Best Linear games on PC
Games built around a mostly fixed path or sequence of events, with progression focused on moving forward rather than freely exploring or choosing routes. They commonly use this structure for directed action or storytelling.
- Mostly fixed progression
- Limited route or sequence choices
- Directed action or storytelling
Related: Singleplayer, Story Rich, Action
2,392 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Cave Crawler
A free side-scrolling action platformer set in hazard-filled caves
95% positive
Free
Suit for Hire
Level-based assassin shooter built around gunfire and martial arts
92% positive
3,448 reviews
The Legend of Tianding
Side-scrolling martial arts action as an outlaw in colonial Taipei
94% positive
3,375 reviews
Mizi NO!
A jigsaw-style puzzle game about fixing objects your cat breaks
98% positive
Free
From The Darkness
First-person horror where a family errand becomes an escape attempt
89% positive
3,322 reviews
Scanner Sombre
First-person horror exploration with a scanner that reveals dark caves
91% positive
3,311 reviews
Laughing to Die
Hand-drawn puzzle platformer with psychological horror and a somber story
96% positive
3,297 reviews
Demo Sizeable
A diorama puzzle game about resizing objects to uncover hidden items
98% positive
3,286 reviews
Demo Horripilant
An incremental horror dungeon crawler with puzzles and automated battles
92% positive
3,174 reviews
RATSHAKER™
First-person horror adventure built around shaking a rat to progress
92% positive
3,159 reviews
Pages of Time: Prologue
A 2D puzzle platformer built around recording and rewinding time
97% positive
Free
Fears to Fathom - Carson House
First-person psychological horror about a house-sitting job gone wrong
91% positive
3,122 reviews
Carry The Glass
Co-op physics platformer about carrying fragile glass up towers
75% positive
3,118 reviews
Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face
Short psychological horror about protecting family from a nighttime visitor
86% positive
3,097 reviews
BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Side-scrolling runner where platforming moves follow the music
92% positive
3,078 reviews
September 7th
Short first-person horror walking simulator with a sinister elf doll
88% positive
3,078 reviews
Stella of The End
Linear post-apocalyptic visual novel about escorting an android girl
97% positive
3,063 reviews
inbento
Bento box puzzles with new mechanics and a cat-family story
96% positive
3,050 reviews
Deliver Us Mars
Sci-fi puzzle adventure searching Mars for stolen colony ships
75% positive
3,029 reviews
MindsEye
Third-person action thriller about a former soldier with fractured memories
51% positive
3,010 reviews
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
A point-and-click adventure linking personal tragedies with the supernatural
96% positive
Free
Smile For Me
First-person point-and-click adventure about cheering up strange residents
96% positive
2,986 reviews
Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
Psychological mystery visual novel about murders on an isolated island
95% positive
2,955 reviews
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GINKA
Island romance visual novel about a missing childhood friend's lookalike
92% positive
2,879 reviews