Indie 2011 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 26 July 2011

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 85/100

VVVVVV is an arcade indie platformer with a side view. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension explorers who have crashed and lost contact with each...

Solar 2

Arcade, Space, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 17 June 2011

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This open-world arcade sandbox takes place in an infinite abstract universe where the player controls a celestial body. In Solar 2, players can complete varied...

Frozen Synapse

Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Sandbox, Indie, Tactics, Online

Game released: Linux → 26 May 2011

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Frozen Synapse is a fantastic top-down turn-based tactical strategy game. This game allows you to give detailed and precise orders to your team: classic gameplay...

SpaceChem

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Logic

Game released: Linux → 1 January 2011

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 84/100

SpaceChem is an unusual puzzle game with strategy elements and a top-down view. In the game you will try on the role of a SpaceChem reactor compartment engineer...

Monster RPG 2

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2011

Steam: 50/100

Monster RPG 2 is a third-person role-playing game with an admixture of anime/manga and fantasy games from developers from Nooskewl studio. The game is published by...

Space Pirates and Zombies

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2011

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This space action game with strategy and role-playing elements follows a pirate assembling a fleet and travelling towards the galactic core in search of treasure or...

Edge (2010)

Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A retro-styled platformer with puzzle elements in which the player controls a cube and rolls through levels. Along the way, the cube collects prisms and searches...

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution

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

Game released: Linux → 11 May 2011

Steam: 75/100

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution is a top-down arcade action game in a sci-fi setting. The setting is an alternative world in which you have to control a tank on an...

Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 20 January 2011

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This point-and-click adventure is set in an alternate 19th century where humanity has already mastered space travel. Captain Brawe investigates the kidnapping of...

Rochard

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 November 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Rochard is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting, filled to the brim with physics-based puzzles. You will play as John Roshard, the...

No Time To Explain

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2011

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 53/100

No Time To Explain is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer in a sci-fi setting. One day, he himself breaks into the main character’s house, only from the...

Satazius

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2011

Steam: 85/100

This side-scrolling arcade shooter takes place on SATAZIUS, a long-abandoned planet where space pirates attack the cruiser Agano. The crew of the assault ship...

Inside a Star-filled Sky

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

Game released: Linux → 18 February 2011

Steam: 69/100

A recursive tactical shooter with procedurally generated levels nested inside one another without end. The player moves through these spaces and can enter objects...

Before the Echo

Role-playing game, Indie, Music game

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2011

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A role-playing game with rhythm mechanics follows Ky as he climbs a mysterious Tower. Guided by a mysterious girl named Naia, he encounters dangerous monsters and...

Revenge of the Titans

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A real-time strategy game with tower defense elements, Revenge of the Titans follows an invasion in which the Titans send ground forces against human bases across...

HOARD

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 April 2011

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This top-down arcade strategy game casts the player as a dragon seeking to amass the largest possible hoard. The dragon burns villages and castles, collects gold...

TRAUMA (2011)

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 8 August 2011

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 62/100

TRAUMA (2011) is a first-person adventure with a hint of...

NightSky

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 1 March 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 75/100

NightSky is an atmospheric 2D action-puzzle game about guiding a sphere through picturesque worlds using realistic physics. Each world is divided into areas with...

Capsized

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

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Avadon: The Black Fortress

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 August 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

AI War: Light of the Spire

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

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2011

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for AI War: Fleet Command, it brings the Spire back to the galaxy: an alien race nearly destroyed by the artificial intelligences that also drove...

Lightfish

Action, Top-down view, Arcade, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2011

Steam: 90/100

Scoregasm

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 October 2011

Steam: 84/100

Scoregasm is a top-down action game with shooter elements from the studios Charlie's Games and RC Knight. The game is published by Charlie's...

3079

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

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2011

Players: 8/10

Steam: 53/100

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...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2011 for Linux (Game released)