The Best Scroller Games for Linux

Update : PLYLBL added at rank #15.
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Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (2025)

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Use your wits, kindness, and maybe a good whack to gather clues, items, and evidence that will help the residents of Limbo move on. Untangling an afterlife is no easy feat, especially when you don’t have feet!


  • manipulation
  • emotional
  • time
  • stealth
  • detective
  • 2.5d
  • mystery
  • philosophical
  • exploration
  • scroller
  • heart-warming
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • linear
  • puzzle

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Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona (2024)

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Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.


  • metroidvania
  • souls
  • scroller
  • gothic
  • dark
  • blood
  • lore
  • pixel
  • fantasy
  • 2d
  • boss-fight
  • horror
  • difficult
  • rpg
  • single-player

3

Prank! (2025)

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Linux PC Windows IOS iPhone

A girl wakes up in the grass, only to find she has lost her memory and grown wings. Playtime: ~30 minutes + endless mode

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  • rpg
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • multiple-endings
  • bullet-hell
  • walking-simulator
  • horror
  • fiction
  • adventure
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • interactive
  • action-adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • platform

4

Wild Dogs (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux Playstation 4

The world is under a frantic alien attack. Amidst the chaos and with the army virtually subdued, the deadliest and most inconsequential pair of specialists are called upon to do what must be done. Join the war hunting aliens around the world and in every way possible.

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  • dog
  • soundtrack
  • retro
  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • aliens
  • pixel
  • robots
  • 2d
  • fast-paced
  • run-and-gun
  • arcade
  • shooter
  • platform
  • contra

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Cybertrash STATYX (2024)

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Cybertrash STATYX is a story-driven 2D action-platformer with tactical elements, set in a cyberpunk world.

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

6

The Multi-Medium (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

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

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Cave Crawler (2022)

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Linux PC Windows

Cave Crawler is a short horror game where you pilot a drone into a cave and discover something horrible.

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  • horror
  • linear
  • walking-simulator
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • platform
  • psychological
  • 3d
  • thriller
  • cosmic
  • first-person
  • 1990s
  • retro

8

Professor Doctor Jetpack (2024)

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Professor Doctor Jetpack is a physics based lunar lander game, in which you embark on a dangerous journey to ... control your jetpack. Also to save the world.

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  • precision
  • platform
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • physics
  • pixel
  • flight
  • parody
  • cartoony
  • hand-drawn
  • funny
  • arcade
  • atmospheric
  • controller-support
  • casual

9

Hack and Slime (2022)

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early access Linux PC Windows

What could be scarier than a massive dungeon-tower infested with skulls, ogres, and dragons? That those same monsters ride the largest multinational in the world with it. You know; business is business.

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  • scroller
  • rpg
  • hack-and-slash
  • 1990s
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action-adventure
  • magic
  • pixel
  • action
  • colourful
  • comedy
  • 2d
  • medieval
  • funny
  • platform

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Space Cats (2024)

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"Space Cats": Zip around as a space cat dodging rockets and grabbing Catnip for double points and a trippy speed boost. A fresh, funny game with a nod to internet culture, blending challenge, humor, and nostalgia.

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  • psychedelic
  • cats
  • scroller
  • runner
  • space
  • casual
  • colourful
  • clicker
  • pixel
  • arcade
  • 2d
  • comedy
  • retro
  • family-friendly
  • aliens

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