Here's some of the highest-rated Native Linux games released on Steam during September 2026. Helping you to find something interesting to go and play if Native Linux gaming is your thing!
You can also check out the Top 50 most-played Steam Deck games for September 2026 in a previous article.
This top list is purely based on user reviews (cutting out games with an AI notice), to help you sort through the noise since there's thousands releasing all the time. Proton is great, we really do love how it's made gaming just more accessible on Linux, but we also love to see developers supporting Linux directly with a Native Linux build too.
Who knows - perhaps you might find your next favourite thanks to this!
Valheim
Survival
Review Score: Very Positive (264,482 reviews)
Release Date: 09/09/2026
"A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!"
Happy Wheels
Funny Physics
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (2,395 reviews)
Release Date: 21/09/2026
"Choose your inadequately prepared racer, and disregard severe consequences in your desperate pursuit of short-lived victory."
OpenFront
MMO-RTS
Review Score: Very Positive (876 reviews)
Release Date: 17/09/2026
Early Access
"A massively multiplayer real-time strategy game pitting hundreds of players against one another. Over one million nuke each other every month."
Slow Roads
Casual Driving
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (784 reviews)
Release Date: 23/09/2026
"Zone out on an endless drive through infinite scenic landscapes. Generate a unique world, set the scene to suit your mood, and just drive..."
DinoBones: Tidy Up the Museum
Skeleton Restoration Sim
Review Score: Very Positive (727 reviews)
Release Date: 25/09/2026
"DinoBones: Tidy Up the Museum! is a cozy skeleton restoration sim. Identify, collect, and piece together around 2,000 scattered dinosaur bones. Feel chaos turn into order, and with every skeleton you rebuild, the museum reveals another secret."
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Programming / Automation
Review Score: Very Positive (673 reviews)
Release Date: 14/09/2026
"Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life."
Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional
Bullet Heaven
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (618 reviews)
Release Date: 28/09/2026
"The family computer is infected again and it’s your job to fend off waves of viruses and adware foes with an arsenal of nostalgic Y2K-inspired weapons. Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is a survivor-like auto-shooter filled with nods to the days when computers were actually fun."
The Loopler
Roguelite Deckbuilder
Review Score: Very Positive (607 reviews)
Release Date: 11/09/2026
"The Loopler is a roguelite deckbuilder about a slot car driving in mesmerizing loops. Pick cards, place gates, and collect charms. Settle into the loop as numbers go up and dopamine fills your brain. See how far you can go in the pursuit of infinity."
Deified
Tactical Roguelite
Review Score: Very Positive (448 reviews)
Release Date: 21/09/2026
"Forge your strategy around powerful relics in this turn-based tactical roguelite. Choose your slots, manage their constraints, and face formidable bosses."
It's Fine
Idle / Incremental
Review Score: Very Positive (437 reviews)
Release Date: 23/09/2026
"Idle / Incremental about developing a game with your dog Joe. Unlock unique mechanics, evolve with multi-layered prestige, find secrets, beat all alt endings, and deliver your game on time!"
BeaterCore
Racing
Review Score: Very Positive (400 reviews)
Release Date: 09/09/2026
"beaterCore is an arcade racing game for those who prefer cheap rusty beaters over specialized sports cars. Buy, repair, restore, and race your dream project car"
Beetleball
Bug Sports
Review Score: Very Positive (388 reviews)
Release Date: 03/09/2026
"Score goals with dungballs in Beetleball, the Greatest Online Multiplayer Class-based Dung Beetle Soccer Game TO EVER EXIST"
Forsworn
Turn-based Tactics
Review Score: Very Positive (370 reviews)
Release Date: 10/09/2026
"Stack game-breaking synergies until your party can slay gods. Command a party of heroes, forge powerful synergies, and level them up across runs in this turn-based tactics roguelite. Battle the gods solo or in co-op, where defeat is just another beginning."
Scapewatch
Idle MMO
Review Score: Very Positive (359 reviews)
Release Date: 25/09/2026
"30 skills. Three combat styles. Clans, raids, hiscores, pets, capes. Set up your queue, close the tab, come back richer. Scapewatch is the idle MMO for people who actually like the grind."
That's it for another little round-up. Be sure to keep checking back on GamingOnLinux for more quick news tips, reviews, editorials, fun lists and so on! Still tweaking the format a bit, have added main genre badges based on comments from last time.
What have you been playing? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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Public Service Announcement: This "purchase" will grant you one month of full game experience. After that, it becomes the browser version and you can subscribe for 10$ a month to keep having the full game experience.Sure enough, deep in the product description is this:
1 month subscription worth 9,99No thanks. I don't like how they make it look like they're selling a full game either. That's deceitful.
Quoting: g000hLooking at this, I see very few big name games are native Linux. Pretty disappointing IMO.The modern big names suck anyway. Unless you like remakes and remasters of old games from the 90s, and artistically compromised games with checkbox diversity politics arbitrarily shoehorned into its plot and characters, then you aren't missing much. The real good games these days aren't AAA.
It can be had right now for a mere 6 pounds and 37 pennies.
Liam Squires-Hand 6 days ago
Quoting: Liam Squires-HandReally glad you guys like this format, I'll keep doing it then :)I like the format. One thing you could add the link to the image as well as it seems very natural to click that.
Liam Squires-Hand 6 days ago
Quoting: EhvisGood idea, done for this one and the new Steam Deck one. Will do it going forwards.Quoting: Liam Squires-HandReally glad you guys like this format, I'll keep doing it then :)I like the format. One thing you could add the link to the image as well as it seems very natural to click that.
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