Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 54

Heroes Rise: HeroFall - a game in the Indie genre

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...

Pyrite Heart

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 September 2014

Steam: 66/100

This visual novel follows Princess Ahri Remono, who accepts a challenge after a feud with her brother and leaves the Imperial Palace to study beyond its walls. On...

Thief Town

Action, Indie, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2014

Steam: 78/100

A local multiplayer stealth action game set in a pixel-art version of the Wild West, where players compete in an arena filled with identical characters. Each player...

Jets'n'Guns Gold

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 January 2009

Steam: 87/100

Jets'n'Guns Gold is an arcade game mixed with action, shooter and flight simulator from the developers from the Rake in Grass studio. The main publisher...

Quantz

Strategy, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 3 September 2009

Steam: 67/100

QuantZ is a puzzle game that combines elements of match-three, arcade action, and marble-popping games. The player controls a cube with the mouse and drops marbles...

The Hero of Kendrickstone

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

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...

The Way We All Go (2015)

Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 24 March 2015

Steam: 86/100

A horror visual novel with romance elements, set in a Japanese village in the 1980s. Atcchan returns to his hometown two years after leaving, with only three days...

Hare In The Hat

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2015

Steam: 61/100

This point-and-click adventure follows a hare imprisoned in a hat by an evil magician. The player explores the magician’s chamber, searches for hidden objects and...

Two Digits

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2015

Steam: 74/100

A minimalist puzzle game in which the goal is to find two subsets with the same sum among nine numbers below 100. The game features 250 puzzles arranged across 11...

Fox & Flock

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2015

Steam: 84/100

Fox & Flock is a puzzle game based on the classic board game Fox & Geese, set in a ballroom where a fox is hiding among the dancers. Players can control the...

The Adventures of Mr. Bobley

Puzzle, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 July 2015

Steam: 73/100

This 3D platformer with physics-based puzzles takes place at a skyscraper construction site, where an ordinary worker, Mr. Bobley, must overcome obstacles and climb...

Robot vs Birds Zombies

Casual game, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2015

Steam: 37/100

This action puzzle game follows a robot built by survivors to fight birds that have turned into zombies after contracting avian influenza. The player controls the...

Alien Robot Monsters

Strategy, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 September 2015

Steam: 83/100

This sci-fi tower defense game follows colonists battling hostile robots on a planet capable of supporting human life. An expedition sends a colony ship and a small...

Sakura Beach 2

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2015

Steam: 79/100

This visual novel follows Seiji, who returns to the beach for a holiday with his childhood friends several months after his previous visit. After the upheaval of...

Without Within 2

Indie, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 9 November 2015

Steam: 89/100

A visual novel about Vinty, who travels to Melbourne to meet her idol, the star Excelia. Along the way, she receives reminders from her mother and sister and...

Cross Set

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle, Free game

Game released: Linux → 17 November 2015

Steam: 77/100

Cross Set is a number puzzle played on a square grid of up to 9×9 cells. The goal is to fill every row and column with the numbers from 1 to the grid’s size while...

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...

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...

LocoSoccer Classic

Sports game, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2015

Steam: 64/100

A physics-based soccer game in which a team scores goals to win cups and unlock customization items. Players choose a difficulty and control five footballers split...

SHOWTIME 2073

Action, Indie, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 12 February 2016

Steam: 74/100

A first-person sci-fi shooter set in 2073, where contestants fight to survive in a deadly show staged for spectators. The player collects balls and must make it...

Super Night Riders

Arcade, Racing, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2016

Steam: 89/100

This arcade racing game, inspired by retro classics, follows Alice, a motorcyclist known as the Red Rider. In Super Night Riders, race position is unimportant: the...

Guns of Infinity

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2016

Steam: 95/100

This text-based role-playing novel continues the story of Sabres of Infinity, casting the player as a cavalry commander and officer in the Royal Tierran Army during...

Starlight Vega

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2016

Steam: 92/100

This visual novel follows Aria, a high-school student who accidentally frees the demon Lyria from a stone while exploring her grandfather’s old house with her...

Frederic: Evil Strikes Back

Arcade, Action, Music game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 23 May 2014

Steam: 85/100

This musical action arcade game follows Frederic Chopin as he faces a renewed threat to the world of music. His opponents aim to control the music industry...

Killing Time at Lightspeed: Enhanced Edition

Indie, Adventure, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 6 July 2016

Steam: 80/100

This interactive fiction story takes place aboard a transport ship moving away from Earth. A passenger follows friends’ social media posts as communication delays...

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...

Khet 2.0

Board / Group Game, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 1 October 2014

Steam: 89/100

This strategy board game centers on an Egyptian-themed arena where mirrored pieces redirect laser beams. Players take turns moving a piece and firing the laser...

Galcon 2

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Logic, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2014

Steam: 83/100

Galcon 2 is a multiplayer space strategy game about sending fleets from planet to planet to conquer the galaxy. Clans compete for galactic supremacy, and...

Red Haze

Adventure, Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2017

Steam: 83/100

A psychological horror game with a surreal story about Rockette, who lives in an abandoned apartment complex and sets out to find her dealer, Aunti G. Along the...

Faerie Solitaire Harvest

Casual game, Card game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 April 2019

Steam: 79/100

This match-2 solitaire card game takes place across enchanted faerie worlds, where the player rescues faeries and explores different locations. Cards are cleared by...

Adventures of Chris

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 October 2020

Steam: 92/100

This ‘90s-inspired adventure platformer follows Chris, a chubby schoolboy turned into a balloon by cartoon villains. After escaping, he learns to use the...

Living Dungeon

Role-playing game, Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Tactics, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 November 2015

Steam: 69/100

Living Dungeon is a tactical board-game adventure set in a perilous dungeon, where players compete to survive and complete their objectives. In the story campaign...

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...

Where's My Mommy?

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2016

Steam: 74/100

Where's My Mommy? is a side-scrolling arcade runner where you travel as a little piece of human excrement named Poopy. After an incomprehensible earthquake, she...

Nomad Fleet

Strategy, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 19 April 2016

Steam: 65/100

A real-time space strategy game about the last human survivors fleeing a mysterious alien race and seeking a safe sector. The player leads a small fleet across a...

Earth Space Colonies

Simulation, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 July 2016

Steam: 38/100

A strategy simulation about building space colonies across the Solar System and developing planets and moons. On Mars, the player manages resources and expands a...

Intralism

Music game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2016

Steam: 87/100

Intralism is a rhythm game where players follow arcs on screen and press the corresponding buttons in time with the music. A wrong input ends the attempt, so...

Lux Alliance

Indie, Strategy, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Top-down view, In real time, Board / Group Game, Card game, Sandbox, Historical, Tactics, Logic

Game released: Linux → 8 June 2017

Steam: 75/100

A world-conquest strategy game inspired by the classic board games RISK, Axis & Allies, and Diplomacy. Players issue orders to their troops at the same time as...

Bunny Mahjo

Simulation, Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Online, Board / Group Game, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2018

Steam: 92/100

Bunny Mahjo is an online simulator of a strategic tactical board game. This is classic mahjong with the ability to create your own levels and play or do them with...

Cawez's puzzlebox: Hiraeth

Free game, Puzzle, Platformer, Indie, Logic, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 1 August 2024

Steam: 100/100

The player solves a series of physics puzzles and tests their skills in 3D platforming. There are four types of tasks: pushing tiles, tasks with changes in gravity...

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