The Best Philosophical Games for Linux

Update : Pupupu added at rank #19.
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Shape (2023)

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Linux Mac OS Xbox One Android PC Windows

A minimalist style but inside a complex-minded With connecting word mechanism, you can make a rule for your rooms and solve the problem. Solve the puzzle and go to the door to the next room. explore new mechanism


  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • minimalist
  • surreal
  • exploration
  • psychological
  • narration
  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • 2d
  • psychedelic
  • text
  • first-person
  • puzzle
  • emotional

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Bai Qu: Hundreds of Melodies (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

While visiting his sick father, college student Wei Qiuwu accidentally encountered a girl playing a concertina. Until one day someone unveils to Wei Qiuwu the cruel truth hidden under a fairy-tale cover Features * A storyline of 8 to 12 hours, * Multiple routes and endings. * An extraordinary story, themed with love and caring in an ordinary slice of daily life.

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  • 2.5d
  • philosophical
  • choices
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • romance
  • visual-novel
  • beautiful
  • realistic
  • modern
  • anime
  • colourful
  • cute
  • story
  • atmospheric

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Locked (2020)

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Linux Xbox One PC Windows

LOCKED in a deadly cat-and-mouse with a relentless serial killer, you must outsmart, escape, and survive in this intense 2D horror experience. Solve chilling puzzles, and stay one step ahead of a relentless pursuer. Inspired by PS1-PS2 classics and iconic horror films.

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  • 2d
  • visual-novel
  • philosophical
  • horror
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • survival-horror
  • point-and-click
  • mystery
  • conversation
  • anime
  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • adventure
  • dark

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Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

In the not so distant past, the Isle of Abbot underwent a mysterious evacuation event. Delve into the secrets of this unsettling place and elicit the girls' tragic fate. An interactive visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.

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  • philosophical
  • lovecraftian
  • visual-novel
  • dating-sim
  • choices
  • psychological
  • immersive
  • anime
  • simulation
  • modern
  • conspiracy
  • mystery
  • mysterious
  • political
  • story

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Tux and Fanny (2021)

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

A retro-inspired adventure puzzle game featuring multiple playable characters with interwoven storylines. Explore the natural (and unnatural) world for unique interactions and unlock items to aid you in your quest. There's nothing as simultaneously charming and strange as the world of Tux and Fanny.


  • soccer
  • philosophical
  • adventure
  • surreal
  • nature
  • retro
  • capitalism
  • colourful
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • psychedelic

6

Unwording (2023)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Unwording is a short but powerful exploration of overcoming negative self-talk. Solve word puzzles, explore the neighborhood through multiple perspectives, and help Tom have a better day through a challenging yet cathartic experience.


  • spelling
  • philosophical
  • word
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • short
  • hand-drawn
  • fiction
  • puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • scroller
  • drama
  • psychological
  • interactive
  • story

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Bear's Restaurant (2019)

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Android IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

What will you have for your last meal? In this restaurant, the dead will have their last supper. Hamburgers, omelets, sushi, pudding, anything. Let us cook your favorite dish when you were alive.

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  • cats
  • soundtrack
  • japanese
  • pixel
  • philosophical
  • rpg
  • choices
  • cute
  • story
  • mind-bending
  • emotional
  • fiction
  • dark
  • linear
  • jrpg

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The Eightfold Path (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The path of a Buddhist monk is a path of enlightenment. Find your way through the mystical forest, encounter beautiful creatures, magical places, evil spirits and puzzling challenges that will test if you have what it takes to become a buddha.

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  • philosophical
  • psychological
  • nature
  • demons
  • nonlinear
  • top-down
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • surreal
  • retro
  • open-world
  • puzzle
  • 2d

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WordLeap (2024)

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IOS iPhone Android Mac OS Linux PC Windows

This action-based word game will test your knowledge by giving you higher rewards for less common words. Jump from tile to tile, picking up letters as you go to spell out words that can be exchanged for points.

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  • word
  • spelling
  • attack
  • score
  • philosophical
  • cinematic
  • board-game
  • atmospheric
  • cartoony
  • casual
  • stylized
  • education
  • puzzle
  • emotional
  • single-player

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Lexicon (2024)

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early access Mac OS Linux PC Windows

You awaken in a sealed tomb surrounded by darkness. Your new body flows with an unfamiliar, powerful energy. Reality calls you to return from the world between worlds. You see a glimmer of light that pierces the darkness... Who will you meet? What will you discover? #duckinadungeon

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  • logic
  • faith
  • philosophical
  • spelling
  • casual
  • lore
  • puzzle
  • 2d
  • single-player
  • story
  • emotional
  • surreal
  • education
  • manipulation
  • action-adventure

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