Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 58

Game released: Linux → 7 December 2012

Steam: 86/100

This zombie action game begins when toxic waste contaminates the water supply and causes the recently deceased to rise from their graves. To escape...

SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE

Indie, Casual game, Card game

Game released: Linux → 15 December 2016

Steam: 97/100

SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE is a card game featuring a solitaire variant inspired by Mahjong and FreeCell. The player arranges cards to solve each deal; the...

AI War: Vengeance of the Machine

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

Game released: Linux → 17 June 2013

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for AI War: Fleet Command that adds new ways to oppose the artificial intelligence in this real-time strategy game. It introduces tools...

Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (2013)

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 55/100

This fantasy role-playing game takes place in Thorwal, one of Aventuria’s oldest cities, as an orcish threat emerges. The party must explore the city...

Doorways: Prelude

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

Game released: Linux → 20 September 2013

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 58/100

Doorways: Prelude is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. You will play the role of Thomas Foster, a special agent who must hunt...

Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos

Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2013

Steam: 75/100

This visual novel follows Winter Harrison, a student mediator who travels to chaotic worlds to help resolve their problems. In the series’ first...

Bad Hotel

Indie, Casual game, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2013

Steam: 33/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Bad Hotel combines tower defense with procedurally generated music. The player is a budding entrepreneur whose hotel lies in the territory of...

Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

Adventure, Indie, Free game, Side view, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2014

Steam: 88/100

A hybrid of an adventure game and RPG, inspired by Norse mythology. The story begins with the summoning of the heroine by the earl Yarnvidr, who is...

Volt

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2014

Steam: 70/100

This puzzle platformer follows a battery that escapes while being taken for recycling and tries to get out of an industrial facility. Without legs...

Sudoku Universe / 数独宇宙

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 18 December 2017

Steam: 89/100

Sudoku Universe is a logic puzzle built around Sudoku: the goal is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits from 1 to 9 without repeating them in any row...

AI War: Destroyer of Worlds

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

Game released: Linux → 18 August 2014

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for AI War: Fleet Command that broadens its real-time strategy with new map layouts, AI opponents, and paths to victory. Nomad Planets...

Toast Time

Arcade, Action, Indie, Side view, Puzzle, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 24 November 2014

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This arena shoot-'em-up with tower-defence elements follows TERRY, a toaster defending an ordinary Monday morning from inter-dimensional creatures in...

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...

IO (2007)

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Racing

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2014

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A physics-based platformer about guiding a ball through puzzle-filled levels using momentum and changes in size. Growing or shrinking the ball...

InMind VR

Virtual Reality (VR), Free game, Indie, Educational game (Education)

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2015

Steam: 78/100

This arcade game takes place in a science-fiction world inspired by the human brain, where the player travels through neural landscapes in an...

Deity Quest

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 January 2015

Steam: 60/100

Deity Quest is an action RPG about a young god assigned to the world of Aberos, where the goal is to convert inhabitants into followers and gain...

Battle Ranch: Pigs vs Plants

Strategy, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2015

Steam: 49/100

This strategy game combines tower defense and time management as the player protects a ranch from boars that threaten its livestock and the rancher's...

Abomination Tower

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Action

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2015

Steam: 77/100

Abomination Tower is an arcade indie platformer with a side view and generated levels. You have to control a headless hero who wants to escape beyond...

Reassembly

Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Construction, Space, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2015

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 94/100

A space sandbox with action and strategy elements, Reassembly has players designing ships and exploring a procedurally generated universe. Resources...

Catacomb Kids

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 20 February 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Catacomb Kids is a procedurally generated platform roguelike about children venturing into the Catacombs in search of wealth, knowledge, power, or...

Cathedral (2019)

Action, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2019

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Cathedral is an adventure platformer about exploring a vast world and uncovering the hero’s past. Progress involves finding five elemental orbs and...

Last Word

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 May 2015

Steam: 83/100

An adventure RPG set at a society gathering where having the last word means holding power over others. Photographer Whitty Gawship attends a party...

Seduce Me

Strategy, Indie, Casual game, Adventure, Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2015

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 41/100

After receiving an invitation to a wealthy socialite’s holiday home, the protagonist finds himself in a Mediterranean mansion by the sea. He meets a...

Galaxy Warfighter

Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 April 2020

Steam: 40/100

Metacritic: 55/100

A space shoot ’em up in which the player pilots a fighter ship and battles hordes of enemies. Foes use unpredictable strategies and attack patterns...

Champion of the Gods

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2015

Steam: 85/100

This text-based role-playing game is set in a world inspired by ancient Greek myth, where a hero’s fate is bound up with the gods and the struggle to...

Country Tales

Strategy, Business / Management, Indie, City Building, Construction

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2015

Steam: 83/100

Set in the Wild West, this time-management strategy game follows Ted, Catherine, and their friends as they rebuild Sunset Hills and oppose a corrupt...

Over The Hills And Far Away

Casual game, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2015

Steam: 85/100

A visual novel set on the Northwest Frontier during the War of 1812 follows William Aubrey, a deserter from a British regiment, and Mai, a young...

Don't Forget Me

Indie, Detective, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 20 April 2021

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 62/100

A jazz-punk adventure puzzle game about exploring patients’ memories and uncovering a conspiracy that threatens humanity. The player uses personal...

Polychromatic

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 2 October 2015

Steam: 94/100

Polychromatic is a physics-based arcade shooter where you have to destroy clumps of...

Shmadow

Indie, Action, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 3 November 2015

Steam: 79/100

A twin-stick side-scrolling arcade shooter in which light reveals and destroys enemies concealed in darkness. The game draws on classic arcade...

Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 November 2015

Steam: 82/100

This comedic visual novel follows a cast of characters whose genders are changed by unforeseen and absurd circumstances. Players choose from thirteen...

Risky Rescue

Arcade, Platformer, Casual game, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2016

Steam: 81/100

A helicopter arcade platformer about carrying out dangerous rescues. Each level requires the pilot to pick up people from mountain peaks, rooftops...

CUPID - A free to play Visual Novel

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Steam: 87/100

A gothic visual novel about revenge and the different faces of love, set in 18th-century France. After her friend Catherine dies, Rosa blames her...

Tiltagon

Arcade, Top-down view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2016

Steam: 72/100

This arcade game pairs minimalist visuals with a level mode and an endless mode focused on surviving for as long as possible. The level mode features...

Adorables

Sports game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2016

Steam: 80/100

A casual sports game in which cute characters compete across six different events. Players control the characters, customize their appearance, and...

Axes and Acres

Indie, Strategy, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2016

Steam: 85/100

A turn-based, single-player strategy game about developing a village on a small plot of land. The player is its lord, managing peasants represented...

Valhalla Hills: Fire Mountains

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2016

Steam: 100/100

Valhalla Hills: Fire Mountains is an addition to the management strategy in the Viking world of Valhalla Hills. The main feature of the add-on is the...

The Dolls: Reborn

Indie, Simulation, Horror

Game released: Linux → 25 May 2016

Steam: 47/100

A horror simulator about a night watchman at an old toy factory, where dolls left behind after production ended begin hunting people. The protagonist...

Tick's Tales: Up All Knight

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Tick's Tales: Up All Knight is a fantasy adventure with pixel graphics. The brave hero Tik sets out on a dangerous journey to earn the love of the...

Lion's Song: Episode 1 - Silence

Adventure, Side view, Point & Click, , Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2016

Steam: 90/100

Lion's Song: Episode 1 — Silence is the first episode of a point-and-click adventure with a nice visual style. The episode tells the story of a...

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