Indie for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 8

Game released: Linux → 12 September 2019

Steam: 66/100

This fantasy match-two puzzle game, presented with visual-novel elements, follows a hermit mage’s disciple who dreams of entering the Great Archer...

Dual Family I - IX

Simulation, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2019

Steam: 44/100

A casual indie game about a household falling apart, told from two perspectives: those of a wife and a young woman. The player chooses one of the...

ADULT SHERIFF

Action, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 January 2020

Steam: 69/100

This arcade shooter set in the Wild West is about clearing an old saloon of bandits. The player must shoot the outlaws and let the civilian women...

Mother Russia Bleeds

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Side view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 5 September 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Mother Russia Bleeds is a side-scrolling arcade action game. You advance through the level, destroying all enemies along the way using hand-to-hand...

Sisyphus Reborn

Adventure, Free game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 September 2016

Steam: 100/100

This short existential adventure follows a search for meaning in a world where everyone digs forever and no one dies. The protagonist wakes up there...

What The Box?

Action, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 12 September 2016

Steam: 81/100

What The Box? is a multiplayer action shooter in which living boxes hide among ordinary ones and try to destroy one another. Players can hunt...

Red Embrace: Hollywood

Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 31 August 2019

Steam: 85/100

This visual novel follows a newcomer who is turned into a vampire in 1996 Los Angeles and drawn into the city’s dark underworld. Players customize...

Mindustry

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Construction

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Mindustry is a fun real-time strategy game with elements of the tower defense genre and a top-down view. In the game, you have to create complex...

Red Rain

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Old school

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2026

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 85/100

An adventure RPG set in post-apocalyptic North America after the Yellowstone supervolcanic eruption. The world has become a ruin, the land is...

Caves of Qud

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Procedural generation, Open world

Early Access: Linux → 15 July 2015; Game released: Linux → 5 December 2024

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 91/100

A turn-based RPG from the minds of Sproggiwood. The game world is generated anew each time, offering unique adventures with each visit. The...

Goat Simulator

Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy, Open world

Game released: Linux → 27 June 2014

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Goat Simulator is an unusual goat simulator with a third-person view. You have to control such extraordinary characters in the world of computer...

Pinup Ball - Sexy Strip Pinball

Indie

Early Access: Linux → 13 February 2020

Steam: 66/100

An arcade pinball game with interactions involving fantasy girls: each table is hosted by a different character, and play is divided into phases...

Destructive Physics - Destruction Simulator

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Indie, God Simulator, Sandbox

Early Access: Linux → 2 April 2020; Game released: Linux → 20 August 2021

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 78/100

Destructive Physics — Destruction Simulator is a full-fledged destruction simulator with a first-person view. In the game you can slow down...

Backpack Battles

Strategy, Online, Indie, Fantasy, Roguelike

Early Access: Linux → 8 March 2024; Game released: Linux → 13 June 2025

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 92/100

As players progress, they acquire rare items and assemble powerful builds from them. After this, the character can be sent to fight with the heroes...

Dinosaur Hunt

Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 17 September 2015

Steam: 66/100

This first-person shooter pits an armed player against dinosaurs, creatures that once roamed the Earth. In Dinosaur Hunt, the player hunts these...

SteamWorld Dig

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Steampunk

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2013

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

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...

East 73: Magenta Fairytale

Casual game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 December 2017

Steam: 93/100

This slice-of-life adventure is set in Nanjing and follows Xiao Su, an aspiring art student who can see the inner worlds of other people. Before his...

SUMETRICK

Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2018

Steam: 82/100

A minimalist brain-training puzzle built around symmetry. The player fills the game board by clicking on framed cells and tries to complete it as...

Rumble Arena

Free game, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2019

Steam: 62/100

Rumble Arena is a multiplayer fighting game in which legends and gods from across the galaxy battle in arenas. Each hero has a distinct set of moves...

this was for you.

