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Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - a game in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2015

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Knights of Pen and Paper 2 is a continuation of the adventure role-playing game in a fantasy setting. As in the first part, you will become the head of a group of...

Ice Lakes

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Sports game, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Linux → 19 April 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Ice Lakes is an ice fishing sports simulator with first and third person views, supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices. You will have the...

Celeste

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 25 January 2018

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 91/100

Celeste is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer from the creator of TowerFall. More than 250 levels await you, and the locations include abandoned cities...

Riot: Civil Unrest

Action, Strategy, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 12 February 2019

Players: 1/10

Metacritic: 54/100

Riot: Civil Unrest is a real-time uprising simulator that puts you in the thick of world-famous conflicts. The following campaigns await you: Outraged (Spain), Arab...

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...

Isle of Jura

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2022

Players: 6.8/10

The fishing simulator, where players in the role of a girl named Jura are exploring a beautiful island, looking for artifacts, communicate with local residents and...

Tap Ninja

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

Game released: Linux → 17 March 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Tap Ninja is an adventure arcade clicker with role-playing elements and a side view in a medieval setting. In the game you have to try on the role of a warlike...

Patrick's Parabox

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Arcade, Horror

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Patrick's Parabox is a logic puzzle game with arcade and horror elements. This is a game that explores a unique recursive system with boxes within boxes within...

The Roottrees are Dead

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2025

Metacritic: 86/100

A detective adventure in the spirit of Return of the Obra Dinn, but set in the 90s. The main character is a young investigative journalist trying to establish the...

Fragile Reflection

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Old school, Zombies, Survival horror

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2025

Players: 9.9/10

The old Japanese town of Nankofuraku is shrouded in a haze of memories and pain. When Karyo Ito returns there to her family, she discovers not a cozy village, but a...

Who's Your Daddy

Action, First-person view, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 23 December 2015

Players: 6.2/10

Who's Your Daddy is an indie action game with a first-person view, where you, in the role of a father, need to stop the kid's suicidal attempts. You can play as...

Standpoint

Arcade, Action, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 March 2015

Standpoint is a first-person arcade game with action and indie elements from the masters from the Unruly Attractions studio. The main publisher of the game is Plug...

Quiplash

Arcade, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Logic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 30 June 2015

Quiplash is a fun quiz for a group of 3 to 8 people, in which participants must give the funniest answer to a given question. The player who scores the most points...

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is an arcade game with action and indie elements from developers from the Asteroid Base studio. The game is published by Asteroid...

Caffeine

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 October 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Caffeine is a first-person sci-fi horror adventure. The game takes place on a spaceship. The main character, who has just returned from a long sleep to real life...

Chaos Reborn

Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2015

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Chaos Reborn is a multiplayer tactics game from the creator of the original X-COM. In which, in turn-based mode, from two to six warlocks controlled by players...

The Bridge

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2013

The Bridge is a two-dimensional logic game that will allow you to look at physics and perspective from a different angle. You have to walk on the ceiling, explore...

SteamWorld Dig

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2013

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 80/100

SteamWorld Dig is a charming side-scrolling arcade action-platformer about a robotic miner named Rusty, who arrives in a small town with the goal of finding...

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...

Strafe

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 May 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Strafe is a bloody retro shooter with a first-person view. The game is a tribute to classic shooters and a subtle play on nostalgia at the same time. You will find...

Robocraft

Role-playing game, Simulation, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2017

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Robocraft is a shareware multiplayer robot simulator in which you have to build your own personal robot and then send it to fight with other similar creatures of...

Cybercube

Platformer, Arcade, Action, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Cybercube is an arcade indie platformer with action elements and a side view. You will have to go through 100 levels with a mesmerizing background, each of which...

Opus Magnum

Simulation, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 December 2017

Players: 10/10

Opus Magnum is an indie puzzle game with simulation elements in a medieval setting. You have to take on the role of a powerful alchemist. Unravel the mysterious...

Shotgun Farmers

Arcade, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Shotgun Farmers is a fun multiplayer first-person shooter where you use weapons that sprout from the ground. All battles take place on farmland, where the amount of...

Yuppie Psycho

Indie, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2019

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Yuppie Psycho is an adventure horror game with stealth elements and a top-down view. The game takes place in a dystopian world from the 90s, where in the role of...

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...

Kredolis

Adventure, Puzzle, First-person view, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2022

Kredolis is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place on a small island that remains from Atlantis. A mysterious...

Meg's Monster

Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2023

Metacritic: 79/100

The game takes place in the Underworld — a land of monsters and mutants who eat people for breakfast. But a huge ogre named Roy doesn't want to eat people...

Nordhold

Roguelike, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Casual game, Procedural generation, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2025

The player controls the medieval Scandinavian village and protects it from the waves of opponents. 8 species of defense towers help to cope with all types of...

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...

Influent

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

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2014

Players: 7/10

Influent is a language learning game that focuses on vocabulary and pronunciation. You will be able to immerse yourself in a fully interactive 3D environment where...

Mushroom 11

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

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Mushroom 11 is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. Controlling an amorphous organism, you have to overcome flocks of strange mutated creatures and...

Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 April 2016

Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim is an open-world action adventure with various puzzles and dynamic battles. The events of the game tell the story of the mysterious...

Despotism 3k

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

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2018

Players: 8.5/10

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...

Альтушка для скуфа: Ещё, ещё!

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

Game released: Linux → 24 July 2024

Players: 7.5/10

The add-on includes three new altushkas with the voices of Alina Rin, Albina Seksova and Persona 99, nine new endings, mini-games that are “not what they seem”, “a...

Maseylia: Echoes of the Past

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 19 June 2026

Players: 1/10

An adventurous action metroidvania built around exploration, freedom of movement, and the discovery of forgotten secrets in a vast interconnected world. Each new...

White Night

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2015

Metacritic: 65/100

White Night is an adventure black-and-white horror game in the noir style. The action of the game takes place in the 1930s, where you will explore the sinister and...

Barony

Role-playing game, Roguelike, First-person view, Indie, Action, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 23 June 2015

Players: 7.4/10

Barony is a cooperative action-adventure game with a first-person view and roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. You have to explore dangerous dungeons full of...

Train Valley

Business / Management, Top-down view, Trains, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Seasons after Fall

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Seasons after Fall is a side-view arcade adventure in a fantasy setting. The main character is a wild fox who fell under the control of the spirit of the forest. He...

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Best Games in the Indie genre for Linux