Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 37

Planet Stronghold - a game in the Indie genre

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

Game released: Linux → 5 May 2014

Steam: 72/100

Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi RPG adventure with turn-based combat. You will play as a recruit who ends up serving at the most famous human outpost in the galaxy...

War in a Box: Paper Tanks

Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 July 2014

Steam: 72/100

This tower defense strategy game centers on a battle against paper tanks escaping from a toy box and threatening to make a mess in a room. The player places...

Three Dead Zed

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

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2014

Steam: 62/100

Three Dead Zed — a hand-drawn platformer where players are asked to control an experimental zombie. He can transform into other forms, which allows him to...

Pivvot

Arcade, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2014

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This arcade game of avoidance challenges players to guide a moving object along a winding path while dodging obstacles. The route grows more difficult as the run...

So Many Me

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Platformer, Logic, Indie, Action, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2014

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 78/100

So Many Me is a puzzle platformer about a creature who can control many clones of himself, joining forces to save a world threatened by an ancient evil. The hero...

Sokobond

Educational game (Education), Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 21 July 2014

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Sokobond is a logic puzzle game about chemistry and molecule building. The player moves an atom through oddly shaped rooms containing other elements, joining them...

Unrest

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Exploration, Visual novel, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2014

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This story-driven role-playing adventure is set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India, where five ordinary people struggle to survive in the famine-stricken...

Poltergeist: A Pixelated Horror

Arcade, Horror, Isometric, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2014

Steam: 61/100

This puzzle game with strategy and horror elements follows Henry B. Knight, a ghost trying to drive the tenants out of his mansion. He earned the house through hard...

Gunspell

Role-playing game, Adventure, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: Linux → 7 November 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 51/100

This fantasy RPG adventure with puzzle elements follows a member of an Order tasked with protecting Earth from monsters. Guns and magic work together as the hero...

Dungeons and Robots

Action, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2024

Steam: 40/100

This online action shooter RPG is set in a future where humanity has left an uninhabitable Earth and settled on the planet TSI-5. While exploring its dungeons...

Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2015

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This pixel-art RPG with roguelike elements follows the threat posed by the Sons of Dawn, a cult seeking to awaken an ancient god. The player forms a party of three...

Eron

Indie, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 17 March 2015

Steam: 65/100

Eron is a 2D platformer about a native inhabitant of a distant planet whose village has been destroyed by uninvited guests. The protagonist sets out to discover who...

Trapped Dead: Lockdown

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 59/100

An isometric action RPG set in a small American town overrun by the living dead. The protagonist enters just before the military locks down the town and fights...

Square Heroes

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2015

Steam: 85/100

This comedic action shooter follows a genetically engineered hero who joins the Galactic Tournament after saving humanity. With that purpose fulfilled, the hero...

Chroma Squad

Role-playing game, Strategy, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2015

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A tactical role-playing game about five stunt performers who quit their jobs to make their own TV show about heroes in colorful suits. The player runs the studio by...

Teddy Floppy Ear: The Race

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

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2015

Steam: 77/100

This arcade kart racer follows the residents of Animalville as they compete for the championship. Players choose a character from the Teddy Floppy Ear universe and...

Lunch Truck Tycoon

Indie, Simulation, Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2015

Steam: 62/100

This business management simulator follows a food truck operator on an island where residents’ lunch habits shift with the day of the week. The player serves...

MadOut

Arcade, Action, Racing, Indie, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 38/100

MadOut is an arcade racing action game with a third-person view. Unlike other games where you can only knock your opponent off the track, this game will allow you...

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...

Nightside

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2015

Steam: 66/100

This science-fiction real-time strategy game centers on the struggle for the valuable “green ice” resource on the dark side of an unknown planet. In a 14-mission...

VERSUS: The Lost Ones

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2015

Steam: 81/100

This science-fiction text adventure follows an interstellar warrior held captive on the unfamiliar planet Versus. To survive and seek a way out, the protagonist...

