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Star Rangers XE - a game in the Indie genre

Early Access: Linux → 6 July 2016

Steam: 28/100

This space simulation adventure focuses on exploring the Solar System and building on other worlds. The player takes the role of an astronaut recruit and ventures...

Starr Mazer: DSP

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Side view, Indie, Arcade

Early Access: Linux → 26 August 2016

Steam: 68/100

Starr Mazer: DSP is a side-scrolling arcade shoot ’em up with role-playing elements and a roguelike take on the lives-and-continues system. A squadron of pilots...

Journal

Indie, Adventure, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2014

Steam: 78/100

This narrative adventure unfolds in a hand-painted world and follows a young girl as she faces the choices and responsibilities of growing up. The story explores...

Foosball - Street Edition

Sports game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 16 April 2014

Steam: 58/100

This five-a-side arcade football game follows Rayados, a team of foosball players who have escaped the table and now compete against teams from around the world...

Heroes Rise: HeroFall

Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2014

Steam: 87/100

This text-based role-playing game concludes the Heroes Rise trilogy, following a hero fighting for the rights of people with superpowers in America. When President...

Graveyard

Simulation, Third-person view, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2009

Steam: 46/100

This short walking simulator follows an elderly woman visiting a graveyard. The player explores the grounds, can sit on a bench and listen to a song. Graveyard is...

The Confines Of The Crown

Visual novel, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 3 April 2015

Steam: 89/100

A visual novel of romance and royal intrigue, set against a succession crisis that raises the question of whom to trust. Madeleine Valois is a prince’s companion...

Fading Hearts

Role-playing game, Simulation, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Japanese role-playing game, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 11 November 2009

Steam: 60/100

This role-playing story with simulation and visual novel elements follows Ryou, an ordinary high school student in the land of Sorayama. The player decides how he...

Hacker Evolution Duality

Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2011

Steam: 32/100

Hacker Evolution Duality is a hacking simulation game about programmer Brian Spencer. It begins in the early days of his career, then moves into the future, where...

Tiki Man

Action, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2015

Steam: 81/100

A casual arcade game about chopping down the world’s tallest tiki. The player cuts through its faces while avoiding hazardous arms, aiming to work as quickly as...

Valley Without Wind

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2012

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 54/100

A 2D platforming action game with tactical combat and settlement building, Valley Without Wind takes place in a post-ice-age world in the distant future. Players...

Dynamite Jack

Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 10 May 2012

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This top-down action-adventure follows Jack, a space marine trying to escape the Anathema Mines. He can sneak past guards or use bombs to eliminate enemies, while a...

Kinetic Void

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

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2013

Steam: 17/100

Kinetic Void is a space simulation game with action elements, focused on exploring a procedurally generated galaxy. There is no main storyline: the player chooses...

Jack Lumber

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2013

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This arcade puzzle game follows Jack, a lumberjack seeking revenge on the tree that killed his granny. He hates trees but loves animals, so he must take care not to...

Hate Plus

Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 19 August 2013

Steam: 84/100

Hate Plus is a science-fiction visual novel and a sequel to Analogue: A Hate Story, centered on an investigation aboard a derelict generation ship. Over a three-day...

Skyward Collapse: Nihon no Mura

Strategy, DLC, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2013

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for Skyward Collapse that brings the Japanese faction to Luminith. The faction has a powerful military and a pantheon whose gods each have three god...

Community College Hero: Trial by Fire

Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2015

Steam: 84/100

This text-based role-playing game follows a student who receives a scholarship to a new college for aspiring superheroes. In Community College Hero: Trial by Fire...

Zigfrak

Arcade, Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 November 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 71/100

This space-based action RPG is set amid a human civil war on a galactic scale, complicated by the invasion of technologically superior aliens. During the campaign...

King Arthur's Gold

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Free game, Online, Construction

Game released: Linux → 5 November 2013

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 82/100

King Arthur's Gold is a free-to-play side-scrolling pixel action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will travel back to the glory days of King Arthur, where you...

