The Best Spectacle Games for Linux

Update : Gloves On! added at rank #8.
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Shing! (2020)

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

Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!


  • beat-em-up
  • demons
  • cooperative
  • ninja
  • fight
  • rogue-like
  • swordplay
  • hack-and-slash
  • 2.5d
  • spectacle
  • scroller
  • character
  • side-scrolling
  • colourful
  • arcade

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Death of a Wish (2024)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux

THE NEO-SANCTUM SHALL FALL. Claim retribution against the theocratic Faiths as you master vicious hack-and-slash combat in this action-RPG where style is salvation.

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  • spectacle
  • psychedelic
  • souls
  • lgbtq
  • hack-and-slash
  • surreal
  • pve
  • minimalist
  • rpg
  • action-adventure
  • character
  • fight
  • customization
  • action
  • top-down

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Demonic Supremacy (2023)

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Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Demonic Supremacy is an old school 3D shooter with a certain nostalgic flavour and few gamer-friendly features. It offers several hours of hurricane gameplay rocking through memorable levels with the explosive heavy metal soundtrack!

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  • spectacle
  • 1990s
  • shooter
  • psychedelic
  • old-school
  • shoot-em-up
  • first-person
  • demons
  • character
  • retro
  • fps
  • arena
  • supernatural
  • stylized
  • dark

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Sonzai (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Sonzai is a 2d, action-brawler platforming RPG. The town of Kumotoshi holds secrets. A new life, new people, new spirits. What are the threads that bind people together? What is the nature of magic? All presented in a beautiful, inky art style - with every single frame of animation hand drawn.


  • japanese
  • spectacle
  • rpg
  • life
  • dating-sim
  • hack-and-slash
  • jrpg
  • abstract
  • eroge
  • psychedelic
  • action-adventure
  • open-world
  • hand-drawn
  • minimalist
  • stylized

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Deadfall (2023)

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Playstation 3 Linux Xbox 360 PC Windows

Deadfall is a dark, bloody, atmospheric, dynamic, brutal shooter in the spirit of action movies of the 80s and 90s.

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  • shooter
  • spectacle
  • top-down
  • 1990s
  • action-adventure
  • 1980s
  • atmospheric
  • america
  • wargame
  • hero
  • military
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • fight

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Dark Maidens (2022)

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PC Windows Linux

Dark Maidens is a side scrolling action game where you fight through hordes of enemies to test your metal against the strongest of foes. It has an advanced combat system in which you can light attack, heavy attack, block, fake out, and dodge. Don't expect an easy win as the enemies fight back!

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  • spectacle
  • hack-and-slash
  • conversation
  • romance
  • demons
  • 2.5d
  • medieval
  • anime
  • swordplay
  • gothic
  • scroller
  • zombies
  • dark
  • action-adventure
  • comedy

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BattleSteam (2022)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Free multiplayer team shooter. Join a group ready to break all laws for the sake of wealth and glory. You are waiting for team battles in various locations. Build fortifications, buy ammunition and shoot, but remember that not everyone is destined to get to the goal alive.

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  • royale
  • spectacle
  • mmo
  • multiplayer
  • tps
  • western
  • hand-drawn
  • cartoony
  • stylized
  • pirates
  • building
  • pvp
  • base-building
  • attack

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Gloves On! (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Pick up your gloves, wrap your hands, and put on your mouthpiece and headgear because Gloves On! is an action-packed boxing game with realistic and tactical controls. Get in the ring and fight an immersive and intense boxing match like you have never seen before.

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  • spectacle
  • 3d
  • boxing
  • cinematic
  • fight
  • wrestling
  • realistic
  • third-person
  • character
  • customization
  • simulation
  • sport
  • arcade

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DOOMBRINGER (2021)

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early access Linux PC Windows

Tight movement and map control multiplayer meets traditional exploratory FPS single player, from veterans of the Doom and Quake communities. Bolt jump over rivals and dive into inhabited silos of a wasted world!

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  • shooter
  • esport
  • spectacle
  • first-person
  • comic
  • arena
  • destruction
  • shoot-em-up
  • fps
  • dystopian
  • cooperative
  • demons
  • book
  • 3d

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Flippin Kaktus (2022)

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Flippin Kaktus is an action-driven vendetta with 80s vibes, featuring a spiky hero with the thorny past and rage-outbreaks combat style.

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  • rock
  • 1980s
  • spectacle
  • metroidvania
  • scroller
  • soundtrack
  • 2d
  • destruction
  • music
  • retro
  • platform
  • pixel
  • old-school
  • comedy
  • atmospheric

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