The Best Linear Games - Page 2

Update : Always Forward added at rank #48.
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Touhou Gensokyo Visitor (2020)

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PC Windows

Walking through the forest, Reimu meets a stranger in the forest, now she needs to understand where he came from, and how he got through the barrier.

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  • dating-sim
  • linear
  • romance
  • visual-novel
  • magic
  • atmospheric
  • soundtrack
  • text
  • comedy
  • fantasy
  • story
  • anime
  • cute
  • 2d
  • funny

12

Smile For Me (2019)

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PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Android

A heartbroken clown, wayward souls, and juicy mechanical lips. As “The Big Event" draws near, help the troubled residents of the Habitat and de-mask the mysterious Doctor Habit... before it's too late.


  • horror
  • lgbtq
  • fmv
  • point-and-click
  • conversation
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • linear
  • hand-drawn
  • multiple-endings
  • cute
  • cartoony
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • comedy

13

My Dream is a Lost Memory (2022)

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PC Windows

My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then wondering if that dream is actually a memory. It's a story about work, limitations and self-respect.

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  • philosophical
  • fiction
  • lore
  • visual-novel
  • hand-drawn
  • linear
  • point-and-click
  • experimental
  • interactive
  • dark
  • minimalist
  • drama
  • 2d
  • cartoony
  • stylized

14

Is It Wrong to Try to Shoot 'em Up Girls in a Dungeon? (2020)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Enjoy a free shoot'em up side-scrolling mini-game with the characters from the anime and JRPG DanMachi, and fight through stages of bullet hell and bosses!

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  • top-down
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • linear
  • shooter
  • platform
  • anime
  • magic
  • attack
  • score
  • pixel
  • arcade

15

Escape First Alchemist (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One

First-person escape game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 people. Solve riddles of a reclusive alchemist that trapped you in his workshop. Brew potions and overcome challenges as he laughs at your failures and makes light of your successes...But what if things are not what they seem?


  • magic
  • cooperative
  • logic
  • linear
  • medieval
  • mystery
  • crafting
  • fantasy
  • 3d
  • puzzle
  • atmospheric
  • realistic
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • online

16

EQI (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

You find yourself in a digital world that twists and changes around you, challenging your senses, focus, and reflexes. Interface with the great mystery and transcend. - Explore and solve over 20 stages, increasing in size and difficulty. - Control your own movement and shift the world around you. - Solve puzzles, see through illusions, and master challenging obstacle courses. - Immerse yourself in the electronic pulse of the game's OST.


  • parkour
  • pve
  • linear
  • surreal
  • psychedelic
  • abstract
  • first-person
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • platform
  • colourful
  • sci-fi
  • reflexes
  • puzzle
  • mystery

17

ADACA (2022)

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PC Windows

A Sci-fi FPS set on the mysterious planet ADACA. - Use your GRAVITY-MANIPULATING arm to HURL objects at your foes or even RIP weapons directly from their hands! - EXPLORE and manipulate the environment in this EERIE and HOSTILE world!

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  • lore
  • first-person
  • dystopian
  • pve
  • open-world
  • shooter
  • fps
  • old-school
  • linear
  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • retro
  • sci-fi
  • colourful

18

Snowdome (2020)

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Mac OS PC Windows

For Tan Yan, there is little hope his life will change. It's like his whole life is trapped inside a snowdome, unable to escape. But, what if, one day, he's given the chance to make a change?

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  • conversation
  • linear
  • lore
  • visual-novel
  • narration
  • stylized
  • 2.5d
  • procedural
  • psychological
  • text
  • drama
  • anime
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • sci-fi

19

Cleo - a pirate's tale (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Cleo is a solo-developed, top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.


  • investigation
  • pirates
  • 1990s
  • logic
  • linear
  • narration
  • top-down
  • comedy
  • point-and-click
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • funny
  • 2d
  • old-school
  • retro

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SOULS (2017)

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Android PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

One day, the Boy met the monster. Since then, they accidentally had a wonderful relationship which was neither friends, family members nor master and pets types. How will the Boy’s future mutate?


  • visual-novel
  • philosophical
  • linear
  • psychological
  • anime
  • story
  • mystery

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