Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 36

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2016

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Metrico+ is an updated version of the side-scrolling arcade platformer. The game will take you into the abstract world of infographics, where many indicators depend...

Axe, Bow & Staff

Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2016

Steam: 63/100

This fantasy pixel-art side-scroller combines runner mechanics with RPG elements and cooperative play. Players control heroes who battle enemies, support their...

Oh…Sir! The Insult Simulator

Simulation, Fighting, Logic, Indie, Side view, Comedy, Free game

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 60/100

Oh...Sir! The Insult Simulator is a full-fledged remake of the logic simulator with elements of the fighting game Oh...Sir!. You have to engage in active debate...

Masky

Casual game, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2016

Steam: 80/100

A casual action game about dancing at an annual costume ball, where the goal is to invite more dancers and keep balance to mystic music. Other dancers’ masks have...

WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.03

Indie, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 21 December 2016

Steam: 95/100

WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.03 is the concluding visual novel in a trilogy set in a future where humanity has begun colonizing the Moon. Eight years after the...

Linelight

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2017

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 77/100

The player controls a light line and goes through puzzle levels or intricate labyrinths. Each mechanic is intuitive, and the difficulty of tasks increases...

Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea!

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 May 2017

Steam: 93/100

This Japanese-style visual novel follows an American soldier on vacation in North Korea, where he meets his pen pals, the soldiers Jeong and Eunji. Together they...

Emily is Away Too

Adventure, Visual novel, Free game, Indie, Simulation, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Emily is Away Too is an interactive text adventure with pixel graphics, which is the ideological successor to Emily is Away. Expect more expanded dialogue options...

Connected Hearts - Visual novel

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 August 2017

Steam: 89/100

A thriller, mystery, and fantasy visual novel follows a protagonist who has a strange dream shortly after moving away. In it, he meets Alice, who tells him that he...

Escapists 2 - Wicked Ward

Simulation, Adventure, DLC, Business / Management, Top-down view, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2017

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Escapists 2 — Wicked Ward is an add-on for a prisoner management simulator with a top-down view. The add-on brings to the game new clothes, items, blueprints...

Fall Part 2: Unbound

Action, Adventure, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2018

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This side-scrolling action adventure continues the story of a dystopian world through the perspective of Arid, an AI infected by an unknown program. After breaking...

Need to Know

Simulation, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 August 2018

Steam: 74/100

This investigative simulation is set in a modern intelligence agency amid the growth of mass surveillance. Working for the Department of Liberty, the player...

Despotism 3k

Side view, In real time, Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Indie, Simulation, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Despotism 3k is a side-scrolling real-time strategy game in a post-apocalyptic style. Humanity is enslaved by artificial intelligence and this is great because we...

Woodpunk

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

Game released: Linux → 22 November 2018

Steam: 68/100

Woodpunk is a dynamic action game with roguelike elements and a top-down view in a medieval setting. You will play the role of a skilled inventor who accidentally...

Bombfest

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2019

Steam: 100/100

Bombfest is a fast-paced arcade action game with an isometric camera view for multiple players. Along with your friends, you'll battle through wooden forts, folding...

Hell is Other Demons

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

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2019

Steam: 92/100

Hell is Other Demons is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer with roguelike elements. The game has you exploring a vast, hand-crafted world filled with...

The Great Perhaps

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2019

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 54/100

The Great Perhaps is an exciting side-scrolling adventure set in a sci-fi setting. You have to try on the role of an astronaut who returns to the Earth destroyed by...

Mable & The Wood

Adventure, Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Horror, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2019

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Mable & The Wood is a side-scrolling Metroidvania adventure with horror elements set in a dark fantasy world. The plot tells the story of a mysterious girl named...

NABOKI

Puzzle, Indie, Logic, Isometric, Casual game, Mini-game / browser-based

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2019

Steam: 92/100

NABOKI is an indie logic puzzle game with an isometric view. The game is a puzzle game in the style of minimalism. No tutorials, no advice, no tips. Just you and...

Death and Taxes

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Puzzle, Visual novel, Side view, Point & Click, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 20 February 2020

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Death and Taxes — an exciting adventure game in the spirit of Papers, Please, Reigns , and Beholder. In the game, you will take on the role of the Grim...

