The Best Sci-fi Games for Linux

Update : Seren Nova added at rank #6.
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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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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 IOS iPhone Mac OS Linux

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

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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

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

5

Universe For Sale (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

A space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. A bizarre bazaar where a young, worried woman crafts entire universes in the palm of her hand. A mysterious cultist who's stripped the flesh from his bones in order to reach enlightenment. Here, there's a universe for sale. You buying?


  • hand-drawn
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • sci-fi
  • comic
  • travel
  • atmospheric
  • conversation
  • time
  • crafting
  • book
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • cute
  • narration

6

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

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

A Frail Qubit (2022)

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Linux PC Windows

In a beat up Quantum Computer, you are a frail Qubit completing mysterious Trials. Explore and conquer the computer, inquire about the nature of the Trials, and hatch a plan to escape.

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  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • linear
  • action-adventure
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • top-down
  • abstract
  • cyberpunk
  • adventure
  • conversation
  • multiple-endings
  • 2d

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BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows Mac OS Linux

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric adventure game set in the distant future. Explore a post-apocalyptic landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the world around you.


  • isometric
  • point-and-click
  • sci-fi
  • post-apocalyptic
  • rpg
  • adventure
  • lore
  • cinematic
  • 2.5d
  • story

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The Fall (2014)

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Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox 360

The Fall is a side-scrolling adventure game with platforming and combat elements. Your character is an AI controlling a combat suit whose occupant is unresponsive and presumably dead or seriously injured. You have crash landed on an unknown planet for unknown reasons and must seek medical attention for your 'pilot'. The bulk of the gameplay resolves around completing a series of object-matching puzzles in the style of classic adventure games, interspersed with occasional platforming/jumping puzzles and combat sequences.


  • sci-fi
  • point-and-click
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • robots
  • cover
  • rpg
  • exploration
  • combat
  • thought-provoking
  • atmospheric
  • ascii
  • action

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