The Best Action Games for Linux

Update : Astral Rift added at rank #6.
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Distance (2018)

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Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.


  • racing
  • disney
  • editor
  • level
  • action
  • futuristic
  • rpg
  • boss-fight
  • multiplayer
  • retrospective
  • split-screen
  • fast-paced
  • boss
  • cyberpunk
  • atmospheric

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Grapple Force Rena (2018)

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Linux PC Windows

Swing, climb, grab, and throw in this action platformer where you can grapple anywhere! Using Rena's magic bracelets, hook onto any surface to swing wherever you like, or grab your foes to send them hurtling into each other!

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  • action
  • conspiracy
  • table
  • platform
  • robots
  • retro
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • boss
  • challenging

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Traveler (2015)

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early access Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 PC Windows Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS

Building the game as Open World so you are able to go on in your speed - just to tell, only the ones who want to explore will find out the ultimative ending. Traveler contains 8 different themed worlds you are able to explore by your own.

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  • character
  • quick-time-event
  • shooter
  • story
  • episodic
  • loot
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • customization
  • action
  • first-person
  • pve
  • comedy
  • open-world
  • narrative

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Parasite (2022)

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early access Xbox One Xbox 360 Playstation 3 Linux PC Windows ps1

This is a roguelike open-world sandbox survival horror set in a modern city. Play as an --redacted-- parasite, possess human hosts, exploit and evolve them to help you survive in a hostile world, all to find out your one true purpose.


  • survival-horror
  • rogue-like
  • horror
  • rpg
  • traditional
  • modern
  • aliens
  • action
  • non-linear
  • illuminati
  • plat-former
  • adventure
  • choices
  • lovecraftian
  • sci-fi

5

Pepper Grinder (2024)

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Linux Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

Pepper Grinder is an action-packed 2D adventure blending traditional platforming with an alternate drilling mode that allows you to dive in and out of the earth like a dolphin swims through water.


  • 2d
  • action
  • platform
  • colourful
  • puzzle
  • arcade
  • discovery
  • controller-support
  • single-player

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Astral Rift (2024)

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Fight and Explore your way through randomly generated dungeons full of hordes of dangerous enemies and powerful bosses to recover the lost Astral Shards and save the world from spatial collapse! Expand your arsenal of weapons, potions, and spells as you grow into the strongest adventurer of all!

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  • adventure
  • rogue-like
  • rpg
  • pixel
  • action
  • dungeon
  • boss

7

Shootout on Cash Island (2017)

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Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Bobby from Team HOT GUNS has a job to locate and secure the legendary Money Tree.

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  • pixel
  • action
  • scroller
  • platform
  • 2d
  • retro
  • funny
  • arcade
  • achievements
  • shooter

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Grapple Whip (2022)

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Linux PC Windows

You are a cowboy without legs and uses his grapple whip to move around! Collect all the gems in a level to finish. Use your whip to move from target to target (you can’t walk).

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  • family-friendly
  • minimalist
  • casual
  • platform
  • action
  • 2d
  • single-player
  • controller-support
  • adventure
  • retro
  • soundtrack

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Skellboy Refractured (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux

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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Hidden World 9 Top-Down 3D (2023)

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Find the objects that are hidden on the map.

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  • 4x
  • esport
  • royale
  • 3d
  • grand-strategy
  • board-game
  • rpg
  • action
  • bullet-hell
  • racing
  • strategy
  • sport
  • rogue-like
  • simulation
  • casual

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