The Best Moddable Games for Linux

Update : Gamebox added at rank #6.
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Parkitect (2018)

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Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!


  • management
  • moddable
  • city-building
  • building
  • economy
  • editor
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • level
  • isometric
  • construction
  • park
  • sandbox
  • cartoony
  • family-friendly

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Creature Creator (2022)

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Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and unlock new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, fight to the death or just enjoy roleplaying — the social aspect makes it a truly unique multiplayer experience. What are you waiting for? Let's get creative!

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  • god-game
  • character
  • moddable
  • collector
  • creature
  • loot
  • development
  • procedural
  • sandbox
  • stylized
  • family-friendly
  • customization
  • open-world
  • editor
  • aliens

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Stardeus (2022)

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In Stardeus, you are the immortal AI controlling a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. Your mission is to repair the ship, save or exploit the human crew, and travel the stars in a procedurally generated universe. Balance oxygen, heat, and power to ensure long-term survival, grow crops, and mine planets to expand your facilities. Discover new ways to survive while dealing with alien face huggers, traders, or pirates. Live through endless possibilities and prepare for the worst. Survive and thrive in this beautifully complex simulation game.


What we like:
  • Addictive gameplay
  • Moddable out of the box
  • Relaxing pace
  • Lots of customisation options
  • Regular updates
What could be improved:
  • Frustrating events (short circuits and arrival of people)
  • Intermittent AI issues: stupid colonists and animals
  • Slow research and progression

  • colony
  • simulation
  • space
  • base-building
  • god-game
  • moddable
  • management
  • automation
  • resource-management
  • science
  • procedural
  • survival
  • immersive
  • space-colony
  • time-management

4

Mixolumia (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

In this entrancing musical arcade puzzler, diamond blocks slide together on a gem-shaped board and explode in glittering chain reactions.

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  • attack
  • score
  • music
  • moddable
  • abstract
  • match-three
  • relaxing
  • minimalist
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • soundtrack
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle
  • arcade
  • 2d

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City Game Studio: a tycoon about game dev (2019)

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You are the founder of your video game company. The starting point belongs to you, in your garage, or think big instead of small by acquiring your first location. At the end of the day, your decisions will make your studio a success and will mark the Video Game History.


  • development
  • moddable
  • capitalism
  • software
  • city-building
  • building
  • economy
  • programming
  • resource-management
  • isometric
  • management
  • sandbox
  • replay-value

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Gamebox (2024)

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early access Linux PC Windows turbografx-16

Gamebox is a free and open source sandbox game centered on user generated content. You decide what you want to play, be it in 3D or 2D, single-player or multiplayer, or create and upload your own games.

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  • moddable
  • sandbox
  • single-player
  • open-source
  • multiplayer

7

Conquest of Elysium 5 (2021)

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Conquest of Elysium 5 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.

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  • rogue-like
  • 4x
  • magic
  • moddable
  • fantasy
  • strategy
  • asynchronous
  • medieval
  • procedural
  • turn-based
  • cooperative
  • multiplayer
  • local
  • exploration
  • randomly-generated

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KallaX (2023)

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Kallax is a chaotic furniture-building 2 to 6 players co-op game in which only one player can read the instruction manual at a time. Experience what should have been a one person's job and lose friendships forever.

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  • moddable
  • character
  • team
  • aliens
  • cooperative
  • 3d
  • customization
  • physics
  • crafting
  • time-management
  • action-adventure
  • real-time
  • casual
  • online
  • controller-support

9

Cell Machine Indev (2023)

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Get ready for the ultimate 2D sandbox puzzle game experience with Cell Machine: Indev!

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  • editor
  • moddable
  • level
  • sandbox
  • logic
  • simulation
  • grid
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • movement
  • top-down
  • strategy
  • stylized
  • pixel

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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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