12 Best Survival Games for Linux

Factorio mixes the elements of Action, Real-time Strategy, and Survival developed and published by Wube Software. The game supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story revolves around a spaceman who landed on an alien planet due to crash. As the survival, your primary objective is to harvest resources by hand to build up different structures, and a rocket to escape back to home. The inhabitants of the planet are trying to defend their environment from the destruction and pollution by you. The game is about creating a colony, searching resources, and surviving as long as possible to progress in the match. In the beginning, you starts off from an empty land, and your initial task is to build a colony by collecting resources and expand it further and further to progress through the game. There are three vehicles available that you can use during gameplay such as train, car, and tank. Three types of enemies present to take you a tough time while you are completing your objectives such as splitters, worms, and bitters. Explore the world from a top-down perspective, accomplish randomly generated levels and build your spaceship to escape to home. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Soma is a mixture of Science Fiction, Horror-Survival, First-person Perspective, and Exploration elements developed and published by Fictional Games. The story revolves around the protagonist named as Simon Jarret, who finds himself at the facility under strange circumstance, struggling to unearth his past. According to the story, the world in threatened by strange creatures, trying to taking over humanity. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his primary goal is to explore the facility from first-person perspective, encounter various creatures and struggle to solve puzzles. During exploration, the protagonist discovers a huge array of clues including audio tapes and notes, which creates atmosphere and progresses the plot. There is no combat system like other games by Fictional Games, and instead the player can use stealth elements, and can explore the environment, and solve puzzles to progress through the game. Players can manipulate the underground world, interact with NPCs, and objects to solve puzzles and earn experience points. Soma offers prominent features, immersive gameplay, and highly detailed environment. Try it out.

Locked Heart is an Otome-based, Visual-Novel and Single-player Simulation created and published by Visual-Wordplay. The game takes place in the strange mansion and it cast you in the role of the female protagonist named as Aura. According to the story, the protagonist is trapped in the mansion full of strange toys. The ultimate task is to explore the mansion, interact with objects, find clues and find a way out. You have to find the reason behind the strange force, stopping you and them to the mansion. The game features multiple ends depends on your decisions. As the story progress, the game becomes more challenging. Solve puzzles and earn points and use them to unlock useful items. Uncover the truth behind the mansion and find a way out as soon as possible to survive. You are not alone in the mansion there someone else who notice your moments and keep an eye on you. With horror story, challenging puzzles, and detailed graphics, Locked Heart is the best game to play.

Anna: Extended Edition is a Psychological Horror video game takes place in the abandoned sawmill in the mountains of Italian. It mixes the elements of First-person Perspective, Puzzle, and Exploration. The story revolves around the protagonist who dreams of a mountain near his village. He attempts to go on an adventure to locate its connection to his missing memories and a strange woman known as Anna, who seems in his dreams and calling out for him. The protagonist enters in the house where he has to solve complex puzzles by finding clues in the garden and soon he comes to know that the house is haunted after a horrific event. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, and as the player start exploring the world, he hears strange voices which are belonging to him and the Anna. Anna assigned the task to the player to unearth the horrific clues and solve complex puzzles by using them related to the protagonist’s past. The behavior of the player doesn’t affect only his mental health but can change locations and reveal new mysteries leading to one of eight ending. Anna: Extended Edition offers core features such as Physics-based Environment, Enhanced Graphics, a Haunting Tale Terror, Eight different Ends, and more. Try it out to 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.

Unturned by Smartly Dressed Games is a Single and Multiplayer Indie Horror and Survival video game. The game offers a Zombie-themed gameplay in which it lets the players be lone wanderers in a Zombie infested game world. Unturned offers multiple maps for the game including Prince Edward Island, Russia, Washington and Yukon as well as loads of other custom built maps by the community. The game leaves the players right in the middle of Zombies without any item in their Inventory. The players must explore the world and find weapons and items such as medicines, water, and food not to get killed by Starvation, disease, or swear weather (in Yukon and other player created maps with winter weather). Unturned offers three different game difficulty levels and various game modes including Hardcore and Gold Mode. With the progress in the game, players are rewarded with experience points by killing Zombies, collecting Resources, and by Crafting various types of weapons and items. Furthermore, the game offers a Multiplayer mode in which players can play the game as a team of go against each other in PvP Combats and Arena-based matches. In Arena mode, the players are tasked to collect Weapons, and Supplies while keeping on moving towards the middle of the map. With all the amazingly fast-paced PvP matches, hardcore encounters with the Zombies and blasting Action; Unturned is a wonderful Zombie-themed Horror and Survival video game to play.

