16 Best Shooting Games for Linux

Hotline Miami is an Action, Violent, Top-down, and Single-player Shooter video game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game takes place in the fictional world Miami in 1989 and follows tow protagonists named Biker and Jacket. According to the story, the protagonist receives a calls who instruct them to start operation against the Local Russian Mafia. You can select your character and dive into the game world where you can explore it from top-down perspective with stealth element. As the story progress, the game becomes more challenging violent and you have to face different challenges such as powerful foes, and objectives. The entire game is divided into several chapters and each chapter has a set of several stages. Explore each level, obtain power-ups, score the highest points and unlock further content. Slaughter the members of Russian mafia using different weapons and keep your city clean from them. With breathtaking story, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals, Hotline Miami is the best game to play and enjoy.

Borderlands 2 Game of the Year is an Action, role-playing, Co-op and Single-player video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. The game revolves around different elements such as shooting, exploration and combat. It includes new era of loot and shoot and lets you select one of four hunter and jump into the game world where you have to face a massive breathtaking environment, deadly creatures, evil master, and psychos. Assume the role of the handsome Jack, make new buddies, equip them with new weapons and fight together in co-op mode against monsters for redemption and revenge around living planets. There are different levels and you must complete each one, defeat monsters and face their bosses, defeat them to earn experience points and use them to unlock further weapons, modes and characters. Borderlands 2 Game of the Year offers key features such as Brand new Foes, New Environments on Pandora, Epic Story, Dynamic Co-op, New Character and Classes, etc. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth combines the elements of Rough-like, Dungeon Crawling, Shooter, Action-Adventure and Horror developed and published by Nicalis. The game supports both single and multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story of the Binding of Isaac inspired by the childhood of McMillen growing up in a religious family. You take on the role of the young boy known as Isaac whose mother locks the protagonist in his room and convinced she is doing the job of god. His mother wants to sacrifice Isaac to prove here faith, Isaac becomes scared and escapes to the basement and lock himself. The game takes place in the fictional underground world full of monsters, and strange creatures. Explore the game world, fight against monsters, and other creatures to complete several missions and earn points that you can use to unlock upgrades. You have to gather items and power-ups to enhance your abilities and take down foes. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Ravenfield (Beta 5) is an Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter, Ragdoll and Single-player video game available to play on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The game revolves around between two factions such as the blue and the red. You can select one of them to start your game, and your main objective is to smash against a team using cars, helicopters, tanks and various weapons. The game takes place in the open environment and revolves around physics-based elements. It introduces a new vehicle as Quadbike, New Weapons, Helicopter, and Tanks. It supports Single-player and puts you on the battlefield against AI-controlled characters. Beat your foes and their bosses and earn the highest points to unlock further modes and weapons in the game. As you advanced, the game becomes challenging. The game features a flag multiplier, through this you gain extra points per enemy kill. With the massive environment, addictive gameplay, brilliant story, and superb controls, Ravenfield (Beta 5) is the best game to play and enjoy.

Project Zomboid is an Action, Horror-Survival, Role-playing, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by The Indie Stone. The game takes place in the post-apocalyptic-themed world where you are challenged by the game to survive as long as possible before dying. It offers an open environment invaded by zombies and you must face different challenges, pain, thirst, hunger, and tiredness. The ultimate task is to explore the game world, gather resources, and find foods to live alive for another day. It has two modes such as Survival and Sandbox. Build a shelter using different items, go to sleep to recover your energy and complete each and every level to prove yourself as the best survivor. Craft different weapons to attack zombies and eliminate them to earn experience points. Other features, modes, and levels will be unlocked as you gain experience. With horror gameplay, superb mechanics, addictive visuals, and horrific story, Project Zomboid is the best game to play and enjoy.

Metro: 2033 is a Hardcore Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and First-person Shooter video game and a direct sequel to Metro last Light. The game is set in a Post-Apocalyptic era and takes you to the city of Moscow, Russia. Once again you’ll play as Artyom and your task is to survive and save the humanity from the reign of mutant creatures and their sudden deadly attacks. In order to complete the tasks, you’ll have to scavenge an open world for items like food, weapons, ammunition and medical supplies, fight against the mutants using different weapons in close and long distance combats and survive until every one of the enemies is killed or is neutralized in any other way possible. With an amazing game-play similar to its predecessors and Fallout series games, a great story to follow, ultra-realistic visuals and an amazingly realistic game setting, Metro 2033 is a great Action, horror, Survival and First Person Shooter video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.

