The Best Adventure exploration Games for Linux - Page 2

Update : Near-Mage added at rank #13.
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The Mildew Children (2024)

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Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch named Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.


  • visual-novel
  • surreal
  • detective
  • horror
  • quick-time-event
  • choices
  • story
  • adventure
  • faith
  • scroller
  • psychological
  • exploration
  • magic
  • colourful
  • 2d

12

The Longing (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch

An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.


  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • walking-simulator
  • underground
  • idler
  • multiple-endings
  • hand-drawn
  • idle
  • real-time
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • exploration
  • book
  • 2d

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Near-Mage (2025)

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Linux PC Windows Mac OS

You have been invited to stay in Transylvania for the summer... Only to find out that you come from a long line of witches. Meet your new vampyre and strigoi classmates, embrace your destiny, and enroll in the Transylvanian Institute for Magick! A supernatural adventure made in Transylvania.


  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • lore
  • adventure
  • visual-novel
  • hand-drawn
  • story
  • magic
  • character
  • relaxing
  • atmospheric
  • customization
  • third-person
  • exploration
  • crafting

14

Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince (2022)

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Xbox Series X/s Xbox One PC Windows Linux Nintendo Switch

The Minotaur King has returned...and it's all your fault! Lily's back for a new "classic" action-adventure set hundreds of years after The Sleeping King!

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  • top-down
  • dungeon
  • action-adventure
  • adventure
  • zelda
  • hack-and-slash
  • narrates
  • puzzle
  • exploration
  • instrument
  • pixel
  • remake
  • retro
  • colourful
  • pirates

15

Boxville (2022)

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Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Made in Ukraine.


  • logic
  • emotional
  • point-and-click
  • hand-drawn
  • investigation
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • cartoony
  • experiences
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • story

16

Tux and Fanny (2021)

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

A retro-inspired adventure puzzle game featuring multiple playable characters with interwoven storylines. Explore the natural (and unnatural) world for unique interactions and unlock items to aid you in your quest. There's nothing as simultaneously charming and strange as the world of Tux and Fanny.


  • soccer
  • philosophical
  • adventure
  • surreal
  • nature
  • retro
  • capitalism
  • colourful
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • psychedelic

17

AER Memories of Old (2017)

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Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Transform into a bird and fly to explore and experience a vibrant world of floating islands in the sky. Venture down into lost ancient ruins where each step leads you closer to the end of the world.


  • flight
  • exploration
  • platform
  • relaxing
  • puzzle
  • open-world
  • dungeon
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • adventure
  • experience
  • story
  • achievements

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Night in the Woods (2017)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.


  • platform
  • narrative
  • adventure
  • story
  • mystery
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rhythm
  • local
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • bass
  • cute
  • interactive
  • supernatural
  • economy

19

The First Tree (2017)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a young couple dealing with a tragedy in their own. Uncover artifacts from the young couple’s life as they too become intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.


  • third-person
  • walking-simulator
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • short
  • exploration
  • orchestral
  • colourful
  • relaxing
  • adventure
  • nature
  • single-player
  • platform
  • narration
  • mech

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FoxTail (2018)

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FoxTail is a classic quest inspired by the mid-90s games. Complex quests and freedom in solving them, an interesting plot, beautiful graphics and, of course, an atmosphere of mystery and adventure.


  • point-and-click
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • old-school
  • adventure
  • 1990s
  • family-friendly
  • rhythm
  • cute
  • escape
  • exploration
  • room
  • funny
  • 2d
  • story

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