Rising World is a Voxel based Sandbox, Action-Adventure, Indie and RPG video game that takes you to an amazing world of procedurally generated and fully destructible environments. Co-op mode of the game allows you to play this cool game with your friends and have an amazingly addictive game-play experience. Your duty in the game is to explore, gather resources, craft basic tools to dig and store the resources fight off the enemies, survive and build massive cities or huge castles etc. You can get help from your friends and build the whole game world together if you want. With random game worlds, modifiable gaming environments, over 200 different materials to build, great environmental physics and so cool upgrades this game is quite fun to play and enjoy.

Penumbra is a Horror-Survival, Action-Adventure and Episodic game series developed by Frictional Games and published by Paradox Interactive for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms. Penumbra game series consists of three sequels (Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague and Penumbra: Requiem) and features the same protagonist in all of the games. Protagonist named as Philip stars as the main character in all the games and acts as the story of the game directs him in accordance with the appearance and plot of the specific game. This whole series is super awesome to play and features unique stories for each game with amazingly crafted 3D graphics and thrilling game-plays. If you love playing games with dark themes and Horror-Survival elements, you should totally check out the Penumbra Series game. You’ll love them.

Why So Evil 2: Dystopia is a marvelous new addition to the Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform genre. The game offers amazingly hard puzzles and indulges you into epic battles against the enemies, lets you go through challenging platform-based puzzles, traps and attacks of the enemies, and enjoy the game in a beautifully created environment. This brilliant new sequel to the original Why So Evil, lets you control cubes and allows you to change their colors in order to match them with the platforms and walls, survive the traps and uninvited attacks of the enemies and survive in order to move to the next exciting game level. Why So Evil 2: Dystopia provides with amazingly immersive game-play, wonderful visuals and a well-written storyline. Do try it out, it’s fun.

UnReal World is a mix of Rogue-like and Survival elements and supports Single-player mode developed by Sami Maaranen and published by Enormous Elk. The game takes place in the stunning world and introduces ten different occupations such as Trapper, Hermit, Fisherman, Tradesman, etc. and the player needs to select one of them to jump into the game with his unique abilities. The game features both Turn-based and Real-time elements and mainly focus on Survival genre. The primary objective of the player is to explore the harsh environment while struggling to survive as long as possible. During exploration, the player encounters monsters, and strange creatures in the fantastic world full of vegetation, animals, cultures, and climates. He or she can roam freely and navigate the huge variety of aspects like skinning and hunting animals, building shelters, and more. UnReal World includes prominent features such as Randomly Generated World, Skill-based System, and Terrain generation with Diverse Vegetable kingdom, Detailed Combat, Hit Points and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Caffeine Episode One is an Adventure, First-person Perspective, Psychological Horror, and Single-player video game developed and published by Incandescent Imagining. The game offers a thrilling gameplay with environmental puzzles and a touch of the horror genre. It takes place in future, where the human population is addicted to coffee. In the story, the biggest corporations are struggling to create massive space stations to roam the star minerals to make a caffeine. The protagonist finds himself in a massive caffeine alone with no memory of his past. Your goal is to explore the depth of the structure to find something related to you by the interacting environment, solving puzzles and completing tasks. Each caffeine offers three episodes, and each provides a variety of problems to solve. The world is explored from the first-person perspective and can use multiple objects to progress. The game increases the level difficulty, as you gain enough experience. Caffeine Episode One offers thrilling graphics, smooth controls, and brilliant mechanics, Caffeine Episode One is the best game to play and enjoy.

Infestation: The New Z is an Action-Adventure, Massively Multiplayer Online, Open World and Role-playing video game with Horror-Survival and Battle Royale elements developed by Fredaikis AB. The game offers a huge environment and features a dynamic player versus player experience in multiple modes and environments. There are different playable characters available and the player has to select one of them to customize and jump into the competitive world where he has to battle against enemies to crush them and remain the last survival. In the game, the player can explore the world from a first-person view with friends, scavenge for loot and battle players to win. The player navigates the environment either on foot or by vehicle, bus, and other convince to kill zombies and communicate other players. A unique Battle Royale mode also available in the game for unique experience, where the ultimate task of the player is to be the last standing man by finding items, random airdrops, and killing other players. Infestation: The New Z includes prominent features such as Survival, Customization, Play with Friends, Discover lots of Armors, Weapons and Melees, PvP Mode, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.