The Best Unforgiving Games for Linux

Update : The Last Plague: Blight added at rank #5.
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Sunblaze (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Lead Josie, aka. Sunblaze into a superhero training simulator built by her dad, a retired protagonist fighting the evils of our universe. Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging levels, an awesome story, a superb soundtrack, and a beautiful game design.


  • platform
  • superhero
  • unforgiving
  • precision
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • training
  • stylized
  • scroller
  • controller-support
  • cartoony
  • cute
  • pixel
  • story
  • robots

2

FLASHOUT 3 (2022)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

FLASHOUT IS BACK! Where high speed meets high stakes. Where unforgiving combat, loud electronic music and addictive boosts of adrenaline mix up to separate winners from losers. Where gravitation is nothing more than an empty word. Take part in an exciting, head-to-head fight to the finish!


  • racing
  • unforgiving
  • auto
  • cyberpunk
  • tutorial
  • 3d
  • immersive
  • bullet-hell
  • simulation
  • split-screen
  • flight
  • driving
  • vr

3

Help Will Come Tomorrow (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Linux

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.


  • survival
  • unforgiving
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • immersive
  • choices
  • narration
  • simulation
  • political
  • historical
  • atmospheric
  • management
  • strategy
  • crafting
  • story

4

Trackline Express (2024)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Embark on a thrilling journey through an unforgiving desert. You'll need to gather scarce resources and utilize your strategic and management skills to build a little train capable of overcoming attacks and fires.

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  • unforgiving
  • trains
  • resource-management
  • cartoony
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • rogue-like
  • colourful
  • survival
  • cooperative
  • funny
  • crafting
  • strategy
  • casual
  • action

5

The Last Plague: Blight (2024)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS Linux

The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight

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  • survival
  • unforgiving
  • crafting
  • resource-management
  • immersive
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • medieval
  • building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • dark
  • realistic
  • top-down
  • non-story

6

Eggcelerate! to the Tropics (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Eggcelerate! to the Tropics is a very challenging time-trial racing game with an egg on top of your motorcycle. Try over and over again to improve your time without dropping an egg.

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  • unforgiving
  • motorbike
  • motocross
  • souls
  • racing
  • auto
  • driving
  • physics
  • simulation
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • cute
  • sport
  • funny
  • real-time

7

Ingression: Platforming with Portals (2024)

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Ingression is an unforgiving & mind-bending precision platformer where you'll think and platform with seamless portals. Travel to the future to save the past from a tremendous time paradox.

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  • platform
  • unforgiving
  • precision
  • travel
  • 2d
  • cyberpunk
  • time
  • fast-paced
  • space
  • pixel
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • controller-support
  • atmospheric

8

Million to One Hero (2019)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

An exciting platform game, filled with action, skill, wits and competition that hides a secret inside: A powerful editor that you can use to create your own adventures… and by adventures we don’t mean simple levels… We mean full campaigns, with their world map, NPC’s and your own unique story!

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  • platform
  • 2d
  • unforgiving
  • japanese
  • precision
  • metroidvania
  • city-building
  • choices
  • narration
  • jrpg
  • puzzle
  • mythology
  • rpg
  • minimalist
  • pixel

9

Leap to the Top+ (2023)

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You are a frog, leaping automatically every second to the top. But can you beat all 7 of the grueling levels along with defeating powerful foes in this precision platformer? Can you get the best times for true mastery along with collecting all of the hidden collectables in each stage?

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  • unforgiving
  • platform
  • precision
  • collectathon
  • humor
  • 2d
  • psychological
  • 2.5d
  • nonlinear
  • dark
  • horror
  • old-school

10

Tyroom vs Typing Gunner (2022)

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Our typing gunner robot must survive in the feared Tyroom, lucky him he'll help him. Type words to teleport, explode bombs, destroy towers while you dodge and shoot robots down! Try to survive all the waves and get to the top of the leaderboard!

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  • typing
  • spelling
  • unforgiving
  • attack
  • score
  • top-down
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • word
  • shooter
  • modern
  • arena
  • education
  • robots

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