The Best Action-adventure Games for Linux

Update : 3D PUZZLE - Apocalyptic Wasteland added at rank #48.
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The Genesis Project (2022)

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early access PC Windows Linux Mac OS

The Genesis Project is an attempt to replicate Sburb from the popular webcomic Homestuck, made by Andrew Hussie.

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  • rpg
  • party
  • memes
  • base-building
  • building
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action-adventure
  • character
  • 3d
  • tag
  • exploration
  • customization
  • crafting
  • management
  • fantasy

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Cold Heart (2021)

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Mac OS Linux Xbox 360 wii u Playstation 3 PC Windows

Fight and protect the cold heart against the fire creatures in this magic game.


  • collectathon
  • action-adventure
  • hack-and-slash
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • survival
  • cartoony
  • top-down
  • magic
  • counter
  • pve
  • casual
  • crime

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Resolutiion (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Resolutiion is a fast-paced action-adventure created by two angry German brothers leading a band of vagrants who loaded it with lovely pixels, dirty jokes, deep ideas and badassemotional tunes for 20 hours of punishing combat, rewarding exploration, and layered storytelling. Will you be the player or will you be played? In the Infinite Empire nothing is as it seems.Explore a fractured future, gathering weird weapons and stories, to piece together the past: a friend betrayed, a family broken, worlds at war. To solve the mystery of the Cradles take on a multi-cultural-mashup of cynical gods, emotional machines, zealots, luddites, and furry critters in a world that doesn’t care if it confuses or kills you — oh hey, a kitty!


  • action-adventure
  • soundtrack
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • boss-fight
  • exploration
  • dystopian
  • metroidvania
  • mystery
  • boss
  • story
  • cyberpunk
  • assassin
  • atmospheric
  • fight

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Saga of Sins (2023)

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

Saga of Sins is an expiatory action-adventure which features a mystical storyline and a rewarding arcade gameplay! Transform into demonic creatures and fight the seven deadly sins.

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  • platform
  • transhumanism
  • multiple-endings
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • medieval
  • rpg
  • hand-drawn
  • arcade
  • atmospheric
  • action
  • linear
  • puzzle
  • story

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Mushy (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Mushy is a round based first person shooter. The attackers plant a bomb and the defenders defuse it; all while engaging in armed combat!

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  • faith
  • modern
  • action-adventure
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • cartoony
  • minimalist
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • atmospheric
  • casual
  • space
  • first-person
  • linear

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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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Ether (2024)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Help a Space Mercenary, Ether, complete a difficult scavenging mission in an abandoned ship. Explore 4 different biomes, each with its share of dangers, and escape a swarm of mutant space bugs.


  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • platform
  • mmo
  • space
  • multiplayer
  • adventure
  • futuristic
  • aliens
  • fantasy
  • action
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • rpg

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Guards (2016)

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PC Windows Xbox One Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS

GUARDS! is a 1-4 player coop fantasy FPS that puts you in the underfunded and over-zealous steel boots of the City Watch. Kick down doors, bust criminals and cause excessive property damage as you fight to restore law and order to the corrupt city of New Alestead.


  • cooperative
  • turn-based
  • pve
  • fantasy
  • medieval
  • hack-and-slash
  • action-adventure
  • dungeon-crawler
  • first-person
  • procedural
  • time-management
  • stealth
  • third-person
  • tactical
  • battle

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!AnyWay! (2022)

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PC Windows Linux

Anyway is a 2D platformer adventure in which every day is not the same: There are some secret rules to this place which can change from day to day. So be cautious, it may be dangerous out there!

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  • 2d
  • platform
  • action-adventure
  • precision
  • family-friendly
  • scroller
  • colourful
  • metroidvania
  • casual
  • character
  • atmospheric
  • comic
  • attack
  • score
  • sandbox

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Lenna's Inception (2020)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The legendary hero is dead, and a strange glitch is spreading across the kingdom. Explore dangerous dungeons, and defeat the eight archangels to restore order to an unraveling world in this epic action-adventure RPG.

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  • multiple-endings
  • pixel
  • action-adventure
  • comedy
  • top-down
  • funny
  • retro
  • local
  • dungeon
  • single-player
  • cooperative
  • zelda
  • procedural
  • boss
  • rpg

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