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

Mimpi Dreams - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: Linux → 22 March 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Mimpi Dreams is a free-to-play adventure platformer with puzzle elements. The game will tell the story of the dog Mimpi, who marks literally everything, marks his...

SUPER IS HOT

Indie, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 13 December 2020

SUPER IS HOT — a fusion of ideas from two games ( SUPERHOT and Baba Is You) into one conceptual project. In it, time moves not only with the player — the entire...

Polychromatic

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 October 2015

Polychromatic is a physics-based arcade shooter where you have to destroy clumps of...

Ord.

Adventure, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2019

Ord. is a short text adventure where the main feature is that there cannot be more than three words on the screen at any one time. The essence of the game is simple...

Knights and Bikes

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2019

Metacritic: 80/100

Knights and Bikes is an adventure game with role-playing elements that tells about the lives of ordinary kids and their hobbies. Like many children, you have to...

Impostor Factory

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2021

Metacritic: 80/100

Impostor Factory is a new adventure from the creators of Finding Paradise and To the Moon. The main characters of the series, Dr. Rosalyn and Dr. Watts, will go to...

The Roottrees are Dead

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2025

Metacritic: 86/100

A detective adventure in the spirit of Return of the Obra Dinn, but set in the 90s. The main character is a young investigative journalist trying to establish the...

Soul Harvest

Free game, Indie, Strategy, Action, Online, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2022; Early Access: Linux → 26 May 2017

Soul Harvest — A free multiplayer action strategy game set in the depths of Hell. You will take control of archdemons as they fight each other for valuable...

The Procession to Calvary

Adventure, Historical, Indie, Point & Click, Side view

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2020

Metacritic: 78/100

The Procession to Calvary is a side-scrolling adventure game with elements of historical black comedy. The game takes place during the Renaissance, where you have...

88 Heroes

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 24 March 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

88 Heroes is an indie platformer with side-scrolling action elements, made in a retro style. The game offers a non-standard approach to gameplay, because with each...

Super Chibi Knight

Role-playing game, Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 24 June 2015

Super Chibi Knight is an action-adventure RPG with platforming elements and a side view. The game takes place in the kingdom of Oukoku, which is threatened by the...

An Opportunity

Free game, Action, Adventure, Side view, Platformer, Science fiction, Combat robots, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2022

An Opportunity is a free-to-play side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The main character is an astronaut trying to escape from an...

The Battle of Polytopia

Strategy, Simulation, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 August 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 72/100

The Battle of Polytopia is a minimalist global strategy game with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. In the game you will go to conquer the Square...

Heroes & Legends: Conquerors of Kolhar

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2014

Heroes & Legends: Conquerors of Kolhar is an RPG with a dash of fantasy and indie from Cuve Games. The game is published by Phoenix Online Studios. Heroes and...

Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

Adventure, Indie, Free game, Side view, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2014

A hybrid of an adventure game and RPG, inspired by Norse mythology. The story begins with the summoning of the heroine by the earl Yarnvidr, who is desperately...

Forma.8

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 February 2017

Metacritic: 78/100

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical quest about life in the Soviet Union. The great nation of Matryoshka invites a Western journalist to witness...

Stardander Revenant

Visual novel, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 18 October 2021

Stardander Revenant is an adventure game with RPG elements that tells the story of a young witch, Griselda, who studies magical spells at a witch school and wants...

Caromble!

Arcade, Pinball, Arkanoid, Indie, Science fiction, Old school

Early Access: Linux → 28 August 2015; Game released: Linux → 22 April 2026

Players: 5.5/10

A three-dimensional puzzle game that combines elements of physics, pinball, and platforming. In the story, the player discovers ancient powers to stop an impending...

Invisible, Inc.

Action, Strategy, Stealth, Turn-based, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Invisible, Inc. — a tactical strategy with turn-based battles in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell about a secret organization of special agents who...

Refactor

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Frozen: Linux → 2020

Anticipation Rating: 5/10

Refactor is a side-scrolling, physics-based adventure puzzle platformer. The game takes place in a very bizarre world, which in itself is a huge puzzle. You can...

