Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 35

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2017

Steam: 71/100

Tiles is a unique puzzle game that will challenge your mind and burn your fingertips. It's simple, you need to move from green tiles to red ones, clearing the blue...

Guns of Icarus Alliance

Online, Simulation, Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Steampunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2017

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Guns of Icarus Alliance is a paid add-on for the online action game Guns of Icarus Online. It will introduce a new game mode, a whole range of ships, guns and...

Flinthook

Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Flinthook is a side-scrolling action platformer from the creators of Mercenary Kings and Curses N Chaos. You have to play as a little guy who destroys many enemies...

Dragon Bros

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2017

Steam: 85/100

This 2D side-scrolling action platformer draws on retro run-and-gun games. A team of young dragons sets out to rescue their kidnapped mother after the robotic...

Cryptark

Arcade, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Roguelike, Action, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 20 June 2017

Steam: 83/100

Space arcade shooter with a side view. The player takes on the role of a futuristic mercenary who earns money from government contracts and attacks space stations...

Shigatari

Role-playing game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2017

Steam: 97/100

A samurai role-playing game built around roguelike progression and permadeath. Players fight brutal, strategic katana duels and combine techniques from seven...

Far Frontier

Strategy, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Match-3 (Three in a row), Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 27 October 2017

Steam: 66/100

Far Frontier is a combination of two popular game genres: match three and strategy. Here you have to fight with artificial intelligence, using one field three in a...

Dominions 5: Warriors of the Faith

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 November 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Dominions 5: Warriors of the Faith is a strategy game in a fantasy setting with management elements. Take command of one of the fantasy armies and send it into...

Nantucket

Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 18 January 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Set during the Golden Age of whaling, this seafaring strategy game follows Ishmael, the sole survivor of the Pequod, several years after the events of Herman...

Dungreed

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 February 2018

Players: 8/10

Steam: 93/100

Dungreed is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with roguelike elements. The events of the game will take you to a dark fantasy world, where an entire...

Crest

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 60/100

Crest is a god-game strategy sim set in an Afrofuturist world inspired by African biomes and an Iron Age civilization. The player influences a people and tries to...

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Detective

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2018

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 68/100

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case is a continuation of the Japanese-style adventure visual novel Silver Case. The events of the game take place five years after the...

Helium Rain

Free game, Space, Simulation, Strategy, Indie, Exploration, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2018

Steam: 79/100

A free space simulator in which the player manages his own company. During the passage, you can trade resources, buy ships and entire stations. In addition, the...

Guard Duty

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 2 May 2019

Steam: 90/100

Guard Duty is a fun pixel adventure about love, loss and the end of the world. The events of the game take place in two time periods: in medieval Winklewood and in...

Fate Hunters

Adventure, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Roguelike, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 18 July 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Fate Hunters is a collectible card game with turn-based combat in a dark fantasy setting. In the game you have to collect your deck of cards, explore the dark game...

StarCrossed

Arcade, Online, Side view, Science fiction, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Shooter, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2020

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 85/100

StarCrossed is a co-op, dynamic side-scrolling action game set in a sci-fi setting. In the game you have to join a group of 5 space heroes who travel among the...

Prison Architect - Island Bound

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

Game released: Linux → 23 June 2020

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 45/100

Prison Architect — Island Bound — an expansion for the real-time management strategy game with a top-down view. With it, you will have new opportunities for...

Low Oxygen

Casual game, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 16 March 2023

Steam: 89/100

The game is about an astronaut who crash lands on an alien planet while trying to find a way to get to Earth again. He must navigate through 50 rooms filled with...

Tankazooka

Indie, Side view, Casual game, Arcade, Platformer, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2025

Steam: 94/100

The tank was moving with its convoy, but ran over a mine and broke down. Now you need to go through different levels, using the cannon to move to catch up with your...

KARLSON

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Runner, Parkour

Game in development: Linux → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 9.7/10

KARLSON is a dynamic runner with elements of parkour and a first-person shooter. In the game you have to escape from a futuristic laboratory, destroying robots and...

