Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 31

Casual game, Hidden Objects, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Isometric

Game released: Linux → 6 April 2023

Steam: 94/100

The player, in the role of captain of a mystical ship, travels to different locations and tries to find all the differences and time paradoxes. The gamer carefully...

Gravity Circuit

Action, Platformer, Combat robots, Beat them all, Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 July 2023

Steam: 95/100

The game takes place in a future world where intelligent robots face an old enemy — the Virus Army. Many years ago the villains were defeated, but now they...

Please, Touch The Artwork 2

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Comedy, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2024

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A relaxing game in which you have to look for objects in paintings. A gamer helps a lost skeletal artist find his way home in a surreal, hand-drawn universe. This...

Hidden Cats: The last of cats

Free game, Side view, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2024

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 97/100

The player travels through a mysterious post-apocalyptic world and tries to find all the hidden cats. There are more than a hundred animals in the hand-drawn...

Signs of Life

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Sandbox, Survival

Early Access: Linux → 27 January 2014

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 76/100

This science-fiction survival sandbox platformer follows a survivor of a colony ship’s destruction. Escaping in a small pod, the protagonist is left with no...

Hack, Slash, Loot

Roguelike, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2012

Steam: 58/100

Hack, Slash, Loot is a turn-based roguelike about a lone hero exploring dungeons, fighting monsters, and searching for treasure. A new dungeon is generated for each...

Guac & Load

Horror, Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Zombies, Survival, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2025; Early Access: Linux → 12 July 2025

Steam: 100/100

The player manages a restaurant where true chaos reigns. You will have to cook dishes in the kitchen, deliver orders to guests, and work at the cash register to...

Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This side-scrolling action platformer with puzzles is set in Albatropolis, a land ruled by a totalitarian penguin regime. Hardboiled Chicken sets out to assassinate...

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Arcade, Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 October 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

This arcade restaurant-management simulator follows the growth of a small café into a five-star establishment. The player builds a menu from 30 types of food and...

Saturday Morning RPG

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Saturday Morning RPG is a fantastic side-scrolling RPG with turn-based combat. The developers took inspiration from cartoons and the culture of the eighties. The...

Eets Munchies

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 11 March 2014

Players: 5/10

Steam: 81/100

A puzzle platformer about a hungry creature trying to reach cake. In Eets Munchies, players solve increasingly difficult puzzles through physics-based interactions...

Nightmare Cooperative

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2014

Steam: 63/100

A turn-based strategic roguelike about a band of unlikely companions seeking gold to help their village through hard times. Each character brings a different...

Fotonica

Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2014

Steam: 87/100

FOTONICA is a first-person arcade platformer about running, jumping, and moving at high speed through abstract environments. Its mostly two-color vector visuals use...

Supreme League of Patriots

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2015

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 56/100

Supreme League of Patriots is a fun point and click adventure with lots of parodies of modern pop culture. The game will tell the story of Kyle Keever, who dreams...

SLAMMED!

Indie, Role-playing game, Wrestling

Game released: Linux → 30 January 2015

Steam: 93/100

This text-based interactive wrestling RPG follows an aspiring professional wrestler and the shift from a scripted steel-cage match to a real fight. The story...

Paparazzi

Arcade, Online, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2015

Steam: 53/100

This arcade-action game centers on a local multiplayer chase between a celebrity and a paparazzo. The celebrity runs, dashes, and hides while the paparazzo tries to...

Aaru's Awakening

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 23 February 2015

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 59/100

A hand-drawn 2D action platformer set in the dangerous mythical world of Lumenox. The player controls Aaru, a mythical creature on a quest to defeat an evil...

StarDrive 2

Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2015

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 55/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A turn-based space 4X strategy with real-time tactical space battles and turn-based ground combat. In StarDrive 2, the player rules a race and builds an empire in a...

Enchanted Cave 2

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Roguelike, Indie, Dungeons

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2015

Steam: 90/100

Enchanted Cave 2 is a top-down action RPG in the roguelike genre. You'll delve into a strange cave with a seemingly endless supply of treasure, strategically...