Free game, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2019

Steam: 87/100

This interactive visual novel follows a person who, after a crash, struggles to find a way forward and keeps returning to a place tied to their...

CRAZY DRIVER

Action, Racing, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2019

Steam: 80/100

This arcade racing game centers on an endless car chase, with the driver trying to evade the police for as long as possible. The player collects cash...

LIT: Bend the Light

Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 May 2020

Steam: 92/100

LIT: Bend the Light is a casual physics-based puzzle game set in an era before electricity, when inventors relied on imagination. It invites players...

One Dreamer

Logic, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2022

Steam: 90/100

One Dreamer is an adventure puzzle game about Frank, a burnt-out indie developer trying to release his debut game and rediscover his love of video...

Shadows of Kurgansk

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Survival, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Shadows of Kurgansk is an action shooter with a first-person view and horror elements in a post-apocalyptic world. You have to survive in a Zone...

Forager

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

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

Role-playing game, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2019

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based RPG with an emphasis on storytelling and tactical combat. A serious, adult story will unfold before you...

Draconia

Role-playing game, Simulation, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 13 January 2022

Steam: 64/100

A role-playing game with simulation elements in which the player controls a dragon and explores the world of Draconia. The character can be...

First Day

Indie, Survival, Strategy

Early Access: Linux → 23 August 2019

Steam: 47/100

A strategy game about rebuilding civilization after a nuclear apocalypse. A wave of atomic energy has devastated the planet, and the survivors must...

Spectraball

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 15 February 2013

Steam: 78/100

A casual platforming puzzle game in which the player guides a rolling ball through obstacle-filled levels. Progress involves rolling, jumping, and...

Fibrillation HD

Walking Simulator, Horror, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 April 2017

Steam: 89/100

Fibrillation is a first-person philosophical and mystical horror story about Ewan Berrington, who wanders through mysterious places trying to work...

Hostil

Casual game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 December 2017

Steam: 86/100

This interactive adventure follows a young astronaut whose spacecraft has crashed on an extremely dangerous planet. With no rescue coming, the only...

In the Pause Between the Ringing

Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 April 2019

Steam: 82/100

A short narrative game set in the world of Somewhere tells the story of Iqbal, an inventor, and the first telephone mines in India. Amid a tangle of...

Ludo Online: Classic Multiplayer Dice Board Game

Board / Group Game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 October 2019

Steam: 81/100

A strategy board game based on Ludo, in which two to six players race four pawns from their starting yard to the home row using dice rolls. Opponents...

Crypt of the NecroDancer

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Music game, Tactics, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 April 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Crypt of the NecroDancer is a unique indie game where everything moves to the rhythm of the music of Danny Baranowski, the composer of Super Meat Boy...

Cats are Liquid - A Better Place

Adventure, Indie, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 14 December 2019

Steam: 96/100

A 2D platformer about a liquid cat and her friends in a place made just for them. The group sets out on an adventure where everything seems perfect...

Generation Streets

Indie, Casual game, Free game

Game released: Linux → 10 February 2020

Steam: 74/100

A casual game built around a map of the real world, with buildings rendered as 3D models. The player loads a familiar area and looks for their home...

Peaceful Days

Role-playing game, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2025

Steam: 84/100

A role-playing game and farm simulator about settling into the seaside town of Aurora, where the protagonist builds a farm and gets to know the...

RUINER

Shooter, Isometric, Cyberpunk, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2017

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 76/100

RUINER is an isometric action game in a cyberpunk setting. The game takes place in 2091 in a cyber metropolis called Rengkok. You will play as a...

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Dungeons

Game released: Linux → 1 March 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Heroes of Hammerwatch is an indie role-playing game with action elements in a medieval setting. Explore procedurally generated levels, destroying...

Signal Simulator

Simulation, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2018

Steam: 79/100

Inspired by SETI, this science simulation casts the player as a researcher searching for signals of extraterrestrial origin. From an observatory, the...

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