Celeste
Celeste is a precision platformer about Madeline climbing a mountain, built from short rooms that demand repeated attempts. The story deals with anxiety and self-doubt alongside the climbing itself.
Games on Linux
23 games in the database.
Games on Linux
Cities: Skylines
Cities: Skylines asks you to solve traffic before you are allowed a skyline: zoning, water flow, garbage and road layout all decide whether the population keeps growing.
Crusader Kings III
Crusader Kings III is a grand strategy game about a medieval dynasty rather than a state. The player manages a ruler's family, titles, vassals and schemes, and play continues through heirs after each death.
Dead Cells
Dead Cells is a roguelike action game with side-scrolling combat and levels that connect as the player unlocks routes over many runs. Permanent upgrades open new paths, while weapons and mutations change from one attempt to the next.
Dota 2
Dota 2 is a five-versus-five game in which each player controls one hero and tries to destroy the enemy base. Heroes, items and map details change with regular patches, so the game is learned over a long period.
Dune: Awakening
Dune: Awakening is a survival game set on the desert planet Arrakis, built around gathering spice, building bases and surviving sandstorms and giant sandworms. It was developed and published by Funcom and launched on PC in June 2025, with console versions following.
Factorio
Factorio is a construction and automation game in which the player mines resources and builds machines that feed one another. The stated goal is to launch a rocket, which in practice means designing factories that keep getting larger.
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 puts Gordon Freeman in City 17 with a gravity gun and no cutscenes: every scene is staged while you are still holding the camera. Physics is not decoration — it is a tool and a weapon.
Hollow Knight
Hollow Knight is a 2D action adventure set in Hallownest, a ruined underground kingdom of insects. The player explores connected caverns, fights bosses and unlocks movement abilities that open routes back through earlier areas.
Hytale
Hytale is a blocky sandbox survival game from Hypixel Studios, built around exploration, building and combat in a world that ships with its own adventure content and mod tooling.
Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 sends four survivors across the American South while an AI director decides when to send a horde and where to leave supplies, so no two runs of a map play out the same.
Minecraft
Minecraft is a block-based sandbox in which players gather resources, build structures and explore generated worlds. A separate survival mode adds hunger, hostile creatures and progress through better tools and armour.
Portal 2
Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle game built around a device that creates linked portals on flat surfaces. Chambers are solved by redirecting momentum and light, and a separate campaign adds two-player puzzles with their own dialogue.
RimWorld
RimWorld is a colony simulation in which a small group of survivors tries to stay alive on a hostile planet. Events such as raids, illness and weather are chosen by an AI storyteller that sets the pace of the colony's story.
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Civilization VI is a turn-based strategy game in which a leader guides one civilisation from ancient times to the modern era. Cities spread across the map as specialised districts, and victory can come through science, culture, religion, domination or diplomacy.
Slay the Spire
Slay the Spire is a deckbuilding roguelike in which the player climbs a tower and fights enemies with a deck of cards. Cards are added and removed between fights, so the deck is rebuilt on every run.
Slay the Spire 2
Slay the Spire 2 sends a deck of cards up a branching map again: every fight, relic and event you pick changes what the next floor looks like. Mega Crit's sequel adds a co-op mode where two players build their decks together, and it shipped in Early Access on 5 March 2026.
Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley is a farming simulation in which the player inherits a neglected plot of land and turns it into a working farm. Days are spent growing crops, raising animals, fishing, mining and getting to know the residents of the nearby town.
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 is a class-based team shooter with nine roles, from the Spy who disguises as your own teammates to the Engineer whose sentry gun everyone ends up standing behind. Each class answers a different question the map asks.
Terraria
Terraria is a 2D sandbox built around digging, building and fighting. Players explore generated worlds, gather ore and equipment, and take on bosses that gate further progress.
Total War: WARHAMMER III
Total War: WARHAMMER III is a strategy game that mixes turn-based empire management with real-time battles, set in the Warhammer fantasy world. It was developed by Creative Assembly and published by SEGA, and its campaign can be linked with the two earlier Warhammer titles into one large map.
Unpacking
Unpacking is a puzzle game about emptying boxes and arranging belongings in a series of rooms. There are no timers or scores, and where objects end up tells the story of the person who owns them.
Valheim
Valheim is a survival and building game set in a Norse-inspired world of islands, forests and dungeons. Players gather materials, raise bases and defeat bosses in a set order to unlock stronger equipment.