Brawl (2015)

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2015

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This horror-themed arena game combines bomb-based arcade combat with MOBA elements in the dark Emporium. Players choose from eight characters, each with a backstory...

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human

Arcade, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human is an arcade platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The events of the game take place in the distant future, where life...

Paws: A Shelter 2 Game

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 24 March 2016

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 90/100

Paws is an adventure game with survival elements and a third-person perspective. The game takes place in the same universe as Shelter 2. This time you play as a...

MechRunner

Action, Third-person view, Combat robots, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2016

Players: 1/10

Steam: 50/100

An endless action game about piloting a combat mech against the robotic forces of the secret organization O.S.O. After Soviet intelligence discovers an alien...

Castles of Dr. Creep

Action, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 September 2016

Steam: 93/100

This platforming puzzle game sends players into 13 castles belonging to Dr. Creep, where the goal is to escape alive. Each castle has a time limit and challenges...

Rive

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Beat them all, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 77/100

RIVE is a futuristic shooter-platformer about space scavenger Roughshot, who becomes trapped aboard a mysterious starship and has to form an unexpected alliance...

Off-Peak

Free game, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2016

Steam: 89/100

This first-person adventure is set in the near future at a cathedral-like train station. Stranded there while searching for a ticket out of town, the protagonist...

SoulHunt

Action, Online, First-person view, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 December 2016

Steam: 80/100

A free multiplayer game in the "hide and seek" genre, where players compete as hunters and hiding participants. The project offers a set of unique abilities and...

The Last Weekend

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2017

Steam: 61/100

The Last Weekend is a visual novel with quest elements, set around a group of young people staying at a remote hotel. The player chooses one of four characters...

Slash It Ultimate

Action, Music game, Indie, Arcade, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2017

Steam: 70/100

Slash It Ultimate is an indie musical action game with arcade elements. The goal of the game is to play the rhythm of the song in various game modes and compete...

De Mambo

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 17 October 2017

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 69/100

De Mambo is an arcade platform action game for one to four players, who battle on destructible arenas. Its controls revolve around a single button: how long it is...

Chess of Blades

Indie, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 5 January 2018

Steam: 92/100

This visual novel blends mystery and romance in the story of Rivian Varrison, a young nobleman sent by his father to a five-day birthday celebration for the king at...

鬼畜大冒险 Gui Chu Da Mao Xian

Indie, Casual game, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2018

Steam: 75/100

This text-based visual novel with RPG elements follows characters trapped in a mysterious world and forced to fight for survival. To learn who is behind the events...

Eternum EX

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2018

Steam: 84/100

Eternum EX is a classic side-scrolling action platformer with pixel graphics. Sir Arthur became old, too old. He lost everything he had and loved. With great...

Skirmish Line

Strategy, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 March 2019

Steam: 87/100

A tactical strategy game with action elements about commanding an Allied squad in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The player faces attacks from the Imperial...

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical quest about life in the Soviet Union. The great nation of Matryoshka invites a Western journalist to witness...

Pesterquest

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Visual novel, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 4 September 2019

Steam: 91/100

Pesterquest is an adventure visual novel set in a science fiction setting. You will embark on an amazing journey through time and space in a wonderful universe. As...

OMON Simulator

Role-playing game, Online, Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 October 2019

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 69/100

OMON Simulator is an unusual simulator with a first-person view, which will offer you to take on the role of an officer of a special squad, ensuring the safety of...

Prison Architect - Going Green

DLC, Simulation, Business / Management, Strategy, Top-down view, In real time, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 January 2021

Steam: 58/100

Prison Architect — Going Green — an expansion for the real-time management strategy game with a top-down view. The expansion brings farming, product export, and...

Race On Ice 2021 Pro

Arcade, Racing, Third-person view, Sports game, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2021

Steam: 69/100

Race On Ice 2021 Pro is a free-to-play, third-person arcade racing game where you compete in competitive seasons to get first place. The games have multiple racers...

A Night Before the Deadline

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Runner, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2021

Steam: 78/100

A free adventure game with minimalist graphics and an atmospheric soundtrack. The story tells about a developer named Joe, who stays in the office late at night to...

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