Unreal Tournament is the 9th entry in the franchise of Unreal and the first main installment in the series of Unreal Tournament 3 released in 2007. The game is a mix of First-person Shooter, Exploration and Combat elements and has both Single and Multiplayer modes. It takes place in the stunning environment populated with enemies equipped with heavy weapons. It offers realistic world and allows you get into the role of the protagonist and take part in different modes to take down foes and gain experience such as Capture the Flag, Deathmatch, Duel, Showdown, and more. Explore the game world from first-person perspective and guide your character throughout a variety of levels to accomplish the objectives. The character is capable of jumping, running, and shooting enemies. As the game proceed, other areas will be unlocked to manipulate. Collect power-ups during exploration and use them to enhance the power of the character and upgrade the weapons. With wonderful visual details, exciting gameplay, and brilliant mechanics, Unreal Tournament is the best game to play and enjoy.

Left 4 Dead 2 is a Zombie, Horror Survival video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. Left 4 Dead 2 is a First-person Shooter video game set on a global scale, infected by the Green Flu which is responsible to transform humans into extremely aggressive and deadly zombies. The story of the game revolves around the four survivors Coach, Ellis, Nick and Rochelle who are immune to the flu. In order to survive they travel from place to place items like food, medicines, weapons etc. You can choose one of the characters as protagonist and play the game. Because of being the main character of the game you act as their leader. The game allows you to use different firearms and melee weapons according to the scenario on a specific point in the game. For example if you encounter a zombie or multiple in the shape of hordes, you can engage in close combats using melee weapons, and if you are on a safe distance you can use guns like Pistols or snipers to shoot down the zombies. The game provides you with a multiplayer gaming mode, so you can play with other online players too. You also get to play 5 campaigns, in which you get provided with safe houses and check points and a goal to survive till the end of the campaign. Left 4 Dead 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite thrilling game with a super action and adventure packed game-play. Left 4 Dead 2 is available to play on Windows, Mac, Xbox, Steam and Linux platforms.

Postal 2 is an Action, First-person Perspective, Open World and Shooter video game developed by Running with Scissors and published by Whiptail Interactive. It is the sequel to the Postal game released in 1997. The game takes place in the fictional world and casts you in the role of the protagonist, a Postal Dude who is a thin red-headed and tall man with a sunglasses, goatee, and a black leather coat. The protagonist lives in a trailer in the fictional land of Paradise, Arizona with his wife. At the beginning of every day, the protagonist is given a set of objectives that he must accomplish such as confess sins, get milk, and more. You can explore the world freely, interact with NPCs to fulfill your tasks and can use multiple weapons to slaughter pedestrian. Navigate the environment from the first-person perspective and earn experience points to unlock further content. Postal 2 offers incredible features such as Violent Gameplay, Non-linear World, NPCs to interact, and more. With stunning graphics, brilliant mechanics, and smooth controls, Postal 2 is the best game to play and enjoy.

James Bond 007: Nightfire is an Action, First-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Eurocom and published by EA Games. The game includes the British undercover agent named as James Bond, and it is the sequel to Agent under Fire released by Electronic Arts in 2002. It takes place in the fictional land of France and Paris filled with criminals and gangsters. According to the story, the protagonist (James Bond) assists an undercover intelligence operative of France named a Dominique Paradis to evade a team while chasing a big truck loaded with a nuclear weapon. The primary objective of the player is to fend off the truck before blowing up the Eiffel Tower. The player can manipulate the world from the first-person perspective and can use a variety of weapons during the missions. Explore the environment, interact with NPCs, complete a set of missions and earn Points that can be used to unlock additional weapons, tasks, side-missions and more. With brilliant storyline, excellent visual details, and smooth controls, James Bond 007: Nightfire is the best game to play and enjoy.

Slime Rancher is an Adventure, First-person Shooter, and Single-player Life Simulation created and published by Monomi Park. The game takes place in an open world played from a first-person perspective. You can assume the role of the protagonist, named as Beatrix LeBeau, who is a rancher and moves to a distant planet far from the Earth to experience the life of the Slime Rancher. In the game, your main objective is to explore the environment, collect, breed and feed slimes (living organisms of different sizes and abilities). The main gameplay centers on feeding slimes the food to produce plorts, which can use sold for Newbucks (the game’s currency). You as the protagonist can use the currency to purchase upgrades to farm building and equipment. You can move freely around different environments to gather slimes, resources, and foods by sucking them up with your vacuum tool called VacPack. During exploration, you can collect a limited number of items at a time, and you must go back to your rank to unlock your gathered items before being to gather more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and wonderful graphics, Slime Rancher is the best game to play and enjoy.

