The Best Novel Games for Linux

Update : Painting Werther added at rank #2.
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Guns of Infinity (2016)

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Step into the role of a commander of a squadron of cavalry in Guns of Infinity. This 440,000 word interactive novel allows you to make choices that control the story. Will you befriend, betray, or romance the nobles, rogues, and spies? Will you fight for power, riches, love, or glory? Strategize to fight the Antari forces and support your family financially in this epic world. Combat, intrigue, and romance await in Guns of Infinity!


What we like:
  • Well-written and intricately designed CYOA game with several interesting paths and endings
  • Great character developments and story arcs
  • Game accounts for a whole lot of different choices, providing material for RP-ing your character through multiple playthroughs
  • Complex characters and decisions in moral grey-areas
What could be improved:
  • Romantic relationships are vague and unclear
  • Some choices seem confusing and less meaningful than the first game
  • Lack of decisions regarding your command may disappoint some players
  • Too much exposition by the end of some playthroughs

  • text
  • novel
  • romance
  • choices
  • interactive
  • adventure
  • century
  • rpg
  • low-fantasy
  • war
  • war-time
  • fiction
  • book

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Painting Werther (2023)

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Painting Werther is an Paintable Visual Novel where all the visuals are living paintings, all the music are classics (with a twist) and the novel was written by Goethe in 1774.

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  • instrumental
  • philosophical
  • cinematic
  • novel
  • romance
  • emotional
  • visual-novel
  • linear
  • hidden-object
  • hand-drawn
  • point-and-click
  • narration
  • music
  • historical
  • drama

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Drafting Tales (2020)

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Become a well-known and successful author in this 2D isometric simulation game!

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  • non-fiction
  • fictional
  • touch-friendly
  • simulation
  • casual
  • novel
  • isometric
  • satire
  • book
  • strategy
  • third-party
  • family-friendly
  • management
  • cartoony
  • economy

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Deathless: The City's Thirst (2015)

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Negotiate water rights from scorpion gods in this necromantic legal thriller! Discredit your boss, solve murders, and reanimate your own corpse to keep your city from drying out.


  • novel
  • text
  • choices
  • book
  • god-killing
  • interactive
  • rpg
  • boss
  • local

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