Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 19

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Fantasy, Old school, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 December 2024

Steam: 95/100

The famous Slovak mountaineer and robber Janko Janosik finds himself in the center of dangerous events. This time it is not his comrades who need saving, but...

Alchemyland

Indie, Adventure, Casual game

Early Access: Linux → 2 August 2017

Steam: 38/100

This casual adventure takes place in a magical land inhabited by gnomes, elves, and orcs, where mandrake grows and leviathans roam. The player gathers flowers and...

Beyond Gravity

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 23 September 2014

Steam: 88/100

Beyond Gravity is an arcade game with elements of action, platformer and indie game from developers from the Qwiboo studio. The game is published by Qwiboo. It...

Secret Government

Simulation, Strategy, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based, Indie, Grand strategy

Early Access: Linux → 22 June 2020; Game released: Linux → 15 April 2021

Players: 7/10

Steam: 52/100

Secret Government is a global turn-based strategy about secret societies, where you have to manage a powerful organization that influences the whole world. You will...

Caster

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2009

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 77/100

A third-person action shooter in which the player races through scenic locations and fights bug-like creatures called the Flanx. Combat offers six attacks...

Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 3 December 2010

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This 3D puzzle game challenges players to guide cubes to exits of matching colors. In Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH, routes are shaped with conveyor belts, warps...

Dustforce

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 January 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Dustforce — the gameplay is based on acrobatic stunts. Playing as one of four cleaning heroes, the player tries to clear the dirt from the level as quickly as...

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 85/100

This exploratory action-adventure follows a wandering warrior monk on a quest through a mythic realm of mountains and forests in a Bronze Age setting. Events are...

The Bridge

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2013

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Bridge is a two-dimensional logic game that will allow you to look at physics and perspective from a different angle. You have to walk on the ceiling, explore...

Stealth Bastard

Arcade, Stealth, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2013

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This arcade stealth platformer sends an unarmed, unarmoured hero into a deadly facility, where the goal is to reach the exit without being caught by its security...

Skulls of the Shogun

Arcade, Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 July 2013

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This turn-based strategy game with an arcade pace follows samurai warriors in the afterlife, where General Akamoto assembles an army for battle. His forces include...

Legend of Dungeon

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2013

Players: 3.9/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This action RPG beat ’em up with roguelike elements sends the hero into a randomly generated, 26-floor dungeon. In the darkness, the hero encounters mysterious...

Escape Goat 2

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 March 2014

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer about a goat attempting to traverse the Stronghold of Toragos, which no one has conquered before. The goat must find a path...

The Impossible Game

Action, Indie, Side view, Platformer, Music game

Game released: Linux → 8 May 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 64/100

The player taps the jump screen and tries to navigate the orange square while avoiding traps to reach the end of the level. Any mistake will result in instant death...

DreadOut

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 May 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 55/100

DreadOut is an action-horror game played from a third-person perspective. The events of the game will tell the story of young Linda and her friends, who find...

Meltdown (2014)

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2014

Steam: 87/100

This tactical arcade shooter is set in a sci-fi world and follows Zed as he tries to escape a remote space station after a system malfunction. Enemies have distinct...

Mountain

Simulation, Music game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 1 July 2014

Steam: 85/100

Mountain is an indie simulator that will allow you to become the god of an entire mountain. Forests grow on it, fireflies fly and day turns into night. In addition...

Soccertron

Arcade, Indie, Side view, Sports game, Basketball

Game released: Linux → 12 March 2015

Steam: 70/100

A side-view arcade sports game where up to four players compete in matches inspired by soccer, basketball, and volleyball. The rules are simple: score with the ball...

Windward

Role-playing game, Action, Warships / Submarines, Historical, Indie, Sandbox, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Windward is an action sandbox about sailing a ship through a procedurally generated world shaped by growing towns, trade, and conflict. Each voyage unfolds...

