The Best Fantasy Games for Linux

Update, : Path to Knighthood added at rank #20.
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Heart of the Woods (2019)

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A fantasy yuri visual novel filled with magic, fairies, and a ghost girl. When Maddie and her best friend, Tara, journey to a remote forest village to investigate rumors of the supernatural, they find a whole lot more than they bargained for.


  • visual-novel
  • fantasy
  • lgbtq
  • romance
  • yuri
  • dark
  • choices
  • fiction
  • anime
  • mature
  • interactive
  • supernatural
  • story
  • cute
  • mystery

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Roadwarden (2022)

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Roadwarden is a text-adventure set in a downbeat fantasy world of magic, monsters, and grinding poverty. As a newly minted roadwarden, you are tasked with patrolling the highways and byways of a peninsula while also exploring its commercial possibilities for your mysterious paymasters. You have to manage your time carefully to get everything done in the 40 days before autumn sets in.


Pros:
  • Unique take on text adventuring
  • Choices that really matter and an organic sense of muddling through that feels lifelike
  • Nuanced and low-key atmosphere
Cons:
  • Depending on choices things can feel relentlessly downbeat
  • Lack of quest tracker can seem perverse
  • Very text heavy and not suitable for those who aren't into reading or plot

  • text
  • rpg
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • interactive

3

Total War: WARHAMMER (2016)

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Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.


  • battle
  • real-time
  • tabletop
  • historical
  • strategy
  • fantasy
  • tactical
  • empire
  • war
  • artillery
  • turn-based
  • fight
  • economy
  • vampire
  • management

4

Iratus: Lord of the Dead (2020)

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Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!


  • rogue-like
  • turn-based
  • villain
  • dark
  • tactical
  • fantasy
  • battle
  • strategy
  • protagonist
  • rpg
  • dungeon
  • goth
  • squad
  • dungeon-crawler
  • combat

5

Tap Wizard 2 (2021)

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Choose your Spells, Perks, and Traits, then let the Wizard do all of the work in this unique Idle RPG! Tap Wizard 2 is a fusion of the Idle, Incremental, ARPG, and Twin-Stick Shooter genres, resulting in a game like no other!

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  • idler
  • fantasy
  • top-down
  • dark
  • rpg
  • hack-and-slash
  • clicker
  • pixel
  • management
  • inventory
  • 2d
  • action
  • combat

6

Spellsword (2023)

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Spellsword is an interactive web-based game designed to improve our command of the English language.

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  • card
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • futuristic
  • dungeon
  • fantasy
  • wars
  • web
  • 2d
  • dark
  • arcade
  • tactical
  • pvp
  • colourful
  • casual

7

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (2018)

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Battle with swords and whips in this retro-style action game brought to you by game creator Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates! Play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer bearing a deep grudge, who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle.


  • metroidvania
  • fantasy
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • retro
  • gothic
  • 2d
  • vampire
  • dark
  • anime
  • platform
  • single-player

8

Spellsworn (2018)

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Enter a world of magic and battle, where your wits and reflexes will be pushed to their limits! Choose your spells, enter the ever-changing arena and prepare to obliterate all who stand in your way!

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  • magic
  • esport
  • royale
  • moba
  • fantasy
  • pvp
  • dark
  • cooperative
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • 3d
  • action
  • battle

9

Conquest of Elysium 4 (2015)

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Conquest of Elysium 4 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay and magic rituals.


  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • fantasy
  • 4x
  • rogue-like
  • management
  • tile
  • moddable
  • resource
  • magic
  • battle
  • pixel

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Total War: WARHAMMER II (2017)

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Total War: WARHAMMER II is an epic strategy game where you choose from 4 unique factions to save or destroy a fantasy world. With turn-based open-world campaign and tactical real-time battles, you can immerse yourself in a deep campaign or challenge players worldwide in multiplayer. With hundreds of hours of gameplay and each playthrough being different, you can level up Legendary Lords and Heroes, build alliances or declare total war, and control thousands-strong legions of soldiers with great military strategies, magic, and ferocious creatures.


Pros:
  • Expansive map and factions
  • Addition of new heroes and abilities
  • Introduces magic and abilities to the battles
  • Exciting to play and win
Cons:
  • No economy, diplomacy, religion, spies, trading or dynastic marriages
  • Battles are simpler than in Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms

  • battle
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • tactical
  • fantasy
  • turn-based
  • naval
  • resource
  • war
  • dinosaurs
  • empire
  • economy
  • historical
  • grand
  • military

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