Here's the most popular Native Linux releases for October 2026

2 Nov 2026 at 1:49 pm UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand

Here's some of the highest-rated Native Linux games released on Steam during October 2026. Helping you to find something interesting to go and play if Native Linux gaming is your thing!

A top 15 based on user reviews, to help you cut through the noise since there's thousands releasing all the time. Proton is great, we love it, but we also love to see developers supporting Linux directly with a Native Linux build too. Perhaps you might find your next favourite thanks to this! Additionally, games with AI notices were disqualified from this - helping you to also cut through the slop.

Here's the top Native Linux games for October 2026 below:

over the hill

Driving / Exploration
Review Score: Very Positive (3,155 reviews)
Release Date: 14/10/2026
Current Price: £22.49
"Explore the world in the golden age of offroading. Drive iconic 4x4 vehicles from the 60s to 80s by yourself or with friends through challenging trails and beautiful scenery."

Car Park Capital

Building Sim
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (1,723 reviews)
Release Date: 09/10/2026
Current Price: £13.79
Early Access
"The car industry needs you to design and build the greatest car parks that simple town life hasn't seen before. Introduce the need for car commuting and turn neighborhoods into car parks! Use propaganda to convince people to pay you for it. Fight people that see through your oily business."

CRACK

Casual co-op
Review Score: Very Positive (1,482 reviews)
Release Date: 26/10/2026
Current Price: £5.94 (-15%)
"Why is there a giant egg in this lab? Your job is simple: crack it open. Don't ask questions. CRACK is a 1-4 player co-op incremental adventure about uncovering what's inside a mysterious giant egg."

Toy Shire

Strategy
Review Score: Very Positive (759 reviews)
Release Date: 06/10/2026
Current Price: £8.50
"Are you prepared for a thrilling toy army tower defense adventure? Welcome to the Toy Shire! Battle diverse foes in various locations, defend your family, and repel foes from your area. Save the world by strengthening your defense with toy towers!"

Heartfall — A Tale in Three Lives

RPG
Review Score: Very Positive (426 reviews)
Release Date: 15/10/2026
Current Price: Free
Free
"From making new friends — or enemies — to exploring this island for secrets, how will your story end? Play as Grian in this visual-novel RPG and encounter new, shocking twists that you wouldn’t expect!"

Birb

Casual idle
Review Score: Very Positive (403 reviews)
Release Date: 02/10/2026
Current Price: £3.99
"Start as a humble birb, eat popcorn, and evolve into a cosmic force of nature! Birb blends addictive idle mechanics with active roguelite expeditions. Build your nest, catch rare fish, challenge bosses, and compete on the global leaderboard. How many pecks will it take to rule the world?"

Burn With Me

Strategy Deck-builder
Review Score: Very Positive (378 reviews)
Release Date: 12/10/2026
Current Price: £12.99
"Burn With Me is a story-centric deckbuilder filled with cozy dread and occultic mysteries. In order to summon a Personal Demon you'll master inventive gameplay with position-based synergies, and permanently burn your cards and your soul."

Hungry Horrors

Strategy Deck-builder
Review Score: Very Positive (249 reviews)
Release Date: 13/10/2026
Current Price: £12.79
"Hungry Horrors is a story-driven deckbuilder set in the folklore of the British Isles. Cook real traditional dishes, chain flavour synergies, meet mythical characters, and feed legendary Horrors before they feed on you."

Vampy's Big Day

Comedy Action Adventure
Review Score: Very Positive (244 reviews)
Release Date: 27/10/2026
Current Price: £7.37 (-10%)
"Sneak through sunlit villages as a clumsy vampire. Move the sun with a fairy's help to cast shadows, then spare or devour the villagers."

Roguefort

RPG
Review Score: Very Positive (221 reviews)
Release Date: 13/10/2026
Current Price: £9.09
Early Access
"An open-world roguelike RPG where magic comes from cheesemaking. Explore a living continent, join Guilds, crawl dungeons, build a homestead or go sailing. Play solo or co-op with up to four players. Play survival mode or start a settlement in Fortress mode and manage its people, farms and workshops."

Horns of Deliverance

First-person Action
Review Score: Very Positive (212 reviews)
Release Date: 12/10/2026
Current Price: £9.69
Early Access
"Horns of Deliverance is a first-person action roguelike with grounded gunplay where you need to consume psychoactive substances to prevent your brain chip from taking over."

The Mailroom

Horror Simulation
Review Score: Very Positive (195 reviews)
Release Date: 26/10/2026
Current Price: £6.07 (-15%)
"Survive the horrors of hell’s deadest-end job: a human mail clerk. Process occult specimens, sort infernal mail, repair cursed machinery, and survive your shift in a cozy horror workplace simulator."

Outcast Tales

Turn-based RPG
Review Score: Very Positive (194 reviews)
Release Date: 26/10/2026
Current Price: Free
Free
"A challenging post-apocalyptic roguelite turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring with complete idiots. Lead a crew of flawed heroes against the consequences of their own terrible decisions. Can you keep your heroes together when everyone thinks they're in charge?"

Usagi Shima: Bunny Island

Casual Simulation
Review Score: Very Positive (193 reviews)
Release Date: 29/10/2026
Current Price: £6.07 (-15%)
"Welcome to Usagi Shima! Build your own bunny paradise, attract fluffy tourists with toys and decorations, and befriend lovable bunnies by feeding, petting, and playing with them. Relax with rabbits in a beautiful sandbox of your own design."

if you stay

Adventure
Review Score: Very Positive (154 reviews)
Release Date: 21/10/2026
Current Price: Free
Free
"Winter 1999. Kicked out of your house after being outed by your closest friend, you plan to leave your hometown. Your girlfriend, Mika, wants to see you one more time. Decide whether or not you'll stay together."

That's it for this little October round-up. Be sure to keep checking back on GamingOnLinux for more quick news tips, reviews, editorials, fun lists and so on!

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