Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 21

Polandball: Can into Space! - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: Linux → 15 June 2016

Steam: 93/100

This casual role-playing game follows Polandball on a mission to break through Earth’s atmosphere and reach the Moon, proving the other countryballs wrong. The...

Sumeru

Indie, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2016

Steam: 73/100

This 2D physics puzzle game follows Yun, a traveler who finds a gem and is drawn into the Sumerian World while admiring it. To help him get home, the player draws...

Lichtspeer

Arcade, Action, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Lichtspeer is an arcade action game set in a futuristic world inspired by ancient Germanic myths. Summoned by the gods, a hero sets out on a perilous journey and...

GoNNER

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view, Indie, Platformer, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 56/100

Metacritic: 79/100

GoNNER is a brutally challenging 2D platformer with roguelike elements and procedurally generated levels. The game tells the story of the friendship between Hiccup...

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...

Sally Face - Episode One

Indie, Horror, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 14 December 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 97/100

This horror adventure with puzzles follows Sal, a boy with a prosthetic face who moves into a new apartment with his father. In the first episode, they meet the...

Once on a windswept night

Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2017

Steam: 86/100

This metafictional visual novel follows a traveller seeking patrons in the distant land of Desservir. After being betrayed by a goblin and left on the cold moors...

Totemori

Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 February 2017

Steam: 86/100

A local multiplayer brawler about building towers while trying to bring down those built by opponents. Building blocks fall from the sky, and towers can be fitted...

Dude, Stop

Puzzle, Comedy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2018

Steam: 87/100

This comedy puzzle game revolves around breaking rules and irritating the narrator. Players work through levels by clicking, moving, and throwing objects, while...

Soda Girls

Action, Indie, Role-playing game

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...

BFF or Die

Action, Stealth, Online, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2018

Steam: 65/100

BFF or Die is a top-down cooperative stealth action game about funny aliens. You have two options: either help each other or die. As you play the game, you will use...

Ord.

Adventure, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2019

Steam: 92/100

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), Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2019

Steam: 86/100

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...

To the Edge of the Sky

Futurism (Future), Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Arcade, Cyberpunk, Adult game, Action

Game released: Linux → 29 May 2020

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 60/100

To the Edge of the Sky is an adventure visual novel with role-playing elements in a cyberpunk setting. The events of the game will take you to 2077, where you will...

CyberHive

Futurism (Future), Simulation, Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Adventure, Indie, Anime / Manga, Survival, Space, Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2020

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 77/100

CyberHive is a real-time role-playing strategy with elements of science fiction and anime. You are the commander of the Melistara (Star Bee), and you have a swarm...

Rogue Star Rescue

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

Game released: Linux → 4 February 2021

Steam: 91/100

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...

Nebuchadnezzar

Strategy, Indie, Isometric, Simulation, City Building, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Nebuchadnezzar is an isometric city-building simulator in which you can get acquainted with the mysterious history and culture of ancient Mesopotamia. As part of...

Ion Fury: Aftershock

Shooter, First-person view, Old school, DLC, Action, Indie, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 2 October 2023

Steam: 93/100

After defeating Heskel in her previous adventure, Shelley Harrison decides to celebrate at a local bar. The rest does not last long — explosions begin to...

Mortisomem

Adventure, Horror, Action, Old school, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 January 2024

Steam: 93/100

A mystical adventure set in 1917 Brazil. The protagonist explores rural areas and tries to escape from a demon pursuing him. There are multiple endings that are...

Long Live Caesar

Indie, Role-playing game, Tactics, Historical, Roguelike, Side view, Puzzle, Detective, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2024

Steam: 78/100

A step -by -step role -playing strategy with elements of a crogue in which the fate of the Roman Empire depends on the decisions of one person. Playing for Guy...

KYORA

Action, Adventure, Sandbox, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Procedural generation

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Multiplayer adventure from the creators of Core Keeper takes you to a procedurally generated world where matter itself can be changed. The ruined lands hide...

Undead Overlord

Strategy, Indie, Zombies

Early Access: Linux → 18 July 2014

Steam: 25/100

A real-time strategy game about a zombie uprising, in which the player commands a horde and tears down the human-made world. Zombies devour brains, grow and mutate...

For Each Our Roads of Winter

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Frozen: Linux → 2015

For Each Our Roads of Winter is a puzzle adventure and indie game from Orihaus. The game is published by...

Star Rangers XE

Simulation, Adventure, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 6 July 2016

Steam: 28/100

This space simulation adventure focuses on exploring the Solar System and building on other worlds. The player takes the role of an astronaut recruit and ventures...

Soul Harvest

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

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

Steam: 85/100

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...

Yomi

Strategy, Fighting, Card game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 May 2015

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A card-based fighting game where matches hinge on choosing cards and anticipating an opponent’s moves. Players select a character, learn their attacks and combos...

Metropolisim

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Indie

Frozen: Linux → 2020

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A city-building simulator with an isometric view, where managing a city becomes as exciting as building it. Every decision impacts millions of residents: everyone...

Darwinia

Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Puzzle, God Simulator

Game released: Linux → 18 March 2005

Steam: 78/100

This real-time strategy game blends action and puzzles in a digital world inhabited by intelligent creatures called Darwinians. When a dangerous virus disrupts...

Space Pirates and Zombies

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2011

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This space action game with strategy and role-playing elements follows a pirate assembling a fleet and travelling towards the galactic core in search of treasure or...

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

Strategy, Simulation, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 27 March 2014

Players: 7/10

Steam: 96/100

This strategy simulation centers on defending a base from a fluid-like substance that spreads across deformable terrain. Rather than sending discrete units with...

Lovely Planet

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Lovely Planet is a first-person shooter set in a colorful abstract world, where the player fights through five enemy-filled worlds on the way to a distant...

Pyrite Heart

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 September 2014

Steam: 66/100

This visual novel follows Princess Ahri Remono, who accepts a challenge after a feud with her brother and leaves the Imperial Palace to study beyond its walls. On...

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...

Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Board / Group Game, Indie, Card game

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2015

Steam: 65/100

A card-based adventure with role-playing and strategy elements, Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night continues the board game and sends its hero into a jungle where...

BlackHole

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 February 2015

Steam: 86/100

BlackHole is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer with a variety of puzzles in a sci-fi setting. When Ender's spaceship is sucked into a black hole, the crew...

Please, Don't Touch Anything

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

Game released: Linux → 26 March 2015

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 87/100

Please, Don't Touch Anything is an arcade puzzle game with pixel graphics. While your colleague has gone to the restroom, you need to replace him at a mysterious...

Star Horizon

Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2015

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 52/100

This on-rails space shooter follows John, a Federation pilot, and Ellie, the artificial intelligence that controls his ship, amid a war between the Inter Galactic...

Kung Fury: Street Rage

Arcade, Fighting, Beat them all, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2015

Steam: 89/100

This arcade beat ’em up centers on endless fights against Nazis. It features a single-player story campaign and a two-player co-op campaign. The Hackademy practice...

Wild Season

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Farm Simulator, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 8 December 2015

Steam: 24/100

This farming-life simulation with visual novel and RPG elements follows a character who leaves the big city to start a farm in the south. After a storm, the...

Melodys Escape

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Music game, Indie, Runner, Side view

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2016

Steam: 90/100

A side-scrolling rhythm runner where the obstacles and the heroine’s actions adapt to the beat and energy of music from the player’s own library. Melody runs along...

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