Best Arcade games on Linux
The 87 best Arcade games on Linux, ranked from 14,842 critic and player ratings.
The best Arcade game on Linux right now is Vampire Survivors, with a critic score of 91/100 — updated août 2026.
Vampire Survivors
Mow thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you.
91
/100
02
Lethal League Blaze
Banging beats and mad style, Lethal League Blaze is the most intense ball game you can play online with up to 4 players.
90
/100
03
What the Golf?
The golf game for people who hate golf. A silly physics-based golf parody where every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd they will make you go: What the golf!
88
/100
Braid
Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more. Braid treats your time and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world.
87
/100
05
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Hotline Miami
A top-down slasher/shooter with unlockable gameplay-altering masks and weapons, featuring a neon-flavoured electronic aesthetic, in which a hitman receives anonymous calls ordering him to travel to certain residences and crime dens and massacre those within, as he stumbles through unreal visions and inconsistencies without any answers to how, why or who.
86
/100
06
Pyre
A party-based RPG/visual novel/sports game hybrid wherein the player, dubbed the Reader for their literacy by the group of scavengers who discovers them, is sent in exile to a lawless wasteland called the Downside and has to lead their ever-growing party of misfits to locations wherein many similar parties compete in Rites in order to attain freedom and be absolved of their crimes.
86
/100
07
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a top down, procedurally-generated roguelike game, remade based on the original game The Binding of Isaac. You play as Isaac, a little boy who is chased to the basement by his mother who intends to kill Isaac for her savior. You explore different levels, collect items and try to defeat your mother.. and whatever other evil awaits you. If you die, you restart with none of your items you collected, and you must explore the basement and beyond again.
86
/100
08
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
86
/100
09
Pony Island
86
/100
10
Race the Sun
Race The Sun is a high-speed game that uses simple controls and is set in a procedurally generated world. The goal is to get the highest possible score by racing into the sunset, avoiding obstacles and enemies, and collecting speed boosts and other powerups to help you along the way. You fly a solar-powered craft, and the game ends at sundown, if you can make it that far!
86
/100
11
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
85
/100
12
Trine 2
85
/100
13
BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
85
/100
14
Just Shapes & Beats
85
/100
15
Nuclear Throne
84
/100
16
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
83
/100
17
Super Hexagon
83
/100
18
Art of Rally
83
/100
19
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Minecraft
83
/100
20
Broforce
83
/100
21
ibb & obb
83
/100
22
Kingdom Two Crowns
83
/100
23
N++
83
/100
24
Streets of Rage 4
83
/100
25
Kid Chameleon
83
/100
26
FlatOut 2
82
/100
27
Enter the Gungeon
82
/100
28
Huntdown
82
/100
29
Ultrakill
81
/100
30
VVVVVV
81
/100
31
The Bug Butcher
81
/100
32
Overcooked! 2
80
/100
33
Trine Enchanted Edition
80
/100
34
Tricky Towers
80
/100
35
LUFTRAUSERS
80
/100
36
Osmos
80
/100
37
Streets of Rage 2
80
/100
38
FlatOut
80
/100
39
Metal Slug X
80
/100
40
140
80
/100
41
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
80
/100
42
Dome Keeper
80
/100
43
Ultimate Chicken Horse
79
/100
44
Worms W.M.D
79
/100
45
Waking Mars
79
/100
46
Splasher
79
/100
47
Skullgirls
79
/100
48
GALAK-Z
78
/100
49
Bit.Trip Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
78
/100
50
Pix the Cat
77
/100
What is the best Arcade game on Linux?
Vampire Survivors currently tops the ranking with a score of 91/100 across 357 ratings. Ranking updated août 2026.
How is this ranking built?
Games are ranked on their aggregated critic score out of 100, with a minimum vote threshold so a single glowing review never outranks a proven classic; the Tier community's own F-to-S grades are shown alongside each game.