The Best Life Games for Linux

Update : Alchemy Unbound added at rank #26.
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Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2 (2022)

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  • choices
  • life
  • medieval
  • card
  • humor
  • visual-novel
  • simulation
  • multiple-endings
  • dark
  • hand-drawn
  • magic
  • 2d
  • funny
  • cute
  • family-friendly

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Cabin Fever (2021)

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An off-grid cabin. A tech-savvy loner. One ray of sunshine in a bleak, ruined world. Cabin Fever is a slice-of-life visual novel with meaningful player choices, multiple endings to explore, and a story that will touch your heart.

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  • visual-novel
  • dating-sim
  • romance
  • life
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • fiction
  • off-grid
  • linear
  • story
  • explore
  • interactive
  • narrative
  • single-player
  • 2d

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CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience (2020)

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CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!


  • choices
  • rogue-like
  • time-management
  • life
  • dynamic
  • lgbtq
  • conversation
  • character
  • narration
  • relaxing
  • customization
  • survival
  • political
  • multiple-endings
  • 2d

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My Exercise (2020)

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Let's do sit-ups! Let a chubby boy do his exercise and sink into a dog's body. Maybe animals will come to cheer him up.

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  • dog
  • life
  • surreal
  • psychedelic
  • philosophical
  • esport
  • immersive
  • minimalist
  • simulation
  • hand-drawn
  • family-friendly
  • funny
  • sport
  • psychological
  • 2d

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Tiny Life (2023)

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In Tiny Life, you control a set of people that live together in a household. You take care of their daily needs, build their skills, forge new relationships... or just mess up their entire life in whatever way you can think of!

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  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • life
  • mud
  • moddable
  • relaxing
  • isometric
  • character
  • building
  • lgbtq
  • family-friendly
  • customization
  • multi-user
  • casual
  • conversation

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Hamster Playground (2022)

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early access Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Prepare for cuteness overload, relentless training, and fierce rivalry as you and your hamsters take on challenges while traversing the maze and riding a skateboard, with more modes coming soon! Be the first to cross the finish line to earn rewards and yummy treats!

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  • simulation
  • immersive
  • character
  • life
  • time-management
  • family-friendly
  • building
  • isometric
  • customization
  • comedy
  • platform
  • third-person
  • relaxing
  • colourful
  • racing

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The Isle of Elanor (2024)

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early access PC Windows Linux

You wash ashore on The Isle of Elanor, the last bastion of humanity remaining in the world. The situation on the island is grim. You're given a small plot of land. Can you help humanity survive?

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  • farming
  • life
  • simulation
  • idler
  • nonlinear
  • character
  • crafting
  • choices
  • fantasy
  • pixel
  • customization
  • relaxing
  • rpg
  • top-down
  • story

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Talk to Strangers (2019)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.

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  • dark
  • capitalism
  • life
  • conversation
  • humor
  • multiple-endings
  • memes
  • experimental
  • political
  • visual-novel
  • simulation
  • point-and-click
  • comedy
  • survival
  • cartoony

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The Choice of Life: Middle Ages (2020)

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You find yourself in a fabulous medieval kingdom. And, as you know, it was not easy to survive there. Therefore, you have to make a wise (and sometimes not so) choice that will determine your fate!- Become a robber or a decent trader?- Beg for money or learning a craft?- Take the side of superstitious peasants or to protect the innocent witch?And this is only a small part of the decisions that you will make on the way from a simple peasant to a nobleman. Are you ready to set off on a dangerous adventure and discover the secret of the kingdom?

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  • choices
  • life
  • medieval
  • magic
  • multiple-endings
  • simulation
  • humor

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OS: Memories (2022)

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You were just the owner of an office, but something piqued your curiosity. Understand what happened to Andy by browsing through his most personal archives and memories. OS: Memories is a short and engaging storyline about the everyday life of a game developer.

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  • life
  • short
  • emotional
  • simulation
  • investigation
  • fiction
  • detective
  • pixel
  • drama
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • conversation
  • exploration
  • interactive
  • text

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