Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 13

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2018

Steam: 85/100

A cartoon-style side-scrolling action game with RPG elements, Soda Girls follows a heroine who battles wild enemies and rescues a companion. Opponents include...

CrossCode

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2018

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 83/100

CrossCode is a top-down action RPG in a fantasy style. This game combines SNES-style 16-bit graphics with smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging...

Stones of Yalmrith

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2018

Stones of Yalmrith is a side-scrolling puzzle-platformer adventure in which you take on the role of a living doll and try to escape from strange creatures. An...

Superhot: Mind Control Delete

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Superhot: Mind Control Delete — A stand-alone add-on for a puzzle shooter with a first-person view. The game includes roguelike elements, so the gameplay...

For the People

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Strategy, Adventure, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 73/100

For the People is a political simulator with management elements and a first-person view. In the game you will try on the role of the head of a small industrial...

Chronicon

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 94/100

Chronicon is a top-down action RPG in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in a fictional setting, in which, with the help of a magical device, the chosen ones...

Jessika

Interactive movie, First-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Simulation, Benchmark program, Indie, Detective

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2020

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 67/100

Jessika is an interactive adventure game in the spirit of Her Story and Telling Lies. The player investigates the digital traces of a deceased girl named...

Plague M.D.

Simulation, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 November 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 73/100

Plague M.D. — a medieval simulator with a side view in the point and click genre. In this game you have to try on the role of a medieval doctor who is trying...

Enemy Remains

Arcade, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival horror, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2022

Steam: 66/100

Enemy Remains is a dynamic shooter with horror elements and an isometric camera view in a post-apocalyptic...

Monster RPG 2

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2011

Steam: 50/100

Monster RPG 2 is a third-person role-playing game with an admixture of anime/manga and fantasy games from developers from Nooskewl studio. The game is published by...

Grey Hack

Simulation, MMO, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 15 December 2017

Steam: 90/100

Grey Hack is a multiplayer hacking simulator set across a vast network of procedurally generated computers. Players investigate systems with different...

Xenosis: Alien Infection

Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Adventure

Frozen: Linux → 2018

Anticipation Rating: 5/10

Xenosis: Alien Infection is an atmospheric shooter with horror elements and a top-down view in a sci-fi setting. You will take on the role of a space treasure...

Uplink

Role-playing game, Simulation, Cyberpunk, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 5 January 2005

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 89/100

This cyberpunk hacking simulation follows an independent hacker who takes on dangerous contracts and breaks into secure systems. The protagonist steals corporate...

Eets

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 21 December 2006

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This puzzle platformer combines character movement with physics-based challenges. The player helps Eets overcome obstacles by using objects and interactions in the...

T.E.C. 3001

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Indie, Racing

Game released: Linux → 10 April 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

T.E.C. 3001 — futuristic arcade runner with a third-person view. You will try on the role of a robot who will have to run through more than 40 different...

Derrick the Deathfin

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Derrick the Deathfin is a unique side-scrolling arcade adventure game with a world made entirely of paper. You will plunge into a bizarre underwater world, where...

Psy High

Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 22 December 2014

Steam: 79/100

This text-based role-playing mystery follows high-school students who develop psychic powers and investigate supernatural secrets in their small town. The...

GunSlugs 2

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Arcade, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2015

Steam: 56/100

A side-scrolling arcade platformer about the elite Gunslugs squad fighting the Black Duck Army, which has returned with alien technology and is taking its war to...

Deer God

Arcade, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 27 February 2015

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 49/100

A side-scrolling adventure platformer about a deer’s survival in a fantasy world shaped by karma and reincarnation. The player explores 3D pixel-art landscapes...

Else Heart.Break()

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 24 September 2015

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Else Heart.Break() is an indie adventure with puzzle elements. The main character is Sebastian, who is searching for himself in the distant city of Dorisburg. Among...

Zombie Night Terror

Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Zombies, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 July 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Zombie Night Terror is a side-view management strategy set in the world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to control a squad of zombies, whose goal is to infect...

