The Best Pixel Games for Linux - Page 5

Update : Skies Above added at rank #43.
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Astral Rift (2024)

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Fight and Explore your way through randomly generated dungeons full of hordes of dangerous enemies and powerful bosses to recover the lost Astral Shards and save the world from spatial collapse! Expand your arsenal of weapons, potions, and spells as you grow into the strongest adventurer of all!

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  • adventure
  • rogue-like
  • rpg
  • pixel
  • action
  • dungeon
  • boss

42

Cat Sandbox (2023)

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Save pixel cats in this physics puzzle game!

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  • cats
  • logic
  • physics
  • pixel
  • precision
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • platform
  • cute
  • sandbox
  • retro

43

Skies Above (2024)

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A fast-paced, action-packed pixel art game, where you have to help a Leviathan to reach space by defending it from an endless robot army.

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  • scroller
  • pixel
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • 2d
  • family-friendly
  • nature
  • casual
  • arcade
  • atmospheric
  • cute
  • action
  • adventure
  • fantasy

44

Timespinner (2018)

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Enter a time-traveling Metroidvania adventure as Lunais, a young Timespinner on a mission to save the future and unravel the mysteries of the Lachiem Empire. With great combat, pixel-perfect art, and a killer soundtrack, Timespinner is a must-play for fans of the genre. Bring a friend for local co-op and dive into the world of Familiars and time manipulation. Are you ready to control time and take on epic boss battles? Play Timespinner and find out!


What we like:
  • Engaging story and character development
  • Impressive 16-bit aesthetic design
  • Unique time travel mechanics
  • Challenging but adjustable difficulty
  • Great soundtrack, story, and gameplay
What could be improved:
  • Relatively short
  • Redundant weapon options
  • Limited movement abilities
  • Unhelpful pets

  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • time
  • manipulation
  • empire
  • lgbtq
  • travel
  • exploration
  • boss
  • boss-fight
  • combat
  • rpg
  • scroller

45

Wrought Flesh (2021)

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Rip out organs and equip them in your own body. Fight biopunk monsters and drugged-up space bandits. You are a Gajeshian Cultist: A near-mythological being built from the bodies of long-dead saints.

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  • gore
  • 3d
  • retro
  • cyberpunk
  • rpg
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • pixel
  • futuristic
  • violent
  • horror
  • multiple-endings
  • action
  • management
  • inventory

46

Vibrant Venture (2020)

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Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!

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  • platform
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • single-player
  • colourful

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Lenna's Inception (2020)

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The legendary hero is dead, and a strange glitch is spreading across the kingdom. Explore dangerous dungeons, and defeat the eight archangels to restore order to an unraveling world in this epic action-adventure RPG.

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  • multiple-endings
  • pixel
  • action-adventure
  • comedy
  • top-down
  • funny
  • retro
  • local
  • dungeon
  • single-player
  • cooperative
  • zelda
  • procedural
  • boss
  • rpg

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Guard Duty (2019)

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Half-Life: Blue Shift is an expansion pack for the first-person shooter video game Half-Life (1998). It was developed by Gearbox Software with Valve and published by Sierra On-Line Blue Shift was the second expansion for Half-Life, originally intended as part of a Dreamcast port of Half-Life. Although the Dreamcast port was cancelled, the Windows version was released as a standalone product on June 12, 2001 for Windows. It was released on Steam on August 24, 2005.


  • point-and-click
  • crowdfunded
  • pixel
  • kickstarter
  • adventure
  • medieval
  • surreal
  • stand-alone
  • 2.5d
  • sci-fi
  • colourful
  • classic
  • fantasy
  • inventory
  • old-school

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Collect Call (2024)

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A puzzle platformer about cooperating and exploring.

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  • platform
  • puzzle
  • pixel
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • casual
  • open-source
  • single-player
  • physics
  • adventure
  • sci-fi

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Jurl (2023)

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A sci-fi fixed arena shooter, where you can't shoot. Collect the Star Diamonds whilst avoiding the hazards using your thrusters to rotate your ship and then thrusting forward. You can't kill the enemy, so your only weapons are movement, speed and getting you opponents to wipe each other out.

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  • collectathon
  • casual
  • arena
  • physics
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • 1980s
  • shooter
  • war
  • aliens
  • arcade
  • top-down
  • action
  • linear

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