The Best Sci-fi Games for Linux

Update : Alcyone: The Last City added at rank #4.
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Tacoma (2017)

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Mac OS Linux Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.


  • narrative
  • sci-fi
  • walking-simulator
  • augmented
  • story
  • exploration
  • futuristic
  • mystery
  • pause
  • augmented-reality
  • interactive
  • discovery
  • first-person

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Beyond a Steel Sky (2020)

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Beyond a Steel Sky is a thrilling cyberpunk adventure game with engaging puzzles and a fast-paced narrative that will keep you hooked. Follow Robert Foster as he tries to rescue a kidnapped child in Union City, a futuristic utopia controlled by an altruistic AI. The game features a beautifully detailed comic-book style world and plenty of humor. Unravel dark conspiracies and defeat a terrifying antagonist in this innovative and exciting adventure!


What we like:
  • Engaging storyline and characters
  • Built-in hints system
  • Great setting and world design
  • Innovative puzzle mechanics
  • Plenty of humor and nostalgia nods
What could be improved:
  • Controlling the character is clunky
  • Hacking can be repetitive
  • Lack of puzzle diversity
  • Story can be simplistic with bad pace
  • Cutscenes are too long and boring

  • cyberpunk
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • dystopian
  • narrative
  • classic
  • sci-fi
  • thriller
  • futuristic
  • cult
  • third-person
  • hacking
  • political
  • inventory

3

Athanasy (2022)

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Linux Mac OS Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile Nintendo Switch Android PC Windows

Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.

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  • narration
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • dynamic
  • sci-fi
  • lore
  • text
  • lovecraftian
  • cyberpunk
  • conversation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • choices
  • multiple-endings

4

Alcyone: The Last City (2025)

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Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.

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  • choices
  • interactive
  • sci-fi
  • novel
  • conversation
  • dystopian
  • fiction
  • text
  • post-apocalyptic
  • visual-novel
  • hand-drawn
  • multiple-endings
  • emotional
  • exploration
  • politics

5

Seren Nova (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Seren Nova is a top-down 3D retro sci-fi game set in a solar system at war. Choose the best ship to complete each mission and take out the enemy across various planets. You can even land your ship and take the war to the enemy on foot. Featuring a fun retro sci-fi live-action cutscenes and puppets!

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  • spaceships
  • fmv
  • space
  • sci-fi
  • 1990s
  • lgbtq
  • top-down
  • wargame
  • flight
  • 3d
  • vehicle
  • shooter

6

What's Outside (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

You’re stuck out in the middle of space alone in ship, see how long you can survive with endless enemy ships and do all it again.

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  • shoot-em-up
  • attack
  • score
  • bullet-hell
  • short
  • pve
  • space
  • shooter
  • top-down
  • vehicle
  • replay-value
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • funny

7

Beyond Hope (2023)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Beyond Hope gives you and your friends one epic space journey! Your mission alone or with friends is to save yourself from getting pulled into the hot Sun. Gather debris, scavenge asteroids and build your own space station. Reach for the stars and survive when all odds are against you!

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  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • action-adventure
  • fps
  • sci-fi
  • first-person
  • 3d
  • shooter
  • casual
  • crafting
  • tanks
  • multiplayer
  • military
  • root
  • cooperative-player

8

Space Crew: Legendary Edition (2020)

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Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Time for your toughest mission yet! Recruit and train your crew to tackle the growing threat from alien and android armies as you defend Earth to become a Galactic Legend in Space Crew: Legendary Edition. All new content free to existing owners of Space Crew!


  • space
  • simulation
  • sci-fi
  • management
  • survival
  • strategy
  • rogue-like
  • perma-death
  • challenging

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Epic Space Trader (2024)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Commanding a starship, you’ll trade goods across the galaxy, evade cosmic threats, and grow your trading empire. Do you have what it takes to outmaneuver rivals and become a trading legend? Take command of your destiny in Epic Space Trader, your journey to the stars begins now!

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  • space
  • economy
  • simulation
  • sci-fi
  • management
  • pixel
  • first-person
  • top-down
  • futuristic
  • rpg
  • casual
  • 2d
  • turn-based

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Loot Express Delivery Service (2023)

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Embark on an adventure with Loot Express Delivery Service, a 2D pixel art game. As the commander, your goal is to retrieve valuable items from a distant planet. Utilize your skills and strategy to complete missions and guide your company to prosperity.

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  • base-building
  • top-down
  • tower-defense
  • pixel
  • tactical
  • 2d
  • sci-fi
  • building
  • management
  • exploration
  • real-time
  • single-player
  • difficult
  • survival
  • controller-support

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