Superhot is an addictive, First-person Shooter and Single-player video game developed and published by Superhot Team. The game takes place in the stunning world and revolves around the traditional FSP element gameplay with the options to take out foes using weapons and guns. The game becomes slow when the player attack on an enemy, and he gets some time to handle his situation and respond appropriately. It offers a minimalist art style gameplay, in which the color of enemies are red and black is the color weapons. The player can use melee attacks and weapons to take down the enemy. There are a series of levels, and each level is full of action. Select your weapon, and engage yourself in fighting gameplay experience. Defeat the enemies and earn experience points to unlock or upgrade your weapons. The game becomes challenging, as the player advanced. The player can interact with objects and can use them against enemies to slay them. With impressive gameplay, wonderful visuals, and exciting soundtracks, Superhot is the best game to play and enjoy.

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is an Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter (FPS) and Single-player video game developed by 2015, Inc. and published by EA Games. It is the third entry in the series of Medal of Honor. The game takes place in the fictional locations and lets you get into the role of the protagonist named as Lt. Mike Powell who is a soldier of the United States Army Ranger (USAR). In the single-player campaign, it has various missions include attacking German bases in Norway and rescuing comrades behind the lines of enemies situated in France. Complete objectives and tasks and earn XP points. With the use of different weapons, you must reach your target, kill enemies and destroy their bases. In Multiplayer mode, you can team-up with other allies, choose a set of weapons and explores the game world. Find your target and crush them to get points use these points to upgrade your weapons and equipment. There are core features and exciting modes to play and enjoy. With the best mechanics, detailed graphics, and brilliant story, Medal of Honor Allied Assault is the wonderful game as compared to FPS games.

Mad Max combines the elements of Action-Adventure and Vehicular Combat developed by Avalanche Studio. The game takes place in the post-apocalyptic wasteland consists of caves, deserts, and canyons. The story revolves around the protagonist named Max Rockatansky and his efforts to take revenge from a gang lead by Scabrous Scotus, who stolen his interceptor. It embarks you on an epic adventure and lets you select your car and dive into the game world where you can equip your vehicular with deadly weapons and Armor and can upgrade them using experience points. You can explore the wasteland either on foot or by vehicle. The game combines the elements of boxing and wrestling for you to defeat your foes. It played from both third and first-person perspective. Control your car using smooth controls, and fight against enemies, defeat them using weapons and unlock further features. Take your revenge and accomplish all missions. Unlock other vehicles and use them during gameplay. With detailed environment, addictive quite immersive gameplay, superb story and brilliant mechanics, Mad Max is the best game to play and enjoy.

Minecraft, developed by Mojang and 4J Studios and published by Mojang, Microsoft Studios and Sony Computer Entertainment is an indie, Sandbox building and FPS (First Person Shooter) video game. This game is available to play on multiple platforms like PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. The game allows the player to construct buildings out of textured cubes in a 3D generated open world. Player can craft different objects, explore the world, gather resources and engage in combats with enemies. Minecraft also features Survival, Creative and Adventure gaming modes. According to the storyline, player roams in an open world with no specific goals to accomplish breaking and making different kinds of structures with the help of blocks. Walking through deserts, snowfields and jungles, the player switches from first person perspective to third person perspective upon his will and engages in gunfights with the enemy. Minecraft is a great Sandbox, Building, Crafting and Shooting video game to play and enjoy. You must try it out.

Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter and Interactive Drama video game made by Quantic Dream. This Psyche thriller Film Noir drama is set in the city of New York and its story revolves around the character of protagonist Lucas Kane. Lucas Kane gets assigned on a task to solve the murder cases committed by a man who controls people’s minds by using his super natural powers and then kills them. The Killer gets aware about the activities of Lucas and follows him to a Dinner where he forces his spell over Lucas’s brain and makes him kill a man. You must get into the character of the protagonist and find out the truth about the killer’s spell over you. You must also speed up your investigations in order to stop the killer from killing more innocent people. You must go through the sessions of physical and mental therapy to reduce the manipulation caused by the killers spell. Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy provides with different game endings, all based up on the actions performed by you and the path selected by you. A mental health bar keeps on telling you about your sanity levels so you must keep track of that or else you’ll end up killing another person. With an amazing psycho-horror game story, state of the art graphics and an engaging game-play, Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is a great game to play, you must try it out.