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

Ultimate Chicken Horse - a game in the Indie genre

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...

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...

Memory Lost: Chapter One

Shooter, Isometric, Indie, Action, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 2 December 2022

Players: 10/10

The trick of this shooter is the transfer of the hero’s consciousness into the bodies of enemies. When you run out of ammo or health, you need to quickly select an...

Last Leviathan

Action, Shooter, Warships / Submarines, Puzzle, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 22 June 2016

Last Leviathan is a shipbuilding simulator with a detailed physics model. You will construct combat ships and test them against monsters that inhabit the ancient...

Baba Is You

Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Baba Is You is a hardcore top-down puzzle game in pixel style. At each level, the rules themselves are presented in the form of blocks with which you can interact...

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...

School Owner

Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2019

A management and construction simulator where players take on the role of a school manager. The school owner's job is to build the school from the ground up and...

Crash Drive 3

Arcade, Racing, Online, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2021

Metacritic: 68/100

Crash Drive 3 is an indie arcade racing game with a third-person view and online elements. You will experience incredible fun in this game. You will be able to...

Gravity Wars

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2018

Gravity Wars — hardcore arcade shooter with a top-down view and aesthetics of the nineties. You are offered hardcore gameplay, 12 arenas, retrowave music and...

Xenon Valkyrie

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 3 February 2017

Players: 10/10

Xenon Valkyrie is a side-scrolling action-adventure RPG with procedurally generated levels. You will travel to the deepest part of the moon to stop the evil witch...

Capsule Force

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2015

Fate Hunters

Adventure, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 18 July 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Fate Hunters is a collectible card game with turn-based combat in a dark fantasy setting. In the game you have to collect your deck of cards, explore the dark game...

Reassembly

Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2015

Players: 9.3/10

Culinary Wizard

Platformer, Indie, Adventure, Side view, Free game, Role-playing game, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 2 July 2025

A pixel game about a chef apprentice who tries to master the secrets of culinary art. The main character travels through magical lands, revives ingredients and...

10,000,000

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2014

Players: 5.5/10

10,000,000 — Action role-playing roguelike in a fantasy style with puzzle elements and a side view. In this game you have to run non-stop, overcome obstacles...

Melvor Idle

Casual game, Role-playing game, Indie, Adventure, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 19 November 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Casual game in the style of RuneScape. The gamer creates a character and levels up their skills by completing quests, exploring the world, and battling monsters...

TIS-100

Simulation, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 July 2015

TIS-100 is a limitless programming game from the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory. The game will offer you a number of exciting puzzles, to solve which you...

Our Life: Beginnings and Always

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

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2020

Players: 6/10

Steam: 98/100

Our Life: Beginnings and Always is a visual novel where you can create and fully customize your character from the very beginning. With him you will go through...

Crowsworn

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Puzzle, Indie, Exploration, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.9/10

The game takes place in the kingdom of Fearandal, which was once hit by a dark curse that destroyed most of the population and summoned terrible creatures into the...

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Arcade, Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 October 2013

Players: 10/10

Hyper Knights

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2017

Hyper Knights is a medieval arcade indie action game with adventure elements. You'll hack and break through hundreds of enemies in a fast-paced, skill-based game...

Kill The Bad Guy

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2014

Kill The Bad Guy is a fun arcade puzzle game with an isometric camera view. Does everyone deserve a second chance? Is it possible to forgive a person for his...

Upside Down

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

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2017

Upside Down is an adventure platformer with action and puzzle elements. You have to sharpen your reflexes. As a scarecrow, armed only with your wits, you'll face...

Orbital Gear

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 August 2014

West of Loathing

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 10 August 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 86/100

West of Loathing is an unusual adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat. You have to go to the minimalistic world of the city of Boring Springs, where you...

Trees Hate You

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Comedy, Walking Simulator

Game in development: Linux → 2026

A hardcore platformer with an absurd sense of humor, where the main enemy becomes the trees. The forest here lives by its own rules: branches hinder movement, traps...

Paranautical Activity

Action, Shooter, Indie, Roguelike, First-person view

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2013

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 48/100

Paranautical Activity is a dynamic indie shooter with a first-person view and roguelike elements. The game features randomly generated levels, super-fast gameplay...

Little Acre

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 13 December 2016

Players: 4/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Little Acre — point and click adventure from the developers from the Pewter Games studio. The game tells the story of Irishman Aidan, who is trying to find...

Banebush

Horror, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 December 2024

Players: 9.7/10

A gloomy adventure made in black and red colors and inspired by fairy tales. The game has several endings, the receipt of which depends on the decisions made by the...

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2015

Players: 10/10

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition is a complete edition of the arcade platformer with puzzle elements. As a bizarre creature, you have to fly through colorful...

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is an arcade game with action and indie elements from developers from the Asteroid Base studio. The game is published by Asteroid...

Snakebird Primer

Indie, Casual game, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Linux → 20 February 2019

An arcade puzzle in the spirit of the snake game, only the main characters are long birds. By collecting fruits, players gradually increase the size of the bird...

iO - A Physics Platformer

Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2014

iO — A Physics Platformer...

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...

A Game About Feeding A Black Hole

Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Clicker

Game released: Linux → 15 December 2025

A casual game about feeding a black hole with material elements. The project is built around a simple yet engaging cycle: the player destroys asteroids, planets...

7Groves

Adventure, Casual game, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2024

A relaxing game in which the gamer leisurely strolls through beautiful and surreal forests that look like paintings come to life. Along the way, you can collect...

Neverway

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Simulation, Top-down view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Construction, Crafting

Game in development: Linux → октябрь 2026

A dark hybrid game that combines elements of life simulation, horror, and role-playing action. The story centers around Fiona, who starts a new life on a farm after...

AuroraRL

Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Science fiction

Early Access: Linux → 8 April 2016

AuroraRL is a sci-fi RPG with turn-based combat and a procedurally generated world. You have to become the captain of a large starship and go to conquer space. The...

Soul Axiom

Adventure, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 February 2016

Metacritic: 51/100

Soul Axiom is a first-person adventure with indie game elements from developers from Wales Interactive. The game is published by Wales Interactive. It seems that...

Digital Defender ORC

Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Free game, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2026

A free tactical game in the "tower defense" format with role-playing elements set in a cyberpunk future, where the player defends monsters from digital assassins...

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