Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 20

From the Depths - a game in the Indie genre

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...

An Opportunity

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

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2022

Steam: 100/100

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...

Astrogon

Free game, Platformer, Online, Arcade, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

A free-to-play neon platformer in which the player jumps between walls with obstacles while avoiding touching certain objects that can kill. As you progress through...

Cart To The End

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

Game released: Linux → 19 July 2024

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 78/100

A multiplayer game in which you need to drive to the end of the railway, avoiding various obstacles and eluding other gamers in order to win. Among the traps there...

Catanks

Shooter, Third-person view, Tanks, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Action

Game released: Linux → 25 September 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 100/100

The player controls a tank, driven by a cat, and tries to defend their home from a rat invasion. Each location offers new mechanics and challenges, such as...

SinaRun

Indie, Racing

Game released: Linux → 3 November 2025

Steam: 77/100

SinaRun is a momentum-based platformer focused on speedrunning. The goal is to set the best time by choosing among multiple routes and refining jumps and turns...

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...

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...

Mighty Tactical Shooter: A Turn-Based Shoot 'Em Up

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Beat them all, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game canceled: Linux → 19 May 2021

Anticipation Rating: 4.2/10

Mighty Tactical Shooter: A Turn-Based Shoot 'Em Up is a dynamic arcade shooter with turn-based combat and a top-down view in a sci-fi setting. A ship badly damaged...

Steam Bandits: Outpost

Role-playing game, Adventure, Online, Indie, Steampunk

Early Access: Linux → 15 January 2014

Players: 1/10

Steam Bandits: Outpost is an indie steampunk adventure RPG. You'll explore the skies of a steampunk world, discovering islands, taming beasts, and battling anything...

Chicken Invaders 2: The Next Wave

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 27 May 2009

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 97/100

Chicken Invaders 2: The Next Wave is a top-down arcade game with action and shooter elements from developers from InterAction studios. The game is published by...

Rivalry

Strategy, Casual game, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 22 January 2016

Steam: 91/100

A turn-based duel for two players, with rag-doll fighters wielding swords and controlling the movements of their limbs and weapons. Players take turns using the...

Fort Triumph

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Linux → 26 April 2018; Game released: Linux → 16 April 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Fort Triumph is an exciting tactical strategy with role-playing elements and turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. You will become the leader of fearless heroes...

Meeple Station

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Space

Early Access: Linux → 17 January 2019; Game released: Linux → 10 April 2020

Steam: 57/100

Meeple Station is an isometric management simulator set in a sci-fi setting, inspired by the game RimWorld. You will need to build your own space station and...

Airline Tycoon Deluxe

Simulation, Strategy, Flight Simulator, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → January 2006

Steam: 84/100

This real-time economic simulation in a comic style puts the player in charge of an airline. Responsibilities include buying and outfitting aircraft, planning...

Diabolical

Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2015

Steam: 75/100

This text-based interactive novel follows a criminal mastermind intent on building an evil empire and becoming the world’s most notorious villain. Across 130,000...

Hammerfight

Action, Fighting, Side view, Arcade, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2009

Players: 10/10

Steam: 74/100

Hammerfight is a 2D game about fighting between flying machines equipped with various types of cutting, piercing and crushing weapons. The unique combat system is...

Beat Hazard

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Music game, Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2013

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Beat Hazard is a musical arcade shooter with a top-down view and elements of a rhythm game. In the game, you will control a spaceship to upbeat music. Each track in...

Hammerwatch

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

Game released: Linux → 12 August 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 87/100

A fantasy action-adventure hack-and-slash in pixel art follows a climb through Castle Hammerwatch. The castle can be explored solo or in co-op, as players fight...

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Going East!

Simulation, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Open world

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2013

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 83/100

Euro Truck Simulator 2 — Going East! — an add-on for a truck driver simulator with first- and third-person views. The expansion introduces new roads and...

10,000,000

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

10,000,000 — Action role-playing roguelike in a fantasy style with puzzle elements and a side view. In this game you have to run non-stop, overcome obstacles...

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...

Stunt Runner

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → Q2 2014

Stunt Runner is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer, puzzle and indie game from developers from Kermdinger Studios. The main publisher of the game...

Dungeon Defenders Eternity

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 48/100

A fantasy action RPG with tower-defense elements, Dungeon Defenders Eternity follows a team of heroes defending Etheria from the army of the Old Ones. Players...

Rex Rocket

Arcade, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 August 2014

Steam: 71/100

Set in Earth’s distant future, this 2D platformer follows a former war hero trying to stop a starship’s rogue artificial intelligence. The player chooses Captain...

Magnetic By Nature

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 10 November 2014

Steam: 76/100

A science-fiction platformer about the last surviving robot, who journeys through forgotten ruins to reactivate its friends. The levels are built without...

Sentinels of the Multiverse

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Card game, Comics, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 December 2014

Steam: 92/100

Sentinels of the Multiverse is a superhero card strategy with turn-based combat, made in a comic book style. The action takes place in classic comic book locations...

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...

Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders

Arcade, Action, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 January 2015

Steam: 79/100

This arcade flight simulator centers on aerial combat during World War II, with battles set at Pearl Harbor, the Coast of Dover, Midway and other historical...

Forward to the Sky

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2015

Steam: 84/100

This 3D action-adventure with platforming elements follows a princess knight who ventures into a tower in the sky to defeat a legendary witch and prove herself a...

Running with Rifles

Arcade, Shooter, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Action, Open world

Game released: Linux → 2 April 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Running with Rifles is an isometric top-down tactical shooter set in an open world where you take on the role of a common soldier. Together with your squad, you...

Fire: Ungh's Quest

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2015

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 64/100

This puzzle adventure follows Ungh, a Neanderthal who falls asleep during his first night watch and lets the village fire go out. Banished by his tribe, he explores...

VERSUS: The Lost Ones

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2015

Steam: 81/100

This science-fiction text adventure follows an interstellar warrior held captive on the unfamiliar planet Versus. To survive and seek a way out, the protagonist...

Tinertia

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Linux → 3 September 2015

Steam: 97/100

Tinertia is a futuristic action-platformer set on a dying planet, where the robot Weldon is trapped among ruins and sentient machines. To survive, he must climb...

Goggles - World of Vaporia

Arcade, Action, Racing, Steampunk, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 October 2015

Steam: 58/100

Goggles — World of Vaporia — arcade racing in a steampunk style with the possibility of cooperative play. The game features four different and colorful...

Galak-Z

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 29 October 2015

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A top-down space action game, GALAK-Z combines two-dimensional dogfights with procedurally generated worlds and physics-driven combat. The player pilots an...

Aqua Panic!

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 9 November 2015

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A puzzle game with arcade elements about sea creatures thrown out of the water by a tropical cyclone. The player guides fish back to the ocean, navigating obstacles...

Little Lily Princess

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2016

Steam: 92/100

Little Lily Princess is a dating simulator with visual novel elements and Japanese style. The events of the game tell the story of Sarah, the daughter of a wealthy...

Brigador

Action, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 2 June 2016

Brigador is an isometric real-time tactics game about a mercenary pilot hired to sow chaos in a city-state after the sudden death of its dictator. The mission is...

Crea

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Indie, Sandbox, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 73/100

Crea is a sandbox role-playing game set in procedurally generated worlds, where the hero explores new lands, fights monsters, and uncovers the world’s history...

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