Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 5

Clustertruck - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Clustertruck is an arcade action platformer with a first-person view, in which the player has to stay on top of speeding long-range trucks. Jumping from one car to...

SimAirport

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

Game released: Linux → 29 February 2020

Players: 7.1/10

SimAirport is a real-time business strategy with a top-down view. You have to manage your own airport. Expand, invest in the purchase of new aircraft and new...

Crawl

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 11 April 2017

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Crawl is a fast-paced action roguelike with side-scrolling RPG elements. The game features a variety of dungeons that are randomly generated. The game is designed...

Everything

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2017

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Everything is an interactive and colorful “everything simulator” where you can explore a diverse world, travel between stars and planets, and explore a vast...

Sky Rogue

Flight Simulator, Action, Indie, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2017

A combat flight simulator where you can cut through the skies near countless randomly generated islands. The game has different missions in which you need to...

Out of The Box

Arcade, Strategy, Adventure, Adult game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 July 2018

Players: 1/10

Out of The Box is an adventure arcade game with strategy elements. The events of the game will tell the story of Warren Baker, a simple bouncer who works in the...

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2018

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Do Not Feed the Monkeys is a unique first-person puzzle adventure game with pixel graphics. The game will give you the opportunity to invade the privacy of...

Danger Scavenger

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Cyberpunk, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Danger Scavenger is a dynamic arcade shooter with an isometric camera view in a cyberpunk setting. Deadly effective, highly skilled, invisible to indifferent...

Rain on Your Parade

Action, Isometric, Comedy, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 April 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

A fun arcade game with an isometric camera view. A mischievous cloud wants to ruin the lives of absolutely everyone on the planet. She travels the world inventing...

A.W.O.L.

Free game, Shooter, First-person view, Tactics, Stealth, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2022

Players: 7.2/10

A.W.O.L. is a free first-person shooter developed on the Duke Nukem 3D engine and Ion Fury. You'll play as Dwayne Allen, a recently demobilized special forces...

10,000,000

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2014

Players: 5.5/10

10,000,000 — Action role-playing roguelike in a fantasy style with puzzle elements and a side view. In this game you have to run non-stop, overcome obstacles...

TULPA

Arcade, Action, Horror, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2015

TULPA is an arcade game with elements of action, horror, platformer and indie game from Encryptique Studios. The game is published by Rising Star Games...

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...

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...

Near Death

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

Game released: Linux → 2 August 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Near Death is an indie action adventure game with a first-person view and horror elements. The events of the game will take you to the cold corridors of a research...

Planet Explorers

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2016

Players: 5.2/10

Planet Explorers is a free-to-play action role-playing game with a third-person view and survival elements in a sci-fi setting. The plot tells about the distant...

Asura: Vengeance Expansion

Action, Slasher, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Asura: Vengeance Expansion is a top-down fantasy action-slasher with roguelike elements. You will be able to take on the role of the lower demon Asura to fight your...

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...

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2019

Players: 10/10

Adventure role-playing game, which is a direct sequel to Sunless Sea. The setting is not murky water-filled spaces like in Sunless Sea, but the sunlit sky. The...

AI War 2

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

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2019

Players: 9.8/10

AI War 2 is the cult continuation of the asymmetrical space strategy AI War: Fleet Command. The events of the game develop 353 years later and tell about the...

Hands of Necromancy 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Fantasy, Demons, Old school, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2024

Players: 10/10

Grim old-school shooter in the spirit of Heretic and DOOM (1995). The player takes on the role of a powerful necromancer, exploring various locations, fighting...

Death Carnival

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

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 4.1/10

A dynamic top-down shooter in which you will become a participant in a deadly reality show. For the sake of fame and fortune, the player fights against hordes of...

THERMOCLINE

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Turn-based, Indie, Free game, Dungeons, Old school

Game in development: Linux → 2026

A grim psychological horror set on the frozen surface of a dead planet, where an icy storm is just one of many threats. As the sole survivor among abandoned...

Cubemen 2

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 April 2013

Metacritic: 63/100

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...

Ziggurat

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Ziggurat is a first-person shooter with roguelike elements, inspired by the Hexen and Painkiller series. You have to put on the skin of a sorcerer and go...

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...

Doodle God

Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 September 2015

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Doodle God is a casual, logical game for all ages. You will have four elements in your hands: air, water, earth and fire. By combining them, the player will receive...

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...

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...

Plague Inc: Evolved

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Business / Management, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 18 February 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Plague Inc: Evolved is an updated version of an unusual simulator with elements of management strategy for modern platforms. The game will give you the opportunity...

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2018

Metacritic: 68/100

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case is a continuation of the Japanese-style adventure visual novel Silver Case. The events of the game take place five years after the...

Egypt: Old Kingdom

Strategy, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 May 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Egypt: Old Kingdom is a fascinating turn-based strategy with an isometric camera view, for the creation of which even scientists from the Russian Academy of...

Forager

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Open world, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Forager is a fun top-down arcade clicker game with RPG elements, inspired by Stardew Valley, Terraria and Zelda. You will explore everything around, create objects...

Chronicon

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

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Chronicon is a top-down action RPG in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in a fictional setting, in which, with the help of a magical device, the chosen ones...

The Jackbox Party Pack 7

Arcade, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Indie, Logic

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2020

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The Jackbox Party Pack 7 is a new part of a collection of fun arcade games for a large company. The game has a lot of different mini-games that will not let you get...

Gonner 2

Indie, Platformer, Arcade, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2020

Gonner 2 is a sequel to the brutally challenging 2D platformer with roguelike elements and procedurally generated levels. Hikk returns again, and this time he will...

Nebuchadnezzar

Strategy, Indie, Isometric, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Nebuchadnezzar is an isometric city-building simulator in which you can get acquainted with the mysterious history and culture of ancient Mesopotamia. As part of...

Brave Escape

Platformer, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2025

Cooperative platformer for two, built on constant synchronization and joint overcoming of obstacles. The story follows Colin and Floyd, who embark on a dangerous...

Bridge Constructor Studio

Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2025

A game from the Bridge Constructor series that supports both regular and virtual reality glasses modes. The gamer builds structures from various elements that must...

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