The Best Science Games for Linux

Update : RogueViz Collection added at rank #8.
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Learning Factory (2025)

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Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.


  • automation
  • base-building
  • science
  • cats
  • building
  • resource-management
  • fishing
  • economy
  • management
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • crafting
  • cute
  • family-friendly
  • education

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Terraformers (2022)

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Transform Mars into a habitable planet in Terraformers. With challenging strategizing and resource management, explore the planet and expand population, all while watching the stunning new natural wonders build up before your eyes. Take on different scenarios and bonuses and create a thriving utopia. Get lost in the addictive puzzle-like game with unique replayability and rewarding graphics and UI.


What we like:
  • Focus on strategy
  • Various difficulty levels
  • Unique victory conditions
  • Nice graphics and UI
  • Rich soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Only one way to lose the game
  • Some bugs present
  • Game can become repetitive

  • turn-based
  • mars
  • space
  • resource-management
  • science
  • rogue-like
  • nonlinear
  • card
  • procedural
  • board-game
  • colony
  • sci-fi
  • choices
  • simulation
  • management

3

The Multi-Medium (2023)

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The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.

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  • platform
  • science
  • 2d
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • stylized
  • linear
  • colourful
  • puzzle
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • fantasy
  • funny

4

Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space (2022)

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A Spacey Classic Point and Click Adventure for All!

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  • cartoony
  • cinematic
  • clicker
  • science
  • comic
  • fiction
  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • interactive
  • 1980s
  • hand-drawn
  • book
  • anime

5

MOLEK-SYNTEZ (2019)

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Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.


  • science
  • programming
  • automation
  • simulation
  • puzzle
  • single-player

6

Nature And Life - Drunk On Nectar (2025)

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Animal Life Simulator! Grow from a super-tiny egg to a winged bug, surviving predators and hunting prey. Find a mate, reproduce and start a new generation! Featuring Monarch Butterfly, Praying Mantis, Jumping Spider and more! Birds, Mammals & Reptiles also planned for the near future!

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  • simulation
  • science
  • god-game
  • nature
  • life
  • immersive
  • family-friendly
  • survival
  • experimental
  • sandbox
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • realistic
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing

7

The Bibites: Digital Life (2025)

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Explore real digital life in The Bibites! Play god as you guide your bibites on their evolutionary journey. Analyze their Neural Network brains and genetic information as they adapt to their environments. Save your favorites and test their strength in Challenge Mode!

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  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • science
  • programming
  • nature
  • editor
  • education
  • auto-battler
  • level
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • procedural
  • physics
  • collector
  • creature

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RogueViz Collection (2025)

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The discovery of non-Euclidean geometry has changed how we perceive the world... but geometry goes even more exotic than that! Games of various genres designed for Thurston and space-time geometries.

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  • experimental
  • science
  • psychedelic
  • education
  • racing
  • rogue-like-deckbuilder
  • mind-bending
  • vr
  • physics
  • arcade
  • casual

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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

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inFINIte Robotics (2024)

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inFINIte Robotics is a visual novel game that is set in a fantasy world filled with modern technology. The premise of the game is to find out the mystery of the world and learn about electronics by solving puzzles!

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  • choices
  • science
  • education
  • magic
  • visual-novel
  • anime
  • multiple-endings
  • sci-fi
  • narration
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • clicker

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