15 Best Linux Games of 2015 – You Must Try Right Now

14. Lego Jurassic World

It is an action-adventure game developed by TT Fusion and TT Games and published by Warner Bros Entertainment and released on June 12, 2015 on all platforms. This game adapts scenes from all four releases of the film Jurassic World and even its release date was set to coincide with that of Jurassic World.

Character in the game has to solve various puzzles. This series of game also enables two players cooperation mode. With more than 20 characters and 100 dinosaur species, this game is fun to play as it takes you centuries back in the dinosaur world.

Apart from receiving mixed positive and negative reviews from critics and reviewers this game topped the charts of sale for the month of its release because of interest of huge masses in this exciting world of dinosaurs.

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15. Cities: Skylines

This is unique in this list because of its unique Genre. Developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive, this is a city-building game which gives right to player to construct his own city and own it. It was released on March 10, 2015 on all platforms.

This game allows player to use his wise strategies to construct his own city, creating houses, apartments, parks, roads and everything that a person sees or visits in his daily life. Starting with a plot of 2km * 2km land, as the payer improves and grows his city, he will unlock new city improvements like: Fire Station, Police Station, Health Care facilities etc. This game improves strategic and planning abilities of the player.

This game received positive reviews and a metacritic score of 86 with GameRanking rating it 86.49% as compared to its competitors like SimCity which were not well received as compared to it. Its success can be understood from the fact that it sold 250,000 copies in first 24 hours of its release and within a month of release it had done a business of 1 million copies worldwide.

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Conclusion

Thsese are few games that we have selected and listed here. You can also comment your favourite game and how you see Linux Gaming in near future.

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Gunjit Khera
Currently a Computer Science student and a geek when it comes to Operating System and its concepts. Have 1+ years of experience in Linux and currently doing a research on its internals along with developing applications for Linux on python and C.

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14 thoughts on “15 Best Linux Games of 2015 – You Must Try Right Now”

  1. I’m wondering if the author has even installed linux in his life.
    There is no Witcher 3, MortalKombat X nor Lego Jurassic World, no Batman Arkham Knight on linux! FFS, get your facts straight.

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  2. Dude, do you even play on Linux? the first games were announced but they are not on linux yet…

    Please correct your article so new linux users don’t get confused with this.

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  3. The List is so incredible wrong. Its just click bait! Wichter3, Mortal Kombat X, Lego and Batman has not released for linux. And the most of this games will never seen SteamOS. But there are a lot of good games for Linux. I recommend all of u guys to go to gamingonlinux.com. Best news site for penguingamers

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