Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 25

Tadpole Treble - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Music game, Side view, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 7 May 2016; Game released: Linux → 3 September 2016

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Tadpole Treble is a side-scrolling adventure music rhythm game. You have to take on the role of a newly born fish who is eager to explore the world around him. She...

Domino Arena

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 November 2013

Domino Arena is an arcade game with puzzle elements and indie games from the masters from the Gamieon studio. The game is published by...

Last Leviathan

Action, Shooter, Warships / Submarines, Puzzle, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 22 June 2016

Last Leviathan is a shipbuilding simulator with a detailed physics model. You will construct combat ships and test them against monsters that inhabit the ancient...

Hacker Evolution IMMERSION

Simulation, Futurism (Future), Logic, Indie, Action

Early Access: Linux → 29 July 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 25/100

Hacker Evolution IMMERSION is a hacker simulator in a futuristic setting. Humanity is about to enter the next stage of evolution. You will have to uncover the dark...

Love at First Sight

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 May 2015

Steam: 96/100

This romantic visual novel follows a high school student who falls in love at first sight with Sachi Usui, a shy, reclusive girl with one eye and a history of...

Gish

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2005

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This action-adventure game with puzzle elements follows Gish, a ball of tar who ventures into the subterranean sewers of the forgotten city of Dross to rescue his...

Oil Rush

Strategy, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 23 March 2012

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This real-time naval strategy game is set in a world reshaped by nuclear war, which melted the ice caps. The player captures, upgrades, and defends floating...

Xenonauts

Strategy, Indie, Grand strategy, Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 14 October 2012

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A turn-based strategy game about an international military organisation defending Cold War-era Earth from an alien invasion. Persistent soldiers fight in small...

Dead Pixels

Zombies, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 December 2012

Steam: 86/100

This zombie action game begins when toxic waste contaminates the water supply and causes the recently deceased to rise from their graves. To escape the city, the...

Sword of the Stars: The Pit

Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 21 February 2013

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A turn-based role-playing game set in the science-fiction universe of Sword of the Stars, where an expedition ventures into an ancient alien facility beneath the...

Little Inferno

Arcade, Logic, Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Little Inferno is an unusual puzzle game from the creators of World of Goo. It smelled like something was cooking... And here's your new Little Inferno entertaining...

Dark Matter

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Action, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 17 October 2013

Steam: 38/100

Dark Matter is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the distant future, where you have to explore an abandoned...

OlliOlli

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Sports game, Indie, Skateboards

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2014

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This skateboarding arcade game revolves around landing tricks and maintaining control through obstacle-filled levels. Players perform more than 120 tricks and...

BlazeRush

Arcade, Action, Racing, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2014

Players: 6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 66/100

BlazeRush is an arcade survival racer set in a futuristic world, where the focus is on fighting for position: cars have no health, levelling system or brakes...

Tallowmere

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action, Slasher

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2015

Players: 6/10

Steam: 90/100

This 2D action platformer with roguelike elements sends the player into Lady Tallowmere’s infinite dungeons, where rooms are generated anew for each run. They grow...

Champion of the Gods

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2015

Steam: 85/100

This text-based role-playing game is set in a world inspired by ancient Greek myth, where a hero’s fate is bound up with the gods and the struggle to save their...

Cradle

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 24 July 2015

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This first-person science-fiction quest is set in a robotized Mongolia in 2076. The protagonist wakes in a yurt in the middle of the steppe and meets a mechanical...

Gryphon Knight Epic

Action, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 20 August 2015

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Gryphon Knight Epic is a 2D medieval shoot ’em up that combines exploration with boss duels. Knight Sir Oliver and his loyal gryphon Aquila return to adventure...

Psycho Starship Rampage

Side view, Construction, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 September 2015

Steam: 83/100

A horizontal-scrolling space shooter about a warship controlled by a psychotic AI that is trying to return to Earth. After a long hibernation, the ship’s AI...

Hyperdrive Massacre

Arcade, Beat them all, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sports game, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 85/100

Hyperdrive Massacre is a top-down arcade action game made in the style of the 80s. The game features local multiplayer in which you and your friends can fight...