Probably Archery

Action, First-person view, Indie, Sports game, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2014

Steam: 48/100

Probably Archery is a first-person arcade game about bow shooting, controlled through the separate movements of the character’s wrists, elbows and shoulders. The...

Last Dream

Role-playing game, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2014

Steam: 83/100

This classic role-playing game follows a protagonist stranded in an unfamiliar world and searching for a way home. As the journey across Terra unfolds, the hero...

Space Farmers

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

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

This top-down co-op action shooter takes place on an alien space station, where two captives are forced to share the secrets of British agriculture. When hungry...

Rabbit Hole 3D

Action, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2014

Steam: 62/100

A 3D word puzzle with a retro aesthetic, the game draws on the opening chapter of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Players navigate through words...

You Have to Win the Game

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania, Free game

Game released: Linux → 6 May 2014

Steam: 92/100

An exploration platformer with the look and sound of 1980s PC games, set among the ruins of a lost world. The player runs and jumps past deadly pitfalls while...

Antisquad

Action, Strategy, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2014

Steam: 56/100

This turn-based tactics game follows AntiSquad, a private paramilitary unit operating in the southern United States. Its members are military professionals who have...

XenoRaptor

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2014

Steam: 81/100

This top-down space shooter follows a cyberdragon battling an armada of space skeletons. The player salvages parts from defeated enemies to build weapons and equips...

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...

Choice of the Deathless

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 29 August 2014

Steam: 91/100

This text-based role-playing game is a necromantic legal thriller set in a fantasy world of scheming magicians and monsters. The protagonist works at an elite...

Cannon Brawl

Strategy, In real time, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 93/100

A real-time strategy game with artillery elements, where players pilot an airship and deploy cannons, flamethrowers and lasers on the battlefield. Weapons can...

Prophour23

Action, Strategy, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2014

Steam: 58/100

A fast-paced real-time strategy game in which the player builds an organism from different organs and tries to withstand mounting odds. Organs can be connected in...

CrossCells

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2017

Steam: 83/100

An ambient logic puzzle game in which the player uses number clues to solve puzzles. The clues indicate which tiles to remove from the board. The game includes 50...

Sign Motion

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Indie, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2014

Steam: 62/100

This platform adventure follows a kid who escapes from a school crossing sign and enters a new world. The kid must find a way forward while encountering others who...

welcome to heaven

Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2017

Steam: 74/100

An adventure game about disillusionment with religion, presenting heaven as a monument to its emerging problems. The player judges sinners and decides who is worthy...

Daedalus: No Escape

Arcade, Beat them all, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action, Online

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2014

Steam: 80/100

Daedalus: No Escape is a dynamic top-down arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. You will act as a brave space marine and go to clear a large spaceship. A horde of...

Fidget Spinner

Simulation, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 September 2017

Steam: 83/100

This 2D casual simulator focuses on spinning fidget spinners. Players can try different models, each with its own features. Progress unlocks additional spinners and...

J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 18 November 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This science-fiction puzzle adventure follows Rachel Manners, an astrobiologist who awakens aboard a damaged spacecraft to find that she is the expedition’s sole...

iO - A Physics Platformer

Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2014

iO — A Physics Platformer...

Depths of Tolagal

Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Roguelike, Dungeons, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 11 December 2014

Steam: 92/100

This tactical roguelike sends the hero into the dark dungeons of Tolagal to find a missing apprentice. Whether the apprentice entered willingly or was kidnapped is...

Verde Station

Adventure, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 18 December 2014

Steam: 74/100

This first-person adventure takes place aboard Verde Station, where the protagonist undertakes a year-long solo mission and begins to question the world around...

Disillusions Manga Horror

Indie, Adventure, Horror

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2015

Steam: 61/100

This first-person adventure horror follows two friends, DiS and Vigil, as they enter a haunted house featured in the newspapers. While exploring, they uncover...

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