Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 7

Role-playing game, Simulation, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2017

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Robocraft is a shareware multiplayer robot simulator in which you have to build your own personal robot and then send it to fight with other similar creatures of...

In Between

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2015

Players: 8.8/10

In Between — arcade side-scrolling indie adventure. The game tells a sad story about a man who is dying of cancer. The main character will have to delve into...

WarriOrb

Arcade, Side view, Platformer, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2020

Players: 7.9/10

WarriOrb is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. In a Victorian-era fantasy world, a war rages between industrial superpowers. As...

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...

Heck Deck

Card game, Arcade, Tactics, Indie, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 12 January 2022

Heck Deck is a top-down tactical card arcade game with indie elements. Over the course of 5 stages, you will be able to show dexterity and resourcefulness to dodge...

Switch 'N' Shoot

Action, Shooter, Indie, Futurism (Future), Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 18 October 2016

Switch 'N' Shoot is a vertical shoot 'em up shooter about once again saving the Earth from an alien threat. You are the pilot of a future space fighter with only...

Vive le Roi

Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2017

Players: 10/10

Vive le Roi is a fascinating puzzle platformer with a side view, the events of which unfold in France during the Great Revolution. The revolutionaries plan to...

Curious Expedition

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2016

Metacritic: 71/100

Curious Expedition is a procedurally generated adventure role-playing game set in the 19th century. You can feel like a real explorer and discoverer. Choose one of...

Seers Isle

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 September 2018

Seers Isle is an adventure visual novel that takes you to the vast expanses of medieval Northern Europe, where your choices affect the fate of a group of...

Lonesome Village

Adventure, Fantasy, Puzzle, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 November 2022

A relaxing pixel game about a coyote without the battles. The character must uncover the village's mysterious magical past and save it from the hands of evil. The...

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...

The Wild Case

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2021

Players: 8.3/10

The Wild Case is an indie point and click adventure puzzle game with supernatural elements. In this game, players meet a variety of colorful characters, experience...

King Arthur's Gold

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

Game released: Linux → 5 November 2013

Players: 5.9/10

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...

Kick Ass Commandos

Arcade, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Shooter, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 November 2016

Kick Ass Commandos is a furious top-down retro shooter. The main character's task is very simple: destroy everything in his path, simultaneously rescuing captured...

Heart&Slash

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 August 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 72/100

StarCrossed

Arcade, Online, Side view, Science fiction, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Shooter, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 11 February 2020

Players: 8.4/10

StarCrossed is a co-op, dynamic side-scrolling action game set in a sci-fi setting. In the game you have to join a group of 5 space heroes who travel among the...

Padre

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2019

Padre is a survival-horror adventure that combines deep, evocative storytelling, monster-slaying, and puzzle-solving in a dark, Lovecraftian setting. You are a...

No Longer Home

Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Visual novel, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2021

Metacritic: 73/100

No Longer Home is an exciting adventure game with visual novel elements. Bo and Ao are graduating from university and are about to leave the apartment they've lived...

Pixel Frontier: Tactics

Strategy, Turn-based, Indie, Free game, Tactics, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2025

Turn-based strategy with elements of roguelike and a dice-rolling system, where the player assembles a team of heroes and completes missions in the dangerous world...

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...

3079

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2011

Players: 8/10

3079 is an adventure role-playing shooter with a first-person view in a pixel style. You will go to an amazing world that is constantly generated randomly. The game...

Pinstripe

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Pinstripe is an atmospheric side-scrolling exploration adventure from developer Coma and Skinny. The events of the game take place in Hell, where the main character...

Magic Circle

Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2015

Magic Circle is a first-person adventure with fantasy and indie game elements from Question Studio. The main publisher of the game is...

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in the style of Super Meat Boy. You have to create levels with a huge number of traps and other...

Spacejacked

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Indie, Tactics, Side view

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2016

Players: 6.5/10

Spacejacked is an exciting arcade game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre with a side view. In the role of space engineer Dave Paprovsky, you have to...

Ray's the Dead

Action, Strategy, Stealth, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2020

Ray's the Dead is a fun zombie action game with an isometric camera view, where you rise from your grave and lead hordes of zombies. The main task is to investigate...

Pipe Push Paradise

Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2018

Pipe Push Paradise is a hardcore, top-down, open-world puzzle game about plumbing. You will find yourself on a large island where you need to solve a problem with a...

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...

Indicted

Adventure, Action, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Linux → 29 October 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Indicted is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view and survival elements. Seeking redemption, Detective Arthur decides to take on his latest case...

Knights of Pen and Paper 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2015

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Knights of Pen and Paper 2 is a continuation of the adventure role-playing game in a fantasy setting. As in the first part, you will become the head of a group of...

Duke of Alpha Centauri

Arcade, Indie, Shooter, Science fiction, Side view

Game released: Linux → 29 December 2016

Duke of Alpha Centauri is a fantastic arcade side-scrolling indie shooter. The main goal of our game is to have fun blasting hordes of different types of enemies...

Caveman Caravan

Strategy, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Roguelike, Old school

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2025

Free roguelike strategy game where the player leads a caravan of primitive people to a new land. The gameplay revolves around combining tile cards and tools that...

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...

LifeZ - Survival

Action, Isometric, Simulation, Role-playing game, Indie, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2018

LifeZ — Survival is a fun sandbox action game with an isometric camera view in an open world. The game takes place during a zombie apocalypse, where you will...

Polychromatic

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 October 2015

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

Visual Out

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 15 March 2018

Visual Out is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with puzzle elements. You will act as a program whose existence is contrary to the wishes of the...

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...

Pony Island

Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 January 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Pony Island is a logic puzzle game from the developers of Daniel Mullins Games. The story is that the devil locks the player in an arcade, and in order to get out...

Montague's Mount

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

Game released: Linux → 19 November 2013

Metacritic: 39/100

Montague's Mount is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and horror elements. The events of the game will take you to a gloomy Irish island, where for...

Shotgun Farmers

Arcade, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Shotgun Farmers is a fun multiplayer first-person shooter where you use weapons that sprout from the ground. All battles take place on farmland, where the amount of...

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