Gyrodisc Super League

Arcade, Action, Sports game, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 4 March 2016

Steam: 25/100

Gyrodisc Super League is a bright, sports game based on discus throwing. Up to four people can compete in the game. There are various types of interaction with the...

Stellar Overload

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Early Access: Linux → 11 October 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Stellar Overload is a first-person role-playing game with a mixture of action, adventure and indie games from the developers of Cubical Drift. The main publisher of...

Cave Game

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Construction, Simulation

Early Access: Linux → 27 February 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 83/100

A game with pixel graphics and procedural world generation. The main character explores ancient worlds in search of treasures. You can build a huge house or dig a...

Osmos

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2010

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This physics-based arcade game blends strategy and puzzles in an abstract world of particles. The goal is to grow by absorbing other motes while avoiding larger...

Legend of Numbers

Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 June 2016

Steam: 74/100

A casual match-3 puzzle game in which players match and merge numbers to complete levels. The challenges call for finding solutions, while magical boosters help...

Rogue's Tale

Roguelike, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2014

Steam: 74/100

This turn-based dungeon crawler is set in Frostmourn Keep and the dungeons beneath it, in the World's End Mountains. The goal is to overthrow the current king and...

Sportsfriends

Action, Platformer, Sports game, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → Q1 2014

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This collection of local multiplayer games brings together sports contests, duels, and a physical party game. BaraBariBall features retro-styled fights, Super Pole...

Noir Syndrome

Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 4 June 2014

Steam: 65/100

A procedurally generated detective adventure set in a stylized film-noir world, where each playthrough brings a new murder case, suspects, and clues. The player...

Heroes of a Broken Land

Role-playing game, Indie, Dungeons

Game released: Linux → 7 August 2014

Steam: 86/100

This turn-based role-playing game combines first-person dungeon exploration with town management in a world shattered by ancient wizards. Its fragments drift in the...

Snow Light

Action, Adventure, Interactive movie, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2014

Steam: 25/100

A visual novel about Snow Light, a professional spy carrying out missions in a futuristic world where peace between nations is fragile. As natural resources grow...

Disillusions Manga Horror

Indie, Adventure, Horror

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2015

Steam: 61/100

This first-person adventure horror follows two friends, DiS and Vigil, as they enter a haunted house featured in the newspapers. While exploring, they uncover...

Snakebird

Puzzle, Logic, Free game, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 May 2015

Steam: 94/100

Snakebird is a shareware side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. The game is very similar to the popular game of snake, only the main characters here are long birds. By...

Asphyxia

Visual novel, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 4 August 2015

Steam: 86/100

Asphyxia is a visual novel about Samantha Coleridge, who is struggling with depression after a falling-out with her best friend, Lillian Wordsworth. A school trip...

LocoSoccer Classic

Sports game, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2015

Steam: 63/100

A physics-based soccer game in which a team scores goals to win cups and unlock customization items. Players choose a difficulty and control five footballers split...

Adorables

Sports game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2016

Steam: 80/100

A casual sports game in which cute characters compete across six different events. Players control the characters, customize their appearance, and collect...

Goetia

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2016

Players: 3.7/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Goetia is a point and click adventure with a side view. The main character is the ghost of a girl, Abigail Blackwood, who died forty years ago and returned to the...

Forgotten Tales: Day of the Dead

Arcade, Adventure, Card game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 May 2016

Steam: 62/100

Forgotten Tales: Day of the Dead is an adventure card game where Manuel's bride is kidnapped by a dark ghost straight from her wedding on the Day of the Dead. To...

Ara Fell

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

Game released: Linux → 2 June 2016

Steam: 94/100

Ara Fell is an indie role-playing adventure in a fantasy setting with pixel graphics. A large open world awaits you to explore with many mysteries and mystical...

Captain Forever Remix

Space, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2016

Steam: 78/100

A spaceship-building roguelike set in a Solar System thrown into chaos by the hero’s mutant younger brother, who has frozen the Sun and brought disaster to the...

Crazy Pixel Streaker

Arcade, Online, Action, Top-down view, Sports game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2016

Steam: 65/100

Crazy Pixel Streaker is a cooperative arcade action game with elements of a sports game and a top-down view. The game provides insanely simple gameplay where you...

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