The Best Lore Games for Linux - Page 3

Update : Broken Lens added at rank #39.
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Restless Soul (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Laugh in the face of death in this hauntingly humorous comedy adventure about a wayward soul trying to make it back to the land of the living. Engage in bullet-hell lite battles, solve puzzles, and communicate with the dead as you navigate this “colorful” world. Death is just the beginning.

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  • comedy
  • bullet-hell
  • lore
  • rpg
  • dark
  • minimalist
  • funny
  • pixel
  • conversation
  • twin-stick
  • 2d
  • 3d
  • action-adventure
  • single-player

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How We Got Here (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.

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  • lore
  • walking-simulator
  • fiction
  • surreal
  • drama
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • interactive
  • story
  • 2d
  • mystery
  • exploration
  • cute
  • funny

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BOOK OF HOURS (2023)

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Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?


  • narration
  • historical
  • dynamic
  • life
  • lore
  • time-management
  • tabletop
  • rpg
  • combat-free
  • crafting
  • card
  • choices
  • exploration
  • alternate
  • text

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Dawn of Yokai (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

This single player RPG takes place in Japan. This game involves a level of strategy, a mix of healing and damage is most effective. The game is meant to be replayed after the final boss but which path will you choose? This game was built using RPG Maker. Please leave comments and report bugs.

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  • rpg
  • lore
  • turn-based
  • tactical
  • mythology
  • nature
  • magic
  • historical
  • pixel
  • multiple-endings
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • old-school
  • sci-fi

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He Needs His Medicine (2021)

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You have been dispatched for a 911 call. From the moment you step inside the apartment, you realize something is really wrong with the place. You are gonna make Him the last dosage. He needs his medicine.

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  • dark
  • lore
  • horror
  • multiple-endings
  • walking-simulator
  • choices
  • psychological
  • scroller
  • crafting
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • story
  • casual

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Social Services of the Doomed (2022)

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They have magic and fangs. You have red tape! When vampires, werewolves, wizards, and demons clash, you must mediate. Save your city, or sell your soul?

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  • choices
  • lore
  • werewolves
  • text
  • diplomacy
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • multiple-endings
  • demons
  • interactive
  • magic
  • vampire
  • fantasy
  • drama
  • character

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Punk Wars (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Our civilization has fallen. From the ashes, four new powers emerge. Immerse yourself in a combat-heavy twist on a classic turn-based 4X strategy where steam, steel, atom and diesel-punk corporations clash to spread their technology and the way of life.


  • 4x
  • turn-based
  • transhumanism
  • steampunk
  • dystopian
  • lore
  • city-building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • wargame
  • tactical
  • strategy
  • isometric
  • stylized
  • survival
  • building

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Forbidden Magic (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Catch a magical arsonist before you lose your heart! Will you romance a rival agent, your hellhound shapeshifter partner, or your boss—an actual devil? A sweet romantic text-based, role playing game.

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  • choices
  • text
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • romance
  • lore
  • paranormal
  • rpg
  • high-school
  • supernatural
  • character
  • first-person
  • vampire
  • multiple-endings
  • fantasy

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Teahouse of the Gods (2022)

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Harness the qi energy of life itself to control body, mind, and environment! Will you use your power to save the world, or will corruption stain your soul?

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  • foreign
  • choices
  • text
  • lore
  • investigation
  • modern
  • philosophical
  • magic
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • 000-word
  • supernatural
  • first-person
  • character
  • rpg

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Aestik (2024)

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Make impactful decisions in moral dilemma situations, which will change the course of your journey through this atmospheric, hand-drawn metroidvania. Explore the hazardous paths of the Realm of Aestik and fight its corrupted inhabitants as you unravel its deep-rooted mysteries.

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  • souls
  • lovecraftian
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • nature
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • multiple-endings
  • platform
  • choices
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • open-world
  • controller-support
  • 2d

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