Physics Games for Linux

World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo dont know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.

The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling sand' physics sandbox game, it simulates air pressure and velocity as well as heat!.

Create and manage your own space program, build and fly spacecraft, and try to conquer space.

The full game includes 47 levels (plus "infinite" bonus content) across 8 distinct level types: Ambient, Solar, Antimatter, Impasse, Repulsor, Sentient, Warped Chaos, and Epicycles.

Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.

Simulate the physics of the Universe on a large scale and create stunning visuals. Play with intergalactic interactions, smash planets together and even create the Big Bang itself!.

Principia is a physics-based sandbox building game. Build and play advanced contraptions, circuiting, minigames, robot adventures and more.

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal mêlée fight sequences, and absurdly hazardous environments.

A fun physics-based puzzle game where you throw balls at boxes to smash them out of the screen.

Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.Also found here is Neverputt, a hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game, built on the physics and graphics engine of...

A free open source game with teleportation.

The Butterfly Effect is a free and open source game that uses realistic physics simulations to combine lots of simple mechanical elements to achieve a simple goal in the most complex way possible. The Butterfly Effect has been over five years in the making.

See high res text graphics. Master physics bending puzzles. Escape the test chambers. Play ASCIIpOrtal! The text-based game with a geometry breaking physics gun.

A highly customisable virtual stressball and physics sandbox about mutilating ragdolls in various ways using an overwhelming amount of items and other tools.

A free and open clone of World Of Goo. Dedicated to Aurélie. It utilises qt and opengl for graphic and objects interaction and Box2d for the physics.

Create your own crazy, fun inventions! With the help of the Inventioneers, you can invent fun, creative and often quite weird inventions. A lot of inventions are included in the game, the more you solve the more parts you receive for your own inventions!

Contraption Maker is the spiritual successor to the classic machine-building puzzle game, The Incredible Machine. It follows the same concept where you create intricate machines to solve a bewildering array of puzzles.

Poly Bridge is a lively, cross-platform, bridge-building simulator with gorgeous, low-poly visuals that help you focus on the all important task of engineering.