The Best Retro Games for Linux - Page 3

Update : PathBlasters added at rank #33.
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Primal Light (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.

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  • platform
  • precision
  • beautiful
  • retro
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • old-school
  • linear

22

Super Bit Blaster XL (2020)

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Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows

A SUPER throwback to the classic quarter eating arcade games of the 80's. Super Bit Blaster XL is an (even more) enhanced version of the retro styled, addictive, and fast paced arcade shoot 'em up!

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  • addictive
  • attack
  • score
  • full-time
  • bullet-hell
  • casual
  • retro
  • shoot-em-up
  • arcade
  • family-friendly
  • multiplayer
  • replay-value
  • 2d
  • cooperative
  • local

23

Brucie's Arcade (2024)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

A retro arcade game bundle where you must manage a restaurant through four mini-games: Ingredient Run, Cooking, Serving, and Stacking Leftovers. Each game offers unique challenges packaged up in a familiar, replayable arcade format.

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  • 1980s
  • collectathon
  • retro
  • cooking
  • time-management
  • arcade
  • management
  • 2d
  • strategy
  • top-down
  • third-person
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • logic

24

TTV2 (2017)

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Nintendo Switch Linux PC Windows

TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

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  • reflexes
  • arcade
  • retro
  • maze
  • pixel
  • fast-paced

25

Awakened Evil (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Awakened Evil is an action platformer inspired by the classics. Jump and slash your way through intense linear stages that will put your skills to the test. Do you have what it takes to slay all the bosses, and take on evil itself?

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  • retro
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • platform
  • fantasy
  • 1980s
  • action
  • dark
  • single-player
  • adventure
  • difficult
  • old-school

26

Prison Run and Gun (2016)

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Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The recent events in a state prison, involving Jake from Team Hot Guns was a perfect moment for some prisoners to escape - you are one of them.

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  • retro
  • platform
  • puzzle
  • action
  • skill
  • pixel
  • 2d

27

The Night Of The Inquisitor (2023)

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Linux PC Windows

A VHS/PS1 Survival Horror Experience! Play as Emilia, a young woman cursed by an ancient rosary, transported into the Realm of the Inquisitor, a surreal dimension filled with the ghosts victims of the Inquisitor himself. Solve puzzles, free ghosts, and escape the Inquisitor!

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • assassin
  • thriller
  • retro
  • multiple-endings
  • third-person
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • action-adventure
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • exploration

28

Stardust Demon (2024)

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A retro metroidvania adventure - featuring Algol, who lives on a demon planet. Explore alien biomes and uncover dark secrets after a catastrophe sends the galaxy into disarray!

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  • fmv
  • metroidvania
  • lgbtq
  • psychedelic
  • 2d
  • demons
  • retro
  • cartoony
  • platform
  • pixel
  • aliens
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • old-school
  • space

29

Alisa (2021)

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Playstation 5 Mac OS PC Windows Linux Xbox Series X j Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Alisa is a classic late-90s style horror-themed action adventure game set in a fantasy universe inspired on the 1920s. You play as an Elite Royal Agent called Alisa, who wakes up in a strange Victorian mansion and must find her way out while being haunted by materialized / mechanized doll-like humanoids. Explore classic survival horror gameplay with real pre-rendered backgrounds, eccentric currency and item shop, unique player stats boosts, weapon load-outs, a large variety of enemies and locations and surprises around every corner.

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What we like:
  • Nostalgic survival horror experience
  • Sound and graphical design inspired by classic titles
  • Interesting story and characters
  • Optional side missions and collectibles
  • Varied enemy designs and difficulty levels
What could be improved:
  • Unintuitive currency system reliant on killing enemies

  • 1990s
  • survival-horror
  • retro
  • gothic
  • historical
  • alternate
  • old-school
  • military
  • horror
  • mystery
  • action-adventure
  • 3d
  • pixel
  • pve
  • atmospheric

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Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble (2016)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

An enormous Boss Tower has sprung from the ground, lifting entire towns up with it. Now, the people living on the tower are starting to contract all sorts of mysterious illnesses. Princess Remedy, still in Saturnian healing school, must use her powers to heal everyone and defeat the Boss Tower!

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  • bullet-hell
  • retro
  • pixel
  • cute
  • lgbtq
  • shoot-em-up
  • 2d
  • rpg
  • short

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