The Best Sci-fi Games for Linux

Update : QBob: Remastered added at rank #7.
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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

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Athanasy (2022)

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Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.

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  • narration
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • dynamic
  • sci-fi
  • lore
  • text
  • lovecraftian
  • cyberpunk
  • conversation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • choices
  • multiple-endings

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The Abandoned Planet (2024)

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A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art

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  • point-and-click
  • pixel
  • old-school
  • first-person
  • puzzle
  • sci-fi
  • 1990s
  • not-too-challenging
  • arcade-adjacent
  • space
  • story
  • exploration
  • clicker
  • adventure
  • futuristic

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Seren Nova (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Seren Nova is a top-down 3D retro sci-fi game set in a solar system at war. Choose the best ship to complete each mission and take out the enemy across various planets. You can even land your ship and take the war to the enemy on foot. Featuring a fun retro sci-fi live-action cutscenes and puppets!

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  • spaceships
  • fmv
  • space
  • sci-fi
  • 1990s
  • lgbtq
  • top-down
  • wargame
  • flight
  • 3d
  • vehicle
  • shooter

5

What's Outside (2024)

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You’re stuck out in the middle of space alone in ship, see how long you can survive with endless enemy ships and do all it again.

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  • shoot-em-up
  • attack
  • score
  • bullet-hell
  • short
  • pve
  • space
  • shooter
  • top-down
  • vehicle
  • replay-value
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • funny

6

Beyond Hope (2023)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Beyond Hope gives you and your friends one epic space journey! Your mission alone or with friends is to save yourself from getting pulled into the hot Sun. Gather debris, scavenge asteroids and build your own space station. Reach for the stars and survive when all odds are against you!

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  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • action-adventure
  • fps
  • sci-fi
  • first-person
  • 3d
  • shooter
  • casual
  • crafting
  • tanks
  • multiplayer
  • military
  • root
  • cooperative-player

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QBob: Remastered (2025)

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Help QBob leap from rock to rock as he surveys an array of strangely shaped asteroids, all while avoiding a host of bizarre and deadly alien creatures in this modernized take on an arcade-inspired classic.

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  • arcade
  • space
  • sci-fi
  • 2d
  • colourful
  • comedy
  • action
  • retro
  • single-player

8

Lone Planet (2025)

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A sci-fi cosmic adventure with puzzle platform elements

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  • platform
  • science
  • space
  • 2d
  • psychedelic
  • sci-fi
  • lore
  • abstract
  • psychological
  • puzzle
  • 1980s
  • logic
  • exploration
  • stylized
  • mystery

9

Epic Space Trader (2024)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Commanding a starship, you’ll trade goods across the galaxy, evade cosmic threats, and grow your trading empire. Do you have what it takes to outmaneuver rivals and become a trading legend? Take command of your destiny in Epic Space Trader, your journey to the stars begins now!

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  • space
  • economy
  • simulation
  • sci-fi
  • management
  • pixel
  • first-person
  • top-down
  • futuristic
  • rpg
  • casual
  • 2d
  • turn-based

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Escape the Kreegan (2024)

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Escape corruption and deliver truth to the people in the only way you know how. as a space fighter pilot! You steal a ship and flee, it falls to you to duke it out in space and deliver truth to the people. Restore peace. Restore justice. Save humanity and Escape The Kreegan!

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  • top-down
  • shooter
  • twin-stick
  • shoot-em-up
  • space
  • bullet-hell
  • sci-fi
  • arcade
  • vehicle
  • 2d
  • hand-drawn
  • controller-support

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