Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 42

The Hero of Kendrickstone - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2015

Steam: 79/100

This text-based fantasy role-playing game follows a fledgling adventurer tasked with rescuing Kendrickstone from an evil wizard and his troop of black-clad...

Son Of Nor

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2015

Steam: 48/100

Metacritic: 54/100

This third-person fantasy action-adventure takes place in the desert world of Noshrac, where humanity’s ancient enemy, the Sarahul, has returned after a long peace...

Rustbucket Rumble

Online, Action, Platformer, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 4 May 2015

Steam: 56/100

Rustbucket Rumble is a team-based, side-scrolling arena action game set on an Earth abandoned by humanity. The machines left behind continue the rivalry between two...

Snakebird

Puzzle, Logic, Free game, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 May 2015

Steam: 94/100

Snakebird is a shareware side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. The game is very similar to the popular game of snake, only the main characters here are long birds. By...

Rktcr

Adventure, Indie, Racing

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2015

Steam: 100/100

This physics-based side-view platformer blends action with puzzles, asking for careful play at a pace slower than real time. Rktcr lets players see the future 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...

Cheats 4 Hire

Strategy, Indie, Free game, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 25 June 2015

Steam: 72/100

Set in Travian High School, this tactical puzzle game follows a group of students who help their classmates cheat on exams as more and more of them fail. Janitor...

Magic Circle

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

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2015

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This first-person adventure takes place inside an unfinished fantasy game, where the protagonist is trapped in development hell and the indecisive designers have...

Kidnapped

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 August 2015

Steam: 51/100

This first-person psychological horror game follows Sebastian Lee, a resident of Stirling, Scotland, who vanished without a trace and wakes up captive in the winter...

Reign of Bullets

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

Game released: Linux → 19 August 2015

Steam: 84/100

Reign of Bullets is a side view arcade game with shooter elements from developers from the Critical Bit studio. The game is published by Critical...

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...

A Wise Use of Time

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 4 September 2015

Steam: 79/100

A text-based science-fiction adventure about a person who can freeze time. The power makes it possible to rob a casino, rescue a celebrity, or escape death, but...

Cardinal Quest 2

Role-playing game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 23 November 2015

Steam: 91/100

Cardinal Quest 2 is a turn-based roguelike set in a world threatened by a mysterious force. After a Minotaur devastates the forests and a Dragon returns to the...

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...

Sixth Grade Detective

Role-playing game, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 21 December 2015

Steam: 93/100

Sixth Grade Detective is a text-based adventure role-playing game. Based on the novel by Laura Hughes, the game tells the story of a school detective who is looking...

Dreii

Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2016

Steam: 40/100

Dreii is a fun puzzle game with 3D graphics and physics. Using available blocks, you have to build a tower and protect it from natural disasters, explosions and...

Gunscape

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

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Gunscape is a first-person shooter built around a level editor that uses a block-placement interface. Players can create single-player campaigns, co-op maps and...

Chasing Dead

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Tanks, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2016

Steam: 61/100

Chasing Dead is a first-person sci-fi action game with horror elements and the ability to control futuristic technology. The game begins with a strange phenomenon...

Sparkle ZERO

Indie, Simulation, Action

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2016

Steam: 52/100

An action-tinged simulation about organisms beginning their evolutionary journey as a spark of life. The player searches for food to grow and change while competing...

Bacteria

Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 March 2016

Steam: 62/100

Bacteria is a casual puzzle game built around the rules of the cellular automaton Conway’s Game of Life. Each level presents a square field in a stable state, and...

My Lady

Casual game, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2016

Steam: 80/100

This casual indie game with simulation elements follows the heiress to the Bauxmont estate, who is in love with her personal butler. While her mother is away on...

The Hero Project: Redemption Season

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 April 2016

Steam: 63/100

This text-based role-playing adventure follows a superpowered contestant in a reality show for heroes, where winning votes may be the key to saving a sister. The...

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...

Retool

Action, Stealth, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Tactics, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2016

Steam: 77/100

Retool is a top-down tactical action puzzle game in a sci-fi setting. The main character Maria is a hacker engineer who is trying to get out of a destroyed orbital...

Sol Trader

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2016

Steam: 61/100

Sol Trader is a new sci-fi game that puts people and their relationships at the forefront. It's a mix of 2D, classic top-down arcade action with deep, tactical...

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...

Champions of Breakfast

Indie, Action, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 23 June 2016

Steam: 78/100

An arcade shoot ’em up about kitchen appliances fighting to reclaim stolen ingredients and save breakfast—and the world. Players control different characters...

Dead End Road

Indie, Racing, Action

Game released: Linux → 8 July 2016

Steam: 86/100

This atmospheric driving game follows a protagonist racing through the night to escape a supernatural threat and reach the elderly woman who may be able to end the...

Regeria Hope Episode 1

Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2016

Steam: 82/100

A courtroom visual novel about lawyer Regeria Hope, who uses logic and evidence to defend clients in unusual criminal cases. In the first trial, she represents a...

Antihorror

Action, Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 27 July 2016

Steam: 71/100

An action horror game about a wayfarer who finds himself in an unfamiliar place after a strange turn of events. The surroundings are ominously deserted, with no one...

Lucius Demake

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 August 2016

Steam: 94/100

Lucius Demake is a pixel adventure puzzle game with action and horror elements, based on the game Lucius. As in the original version, the main character Lucius has...

CURSE (2016)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 64/100

CURSE is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. You will travel to the Atherton estate, notorious for strange disappearances and horrific deaths. In the...

Conga Master

Arcade, Action, Music game, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 September 2016

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This arcade music game is about dancing in nightclubs and building the longest possible conga line. The player guides a dancer across the floor and recruits people...

DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder

Indie, Puzzle, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 23 September 2016

Steam: 93/100

A turn-based dungeon-crawling puzzle game in which each room is a test of logic and tactics. The player controls a hero with a huge sword and must defeat every...

DMT: Dream Dealer Trip

Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 1 October 2016

Steam: 52/100

This experimental first-person walking simulator takes the player into dreams and follows a journey between worlds. As the surroundings are explored, it remains...

Major Minor

Simulation, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2016

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 77/100

This science-fiction and fantasy visual novel follows a mysterious wave of murders and suicides connected to another world. The protagonist is one of two contest...

Day in the Woods

Adventure, Isometric, Turn-based, Logic, Indie, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2016

Steam: 96/100

Day in the Woods is an adventure puzzle game that reimagines the traditional sliding-tile format as Little Red Riding Hood’s journey through the forest to her...

Political Animals

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 November 2016

Steam: 63/100

This turn-based election campaign simulator takes place in a world where corrupt crocodiles compete with meritocratic mice. Candidates seek voter support by...

Goblin and Coins

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 9 November 2016

Steam: 88/100

This 2D platformer follows a goblin cook who works for a dragon. After a thief steals the dragon’s treasure—a robbery the goblin feels partly responsible for—the...

Mekazoo

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

Game released: Linux → 15 November 2016

Steam: 75/100

Mekazoo is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer where animals with varying skills explore and conquer vibrant 3D worlds. You can play alone or with friends in...

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