The Best Crafting management exploration Games for Linux

Update : Rionag: Survey Fleet added at rank #9.
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Spiritfarer (2020)

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In Spiritfarer, take on the role of Stella, who has been chosen as the new Spiritfarer and sets off on a grand adventure of discovering unique islands, meeting interesting characters and learning about them. Gather resources to help passengers in need and upgrade Stella's boat. Enjoy beautiful visuals, engaging mini-games and a heartfelt story as you explore this world between life and death.


What we like:
  • Gorgeous visuals
  • Touching story
  • Unique combination of gameplay elements
  • Characters with distinct personalities and mannerisms
  • Smooth building mechanics
  • Resource gathering tasks
What could be improved:
  • Boat travel takes a long time
  • Limited dialogue options with passengers
  • No option to sleep or pass time quickly

  • management
  • crafting
  • platform
  • cooperative
  • hand-drawn
  • farming
  • simulation
  • emotional
  • sailing
  • relaxing
  • building
  • resource

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Aground (2018)

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Aground is a Mining/Crafting RPG with a goal, story, and reason to craft and build. The gameplay is simple, but engaging with tons of features. In Aground, you can raise dragons and launch into space, fight enemies, discover magic, and explore secrets. If you're into crafting games with a lot of exploration, Aground is a thoroughly addictive game with plenty to discover.


What we like:
  • Story is interesting and allows for a lot of exploration
  • Crafting is solid and varied
  • Mod support and community are helpful
  • Gameplay is engaging and controls are good
  • Freedom to choose which islands to visit and play at your own pace.
What could be improved:
  • Item storage can be tedious and requiring a lot of trips
  • Low-resolution graphics may take some getting used to
  • Lack of personal relationships with NPCs
  • Basic tutorial and sometimes requires use of outside resources for guidance.

  • survival
  • crafting
  • dragon
  • mining
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • exploration
  • sandbox
  • 2d
  • choices
  • management
  • story

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APICO (2022)

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APICO is the latest game in the sims genre, combining elements from Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper and Animal Crossing. Join your grandfather's beekeeping business on an island and craft, build and breed bees to discover extinct species. Experience a chilled adventure as you create your own unique world.

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What we like:
  • Crafting and building features are easy to pick up on
  • Chilled experience which allows you to complete the game at your own pace
  • Incorporates science into fun gameplay
What could be improved:
  • Initial NPCs lack personality compared to similar games
  • Tasks can be time consuming once you have a rhythm going

  • simulation
  • relaxing
  • education
  • farming
  • nature
  • immersive
  • management
  • crafting
  • cute
  • sims
  • building
  • exploration
  • life-sim
  • sandbox
  • top-down

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Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2 (2021)

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You, the princess, are having a small adventure outside the city walls. Meanwhile, the city is in flames, due to the attack of unknown monsters. You can’t lie idle. You must save your people, gain allies to fight by your side against evil and become a heroic princess.

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  • fishing
  • emotional
  • isometric
  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • pirates
  • colourful
  • third-person
  • atmospheric
  • crafting
  • exploration
  • medieval
  • management
  • rpg
  • casual

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Hallowlands (2023)

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Explore a procedurally generated open world with many biomes to explore and harvest resources from. You can chop down trees, mine rocks/ore, and find unique items to help you along your journey. Using the resources that you find, you can craft powerful weapons and items.

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  • crafting
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon-crawler
  • dungeon
  • building
  • procedural
  • open-world
  • rpg
  • medieval
  • sandbox
  • management
  • mystery
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • top-down

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SpiritfarerA (2020)

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Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and guide them across mystical seas to finally release them into the afterlife. What will you leave behind?

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  • emotional
  • building
  • cooperative
  • hand-drawn
  • fishing
  • management
  • relaxing
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • crafting
  • simulation
  • exploration
  • local
  • cartoony

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Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 3 (2024)

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Lovely adventuring RPG series. Casual, story-driven journey and quests. A darkness is coming that will engulf the whole kingdom. Prepare for an adventure full of surprises and heroic deeds.


  • isometric
  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • exploration
  • emotional
  • casual
  • rpg
  • third-person
  • old-school
  • colourful
  • adventure
  • crafting
  • atmospheric
  • medieval
  • management

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Weird Wormholes (2024)

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Weird Wormholes is a casual game about traveling through wormholes to try and get back home. Use your ship to mine planets for resources and process these resources into components to enable your travels.

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  • space
  • idler
  • casual
  • sandbox
  • mining
  • top-down
  • economy
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • 2d
  • management

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Rionag: Survey Fleet (2024)

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Rionag: Survey Fleet is a top-down starship builder and logistics game where it's your job to balance the needs of the crews with cutting-edge equipment on board. Unlock tech that adds new capabilities for your ships to go through hazardous environments, enabling you to explore new worlds.

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  • space
  • science
  • automation
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • building
  • logic
  • economy
  • exploration
  • futuristic
  • management
  • crafting

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Lightsmith (2021)

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Discover what it is to be a Lightsmith, build up your Lightory, and help the townsfolk of Gloomsdale to turn a fragile settlement into a thriving beacon of hope in a world shrouded in darkness. Because in this dark and gloomy world we must forge our own light...

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  • heavy
  • dialogue
  • cozy
  • nonlinear
  • crafting
  • top-down
  • action-adventure
  • management
  • dark
  • supernatural
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • story
  • inventory

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