The Best Narrative Games for Linux

Update, : Quant added at rank #6.
1

Mutazione (2019)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 IOS iPhone Mac OS Linux Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Get lost in the magical world of Mutazione, a narrative-driven adventure game where you explore an island filled with quirky mutant characters and their secrets. Grow musical gardens, attend BBQs, and embark on a spiritual journey to save the community from a looming darkness. With beautiful hand-illustrated art and unpredictable twists, Mutazione is a mutant soap opera that you won't want to miss.


Pros:
  • Unique and beautiful art style
  • Relaxing music
  • Story-focused gameplay
  • Quirky and interesting characters
  • Encourages the player to slow down and relax
Cons:
  • Repetitive gameplay, mostly a visual novel
  • No voice acting
  • Slow parts may be boring for some players
  • Contains adult themes that may not be suitable for younger children

  • drama
  • narrative
  • supernatural
  • relaxing
  • adventure
  • walking-simulator
  • point-and-click
  • nature
  • exploration
  • fiction
  • music
  • story
  • scroller
  • bird
  • procedural

2

Tacoma (2017)

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Mac OS Linux Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.


  • narrative
  • sci-fi
  • walking-simulator
  • augmented
  • story
  • exploration
  • futuristic
  • mystery
  • pause
  • augmented-reality
  • interactive
  • discovery
  • first-person

3

Life is Strange 2 (2018)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.


  • episodic
  • narrative
  • choices
  • supernatural
  • story
  • drama
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • romance
  • puzzle

4

Life is Strange: Before the Storm (2017)

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Nintendo Switch Android Linux Mac OS Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.


  • episodic
  • narrative
  • supernatural
  • story
  • choices
  • drama
  • mystery
  • adventure
  • romance
  • puzzle
  • graphic

5

The Stanley Parable (2013)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.


  • narration
  • narrative
  • interactive
  • first-person
  • fiction
  • story
  • comedy
  • walking-simulator
  • funny
  • satire
  • thought-provoking
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • dynamic

6

Quant (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Quant is a colorful adventure game, that will teach you Quantum Physics! Follow Atom, in the quest for independence. Guided by Professor Svobodan Randov, he will uncover his Quantum powers, and free himself from the oppressing world!

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  • cover
  • tps
  • shooter
  • narrative
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • live-action
  • science
  • puzzle
  • metroidvania
  • third-person
  • action
  • combat
  • platform
  • action-adventure

7

Beyond a Steel Sky (2020)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X

From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.


  • cyberpunk
  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • dystopian
  • narrative
  • sci-fi
  • classic
  • thriller
  • futuristic
  • third-person
  • hacking
  • cult
  • inventory
  • sequel

8

Firewatch (2016)

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PC Windows Android Nintendo Switch Mac OS Xbox One Playstation 4 Linux

Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.


  • mystery
  • walking-simulator
  • narrative
  • first-person
  • exploration
  • story
  • park
  • adventure
  • boss
  • thriller

9

Where The Water Tastes Like Wine (2018)

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"[Going] where the water tastes like wine" is an excerpt from the traditional American folk song "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad" (also known as the "Lonesome Road Blues").


  • narrative
  • story
  • interactive
  • fiction
  • card
  • visual-novel
  • hand-drawn
  • adventure
  • surreal
  • funny
  • trains
  • narration
  • walking-simulator
  • inventory
  • novel

10

Night in the Woods (2017)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 Mac OS Linux

NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.


  • platform
  • narrative
  • adventure
  • story
  • mystery
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rhythm
  • local
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • bass
  • cute
  • interactive
  • supernatural
  • economy

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