The Best Violent Games for Linux

Update : Gulag added at rank #12.
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Kindergarten 2 (2019)

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Welcome to Kindergarten 2, which takes place on Tuesday! After the events of Monday, you'll find yourself in a new school with new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.

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  • gore
  • violent
  • dark
  • humor
  • pixel
  • comedy
  • funny
  • blood
  • cute
  • adventure
  • single-player
  • narration
  • 2d
  • education
  • horror

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Welcome to Elk (2020)

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Welcome to Elk is a biographical adventure set on an island like no other, where every character you encounter has a story to tell. From the weird and wonderful to the dark and desperate, all the tales told on Elk are based on true stories of life on the road less traveled.


  • narrative
  • hand-drawn
  • fiction
  • adventure
  • documentary
  • local
  • story
  • drama
  • violent
  • pretend
  • golf
  • villain
  • colourful
  • trading
  • exploration

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Rabbit Hole (2022)

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Rabbit Hole is a fast paced, tough-as-nails 2D RogueLike-Shooter, made with love for the genre. You are Disc, someone who was suddenly brought to the Rabbit Hole. Collect guns, fight foes and meet strange new characters on your descent to the bottom, all in an attempt to find your heart again.

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  • rogue-like
  • 2d
  • gore
  • adventure
  • gambling
  • violent
  • idler
  • thriller
  • pixel
  • bullet-hell
  • tps
  • shoot-em-up
  • survival-horror
  • emotional
  • lore

4

Happy Room (2016)

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Welcome to the laboratory! Here tests are taken upon highly durable human clones using newest weapon technologies. Your goal is to head these tests.

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  • simulation
  • blood
  • social
  • sandbox
  • gore
  • violent
  • funny
  • physics
  • driven

5

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015)

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Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.


  • top-down
  • violent
  • shooter
  • gore
  • narrative
  • difficult
  • stealth
  • retro
  • crime
  • action
  • pixel
  • psychedelic
  • combat
  • cover
  • twitch

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Passage (2022)

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A short horror game where you solve procedurally-generated puzzles while being hunted and toyed with by a monstrosity.

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  • gore
  • horror
  • rogue-like
  • violent
  • hidden-object
  • art
  • maze
  • 3d
  • puzzle
  • pixel
  • stylized
  • minimalist
  • multiple-endings
  • procedural
  • adventure

7

Estranged: Act II (2017)

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Estranged: The Departure follows the story of a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Little does he know his adventure has just begun, and the island is home to more than it first seems.

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  • casual
  • violent
  • horror
  • adventure
  • underwater
  • fps
  • story
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • action
  • arcade

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Swordbreaker: Origins (2022)

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An illustrated text quest in the Swordbreaker universe. The prequel tells about the life and adventures of Swordbreaker from his childhood, and before the events in the mysterious castle.

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  • visual-novel
  • gore
  • violent
  • fiction
  • parody
  • replay-value
  • comedy
  • hand-drawn
  • stylized
  • medieval
  • interactive
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • adventure

9

Dujanah (2017)

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  • violent
  • rpg
  • adventure
  • action
  • surreal

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Grisaia Phantom Trigger Vol.1 (2017)

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"Grisaia: Phantom Trigger" is a visual novel, specifically a kinetic novel (without branching routes). Returning character artist Akio Watanabe and writer Ryuta Fujisaki bring you the latest installment in the acclaimed Grisaia series.

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  • visual-novel
  • violent
  • casual
  • anime
  • harem
  • adventure

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