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The Legend of Lumina - a game in the Indie genre

Top-down view, Metroidvania, Indie, Puzzle, Logic, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2024

Steam: 98/100

A Sokoban style game with non-linear progression. The gameplay is inspired by early Zelda games, with an emphasis on puzzle solving rather than combat. There are...

Caveman Caravan

Strategy, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Roguelike, Old school

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2025

Steam: 95/100

Free roguelike strategy game where the player leads a caravan of primitive people to a new land. The gameplay revolves around combining tile cards and tools that...

Western Sigil

Role-playing game, Arcade, Action, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Indie, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Western Sigil — an arcade role-playing strategy in the "tower defense" genre with resource management from the creator of the two-dimensional Slab. In the game...

UpvoidMiner

Action, First-person view, Indie

Game canceled: Linux → 23 August 2015

UpvoidMiner is a first-person action game with indie game elements from developers from Upvoid Studios. The game is published by Upvoid Studios. Sometimes the game...

Signs of Life

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

Early Access: Linux → 27 January 2014

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 80/100

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...

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...

Tadpole Treble

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...

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...

Wolf Gang

Role-playing game, Isometric, Indie, Tactics, Strategy

Early Access: Linux → 12 January 2018

Steam: 100/100

Wolf Gang is a tactical RPG with an isometric view. Choose your character and go on an adventure. You can change your character right during the game. Lots of...

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...

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...

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...

Adventures of Fatman: Toxic Revenge

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 10 May 2003

Steam: 77/100

Adventures of Fatman: Toxic Revenge is a third-person adventure with puzzle elements from developers from SOCKO studio! Entertainment. The game is published by...

Hacker Evolution: Untold

Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 September 2010

Steam: 64/100

This hacking simulator is set amid a technological singularity: computers have surpassed humanity in number and processing power, and an unexplained cause has...

Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2012

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This comic-styled platformer with puzzle elements follows Tiny, an inventor crossing a desert to reclaim his grandfather’s favorite possession: a pair of white...

Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign

Strategy, Historical, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 October 2013

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This turn-based operational wargame covers the 1942–43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front of World War II. The campaign can be played from either the Axis or...

Loren The Amazon Princess

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2014

Steam: 83/100

This fantasy role-playing game with tactical turn-based combat follows Princess Loren on a search for her missing mother, the Queen of the Amazons. Rather than...

Democracy 3: Social Engineering

Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Turn-based, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2014

Steam: 58/100

An expansion for Democracy 3 focused on subtle ways to influence the population. Rather than relying on broad economic measures, the player introduces campaigns and...

WazHack

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

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2014

Steam: 89/100

WazHack is an action role-playing strategy game in the roguelike genre. There are over 300 unique items to find, and you'll invent your own solutions to difficult...

99 Levels To Hell

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2014

Steam: 58/100

This fantasy platform shooter sends the hero into dungeons filled with monsters, traps, and a path leading to the devil. Each run generates a new set of levels...

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...

Ku: Shroud of the Morrigan

Action, Slasher, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Steampunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 March 2014

Steam: 32/100

Ku: Shroud of the Morrigan is a fantastic slasher game with action elements and an isometric view. Set in a future Ireland devastated by techno-magic war and...

MYTH - Steam Edition

Visual novel, Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2016

Steam: 87/100

This horror visual novel follows Meito Tanabe, who lives in a world of light without shadows. Shimon, a girl who has a shadow, brings him to the world of...

Lost Marbles

Action, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 May 2014

Steam: 100/100

Lost Marbles is a platforming puzzle game in which the player controls three marbles at once, combining their properties to cross hazards and solve level...

A Wizard's Lizard

Role-playing game, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Mini-game / browser-based, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2014

Steam: 69/100

An isometric action RPG with roguelike elements, A Wizard's Lizard follows a wizard’s loyal pet lizard on a quest to rescue its master in Amberfall. After the...

Blaite

Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 2 January 2017

Steam: 81/100

A difficult platformer built around repeating levels until they are completed. Players tackle the stages again and again, and can challenge friends. Up to five new...

Retrobooster

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2014

Steam: 100/100

Retrobooster is a 2.5D arcade shooter about piloting a nimble ship through strange worlds filled with enemies and hazards. Its flight controls use thrust and...

Only If

Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Free game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2014

Steam: 61/100

Only If is a surreal first-person adventure puzzle game about Anthony Clyde, who wakes up in an unfamiliar bed after a night of partying with no memory of what...

A Bird Story

Arcade, Adventure, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Logic, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 7 November 2014

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 66/100

A Bird Story is an atmospheric, top-down adventure from the creators of To The Moon, set in a single game world. The game will tell the story of a little boy and...

Magnetic By Nature

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 10 November 2014

Steam: 75/100

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

TULPA

Arcade, Action, Horror, Platformer, Indie, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2015

Steam: 73/100

TULPA is an arcade game with elements of action, horror, platformer and indie game from Encryptique Studios. The game is published by Rising Star Games...

Pix the Cat

Arcade, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2015

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This arcade game follows Pix the Cat through digital mazes, where the cat hatches ducklings, forms a line behind him and guides them to target circles while...

Hero of the Kingdom 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 20 February 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 95/100

An isometric adventure RPG about a journey across the islands to rescue the hero’s sister, who has been taken by pirates. To reach her, the hero gathers supplies...

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...

Reject Demon: Toko Chapter 0 — Prelude

Adventure, Adult game, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 9 May 2015

Steam: 81/100

Reject Demon: Toko Chapter 0 — Prelude is an adventure visual novel for adults. The game follows the journey of the demon Toko, who was expelled from hell...

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...

INK

Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 August 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 87/100

INK is a color-based platformer about navigating levels with invisible terrain, gradually revealing the surroundings with paint. The goal is to defeat every enemy...

Celestian Tales: Old North

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 10 August 2015

Steam: 69/100

Celestian Tales: Old North is an adventure RPG with Japanese-style turn-based combat. The game takes place in a colorful fantasy world, where six brave heroes must...

Orion Trail

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2015

Steam: 68/100

Orion Trail is a procedurally generated side-scrolling adventure with pixel graphics. You will have to travel in outer space, where only the luckiest, bravest and...

Mushroom 11

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Mushroom 11 is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. Controlling an amorphous organism, you have to overcome flocks of strange mutated creatures and...

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