Capsule Force

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2015

Steam: 80/100

This multiplayer arcade game, styled after 1980s space anime, centers on a battle for control of the galaxies. In competitive matches, teams shoot at one another...

Psycho Starship Rampage

Side view, Construction, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 September 2015

Steam: 83/100

A horizontal-scrolling space shooter about a warship controlled by a psychotic AI that is trying to return to Earth. After a long hibernation, the ship’s AI...

ALPAGES : THE FIVE BOOKS

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2015

Steam: 35/100

A first-person arcade horror game about the last guardian of five books, who must find them around the world and survive encounters with supernatural creatures...

Poncho

Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Action

Game released: Linux → 3 November 2015

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 63/100

This puzzle-platforming adventure follows Poncho, a robot exploring a ruined world where humanity has vanished and only robots remain. The journey leads toward the...

Marble Duel: Sphere-Matching Tactical Fantasy

Puzzle, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 59/100

Marble Duel: Sphere-Matching Tactical Fantasy is a casual indie match-3 puzzle game. Players will have to become powerful magicians and free the kingdom captured by...

Knight Squad

Arcade, Action, Indie, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2015

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Top-down arena battles bring together one to eight players in matches featuring medieval weapons, lasers, and miniguns. Knight Squad offers both team and solo...

Dragon's Wake

Adventure, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 11 December 2015

Steam: 90/100

This 2D adventure platformer follows a young dragon hatching into a world where a mysterious black knight is already hunting dragons. The story unfolds without...

Surfingers

Casual game, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 27 January 2016

Steam: 83/100

This arcade surfing game challenges players to travel as far as possible through hazardous settings, including oceans, snowy slopes, deserts and other worlds...

Mystic Destinies: Serendipity of Aeons

Visual novel, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2016

Steam: 81/100

This urban fantasy visual novel follows university student Tsubasa Fujimoto, who gains immense magical powers after a ritual. She discovers the supernatural world...

SHOWTIME 2073

Action, Indie, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 12 February 2016

Steam: 74/100

A first-person sci-fi shooter set in 2073, where contestants fight to survive in a deadly show staged for spectators. The player collects balls and must make it...

Trulon

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Logic, Steampunk, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 1 March 2016

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 49/100

Set in a world of steampunk and magic, this adventure RPG follows Gladia, a monster huntress searching for a cure to a disease spreading across the kingdoms of...

Prison Run and Gun

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

Game released: Linux → 16 March 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Prison Run and Gun is an arcade pixel action platformer in which players have to escape from prison confinement. You will experience a dynamic escape with the...

Until I Have You

Action, Platformer, Cyberpunk, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 4 April 2016

Steam: 71/100

Until I Have You is a side-scrolling action platformer in a cyberpunk setting and retro graphics. The plot revolves around a professional killer named ARTIST. After...

Zombie Parking

Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2016

Steam: 74/100

A third-person shooter with survival horror elements, Zombie Parking challenges the player to fend off zombie attacks and hold out for as long as possible. The...

Evo Explores

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2016

Steam: 91/100

Evo Explores is an arcade puzzle game with platforming elements. You have to go to a fantastic reality and help the space traveler Evo, who is trying to explore a...

Little Lily Princess

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2016

Steam: 92/100

Little Lily Princess is a dating simulator with visual novel elements and Japanese style. The events of the game tell the story of Sarah, the daughter of a wealthy...

Tumbleweed Express

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Indie, Steampunk, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 89/100

This arcade action game with strategy and route-defense elements is set in the American West of 1885, where entrepreneur Dirigibaus has monopolized trade with a...

Crazy Pixel Streaker

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

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2016

Steam: 63/100

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...

The Final Take

Indie, Adventure, Horror

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2016

Steam: 56/100

This first-person horror game revolves around found-footage recordings made in different places and connected by a sinister mystery. The player controls a young...

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