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259 games we have reviewed that run on Linux, best first.
259 reviews
A demon-infested crusade that hands out nine ways to stop being human, wrapped around the most tabletop-faithful, least newcomer-friendly ruleset the CRPG revival has shipped — and a strategic army layer a large share of its own audience wishes it could turn off.
7.5 / 10
A decade-long Early Access project finally becomes a finished game, and it's still the only MMORPG where getting cursed into a cow is a legitimate build.
7.5 / 10
Supergiant Games followed Bastion and Transistor with a fantasy exile story told through a three-on-three magical sport, and split its own fanbase in half doing it -- one of its own most quoted reviews calls it "Supergiant's worst game, but their best piece of art."
7.5 / 10
Series creator Ron Gilbert's genuine return to the franchise thirty years on -- warmly received by a wide margin, and reopening the exact argument his own Monkey Island 2 ending started in 1991, with the same specific complaint dominating this game's negative reviews.
7.5 / 10
The game that invented the thing every roguelite now does — you die, your heir inherits, and the upgrades stay. Thirteen years later its founding criticism is still the genre's central argument, and its own sequel does it better.
7.5 / 10
Widely considered the best of Harebrained Schemes' three Shadowrun tactical RPGs — richer writing, a real home base to return to, characters worth following — undercut for a meaningful number of players by a long-standing soft-lock bug near the campaign's end that this review can't recommend around.
7.5 / 10
The 2020 game that started the shape-cutting automation genre, built by stripping Factorio down to logistics alone — no combat, no scarcity, no enemies. Cheap, historically important, and rougher than the sequel it spawned.
7.5 / 10
A dead adventurer comes back as a skeleton shopkeep and starts hiring the living to die in his place — Xtonomous's solo-developed idle sim turns that morbid joke into a genuinely connected hire-loot-sell loop, then keeps things deliberately short instead of chasing the usual idle-game grind.
7.5 / 10
A city builder that abandons the colonist as its unit of decision and manages a population instead — tens of thousands of citizens, an empire beyond the walls, and an interface that makes you earn every bit of that scale.
7.5 / 10
An auto-battler where you never touch the character directly, animated entirely in ASCII art, and built around Stonescript — a real scripting language for programming your own companion's combat behaviour instead of just watching it fight.
7.5 / 10
A weekly card draw from a mad ruler turns resource management into a genuinely dreadful moral gauntlet, and the concept is original enough that it sold a million copies and won an Indie Game of the Year award — set against a translation its own English-speaking audience has been calling unacceptable for over a year, and a loop that a large share of veteran reviewers say goes stale on repeat playthroughs.
7.5 / 10
Widely regarded as the best-received entry in the Total War series (Metacritic 90) and still Very Positive on Steam — but a May 2023 update that stripped multiplayer chat, broke the Mod Manager and invalidated saves on a beloved 12-year-old game triggered a wave of protest reviews that, unlike similar incidents elsewhere in this outlet's library, remains unresolved through 2026.
7.5 / 10
Build a working CPU from NAND gates upward — a genuinely singular idea, sold as education, and 57 of its 100 most-helpful negative reviews say the teaching is the part that doesn't work.
7.5 / 10
A cheap, finite incremental about piloting a ship from Earth to the edge of the observable universe, with an unusually healthy completion rate to back up its warm reception, let down by a user interface that splits into too many screens as it grows and a back stretch several reviewers say outstays its welcome.
7.5 / 10
Some of the best-written quests and dialogue in any CRPG, wrapped around turn-based combat that knows what it's doing — and six years of bug reports that never quite stopped, concentrated almost entirely in the co-op mode it was sold on.
7.5 / 10
A stick-figure comedy RPG from the Kingdom of Loathing team that landed among 2017's most acclaimed indies -- Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam nine years later -- while carrying a serious, publicly documented allegation against its director that a real share of its own reviews now raise unprompted.
7.5 / 10
A gorgeously presented card-battler roguelike whose steep, deliberately punishing difficulty split its launch reception sharply — genre veterans defending it as fairly hard rather than broken, newer players describing runs so polarized that skill barely seems to matter.
7.5 / 10
The most completely simulated economy in games, eight years of free updates, and one recurring problem — in a game about giving orders to AI, the AI is what 61 of its hundred negative reviews complain about.
7.5 / 10
A Soviet-wasteland spiritual successor to Fallout 1 and 2 that a large, engaged Steam community calls the real deal — turn-based combat, GURPS-inspired character building, and branching quests, undercut by punishing early-game difficulty spikes and combat AI several reviewers call the game's weakest system.
7.4 / 10
A four-person turn-based party crawler built almost entirely around class variety and a respec-anytime skill tree, sold once for nine dollars with no ads and no premium currency. The loot loop is the whole pitch, and it works — but the game explains almost none of it to you.
7.2 / 10
A 1997 Acorn RISC OS cult classic from future Deck13 co-founder Jan Klose gets its first-ever PC release — a genuinely deep 4X of colonization, law-making and tactical combat wrapped in a steep learning curve and a deliberately period-accurate 256-colour look.
7.2 / 10
A reverse dungeon crawler where you play the dungeon, not the hero — stock traps, hire monsters and watch a party of "heroes" die across a career measured in in-game weeks. Steam's 1,604 English reviews call it fun but thin, and the three post-launch DLCs are the corpus's single biggest sore point.
7.2 / 10
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A hands-off map simulator where you paint borders, spawn AI-controlled nations and then watch them conquer, ally, revolt and collapse across thousands of simulated years. The scenario tools and Steam Workshop are genuinely excellent; the combat resolution underneath them is close to a coin flip, and that undercuts the "simulator" the title promises.
7 / 10
An atmospheric, deliberately opaque occult-librarian sim from the Cultist Simulator team — genuinely singular writing and world-building, wrapped around a learning curve so steep and under-explained that a large share of its own reviewers describe needing external spreadsheets just to keep up.
7 / 10