OBEY

Strategy, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2020

Steam: 82/100

OBEY is an asymmetrical multiplayer game built around players commanding their opponents and sometimes following their orders in turn. Each player decides whether...

Test Tube Titans

Arcade, Indie, Action, Roguelike, Wrestling, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 15 June 2020

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 76/100

Test Tube Titans is a destructive arcade action game with procedurally generated levels. In the game you have to raise your own mutant monster and send it to the...

Cauldrons of War - Barbarossa

Strategy, Historical, Turn-based, Online, Tactics, In real time, Indie, Top-down view, Grand strategy

Game released: Linux → 25 September 2020

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 90/100

Cauldrons of War — Barbarossa is a historical real-time strategy game for multiple players. This is a game about the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. By...

Aegis Online

Free game, Role-playing game, Board / Group Game, First-person view, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Online, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 October 2020

Steam: 61/100

Aegis Online is a free-to-play universal multiplayer platform for playing classic role-playing board games. Whether you need a simple map to track a couple of...

GraviFire

Puzzle, Indie, Science fiction, Casual game, Old school, Logic

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2020

Steam: 94/100

A logic game where puzzles are built on the interaction of movement and gravity. Controlling the Green Light, you must place objects in their proper places by...

Switchcars

Action, Racing, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2021

Steam: 90/100

An arcade action racing game follows a teleportation experiment gone wrong, which opens rifts between dimensions and draws the attention of interdimensional...

DarkStorm

Free game, Action, Combat robots, Indie, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 20 January 2024

Steam: 60/100

Free action game about a robot programmed to destroy aliens. The goal of the game is to resist endless waves of aliens. With each wave the map expands. In the new...

Project Speed 2

Racing, Online, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Open world, Casual game, Action

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2025

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 35/100

Free racing simulator in the open world. The game is in early access. The game currently has three open worlds to choose from (Turtle Coast, Nyarovik and the...

They Came for More Pasta

Comedy, Adventure, Science fiction, Indie, Top-down view, Point & Click, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 100/100

Comedy adventure about aliens. Their intentions do not include conquest or kidnapping, the only thing they are interested in is Italian food. A courier, forced to...

Celestial Command

Space, Simulation, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 21 November 2014

Steam: 60/100

This space sandbox simulates orbital mechanics and centers on gathering resources, building ships and stations, and exploring a procedurally generated galaxy. The...

Critical Annihilation

Action, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 12 February 2016

Steam: 88/100

This twin-stick shoot ’em up, built from tiny voxels, centres on battles against aliens in a fully destructible environment. The player takes up arms to repel an...

Starr Mazer: DSP

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Side view, Indie, Arcade

Early Access: Linux → 26 August 2016

Steam: 68/100

Starr Mazer: DSP is a side-scrolling arcade shoot ’em up with role-playing elements and a roguelike take on the lives-and-continues system. A squadron of pilots...

Appointment with F.E.A.R.

Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2014

Steam: 57/100

Appointment with F.E.A.R. is an adventure with puzzle and visual novel elements from the developers of Tin Man Games. The game is published by Tin Man Games...

Papo & Yo

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

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Papo & Yo is an unusual platformer, which is based on the author of his childhood fear of an alcoholic father. You play for the little boy KVICO, who fell into the...

Dead Sky

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Indie, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 22 November 2013

Steam: 37/100

Set amid a mysterious outbreak, this isometric survival shooter takes place in contaminated areas overrun by hordes of mutated creatures. The player fights enemies...

Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut

First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 May 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A first-person futuristic puzzle game centered on solving challenges and following a story. Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut adds new puzzles and content, along with a new...

Bridge Constructor Playground

Casual game, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 July 2014

Steam: 72/100

Bridge Constructor Playground is a bridge-building simulator in which players design crossings over valleys, canals and rivers, with settings ranging from cities...

Super Galaxy Squadron

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

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A fast-paced vertical shooter in which players pilot one of 17 ships. The game features multiple modes, while its forgiving health system and gradual difficulty...

Clusterpuck 99

Arcade, Sports game, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2015

Steam: 82/100

An arcade sports game built around matches in which players fight for control of a puck and try to score in the opposing goal. Clusterpuck 99 supports local...

Three Fourths Home

Indie, Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2015

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This visual short story is set in Nebraska and follows Kelly on a drive home through an intense thunderstorm. Along the way, she has an extended conversation with...

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