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A Game About Feeding A Black Hole - a game in the Indie genre

Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Clicker, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 15 December 2025

Steam: 87/100

A casual game about feeding a black hole with material elements. The project is built around a simple yet engaging cycle: the player destroys asteroids, planets...

Underflow

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Futurism (Future), Action, Indie, Simulation

Game canceled: Linux → 2019

Underflow is a real-time strategy game that will allow you to control the evolution of underwater life on an alien planet. You have to control microbots responsible...

Volo Airsport

Indie, Sports game, Action

Early Access: Linux → 4 December 2014

Steam: 66/100

This wingsuit flying sports action game lets players soar over mountain slopes, choosing between high-speed runs along cliffs and cruising at altitude. Its...

Polynomial 2 - Universe of the Music

Indie, Action, Science fiction

Early Access: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 79/100

This space shooter and music visualizer unfolds among stars and glowing fractal nebulae. The player fights invaders with rockets and lasers, while fractal flowers...

Hacker Evolution IMMERSION

Simulation, Futurism (Future), Logic, Indie, Action

Early Access: Linux → 29 July 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 25/100

Hacker Evolution IMMERSION is a hacker simulator in a futuristic setting. Humanity is about to enter the next stage of evolution. You will have to uncover the dark...

Flat Heroes

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Online, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Linux → 8 September 2016

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Flat Heroes is a minimalist top-down arcade action game. You have to compete with your opponent in intense competitions. The game provides both local and online...

3079

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

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2011

Players: 8/10

Steam: 53/100

3079 is an adventure role-playing shooter with a first-person view in a pixel style. You will go to an amazing world that is constantly generated randomly. The game...

Element4l

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 24 May 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Element4l is an experimental platform game about four elements bound together on a journey to shape life. Nature and the sun stand in their way, while progress...

Snuggle Truck

Arcade, Action, Racing, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2013

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Snuggle Truck is an arcade driving game about delivering a load of quirky animals to the zoo without letting them fall out or get hurt. The player steers a truck...

Solar Flux

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Logic, Indie, Strategy, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2013

Steam: 78/100

This puzzle strategy game follows an effort to save dying stars in a perishing universe. The player pilots a ship through zero gravity, collecting fragments of...

Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Sports game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 December 2013

Steam: 88/100

This arcade game follows a space traveler who jumps through a wormhole, crash-lands on a desert planet, and finds an interstellar casino where visitors play air...

Sanctum 2: The Last Stand

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 12 December 2013

Steam: 93/100

An expansion for Sanctum 2 in which Core Guardians fend off increased Lume activity across four new maps, including a remake of the classic Arc map. New defensive...

Heldric - The Legend of the shoemaker

Role-playing game, Action, Slasher, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Steam: 66/100

This action game combines hack-and-slash combat with tower defense, casting the player as a village shoemaker who joins the locals to protect their home from waves...

Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 9 May 2014

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine is a classic point and click adventure with lots of puzzles. The game will tell about the difficult fate of Al, who at the age...

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...

Chicken Invaders 4

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 98/100

Chicken Invaders 4 is a top-down, sci-fi arcade action game. They came without warning, squawking menacingly, their ruffled feathers darkening the sun. An invasion...

Light

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Stealth, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2014

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This top-down stealth action game follows a man who wakes up with no memory in a strange but familiar place and tries to uncover what happened to him and the secret...

Halfway

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A turn-based tactical RPG set in a future where humanity has begun colonising new worlds, Halfway follows a violent invasion aboard the colonial vessel Goliath. The...

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...

Lines X

Casual game, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2017

Steam: 81/100

This Numberlink-based puzzle challenges players to connect colored tiles by finding paths through a grid. Lines X features 100 puzzles to solve. Its abstract...

IO (2007)

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Racing

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2014

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A physics-based platformer about guiding a ball through puzzle-filled levels using momentum and changes in size. Growing or shrinking the ball affects its speed and...

Reassembly

Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Construction, Space, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2015

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 94/100

A space sandbox with action and strategy elements, Reassembly has players designing ships and exploring a procedurally generated universe. Resources are used to...

Last Word

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 May 2015

Steam: 83/100

An adventure RPG set at a society gathering where having the last word means holding power over others. Photographer Whitty Gawship attends a party hosted by...

Masterplan

Action, Strategy, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 4 June 2015

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Set in the 1970s, this tactical, squad-based heist game presents its action from a 2D top-down perspective. The player plans robberies and chooses whether to rely...

RymdResa

Arcade, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 20 August 2015

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 64/100

RymdResa is a space adventure with roguelike and RPG elements, following a pilot who has lost their home and searches for a new one in a vast, unfamiliar universe...

Ceres (2015)

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2015

Steam: 52/100

Ceres — real-time space strategy. Players will take control of a squadron of spaceships and take part in battles, trade and exploration of solar systems. It...

Eternal Step

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2015

Steam: 60/100

Eternal Step is an action role-playing game with a top-down procedurally generated world in a fantasy setting. The main character will have to climb the highest...

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...

Survivor Squad: Gauntlets

Action, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2015

Steam: 63/100

This strategy-action game follows a squad of survivors fighting infected enemies and trying to reach extraction. Line of sight is central to combat: squad members...

Switch Galaxy Ultra

Arcade, Racing, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 20 November 2015

Steam: 35/100

Switch Galaxy Ultra is a futuristic arcade racing game in which the player travels across the galaxy collecting tantalum for Dakur Technology. At high speed, the...

Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 November 2015

Steam: 83/100

This comedic visual novel follows a cast of characters whose genders are changed by unforeseen and absurd circumstances. Players choose from thirteen protagonists...

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: 73/100

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...

NeonXSZ

Role-playing game, Action, Warships / Submarines, Futurism (Future), Indie, Sandbox, Open world

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2016

Steam: 75/100

This futuristic action RPG centers on zero-gravity gunship combat and an attempt to escape a strange world structured like a system. The protagonist is an anomaly...

Asteroid Bounty Hunter

Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2016

Steam: 61/100

Asteroid Bounty Hunter is a space shooter about John, a veteran who defends planets from asteroids and faces rival bounty hunters. His ship’s AI accompanies him as...

Mind Games

Indie, Puzzle, Board / Group Game

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Steam: 64/100

This collection of logic puzzles challenges players with different kinds of problems involving logic and mathematics. Mind Games features 20 puzzle types and more...

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...

FORCED SHOWDOWN

Arcade, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Action, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Forced 2: The Rush is a multiplayer arcade game with procedurally generated levels. The game consists of arena levels where the gladiators are each on their own...

Terrarium Land

Arcade, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Action, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2016

Steam: 75/100

Terrarium Land is a top-down arcade puzzle game in a futuristic setting. The main character of the game is the robot Tix, who is shipwrecked on an unknown planet...

Axes and Acres

Indie, Strategy, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2016

Steam: 85/100

A turn-based, single-player strategy game about developing a village on a small plot of land. The player is its lord, managing peasants represented by dice...

StarsOne

Survival, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 8 April 2016

Steam: 73/100

StarsOne is a survival action game about searching for missing colonists on a distant planet. After an emergency landing scatters the crew across different regions...

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