Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 4

Bear Simulator

Role-playing game, Simulation, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Deadly Days

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Action, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2019

Deadly Days is an arcade action strategy game with bagel elements and a top-down view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. In the game you will control a group of...

Astalon: Tears of the Earth

Action, Indie, Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2021

Players: 6.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer in a fantasy setting. The game follows three heroic explorers who travel through a...

Mosaic

Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2019

Metacritic: 67/100

Mosaic is an unusual point and click adventure about the horrors of everyday life. You have to take on the role of a person who has to live in a gray and gloomy...

Stone Story RPG

Arcade, Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Early Access: Linux → 8 August 2019

Players: 8.2/10

Stone Story RPG is an unusual adventure role-playing game with a side view and ASCII animation. The game takes place in a dark world where monsters and sinister...

Shogun Showdown

Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based, Roguelike, Medieval era, Card game

Early Access: Linux → 27 June 2023; Game released: Linux → 5 September 2024

Metacritic: 88/100

A tactical turn-based roguelike about a hero who challenges the powerful shogun. To win battles, you need to choose a good position, attack at the right moment and...

Destructive Physics - Destruction Simulator

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Indie, God Simulator

Early Access: Linux → 2 April 2020; Game released: Linux → 20 August 2021

Players: 6.3/10

Destructive Physics — Destruction Simulator is a full-fledged destruction simulator with a first-person view. In the game you can slow down time, cause an...

Pixel Piracy

Role-playing game, Arcade, Simulation, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2014

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 52/100

Chicken Invaders 4

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

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2014

Players: 6.8/10

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...

Steredenn

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 1 October 2015

Metacritic: 79/100

Steredenn is a side-scrolling sci-fi shooter. You have to destroy enemies using a large arsenal of weapons, accompanied by beautiful heavy music. And of course...

Brigador

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

Game released: Linux → 2 June 2016

Brigador is an isometric action game with an indie and tactical twist from the developers of Gausswerks and Stellar Jockeys. The game is published by Stellar...

Curious Expedition

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2016

Metacritic: 71/100

Curious Expedition is a procedurally generated adventure role-playing game set in the 19th century. You can feel like a real explorer and discoverer. Choose one of...

Gravity Badgers

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 November 2013

Metacritic: 48/100

Gravity Badgers is an arcade game with action, puzzle and indie elements from developers from Wales Interactive studio. The game's publisher is Wales Interactive...

Wanderlust: Transsiberian

Visual novel, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Trains

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2020

Wanderlust: Transsiberian — adventure visual novel with a non-linear narrative. The two main characters embark on an amazing journey through the easternmost...

Frozen Synapse

Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Sandbox, Indie, Tactics, Online

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2011

Metacritic: 85/100

Frozen Synapse is a fantastic top-down turn-based tactical strategy game. This game allows you to give detailed and precise orders to your team: classic gameplay...

Lumo

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 May 2016

Metacritic: 76/100

Underhero

Role-playing game, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Turn-based, Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2018

Underhero is a role-playing puzzle platformer with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of a chosen hero who is...

Interrogation: You will be Deceived

Simulation, Indie, Strategy, Role-playing game, Adventure, Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2019

Metacritic: 67/100

Interrogation: You will be Deceived is a thrilling noir detective story with role-playing elements, where you take control of a special police department tasked...

Finding Paradise

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 December 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Finding Paradise is an indie top-down adventure that is a direct sequel to To the Moon and A Bird Story. Players will once again meet two doctors who travel through...

SCHiM

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Isometric, Indie

Game canceled: Linux → 18 July 2024

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 72/100

An unusual 3D platformer in which the player controls an entity that resembles a shadow. This is the soul, which in the game is called Shim. One day she is somehow...

Dreamfall Chapters

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 July 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Dreamfall Chapters is an episodic adventure set in the universe of The Longest Journey. The game will continue the story of Zoë Castillo and will be the conclusion...

Crea

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2016

Players: 7.3/10

Timberman

Arcade, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 18 September 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Timberman is an arcade game with a side view about the hard everyday life of lumberjacks. The player's task is to cut down as many trees as possible in order to...

Pilgrims

Adventure, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 October 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Pilgrims — an atmospheric side-view adventure from the creators of Machinarium and Samorost 3. The game will delight you with the absence of a rigid script...

Kinetic Void

Simulation, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2013

Kinetic Void is an action-meets-indie simulator from Badland Studio. The game is published by Badland...

Tangledeep

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 1 February 2018

Tangledeep is a Japanese-style top-down indie roguelike RPG. You find yourself in amazing underground villages from which you have to find a way out to the surface...

Jackal

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Old school, Procedural generation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 February 2026

The game tells the story of a Las Vegas hitman who challenged the crime bosses. The player moves through procedurally generated levels, where the location of...

Black the Fall

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2017

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Black the Fall is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer whose main goal is to tell the story of a hero escaping the communist system. Solve puzzles to avoid...

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2015

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 is a continuation of the fantasy point and click adventure with lots of puzzles and wonderful humor. In a world torn by war, gremlin...

Mountain

Simulation, Music game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 July 2014

Mountain is an indie simulator that will allow you to become the god of an entire mountain. Forests grow on it, fireflies fly and day turns into night. In addition...

NEO Scavenger

Role-playing game, Strategy, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 December 2013

Players: 8/10

NEO Scavenger is a turn-based strategy with role-playing elements and turn-based combat. In the game, you will need to survive in post-apocalyptic Michigan, travel...

Rise of Industry

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

Game released: Linux → 2 May 2019

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 62/100

Rise of Industry is a top-down real-time economic strategy game. You will become the manager of an industrial conglomerate of the 20th century. Develop your...

Stellar Interface

Shooter, Indie, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 21 November 2016

A hardcore shooter made in the style of NES games. In a randomly generated universe and random perks, no journey will be the same. The game has over 100 perks and...

Munin

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 June 2014

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Nubarron: The adventure of an unlucky gnome

Adventure, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 30 January 2020

Nubarron: The adventure of an unlucky gnome is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer in a fantasy setting where you can fry and burn everyone with lightning...

Альтушка для скуфа

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2024

Players: 7.4/10

The game, based on a popular meme, tells the story of the acquaintance of a pot-bellied and balding man with altushki from State Services. In the game you can start...

Defense Zone 2

Strategy, Tactics, Action, In real time, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 May 2014

Players: 3.2/10

Defense Zone 2 is a continuation of the top-down tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre. New interesting levels with even more beautiful graphics and...

Avorion

Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Metacritic: 72/100

Demetrios — The BIG Cynical Adventure is a fun visual novel with puzzles and a side view. The main character is a slob living in Paris named Björn Thonen. One...

KYORA

Action, Adventure, Sandbox, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Procedural generation

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Multiplayer adventure from the creators of Core Keeper takes you to a procedurally generated world where matter itself can be changed. The ruined lands hide...

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