Category: Adventure

Machinarium, an award-winning adventure game from Amanita Design that came to Linux back in 2012 in a Humble Bundle. It used Flash, but that's now been replaced in favour of a new DirectX engine. The developer say the new version will come to Linux!

Kona, the environmental survival and adventure game has been updated in the hopes of fixing some major Linux issues, but it still has problems.

Here's one from my inbox, Scrap Garden, a platformer about a lonely robot who appears to be the last remaining bot after some kind of event left the world in a post-apocalyptic state.

The developer of Paradigm, an incredibly strange adventure game sent out word that it will release for Linux on June 23rd!

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, a video game adaption of a book sharing the same name will release on August 15th by Daedalic Entertainment and it will have day-1 Linux support.

Looks like game porter Ethan Lee is a busy bee, as he teased out some shots of Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap running on Linux.

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure set aboard a high-tech space station and boy does it look good. It's now due for release on August 2nd and looks like Linux will be day-1.

Announced recently at the Microsoft E3 conference, The Last Night is a "post-cyberpunk", pixel art adventure game inspired by Flashback and Blade Runner that blends traditional pixel art with 3D composition giving the game a very cinematic look.

Solving mysteries, traveling to faraway lands and making a name for yourself is all in a good day’s work in this adventure game that combines strategy elements with plenty of charm. I gave the game and its expansion a look and have a few thoughts on it.

This good-looking Unreal Engine 4 title currently in Early Access might be getting a Linux version before it’s released.

StarFlint is a new comedy point and click adventure in the style of old Lucas Arts titles, it's on Kickstarter and it actually has a Linux demo to check out.

Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II released for Linux recently, but sadly it got a little buried in my inbox. It's an interesting mix of a visual novel with a point & click adventure and I took a look.

Pinstripe is an adventure game that sees you venturing through Hell to rescue your daughter. It was created by one man and it's damn impressive.

Setting itself apart from the majority of visual novels by focusing on the player’s sense of hearing, BlindQuest: The Prison will also be coming to Linux if greenlit. There’s a short concept demo available too.

I've had some time to play World to the West, a 3D follow up to Teslagrad where each character has some unique ability.

The Inner World - The Last Wind Monk will release with Linux support on July 13th and they have just shown off the first trailer.

I know a few of you were waiting on this, the beautiful Rise & Shine is now officially available on Linux as of today.

Scanner Sombre, from Introversion, makers of Prison Architect looks like it's heading to Linux. I was hopeful they would, since it looks stunning.

ESSENCE, a first-person non-violent exploration & adventure game recently released for Linux, with Vulkan support possibly coming.

Earthlock: Festival of Magic gained a Linux Alpha version last year, but they went pretty quiet about it for a while. They have now confirmed they will continue the Linux version once the WiiU version is finished.