Train Valley

Business / Management, Top-down view, Trains, Indie, Replayability

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 88/100

A railway management puzzle set across different historical eras, with the goal of connecting cities and keeping trains moving safely. The player lays tracks...

Orion Trail

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2015

Steam: 68/100

Orion Trail is a procedurally generated side-scrolling adventure with pixel graphics. You will have to travel in outer space, where only the luckiest, bravest and...

Attractio

Action, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 40/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Attractio is a puzzle game with action elements and a first-person view. The game will tell the story of three characters who participate in a futuristic reality...

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...

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a side-scrolling action platformer. You have to go explore the dark lands where the curse has fallen. Evil is penetrating...

Warden: Melody of the Undergrowth

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Action, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2016

Steam: 78/100

Warden: Melody of the Undergrowth is a colorful adventure with a third-person view and various puzzles. The events of the game will tell the story of three...

Layers of Fear: Inheritance

Adventure, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 August 2016

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 76/100

Layers of Fear: Inheritance is an addition to the adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a first-person view Layers of Fear. The main character will be the...

On the front line

Indie, Simulation, Tanks

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2016

Steam: 59/100

A tank simulator set during World War II, in battles fought on the Red Army’s side. Across two large locations, the player takes on combat missions in sequence and...

Meadow

Online, Simulation, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, MMO, Open world

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Meadow is a multiplayer adventure simulator where you take on the role of a wild animal. Choose one of the many animals and go. Use all five senses to find others...

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter

Action, Virtual Reality (VR), Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 March 2017

Steam: 87/100

This arcade first-person shooter sends Sam back in time to ancient Egypt to battle hordes of enemies. Its campaign spans 15 levels containing more than 80 hidden...

World to the West

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Top-down view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 5 May 2017

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 75/100

World to the West is a top-down action/puzzle hybrid set in the Teslagrad universe. Four heroes with their unique abilities will have to travel through a colorful...

Pyre

Role-playing game, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2017

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Pyre is an isometric RPG set in a fantasy setting from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. Luck has almost left you when wanderers find you and rescue you from...

Aztez

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Beat them all, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 August 2017

Steam: 80/100

Aztez is a monochrome mix of bitmap and turn-based strategy that tells the story of the Aztec empire. The game's plot takes place in the Aztec Empire before the...

Easy Red

Action, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 1 December 2017

Steam: 79/100

Easy Red is a military action simulator set during Operation Overlord, focusing on the Allied landings in Normandy and the battles for Caen. Missions take place...

Emily Wants to Play Too

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 13 December 2017

Steam: 82/100

Emily Wants to Play Too is a sequel to the first-person indie horror game where you have to survive in a haunted house. You play as a pizza delivery guy who needs...

Crossing Souls

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

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Crossing Souls is an action-adventure game with role-playing elements in a pixel style. California, 1986. A group of friends finds a mysterious pink stone that...

The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World

Arcade, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 7 September 2018

Steam: 95/100

The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World is an unusual visual novel in which a pizza delivery boy saves the world at his leisure. The plot will tell about a guy...

UnderMine

Dungeons, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2020

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 83/100

This action-adventure roguelike with RPG elements follows the peasants of Delvemore as they explore the UnderMine and seek the mystery at the heart of its depths...

Incremental Adventures

Free game, Visual novel, Indie, Text quest, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Incremental Adventures — a shareware text auto-battler in which you will become a guide for a group of brave heroes in their never-ending adventure. Expect...

Jelly Brawl

Online, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Top-down view, Sandbox, Mini-game / browser-based, Platformer, Free game

Game released: Linux → 27 October 2020

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 75/100

Jelly Brawl is a top-down cooperative indie action game. This is a game with simple controls that are easy to learn. Without quick reactions and timely taps, it's...

From the Depths

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Construction, Sandbox, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2020

Steam: 89/100

A vehicle-building sandbox with strategy and simulation elements, From the Depths lets players assemble war machines from blocks and command them in battles across...

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