The Best Survival Games for Linux - Page 4

Update : Dissident: Frostland Escape added at rank #46.
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Monster Outbreak (2022)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch

It's a Monster Outbreak! The King's dimensional orb malfunctioned, bringing hordes of dimensional monsters into the Kingdom. As Yulia, the last survivor of the Royal Guard, defend your staging ground against the monsters, upgrade your arsenal, and survive long enough to find the orb and destroy it.

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  • base-building
  • hack-and-slash
  • tower-defense
  • cooperative
  • split-screen
  • crafting
  • local
  • survival
  • multiplayer
  • building
  • controller-support
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • arcade

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MewnBase (2023)

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Linux PC Windows

MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.

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  • base-building
  • survival
  • crafting
  • space
  • cats
  • building
  • sandbox
  • cute
  • exploration
  • top-down
  • action-adventure
  • 2d
  • relaxing
  • family-friendly
  • open-world

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Volcanoids (2019)

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early access Linux PC Windows

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces the typical base with a modular drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and battle robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

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  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • steampunk
  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • building
  • sandbox
  • atmospheric
  • shooter
  • exploration
  • first-person

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ARK: Survival Evolved Explorer's Edition (2017)

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stadia Nintendo Switch Android IOS iPhone Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS Linux PC Windows

ARK: Survival Evolved takes on the survival genre with a unique blend of emergent multiplayer cooperation and competition. Players awake naked and starving on the beach of a mysterious island among a herd of other confused humans. On ARK, they must then hunt, harvest, craft, research technology, and build shelters to protect against scorching days, freezing nights, volatile weather systems, dangerous wildlife, and potential enemies. Use cunning strategy and tactics to tame and ride the many dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the dynamic, persistent ecosystems across land, sea, air, and even underground. Build your character’s strengths and gain items, skills, and pet creatures using in-depth role-playing systems. Start a tribe with hundreds of other players to survive and dominate competing tribes...and ultimately discover the ARK’s true purpose.

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  • survival
  • dinosaurs
  • crafting
  • open-world

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Minecraft (2011)

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Linux Xbox One IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Mac OS

Minecraft offers procedurally generated world to explore. After you survived your first night, build and craft your shelter. Explore the different biomes and fight your way in one of the best sandbox ever created. Even after playing Minecraft vanilla, you can enjoy a lot of free mods that will add new items, recipes to craft or even new dimensions. Go play with ofther players on free Minecraft servers and bring this building game to the next level.

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  • crafting
  • inventory
  • survival
  • split-screen
  • sandbox
  • online
  • multiplayer
  • dungeon-crawler
  • zombies
  • local
  • platform
  • cooperative
  • farming
  • dungeon
  • adventure

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Home Behind (2016)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows

In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

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  • survival
  • rogue-like
  • rpg
  • adventure
  • war
  • casual
  • scroller
  • simulation
  • building
  • mouse
  • education

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Tap Craft (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

Gather resources, craft new tools and build your idle empire on islands. This is an idle crafting game like you've never seen. Mine up rare metals, grow food to feed your thriving idle settlement, unlock new buildings, craft new items, and expand to new islands in Tap Craft.

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  • simulation
  • survival
  • colony
  • crafting
  • city-building
  • cooking
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • building
  • top-down
  • cute
  • nature
  • 2d
  • atmospheric

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ICY: Frostbite Edition (2017)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.


  • survival
  • post-apocalyptic
  • rpg
  • fiction
  • violent
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • real
  • story

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Ink and Paper: Wandering (2022)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Fight enemies with four different styles in turn-based tactical combat. Grant mercy to your enemies and maybe they'll spare you. Flee when you can't win, and return with friends. Avoid spiritual foes, who can't be defeated in battle. Step in the world of the well known, but still different fantasy.

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  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • rpg
  • turn-based
  • sandbox
  • survival-horror
  • economyal
  • cooperative
  • 2d
  • skill

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Overland (2019)

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Fight scary creatures, rescue stranded survivors, and scavenge for supplies like fuel, first aid kits, and weapons. Get ready for close calls, dramatic escapes, hard choices, arguing about whether or not that dog gets rescued, and the end of the world.Features:- Always keep fuel in the tank. Every level, roadmap, and character is randomly generated, so each trip is new.- Equip dozens of items, including medkits, shields, axes, potted plants, scavenged armor, and luggage racks.- A completely new end of the world from Finji (Canabalt, Night in the Woods).


  • turn-based
  • survival
  • post-apocalyptic
  • tactical
  • diorama
  • strategy
  • grid
  • rogue-like

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