Defend the Highlands

Strategy, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2015

Defend the Highlands is a humorous tower defense strategy game set in a medieval setting. The events of the game take place in Scotland, where proud highlanders are...

Wax Heads

Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 May 2026

Metacritic: 83/100

A cozy simulation of a music store, infused with the spirit of punk culture, vinyl, and warm human stories. Among the shelves of records, conversations about music...

Life Goes On: Done to Death

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Life Goes On: Done to Death is an isometric arcade game with action, platformer, puzzle and indie elements from developers from the Infinite Monkeys studio. The...

UNHERD

Adventure, Platformer, Free game, Indie, Action, Old school, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 15 February 2021

Players: 3.6/10

UNHERD is a free-to-play adventure puzzle platformer with a third-person perspective. The game tells the story of a brave chinchilla who wakes up in a fantasy world...

Clusterpuck 99

Arcade, Sports game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2015

Clusterpuck 99 is an arcade game with a mixture of sports game and indie game from the developers of the PHL Collective studio. The game is published by PHL...

AdventurOS

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 December 2013

AdventurOS is an arcade-style RPG, platformer, fantasy and indie game from the masters at Eveland Games. The game is published by Eveland...

Patchman vs. Red Circles

Arcade, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Science fiction, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 19 October 2017

Patchman vs. Red Circles is an indie arcade adventure set in a fantasy world. You will find constant stealth, smart disguises, searching for seeds for planting a...

KIDS

Indie, Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2019

Players: 10/10

KIDS is a short interactive animated game created by Michael Frei and Mario von Rickenbach. The passage is designed to last up to 30 minutes and will allow you to...

Okhlos

Action, Strategy, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 August 2016

Metacritic: 69/100

Okhlos is a real-time action strategy game with eight-bit graphics. The events of the game take players to Ancient Greece, where the people, dissatisfied with the...

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2018

Metacritic: 68/100

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case is a continuation of the Japanese-style adventure visual novel Silver Case. The events of the game take place five years after the...

Rogue Star Rescue

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Top-down view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Roguelike, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 4 February 2021

Rogue Star Rescue is a fast-paced, cooperative top-down roguelike shooter with tower defense elements set in a sci-fi setting. A massive Rogue Star formed from...

KaRu

Free game, Indie, Interactive movie, Casual game, Horror, Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2022

KaRu — A free adventure horror game made in visual novel format, in which the main character is a parasite. One day he wakes up next to a strange boy he has...

Jewel Run

Casual game, Action, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Comics, Free game

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2023

A multiplayer asymmetrical game in which a group of village teenagers unite against the owner of a garden. The children are trying to collect valuable items and...

Shovel Knight Showdown

Action, Adventure, Online, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2019

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 75/100

As a result of a magical disaster, the world is plunged into endless battles, and now the heroes and villains of the Shovel Knight saga are forced to find the...

NotTheNameWeWanted

Arcade, Indie, Action, Horror, Adventure, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 3 July 2015

NotTheNameWeWanted is a top-down arcade action game that is a parody of the popular GTA series. You will find amazing graphics, incredible sound, spectacular...

Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

Adventure, Role-playing game, Isometric, Indie, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Nanotale — Typing Chronicles is a fantasy adventure RPG with puzzle elements. You will follow Rosalind, a novice chronicler, on her journey of knowledge...

Sky Rogue

Flight Simulator, Action, Indie, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2017

A combat flight simulator where you can cut through the skies near countless randomly generated islands. The game has different missions in which you need to...

HIVESWAP: Act 2

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2020

HIVESWAP: Act 2 — the continuation of the classic "point and click" adventure HIVESWAP: Act 1 about a naive alien in a world full of intrigue, murder, and evil...

So Many Me

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Platformer, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2014

Metacritic: 78/100

So Much Me is an arcade game with a mixture of educational game, platformer and indie game from developers from Extend Interactive Co., Ltd. studios. and Extend...

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