Chaos Reborn

Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2015

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Chaos Reborn is a multiplayer tactics game from the creator of the original X-COM. In which, in turn-based mode, from two to six warlocks controlled by players...

Oh…Sir!

Simulation, Fighting, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 21 December 2015

Metacritic: 64/100

Oh...Sir! is an unusual shareware indie game in which you need to engage in active debate with your opponent. With several phrases on the screen, you need to make...

Shooting Stars!

Arcade, Beat them all, Top-down view, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2016

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 59/100

This arcade shooter in the style of classic space-invader games sends its hero to save Earth from evil aliens disguised as celebrities. Enemies include parodies of...

Dinocide

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Action

Game released: Linux → 21 January 2016

Players: 1.4/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 51/100

Dinocide is a side-scrolling prehistoric indie platformer. Players will have to take on the role of an ancient man and, together with the animals of that era, cope...

The Way of Life Free Edition

Free game, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 72/100

The Way of Life Free Edition is a walking simulator about everyday experiences seen through the eyes of three characters at different stages of life: an adult, an...

Zombasite

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2016

Steam: 76/100

Zombasite is an isometric role-playing action game set in a fantasy zombie apocalypse. Dark elves have always portrayed themselves as gods, creating and perfecting...

Cat President ~A More Purrfect Union~

Visual novel, Comedy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2016

Steam: 94/100

This comedic visual novel follows a teenage girl who, after her college plans fall through, is looking for work when she wanders backstage at a national political...

Clouds & Sheep 2

Arcade, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 86/100

Clouds & Sheep 2 is an indie arcade game from the developers of HandyGames. The game is a simulator of a sheep farm, where you can grow garden animals, take care of...

Bullshot

Indie, Action, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 22 November 2016

Steam: 69/100

Frank F. Franky, a resistance fighter hiding his identity, battles the Cardesians who have taken over the planet Valer, along with zombies and robots. Bullshot is a...

Paranormal Teens

Indie, Simulation, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 29 December 2016

Steam: 50/100

This visual novel follows a group with differing views on the paranormal, brought together for a one-off television show. Its participants include a conspiracy...

I Am The Hero

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

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2017

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 65/100

I Am The Hero is an arcade action game with fighting game elements and a side view. The events of the game will tell the story of a mysterious hero with a glorious...

LogicBots

Simulation, Indie, Combat robots

Game released: Linux → 8 February 2017

Steam: 78/100

LogicBots is a puzzle game about using robots to solve level-based challenges. The player designs a robot, assembles it from parts and wires its components together...

Forma.8

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

Game released: Linux → 23 February 2017

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This Metroidvania action-adventure follows forma.8, a small exploration probe stranded alone on the surface of an alien planet after an accident. To survive, it...

Battle for Orion 2

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 March 2017

Steam: 79/100

Battle for Orion 2 is a real-time space strategy game with a top-down view. The earth is destroyed. Humanity is broken. The galaxy is at war. But one hope remains...

Asura: Vengeance Expansion

Action, Slasher, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 85/100

Asura: Vengeance Expansion is a top-down fantasy action-slasher with roguelike elements. You will be able to take on the role of the lower demon Asura to fight your...

Hole New World

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2017

Steam: 75/100

Hole New World is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will play as a Potions Master — the only one who can fight evil and win...

Everspace - Encounters

Simulation, Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2017

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Everspace — Encounters is an add-on for the space simulator Everspace. Expect new story characters, including an alien scientist and a robot with a French...

LifeZ - Survival

Action, Isometric, Simulation, Role-playing game, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2018

Steam: 68/100

LifeZ — Survival is a fun sandbox action game with an isometric camera view in an open world. The game takes place during a zombie apocalypse, where you will...

Tanglewood

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2018

Steam: 92/100

Tanglewood is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. The plot of the game tells about a creature named Nimn, who has gone too far from his beloved home and...

Baba Is You

Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Baba Is You is a hardcore top-down puzzle game in pixel style. At each level, the rules themselves are presented in the form of blocks with which you can interact...

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