Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 14

Interstellar Marines - a game in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 2 July 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 50/100

This tactical sci-fi first-person shooter is set in the early 22nd century, when the discovery of an inexhaustible energy source has enabled humanity to explore the...

WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.02

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 July 2015

Steam: 96/100

WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.02 is a visual novel about Haru, who survived an incident but lost his dream. Four years later, a determined young woman offers him a...

Waking Mars

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

Game released: Linux → 21 February 2013

Players: 1/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Waking Mars is a side-scrolling arcade adventure platformer. In 2097, life was discovered on Mars. During the mission to make first contact, you find yourself...

Super Hexagon

Arcade, Music game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2013

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Super Hexagon is an indie music arcade game. This is one of the most difficult games you will ever play. A pulsating soundtrack underscores the danger as swirling...

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Stealth

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This tactical stealth game follows a crew of thieves as they case buildings and carry out heists while avoiding security. The cast includes a lock-picking...

Voyage to Farland

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 27 June 2013

Steam: 91/100

A turn-based roguelike about a wanderer searching for a missing sister in the forested Iya Gorge. The region is filled with dangerous creatures and mysteries, and...

Nimble Quest

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 December 2013

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This arcade action game with role-playing elements centers on a party of heroes that moves constantly through stages while fighting enemy hordes. The player steers...

The Fall

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Science fiction, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 May 2014

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 73/100

The Fall is an adventure shooter with a view of the side of the science fiction setting, which will tell about artificial intelligence trying to save its master...

Heroes Rise: HeroFall

Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2014

Steam: 87/100

This text-based role-playing game concludes the Heroes Rise trilogy, following a hero fighting for the rights of people with superpowers in America. When President...

Spacebase DF-9

Arcade, Simulation, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 27 October 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 16/100

This space simulation focuses on building a home for humans and aliens in Earth's distant future. The player expands the base by mining asteroids, growing it from a...

Woah Dave!

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 October 2014

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This arcade platformer follows Dave Lonuts as he tries to survive an alien invasion and collect as many coins as possible. He fights back by throwing alien eggs...

LISA: The Painful

Role-playing game, Side view, Comedy, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 15 December 2014

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A dark role-playing game in a post-apocalyptic world, full of dark humor and unexpected stories. Going in search of the protagonist's daughter, the player is faced...

InMind VR

Virtual Reality (VR), Free game, Indie, Educational game (Education)

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2015

Steam: 78/100

This arcade game takes place in a science-fiction world inspired by the human brain, where the player travels through neural landscapes in an experimental miniature...

Lost Orbit

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This space arcade action game follows Harrison, a maintenance worker and astronaut stranded in deep space after his ship is destroyed, as he tries to make his way...

Knee Deep

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 6 July 2015

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 60/100

Knee Deep is a detective adventure with a first-person view. The action takes place in a swampy area near the town of Cypress Knee, Florida. You will take part in...

Community College Hero: Trial by Fire

Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2015

Steam: 84/100

This text-based role-playing game follows a student who receives a scholarship to a new college for aspiring superheroes. In Community College Hero: Trial by Fire...

Buried: An Interactive Story

Indie, Adventure, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 22 January 2016

Steam: 95/100

This text-based adventure follows logger Roger Hastings, who wakes to find his crew missing and has no memory of what happened. As he searches for them, he uncovers...

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Online, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in the style of Super Meat Boy. You have to create levels with a huge number of traps and other...

The Deer

Indie, Adventure, Educational game (Education)

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2016

Steam: 67/100

This educational interactive adventure for children is set in the Pleistocene, where the player takes the role of an ancient deer. The game introduces the animals...

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Visual novel, Point & Click, Comedy, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Demetrios — The BIG Cynical Adventure is a fun visual novel with puzzles and a side view. The main character is a slob living in Paris named Björn Thonen. One...

Highway Blossoms

Simulation, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 June 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

A Japanese-style visual novel with dating sim elements. The game’s story takes place in the southwestern United States, where a young woman named Amber sets out to...

Giant Machines 2017

Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2016

Players: 5.8/10

Steam: 68/100

Giant Machines 2017 — giant vehicle driving simulator. You will be able to take control of seven industrial, the largest in the world, machines that have...

