The Best Fiction Games for Linux

Update : Werewolves 3: Evolution\'s End added at rank #14.
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Frequency (2023)

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early access ps2 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

Drive the world and make it dance as you piece together the geometric puzzles and build musical tracks that are intertwined.


  • multiple-endings
  • music
  • space
  • choices
  • instrument
  • walking-simulator
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • online-capable
  • pixel
  • cyberpunk
  • humor
  • rhythm
  • interactive
  • minimalist

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Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space (2022)

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A Spacey Classic Point and Click Adventure for All!

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  • cartoony
  • cinematic
  • clicker
  • point-and-click
  • science
  • comic
  • fiction
  • adventure
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • 1980s
  • interactive
  • hand-drawn
  • puzzle
  • book

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Three Minutes To Eight (2023)

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Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.


  • travel
  • multiple-endings
  • time
  • pixel
  • futuristic
  • voxel
  • point-and-click
  • fiction
  • scroller
  • choices
  • sci-fi
  • 2.5d
  • mystery
  • psychological
  • interactive

4

Word Farm Adventure: Word Game (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Unveil the story of Perry the Parrot, Rex the Dog, and the other farm heroes on their adventure in this awesome word puzzle game!. Want to enjoy exclusive bonuses, meet other word puzzle enthusiasts, and dive deeper into the Van Der Farm story?

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  • crossword
  • word
  • arts
  • multiple-endings
  • martial
  • choices
  • emotional
  • resource-management
  • fiction
  • lore
  • drama
  • visual-novel
  • romance
  • historical
  • alternate

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Antioch: Scarlet Bay (2022)

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Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure. Play as two detectives working together to solve a murder in the shadowy city of Antioch. Wander in a city filled with characters with their own agendas and attitudes, all your decisions change the story and lead to multi endings.

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  • choices
  • dark
  • multiple-endings
  • noir
  • cooperative
  • asynchronous
  • comic
  • 1990s
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • detective
  • comedy
  • interactive
  • visual-novel
  • book

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The Sin (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair

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  • idler
  • horror
  • crime
  • psychological
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • text
  • empire
  • mythology
  • narration
  • detective
  • demons
  • thriller
  • management
  • hand-drawn

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Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood (2021)

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Scarlet Hood must lead a hapless Munchkin troupe through the Wicked Wood. Too bad the Black Witch, LeFaba, doesn't take too kindly to strangers gallivanting in her domain. Our fledgling witch soon realizes she's reliving the same day. Can she overcome the disaster that awaits at every turn?


  • investigation
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • comic
  • scroller
  • adventure
  • interactive
  • puzzle
  • endings
  • cartoony
  • book
  • horror
  • stylized
  • story
  • text

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The Passenger (2022)

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Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?

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  • horror
  • lovecraftian
  • romance
  • fiction
  • choices
  • interactive
  • supernatural
  • casual
  • romantic
  • cosmic
  • 000-word
  • text
  • drama
  • rpg
  • multiple-endings

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Echoes (2017)

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wii Linux PC Windows Mac OS gamecube

Fall through a hidden hole and find yourself trapped somewhere, where your voice is your only lifeline. Shout to light the darkness, and listen carefully to unravel the secrets that lurk within. But beware: the further you delve, the more terrors will emerge from the shadows...


  • visual-novel
  • horror
  • fiction
  • choices
  • adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • 2d
  • interactive
  • noir
  • comic
  • rogue-like
  • detective
  • conspiracy
  • psychological
  • hidden-object

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Snapshot (2021)

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Magic and science. Past and future. But what of the present?


  • platform
  • linear
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • narration
  • puzzle
  • interactive
  • text
  • casual
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • casually-paced
  • abstract
  • philosophical
  • action-adventure

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