Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 6

For the King - a game in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 19 April 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 78/100

For the King is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view and random level generation. You have to travel through an endless fantasy...

Feudal Alloy

Role-playing game, Arcade, Action, Side view, Medieval era, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 17 January 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Feudal Alloy is a fun side-scrolling action RPG in which the main character is an aquarium fish dressed in medieval armor. Bandits attacked the...

We Were Here Together

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2019

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 90/100

A story about two companions trapped within the icy walls of an ancient citadel, where every room oozes mystery and the joker's laughter echoes...

Machine Party

Action, Horror, Logic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2026

Steam: 87/100

Cooperative game for 2–4 players, inspired by the tense atmosphere of Buckshot Roulette. Participants must go through a series of brutal mini-games...

Tabletop Playground

Indie, Simulation, Strategy

Early Access: Linux → 15 May 2020

Steam: 79/100

A digital tabletop sandbox with realistic physics, Tabletop Playground lets players recreate classic games, adjust their rules, and make original...

UBERMOSH Vol.5

Indie, Action, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 25 May 2017

Steam: 93/100

UBERMOSH Vol.5 is an arcade action game that continues the series, following the Blade Saint 1,200 years after the events of the first game. The hero...

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore

Arcade, Fighting, Online, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 22 August 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is an expanded version of a dynamic arcade fighting game with a side view in an anime style. The game features many...

Lines Infinite

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 24 November 2017

Steam: 91/100

This Numberlink-based puzzle game challenges players to connect colored tiles on a grid by drawing paths. It features 100 puzzles in different...

Fallen Hero: Rebirth

Text quest, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 15 March 2018

Steam: 96/100

A text-based adventure about a former hero who becomes a telepathic villain in Los Diablos while keeping the past hidden from former teammates in the...

Dinosaur Hunt Puzzle

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 13 June 2018

Steam: 72/100

A casual sliding-tile puzzle game featuring artwork from Dinosaur Hunt. Players solve puzzles across a series of levels to assemble images of...

Summer Memory of Bell

Adventure, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2018

Steam: 94/100

Set in summer, this visual novel follows a teenager haunted by memories of the past and Bell, a girl who has lost her memory. After the protagonist...

Oh, you touch my balls ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2018

Steam: 82/100

A casual puzzle game about guiding a ball into a cup by drawing lines and shapes on the screen. The drawn objects interact with the ball through...

About Love, Hate and the other ones

Casual game, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 December 2014

Steam: 90/100

This puzzle game follows Love and Hate, who become trapped in a dark cave far from home after someone presses a mysterious red device. The player...

IMMURE

Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 9 May 2019

Steam: 92/100

IMMURE is a psychological horror game about Will, who is trapped in a foreboding mansion with no way out. Strange doors lead to other dimensions...

Pizza Game

Indie, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 6 September 2019

Steam: 99/100

This comedy dating sim in visual novel form follows Kiane, a recent college graduate who becomes secretary to Mr. Arimnaes, a billionaire tech...

Starbound

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival, Sandbox, Space

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship...

Planet Explorers

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

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2016

Players: 5.2/10

Steam: 59/100

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...

Help Will Come Tomorrow

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Business / Management, Survival

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Help Will Come Tomorrow is an adventure management simulator with survival elements. In the uninhabited Siberian desert after the October Revolution...

The Heiress of Sorcery

Indie, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2020

Steam: 87/100

This fantasy visual novel follows a young healer accused of witchcraft after an outbreak of a strange illness in a small town. The heroine must...

Psychonauts 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Comedy, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2021

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Psychonauts 2 is a fantastic sequel to the third-person action platformer that takes players back to the world of psychonauts. The dream of the...

Astral Ascent

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Slasher, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Fantasy, Replayability

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2023

Players: 7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Four heroes with unique personalities try to escape from the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 godlike and treacherous Zodiacs. The game has...

War Selection

Strategy, Online, MMO, In real time, Indie, Free game

Early Access: Linux → 8 October 2019

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 83/100

War Selection is a free-to-play real-time strategy game with battle royale elements. The game allows up to 62 players to battle on a random map...

Sense of The Devil

Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 September 2017

Steam: 44/100

A first-person horror shooter set in medieval times, Sense of The Devil follows a search for a hunter’s missing daughter in a cursed forest. The...

Crossroad

Casual game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2018

Steam: 76/100

This adventure visual novel follows Lumy, a young herbalist and healer travelling through a dense, dangerous forest to visit her grandmother. Along...

Dimension of Monster Girls

Simulation, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 13 April 2018

Steam: 87/100

This visual novel follows Morgan, who finds himself in a world ruled by monster girls after a shipwreck. Three of them want him to become their...

The Treehouse Man

Adventure, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2019

Steam: 87/100

This action-adventure follows the children of a forest overtaken by corruption, whose guardian, the Treehouse Man, has fallen silent. Newly accepted...

Robot Wants It All

Action, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2019

Steam: 88/100

A collection of short metroidvania adventures in which a robot sets out to find the things it wants. The compilation includes Robot Wants Kitty...

Shelter 2

Simulation, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Survival

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This survival adventure simulation follows a lynx living in the harsh wilderness of the cold tundra. The player explores open landscapes, hunts for...

Escape Lala 2 - Retro Point and Click Adventure

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 18 July 2019

Steam: 98/100

This point-and-click adventure takes place in the magical land of Lala, where the princess has gone missing. Escape Lala 2 is the second game in the...

WTF

Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2019

Steam: 53/100

This first-person shooter takes place in a desert near the US–Mexico border, where an armed protagonist comes face to face with the Devil. After an...

Z Dawn

Strategy, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 December 2019

Steam: 72/100

This survival RPG follows a group of people seeking a cure and a way to evacuate amid a zombie apocalypse. Turn-based encounters with roguelike...

Crumble

Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2020

Steam: 89/100

Crumble is a physics-based platformer in which a blue ball navigates levels filled with crumbling platforms. The character jumps, moves like slime...

Sipho

Action, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2023

Steam: 83/100

Sipho is an action survival game about a creature assembled from body parts and striving to reach the top of the food chain. These parts, called...

Zombo Buster Rising

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Free game, Side view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 2 October 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

A 2D action game with tower-defense elements, in which the player fights off zombies by shooting at them from a terrace. Two AI-controlled characters...

Super Ledgehop: Double Laser

Anime / Manga, Comedy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2018

Steam: 96/100

This top-down bullet hell shooter follows Chizuru, an orphan who can see only four specific colors and is searching for her missing older brother, a...

ScourgeBringer

Action, Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 77/100

ScourgeBringer is a dynamic action-platformer with a side view and roguelike elements from the creators of NeuroVoider. The events of the game...

Creepy Tale: Snow Child

Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 14 May 2026

Steam: 90/100

The game continues to develop the ideas of the Creepy Tale series, focusing on expanding the world, improving the visual component, and offering more...

Stoneshard

Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Early Access: Linux → 6 February 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 74/100

Stoneshard is a tactical RPG with roguelike elements and an open world from the creators of 12 is Better Than 6. You will embark on a grand journey...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 4 October 2013

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Knock-knock is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. In the depths of a dense forest there is a wooden house. A man lives in...

NEO Scavenger

Role-playing game, Strategy, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 6 December 2013

Players: 8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

NEO Scavenger is a turn-based strategy with role-playing elements and turn-based combat. In the game, you will need to survive in post-apocalyptic...

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Best Games in the Indie genre for Linux