The Best Open-world Games for Linux

Update : Streets of Rogue 2 added at rank #17.
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Saints Row: The Third Remastered (2020)

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Playstation 4 Linux PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One

Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!


  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • sandbox
  • crime
  • driving
  • vehicle
  • funny
  • customization
  • action
  • empire
  • shooter
  • comedy
  • tps
  • parody

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TerraTech (2018)

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90
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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS Linux

TerraTech is the perfect game for creative kids who love to build their own vehicles and explore a randomly generated world. Construct powerful machines, bases, and weapons to defend against rival miners, gather resources, and improve your standing with the Mining Corporations. Explore treacherous mountain ranges, luscious grasslands, and huge deserts while building and creating your own unique style. The gameplay is fun and intuitive, and the simplistic graphics don't require high-end hardware.


What we like:
  • Fun and intuitive gameplay
  • Creative freedom with lots of room for your own style
  • Enticing game with interesting mechanics
  • Simplistic graphics don't require high-end hardware
  • Provides a unique and addictive experience
What could be improved:
  • Feels empty with repetitive fetch quests
  • Lack of big updates
  • Multiplayer needs a lot of work

  • sandbox
  • building
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • construction
  • vehicle
  • survival
  • robots
  • physics
  • early-access
  • exploration
  • funny-looking
  • online
  • vehicles

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Necesse (2019)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Necesse is an open-world, top-down sandbox game with a huge amount of potential. Explore procedurally generated islands, build towns, recruit settlers and complete quests - either on your own or with friends. There are forest, snow, swamp and desert biomes to discover as well as mobs and boss battles to fight. The crafting recipes are intuitive and the base building is fun and easy to learn.

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What we like:
  • Procedurally generated world of islands
  • Mobs to fight
  • Boss battles
  • Intuitive crafting recipes
  • Base building system
  • Online multiplayer
What could be improved:
  • Not much verticality in the build system yet
  • Minimal cosmetic changes for builds
  • Some bullet hell elements during boss fights

  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • colony
  • building
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • survival-craft
  • replay-value
  • 2d
  • multiplayer
  • farming
  • online

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Aground (2018)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Aground is a Mining/Crafting RPG with a goal, story, and reason to craft and build. The gameplay is simple, but engaging with tons of features. In Aground, you can raise dragons and launch into space, fight enemies, discover magic, and explore secrets. If you're into crafting games with a lot of exploration, Aground is a thoroughly addictive game with plenty to discover.


What we like:
  • Story is interesting and allows for a lot of exploration
  • Crafting is solid and varied
  • Mod support and community are helpful
  • Gameplay is engaging and controls are good
  • Freedom to choose which islands to visit and play at your own pace.
What could be improved:
  • Item storage can be tedious and requiring a lot of trips
  • Low-resolution graphics may take some getting used to
  • Lack of personal relationships with NPCs
  • Basic tutorial and sometimes requires use of outside resources for guidance.

  • survival
  • crafting
  • dragon
  • mining
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • exploration
  • sandbox
  • 2d
  • choices
  • management
  • story

5

Train Valley 2 - Community Edition (2019)

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88
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Nintendo Switch l Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!

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  • time-management
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • minimalist
  • stylized
  • family-friendly
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle
  • third-person
  • trains
  • tactical
  • management
  • difficult

6

The Falconeer (2020)

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Xbox One Linux PC Windows

Soar through the skies aboard a majestic warbird, explore a stunning oceanic world and engage in epic aerial dogfights, in this BAFTA-nominated air combat game from solo developer, Tomas Sala.


  • flight
  • open-world
  • lore
  • pirates
  • open-sea
  • combat
  • fantasy
  • dragon
  • sailing
  • tutorial
  • vr
  • exploration
  • wargame
  • rpg
  • battle

7

Renown (2023)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Renown is a fast paced multiplayer survival experience set in a vast and ever changing medieval world. Players begin with nothing, gather resources, build a kingdom and fight to survive in the hopes of becoming renowned across the land.


  • crafting
  • open-world
  • survival
  • turn-based
  • multiplayer
  • base-building
  • pvp
  • building
  • tactical
  • medieval
  • sandbox
  • mmo
  • hack-and-slash
  • adventure
  • board-game

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BLASTRONAUT (2022)

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early access Mac OS Linux PC Windows

BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.

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  • mining
  • open-world
  • crafting
  • survival
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • procedural
  • trading
  • resource-management
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • cooperative
  • old-school
  • 2d

9

SurrounDead (2022)

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early access Linux PC Windows

SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

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  • zombies
  • survival
  • post-apocalyptic
  • open-world
  • loot
  • exploration
  • third-person
  • inventory

10

Regions Of Ruin (2018)

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Regions of Ruin is a 2D pixel side-scrolling RPG with town-building, where you explore, fight and build into an open world that progressively challenges you and your settlement, and threatens the extinction of the dwarven race.


  • colony
  • city-building
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • rpg
  • 2d
  • simulation
  • scroller
  • side-scrolling
  • pixel
  • fantasy
  • exploration
  • building

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