The Best Robots Games for Linux

Update : Inside the machine added at rank #7.
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The Colonists (2018)

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Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.


  • robots
  • city-building
  • colony
  • simulation
  • strategy
  • sandbox
  • cute
  • resource
  • relaxing
  • economy
  • resource-management

2

Gravity Circuit (2023)

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Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.


  • platform
  • robots
  • 2d
  • beat-em-up
  • metroidvania
  • retro
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • superhero
  • futuristic
  • fast-paced
  • classic
  • action

3

Factorio (2016)

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Linux Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Factorio is an absorbing factory management game. You play the role of a handy person who needs to build a rocket and craft almost anything with little more than spit and elbow grease. Automation is the key to success as you establish production chains and assembly lines to make sure all the hard work is done for you.


What we like:
  • Complex puzzle-solving
  • Open-ended gameplay
  • Automation mechanics
  • Creative assembly lines
  • Captivating story
What could be improved:
  • Tedious combat
  • Limited environmental resources
  • Environmental consequences of mass manufacturing

  • management
  • construction
  • automation
  • trains
  • robots
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • empire
  • resource-management
  • multiplayer
  • cooperative
  • resource
  • aliens

4

AI WAR (2022)

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The exciting shooting game, AI WAR, is a war game where players need go through a hail of bullets and blow up the master control base of the intelligent robots. This game is full of uncertainty, where players seem to be in a real war field and the unexpected may happen any time. Wish you good luck!


  • automobile
  • hero
  • fmv
  • wargame
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • superhero
  • tps
  • cinematic
  • robots
  • sniper
  • shooter
  • action-adventure
  • empire

5

SteamWorld Heist (2015)

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Experience the adventure of a lifetime as a steam-driven pirate crew in SteamWorld Heist. With its insane skill shots and turn-based strategy gameplay, this game lets you manually aim the guns of your robots and upgrade your recruits' unique abilities, weapons, and stylish hats. With a well-written story, engaging characters, and a challenging battle system, it combines the best of XCOM and Worms gameplay in a beautifully designed world of robot pirates. And with a soundtrack by Steam Powered Giraffe, this is a game you won't want to miss!


What we like:
  • Fun and challenging battle system
  • Numerous items, weapons, and equipment to collect
  • Engaging characters and well-written story
  • Mixes XCOM and Worms gameplay perfectly
  • Packed with content and replayability
What could be improved:
  • Lack of ability trees for customization
  • Inability to customize preferred characters
  • Linear progression with no choice in bonuses

  • turn-based
  • robots
  • strategy
  • steampunk
  • tactical
  • cover
  • pirates

6

GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena (2019)

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Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

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  • programming
  • auto-battler
  • automation
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • top-down
  • multiplayer-battle
  • robots
  • asynchronous
  • logic
  • tactical
  • multiplayer
  • pve
  • arena
  • isometric

7

Inside the machine (2024)

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A simple yet challenging puzzle game where a soul has lost its body. It has to navigate from machine to machine through various puzzles in search of its real body. Will it reach its goal or be forever lost in a foreign body?

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  • casual
  • robots
  • puzzle
  • 2d
  • privacy-policy
  • single-player
  • controller-support

8

Get-A-Grip Chip and the Body Bugs (2022)

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Get-A-Grip Chip and the Body Bugs sends Chip on a new mission: enter the human body and dismantle digestive distress! In this satisfying 2D platformer, master Chip’s grappling hook to get things flowing. Raise an army of white blood cells to fight off the Body Bugs as you grapple for guts and glory.

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  • science
  • education
  • collectathon
  • 2d
  • platform
  • robots
  • scroller
  • action-adventure
  • cartoony
  • psychedelic
  • hand-drawn
  • arcade
  • colourful
  • stylized
  • cute

9

Nessy The ... Robot (2023)

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Fight your way through zombified robots, slime creatures, and a multitude of other enemies & bosses, as well as a plethora of levels, secrets & easter eggs to discover, collectible gems to... well... collect, as well as characters & dogs to talk to.

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  • platform
  • zombified
  • robots
  • pixel
  • controller-support
  • 2d
  • retro
  • adventure
  • action
  • collectible

10

Cybertrash STATYX (2024)

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Cybertrash STATYX is a 2D action platformer with elements of a tactical and set in a cyberpunk world. Run, jump, slide, and destroy enemies to gain experience points for upgrading your character, Jenet.

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  • 2d
  • scroller
  • robots
  • tactical
  • shoot-em-up
  • cyberpunk
  • conspiracy
  • pixel
  • platform
  • resource
  • retro
  • action
  • linear
  • dystopian
  • local

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