Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 27

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2014

Steam: 78/100

A local multiplayer stealth action game set in a pixel-art version of the Wild West, where players compete in an arena filled with identical characters. Each player...

The Hero of Kendrickstone

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2015

Steam: 79/100

This text-based fantasy role-playing game follows a fledgling adventurer tasked with rescuing Kendrickstone from an evil wizard and his troop of black-clad...

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...

Ronin

Stealth, Platformer, Turn-based, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 30 June 2015

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Ronin is a side-scrolling turn-based stealth platformer. You have to play as a girl who takes revenge on corporations. During this dangerous adventure you need to...

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...

Timberman

Arcade, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Online

Game released: Linux → 18 September 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Timberman is an arcade game with a side view about the hard everyday life of lumberjacks. The player's task is to cut down as many trees as possible in order to...

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...

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...

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...

Wailing Heights

Adventure, Music game, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 April 2016

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Wailing Heights is a musical "Point and Click" adventure where protagonist Francis Finkelstein must organize a monstrous rock concert. The former manager of a...

Tick's Tales: Up All Knight

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Tick's Tales: Up All Knight is a fantasy adventure with pixel graphics. The brave hero Tik sets out on a dangerous journey to earn the love of the girl of his...

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...

One Night Stand

Indie, Visual novel, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 7 November 2016

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This interactive visual novel with point-and-click elements follows a person who wakes after a night of partying and drinking beside a stranger. The protagonist...

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...

Locomancer

Simulation, Indie, Arcade, Virtual Reality (VR), First-person view, Trains, Action, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2017

Steam: 84/100

Locomancer is an exciting arcade game with a first-person view for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality and Valve Index. In the game...

Battlesloths 2025: The Great Pizza Wars

Arcade, Action, Online, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2017

Steam: 82/100

A multiplayer twin-stick shooter about sloths battling for pizza. Battlesloths 2025: The Great Pizza Wars is a sequel to Battlesloths in which players compete...

Close Me

Indie, Adventure, Horror

Game released: Linux → 9 August 2017

Steam: 78/100

This adventure horror game centers on a person who wakes up unable to remember the previous night’s dream. The player moves through everyday activities: going...

Hell-Copter

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Helicopters, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2017

Steam: 66/100

This third-person arcade shooter puts players in control of an experimental military drone defending the planet from an attack and taking on enemy air support...

Cube Racer

Indie, Casual game, Racing

Game released: Linux → 30 October 2017

Steam: 91/100

A multiplayer racing game in which cubes compete to reach the finish line on tracks shaped by the players. Before each round, players place obstacles, boosters or...

Tartarus

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 22 November 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Tartarus is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The game takes place in the year 2230 on the research and mining ship Tartarus, which is undergoing...

Hyper Sentinel

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

Game released: Linux → 11 May 2018

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Hyper Sentinel is a top-down retro sci-fi shooter. You have to go through 12 different levels, full of action in the best traditions of the scrolling shooter genre...

KIDS

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2019

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

KIDS — a short interactive animated game created by Michael Fray and Mario von Rickenbach. The gameplay lasts up to 30 minutes and allows you to control the...

Deadly Days

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Action, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2019

Steam: 86/100

Deadly Days is an arcade action strategy game with bagel elements and a top-down view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. In the game you will control a group of...

Woven

Adventure, Indie, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Arcade, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 November 2019

Steam: 74/100

Woven is an arcade action-puzzle adventure with a third-person view. The events of the game take place in a fairy-tale world consisting of wool, cotton and fabric...

Resolutiion

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2020

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Resolutiion is a top-down action-adventure game set in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in a dystopian future world where you have to collect pieces of...

A Monster's Expedition

Adventure, Indie, Arcade, Puzzle, Top-down view, Strategy, Open world

Game released: Linux → 10 September 2020

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 94/100

A Monster's Expedition is a cute top-down adventure puzzle game. The game is about quirky monsters who love to learn new things about people. As you progress...

What the Golf?

Arcade, Indie, Sports game, Golf, Action, Comedy, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2020

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

What the Golf? is a fun arcade golf game where you can use literally everything around as a ball, and all this according to the laws of realistic physics. You will...

The December Job

Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Old school, Survival horror, Horror

Game released: Linux → 12 December 2025

Steam: 83/100

A dark short game where the main character has behaved well for years but hasn't received gifts for Christmas. Therefore, the character sneaks into the workshop...

Ironkraft - Road to Hell

Arcade, Role-playing game, Shooter, Racing, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Action, Casual game, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 22 October 2015

Steam: 20/100

Ironkraft — Road to Hell is an arcade machine shooter in a post-apocalyptic world. The game tells an alternate history of World War II, in which you will...

AuroraRL

Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Science fiction

Early Access: Linux → 8 April 2016

AuroraRL is a sci-fi RPG with turn-based combat and a procedurally generated world. You have to become the captain of a large starship and go to conquer space. The...

Upside-Down Dimensions

Role-playing game, Action, Stealth, Hack and slash, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Adventure

Early Access: Linux → 9 August 2017

Set in a paper kingdom threatened by an army led by the Dark Shogun, this action-adventure combines role-playing, platforming, stealth and hack-and-slash combat...

Penumbra: Requiem

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

Game released: Linux → 17 November 2008

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 67/100

An expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague, in which Philip faces puzzles and encounters characters from his past. The story follows the previous installments and...

Jets'n'Guns Gold

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 January 2009

Steam: 87/100

Jets'n'Guns Gold is an arcade game mixed with action, shooter and flight simulator from the developers from the Rake in Grass studio. The main publisher...

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...

Legends of Aethereus

Role-playing game, Online, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2013

Players: 1/10

Steam: 26/100

This third-person fantasy role-playing game takes place on Aethereus, a planet recovering from the devastation of three Great Skyfalls. The discovery of the...

Snuggle Truck

Arcade, Action, Racing, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2013

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Snuggle Truck is an arcade driving game about delivering a load of quirky animals to the zoo without letting them fall out or get hurt. The player steers a truck...

Dead Horizon: Origin

Indie, Action, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2017

Steam: 95/100

A mouse-controlled western adventure follows Bonnie Starr, a former farmgirl turned infamous gunslinger who seeks redemption at the end of a gun. In Dead Horizon...

Megabyte Punch

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie, Adventure, Combat robots

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2013

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A fighting game with beat ’em up elements set in a computer world, Megabyte Punch lets players assemble a combat robot from parts taken from defeated creatures. The...

Violett

Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 December 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This fantasy point-and-click adventure follows Violett, a rebellious teenager whose parents move her from the city to an old house in the countryside. After...

Ascendant

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 May 2014

Steam: 76/100

Ascendant is an arcade role-playing action platformer with roguelike elements and a side view. You become a demigod who invades the dimension and must defeat hordes...

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