Sakura Shrine Girls

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2016

Steam: 86/100

This visual novel follows Toru, a skeptical priest in training who is visited by two cat girls. One carries herself with dignity and grace, while the other lives...

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment

Arcade, DLC, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Side view, Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2017

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment is a free add-on for owners of the side-scrolling arcade platformer Shovel Knight. You have to take the other side of the...

Project Explore

Survival, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2017

Steam: 62/100

Project Explore is a 2D sandbox survival game where players explore the game world and can create their own content. Its inventory system uses metadata to give...

Remnants of Naezith

Indie, Action, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 5 February 2018

Steam: 95/100

This fast-paced grappling-hook platformer follows Kayra, a human who shares his body with the soul of Naezith, an ancient thunder dragon. Granted the dragon’s...

Satellite

Indie, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 23 February 2018

Steam: 80/100

This visual novel follows a young man trying to become a hero in a post-apocalyptic desert amid the flames of war. Others see him as weak and immature, but he hopes...

Egypt: Old Kingdom

Strategy, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Indie, Survival

Game released: Linux → 24 May 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Egypt: Old Kingdom is a fascinating turn-based strategy with an isometric camera view, for the creation of which even scientists from the Russian Academy of...

Unavowed

Adventure, Side view, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 August 2018

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Unavowed is a side-scrolling mystery adventure inspired by the point and click games of the '90s. Demons constantly break into familiar New York to confuse the next...

7 Billion Humans

Arcade, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 93/100

7 Billion Humans is the sequel to the fun indie puzzle game Human Resource Machine. This time you have to automate a swarm of employees so that they become part of...

Deep Sky Derelicts: Definitive Edition

Visual novel, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Futurism (Future), Side view, Turn-based, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2018

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 73/100

Deep Sky Derelicts: Definitive Edition — enhanced edition of the role-playing game Deep Sky Derelicts. It includes expansions: Deep Sky Derelicts: Station Life...

Mana Spark

Action, Role-playing game, Indie, Top-down view, Roguelike, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Dungeons, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2018

Steam: 80/100

Mana Spark is a top-down action adventure roguelike with soulslick elements in a fantasy setting. In the game you have to explore a dangerous dungeon and fight the...

Exapunks

Puzzle, Indie, Simulation, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2018

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Exapunks — an adventure puzzle game from the creators of Opus Magnum, SHENZHEN I/O , and TIS-100. The year is 1997. You used to be the greatest hacker, but...

At the Gates

Strategy, God Simulator, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2019

Steam: 39/100

Metacritic: 63/100

At the Gates is an engaging turn-based strategy game with an isometric camera view from the creator of Sid Meier's Civilization 5. You will take on the role of a...

Never Split the Party

Roguelike, Indie, Replayability

Game released: Linux → 3 May 2019

Steam: 72/100

Never Split the Party is a cooperative roguelike about four adventurers venturing into a procedurally generated dungeon to confront the vampire known as the...

Danger Scavenger

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Cyberpunk, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 70/100

Danger Scavenger is a dynamic arcade shooter with an isometric camera view in a cyberpunk setting. Deadly effective, highly skilled, invisible to indifferent...

The Pest

Side view, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2022

Steam: 75/100

The main character is a tiny pest virus that is heading towards the core of the system. The player solves complex puzzles and tries to avoid dangerous computer...

Kredolis

Adventure, Puzzle, First-person view, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2022

Steam: 54/100

Kredolis is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place on a small island that remains from Atlantis. A mysterious...

Three Minutes to Eight

Indie, Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Science fiction, Detective, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2023

Steam: 63/100

A pixel game set in the near future. The main character should die at exactly 19:57, but the gamer still tries to save him. We need to find ways to cheat death and...

Hidden Cats vs Zombies 2

Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Casual game, Indie, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 1 December 2025

Steam: 96/100

The player must find all the hidden items in a post-apocalyptic military base. There are zombies that need to be shot with a sniper rifle, cats hiding from dangers...

Underflow

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Futurism (Future), Action, Indie, Simulation

Game canceled: Linux → 2019

Underflow is a real-time strategy game that will allow you to control the evolution of underwater life on an alien planet. You have to control microbots responsible...

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