The Best Nonlinear Games for Linux - Page 2

Update : EMUUROM added at rank #5.
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Dimenshift: Direction is Meaningless (2024)

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A minimalist sci-fi 2D platformer where you shift through walls and machines. Explore and find secrets in a strange, maze-like dimension, where the laws of physics don't seem to make sense.

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  • nonlinear
  • 2d
  • surreal
  • platform
  • scroller
  • atmospheric
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • 3d

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Pivot of Hearts (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Game developer Wén Xiàn has a second chance at love, but it’s not what he expects. Will he be able to stray off the beaten path and find true happiness? Play your cards right and find out in Pivot of Hearts, a non-monogamous visual novel!

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  • lgbtq
  • visual-novel
  • romance
  • nonlinear
  • multiple-endings
  • lore
  • dating-sim
  • fiction
  • text
  • anime
  • modern
  • choices
  • interactive
  • comedy
  • card

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God's Disdain (2025)

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Explore a vast, rich world in the fight to end a plague in this non-linear JRPG! WIll you save Hajimari, or doom it to wither away?

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  • japanese
  • rpg
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • jrpg
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • party
  • post-apocalyptic
  • magic
  • turn-based
  • open-world
  • combat
  • pixel
  • exploration

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Auto Dungeon (2025)

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Conquer the Astral Plane, Summoner! In this roguelite autobattler, build a powerful army in a vast, procedurally generated world. Collect cards, defeat foes and rival summoners, and equip, enchant, and mutate your creatures. Defeat the five champions and recover your stolen rings!

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  • auto-battler
  • card
  • battler
  • perma-death
  • tutorial
  • dungeon-crawler
  • pve
  • rogue-like
  • nonlinear
  • isometric
  • demons
  • surreal
  • procedural
  • top-down
  • rpg

15

Psychroma (2024)

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Psychroma is a narrative-driven side-scroller where you play as a digital medium. Confront the past by piecing together the broken memories of a cybernetic house, and exorcise the ghosts in the machine.

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  • cyberpunk
  • psychedelic
  • psychological
  • capitalism
  • nonlinear
  • scroller
  • horror
  • lgbtq
  • dystopian
  • pixel
  • emotional
  • story
  • surreal
  • fiction
  • dark

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The End of Gameplay (2025)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

droqen's desperate attempt to explain, or explore, or understand the true meaning of "kill gameplay." something as mundane as lights neither of us saying "goodbye" you following me following you following me following you...

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  • nonlinear
  • 2d
  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • surreal
  • abstract
  • platform
  • minimalist
  • stylized
  • exploration
  • open-world
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • story

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Aure (2025)

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Aure is an open world exploration RPG where you take a role of an adventurer in a large and living fantasy world.

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  • open-world
  • rpg
  • exploration
  • nonlinear
  • character
  • 3d
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • customization
  • inventory
  • management
  • action-adventure
  • hand-drawn

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The Crown of Leaves (2018)

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Roui, a resilient city dandy, a half-educated jeweler and the author of scientific magic articles, was met with a colossal failure and must return to his homeland Latori.

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  • visual-novel
  • point-and-click
  • nonlinear
  • lgbtq
  • emotional
  • choices
  • hand-drawn
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • fantasy
  • colourful
  • 2d
  • mystery

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The White Room (2024)

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early access PC Windows Linux

Locked in the white room and you are slowly losing your mind. Not sure what is real anymore and you must escape.

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  • nonlinear
  • psychological
  • multiple-endings
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • realistic
  • atmospheric
  • mystery

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Dark Ball (2024)

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how to play W,a,s,d Want to get to the end to survive or find strategies but it's not all possible start whether easy but not when you proceed further you have one of the lives much harder than you mixes

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  • tutorial
  • 2d
  • platform
  • nonlinear
  • point-and-click
  • exploration
  • casual
  • cooperative
  • dark
  • pixel
  • puzzle

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