PC Windows

Fight and protect the cold heart against the fire creatures in this magic game.


  • collectathon
  • action-adventure
  • hack-and-slash
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • survival
  • cartoony
  • top-down
  • magic
  • counter
  • pve
  • casual
  • crime

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The Genesis Project (2022)

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early access PC Windows Linux Mac OS

The Genesis Project is an attempt to replicate Sburb from the popular webcomic Homestuck, made by Andrew Hussie.

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  • rpg
  • party
  • memes
  • base-building
  • building
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action-adventure
  • character
  • 3d
  • tag
  • exploration
  • customization
  • crafting
  • management
  • fantasy

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Mushy (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Mushy is a round based first person shooter. The attackers plant a bomb and the defenders defuse it; all while engaging in armed combat!

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  • faith
  • modern
  • action-adventure
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • cartoony
  • minimalist
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • atmospheric
  • casual
  • space
  • first-person
  • linear

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Lenna's Inception (2020)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The legendary hero is dead, and a strange glitch is spreading across the kingdom. Explore dangerous dungeons, and defeat the eight archangels to restore order to an unraveling world in this epic action-adventure RPG.

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  • multiple-endings
  • pixel
  • action-adventure
  • comedy
  • top-down
  • funny
  • retro
  • local
  • dungeon
  • single-player
  • cooperative
  • zelda
  • procedural
  • boss
  • rpg

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!AnyWay! (2022)

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PC Windows Linux

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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LOST ORBIT: Terminal Velocity (2019)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

Prepare to embark on a perilous journey filled with deadly pirates, aliens, asteroid fields and the emptiness of space! The definitive version of the fast-paced, dodge ‘em up, now with more levels, more story and more ways to die!


  • precision
  • cinematic
  • arcade
  • beautiful
  • action-adventure
  • fast-paced
  • runner
  • flight
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • 3d
  • comedy
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • galaga

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Skellboy Refractured (2021)

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Play as Skippy, the square, flexible skeleton in this cute Action-RPG, to keep a heartbroken court magician from destroying the world with his army of monsters and undead! Change out your body parts with those of enemies and friends and become the hero of Cubold Kingdom!


  • 2.5d
  • rpg
  • voxel
  • action
  • action-adventure
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • arpg
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • zombies
  • metroidvania
  • boss-fight
  • platform
  • boss

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