BattleTime

Arcade, Indie, Strategy, Isometric, Action, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 78/100

BattleTime is an arcade strategy game in the tower defense genre with an isometric camera view. You will act as the leader of a real army and will capture enemy...

Intralism

Music game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2016

Steam: 87/100

Intralism is a rhythm game where players follow arcs on screen and press the corresponding buttons in time with the music. A wrong input ends the attempt, so...

Immortal Redneck

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2017

Players: 7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Immortal Redneck is a fast-paced first-person shooter with roguelike elements. You will find unique arenas that are generated randomly, a wide arsenal of weapons...

Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

Adventure, Interactive movie, Indie, Detective

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2017

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This FMV detective story with elements of psychological horror follows a psychiatrist investigating the murder of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker while treating...

Grab the Bottle

Arcade, Puzzle, Comics, Indie, Side view, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2017

Players: 4/10

Steam: 82/100

Grab the Bottle is a fun side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. Controlling the longest arm in the world, you need to reach certain objects in the level. You will find...

Bomb Defense

Arcade, Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2017

Steam: 50/100

Bomb Defense is an arcade puzzle game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre and a top-down view. You will have a limited supply of gold at your disposal...

Metropolis: Lux Obscura

Interactive movie, Visual novel, Logic, Match-3 (Three in a row), Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2017

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Metropolis: Lux Obscura is a unique blend of visual novel and match-3 puzzle game set in a noir setting. The game takes place in the gloomy city of Metropolis...

Kerbal Space Program: Making History

DLC, Flight Simulator, Futurism (Future), Logic, Indie, Simulation, Space

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2018

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Kerbal Space Program: Making History is an add-on for a sci-fi simulator with well-developed physical laws. A completely new gaming toolkit awaits you, with which...

The Hex

Indie, Adventure, Horror, Role-playing game, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 17 October 2018

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The Hex is an indie adventure platformer with horror RPG elements. In this game you have to find a killer in a tavern. The peculiarity of the game is that there is...

Wizards and Warlords

Strategy, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 25 September 2020

Steam: 82/100

Wizards and Warlords is a turn-based fantasy strategy game set in a randomly generated world populated by rival wizards and warlords. The player creates a sovereign...

Perfect Vermin

Adventure, Indie, Action, First-person view, Puzzle, Free game, Horror

Game released: Linux → 7 November 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 93/100

Perfect Vermin is an indie first-person action adventure with puzzle elements. Your task is simple: exterminate all the vermin. The sledgehammer provided to you is...

Isle of Jura

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2022

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 77/100

The fishing simulator, where players in the role of a girl named Jura are exploring a beautiful island, looking for artifacts, communicate with local residents and...

Spacelines from the Far Out

Cooperative (co-op), Arcade, Top-down view, Science fiction, Business / Management, Indie, Online, Space, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2022

Steam: 75/100

The player controls the spaceship and its crew. You need to solve randomly generated problems, prevent accidents and help passengers. If guests are not satisfied...

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Feldbinder Trailer Pack

First-person view, Third-person view, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 November 2022

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

A set of trailers from Feldbinder Spezialfahrzeugwerke for Euro Truck Simulator 2. The add-on includes four types of trailers with different body and color options...

Dotage

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Construction, City Building, Board / Group Game

Game released: Linux → 4 October 2023

Steam: 94/100

The elder had a vision of a future apocalypse. To avoid the fate of a doomed future, he gathers his fellow villagers and leads them into an empty valley. There you...

Beer Factory

Indie, Simulation, First-person view, Business / Management, Action, Sandbox, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 10 January 2024

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 40/100

A simulator about managing your own brewery. Players take control of a modern brewery, where they need to set up beer production, import and export goods, monitor...

Elementallis

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

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2026

Steam: 90/100

A top-down adventure game inspired by the classic The Legend of Zelda series. The world is on the brink of chaos because the balance between the natural elements...

Tiny Diggers 2

Arcade, Action, God Simulator, Business / Management, Third-person view, Indie

Game canceled: Linux → 23 November 2013

Anticipation Rating: 6.7/10

Tiny Diggers 2 is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, business simulator and indie game from developers from the TouchTilt Games studio. The game is...

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