The Best Adventure exploration Games for Linux - Page 2

Update : Aure added at rank #35.
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Tux and Fanny (2021)

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

A retro-inspired adventure puzzle game featuring multiple playable characters with interwoven storylines. Explore the natural (and unnatural) world for unique interactions and unlock items to aid you in your quest. There's nothing as simultaneously charming and strange as the world of Tux and Fanny.


  • soccer
  • philosophical
  • adventure
  • surreal
  • nature
  • retro
  • capitalism
  • colourful
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • psychedelic

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Boxville (2022)

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Linux IOS iPhone (IOS iPhone) m Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone Playstation 4 Android

Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Made in Ukraine.


  • logic
  • emotional
  • point-and-click
  • hand-drawn
  • investigation
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • cartoony
  • experiences
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • story

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AER Memories of Old (2017)

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Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Transform into a bird and fly to explore and experience a vibrant world of floating islands in the sky. Venture down into lost ancient ruins where each step leads you closer to the end of the world.


  • flight
  • exploration
  • platform
  • relaxing
  • puzzle
  • open-world
  • dungeon
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • adventure
  • experience
  • story
  • achievements

14

Night in the Woods (2017)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.


  • platform
  • narrative
  • adventure
  • story
  • mystery
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rhythm
  • local
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • bass
  • cute
  • interactive
  • supernatural
  • economy

15

The First Tree (2017)

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

A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a young couple dealing with a tragedy in their own. Uncover artifacts from the young couple’s life as they too become intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.


  • third-person
  • walking-simulator
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • short
  • exploration
  • orchestral
  • colourful
  • relaxing
  • adventure
  • nature
  • single-player
  • platform
  • narration
  • mech

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Slime Rancher (2017)

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Xbox One Android PC Windows Mac OS Linux Playstation 4

Slime Rancher is a delightful first-person farming game that takes players on an unforgettable journey exploring a distant ranch where they collect, breed and harvest slimes for cash. Players will get to explore the massive ranch looking for new areas and breeds of slime, as well as fruits, vegetables, and keys to unlock doors. There is also a charming story told throughout the game via notes left behind by the retired previous owner of the ranch as well as letters from someone back home.


What we like:
  • Colourful visuals
  • No violence or profanity
  • Charming story
  • Fun exploration elements
  • Jetpack upgrades
  • Science centre with resource types and abilities
What could be improved:
  • Some content gated behind time played
  • Some may find it repetitive
  • No real difficulty

  • cute
  • farming
  • first-person
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • exploration
  • management
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • adventure
  • funny
  • single-player
  • shooter

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The Plague Doctor of Wippra (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The plague spreads agony and fear in the small town of Wippra. As a plague doctor, you bring healing and relief wherever you can. But ignorance, superstition, and religious zeal make for a deadly threat in this retro medieval medical adventure!


  • point-and-click
  • medieval
  • pixel
  • historical
  • noir
  • story
  • narration
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • conversation
  • adventure
  • narrative

18

Firewatch (2016)

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Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.


  • mystery
  • walking-simulator
  • narrative
  • first-person
  • exploration
  • story
  • park
  • adventure
  • boss
  • thriller

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SUNLESS SEA (2015)

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Linux PC Windows Mac OS

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.


  • rogue-like
  • sailing
  • exploration
  • story
  • pirates
  • narrative
  • horror
  • adventure
  • discovery
  • combat
  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • naval

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Desolatium (2023)

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

DESOLATIUM is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.

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  • horror
  • point-and-click
  • psychological
  • lovecraftian
  • mystery
  • narration
  • multiple-endings
  • detective
  • choices
  • investigation
  • visual-novel
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • first-person
  • exploration

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