Indie 2014 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 2

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2014

Steam: 91/100

This short experimental game follows a fly ascending into the sky and pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence. The ascent becomes a contemplative journey...

MouseCraft

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 July 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 72/100

MouseCraft is a puzzle game about guiding mice to their goal as the cat scientist Schrödinger works on a mysterious mouse-powered machine. Players stack Tetromino...

Max Gentlemen

Free game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2014

Steam: 87/100

Max Gentlemen is an arcade-style simulator of extreme manners centered on stacking hats into tall piles. Players collect hats and complete levels, with additional...

Dungeon Defenders Eternity

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 48/100

A fantasy action RPG with tower-defense elements, Dungeon Defenders Eternity follows a team of heroes defending Etheria from the army of the Old Ones. Players...

OlliOlli

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Sports game, Indie, Skateboards

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2014

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This skateboarding arcade game revolves around landing tricks and maintaining control through obstacle-filled levels. Players perform more than 120 tricks and...

Lethal League

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Baseball, Sports game, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Lethal League is a side-scrolling arcade sports game that can be played cooperatively by up to four people. You will go to fight in various arenas, where the main...

Card City Nights

Card game, Indie, Collectible card game (CCG)

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2014

Steam: 89/100

This card-based adventure takes place in a city full of card enthusiasts and oddballs. The protagonist collects eight legendary cards to enter the biggest...

Joe Danger 2: The Movie

Arcade, Racing, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → I квартал 2014

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This arcade stunt game follows Joe Danger as he performs daredevil feats on the set of a blockbuster movie. Across 100 levels, he pursues crooks on a police bike...

Battle Group 2

Strategy, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Top-down view, Tactics, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 June 2014

Steam: 84/100

A real-time strategy game with a top-down view, Battle Group 2 follows a modern naval fleet's fight against the terrorist group Talon. The player commands a...

Spoiler Alert

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 June 2014

Steam: 77/100

Spoiler Alert is a hardcore side-scrolling indie platformer. You will find yourself in a completely completed game: the main villain is defeated, all the coins are...

Defense Grid 2

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Action

Game released: Linux → 23 September 2014

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Defense Grid 2 is a continuation of the exciting tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre with an isometric camera view. In the sequel, you will find an...

Jackbox Party Pack

Arcade, Board / Group Game, Casual game, Trivia, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 November 2014

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Jackbox Party Pack is a fun, arcade game for a large group. Using your mobile devices and computer, you have to play simple, uncomplicated games with your friends...

Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

Adventure, Indie, Free game, Side view, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2014

Steam: 88/100

A hybrid of an adventure game and RPG, inspired by Norse mythology. The story begins with the summoning of the heroine by the earl Yarnvidr, who is desperately...

Last Federation

Simulation, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Space

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2014

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Last Federation is a fascinating global strategy game with turn-based combat in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place in the distant future in the...

Frederic: Resurrection of Music

Arcade, Action, Music game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2014

Steam: 85/100

Frederic: Resurrection of Music is a dynamic musical arcade game with a colorful visual style. You will be able to join Fryderyk, one of the most important...

Defense Zone

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

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 81/100

Defense Zone is an exciting tactical strategy game in the "tower defense" genre with a top-down view. During the game, you need to protect your towers from huge...

Elegy for a Dead World

Adventure, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 65/100

An adventure about exploring three dead worlds and writing stories about their long-vanished societies. The settings draw inspiration from the poetry of Keats...

Circuits

Music game, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Steam: 89/100

Circuits is a musical puzzle game in which players listen closely to separate sound parts and assemble them into complete songs. Each level involves working out how...

The Impossible Game

Action, Indie, Side view, Platformer, Music game

Game released: Linux → 8 May 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 64/100

The player taps the jump screen and tries to navigate the orange square while avoiding traps to reach the end of the level. Any mistake will result in instant death...

Ascendant

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 May 2014

Steam: 76/100

Ascendant is an arcade role-playing action platformer with roguelike elements and a side view. You become a demigod who invades the dimension and must defeat hordes...

Lifeless Planet

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Exploration, Space

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2014

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Lifeless Planet is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. The game tells the story of an astronaut who discovers an abandoned Soviet...

Aeon Command

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 3 July 2014

Steam: 78/100

This tug-of-war strategy game is set in the Aeon Nebula, where three factions are fighting for dominance. Players command a mothership, gather resources, build...

Deadly 30

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Slasher, Platformer, Indie, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 8 January 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 80/100

Deadly 30 is a retro-style survival horror game set in a zombie-infested world, where the goal is to survive 30 days and nights while fighting off waves of the...

Blackwell Epiphany

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2014

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Blackwell Epiphany is a point and click adventure game from the developers of Wadjet Eye Games. This is the fifth and final part of the Blackwell Legacy quest saga...

Screencheat

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

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2014

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 71/100

A competitive first-person shooter in which every fighter is invisible, forcing players to locate opponents by looking at their screens. Matches use split-screen...

Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 30 January 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This comedic adventure follows an octopus posing as a human father and trying to keep his true nature secret from his family. In Octodad: Dadliest Catch, the hero...

SPACECOM

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

Game released: Linux → 17 September 2014

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 68/100

SPACECOM is a sci-fi strategy game with turn-based combat and a top-down view. You have to become the commander of a space fleet designed for battle. The game...

Neverending Nightmares

Action, Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Neverending Nightmares is a side-scrolling adventure horror game. You have to get used to the role of Thomas — a man who has fallen into a long string of...

Ziggurat

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Ziggurat is a first-person shooter with roguelike elements, inspired by the Hexen and Painkiller series. You have to put on the skin of a sorcerer and go...

Crowntakers

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

Game released: Linux → 7 November 2014

Steam: 74/100

Crowntakers is a turn-based strategy game with RPG elements set in a fantasy world. In a big fairy-tale world, a tragedy occurs — a good king is captured by...

Steam Bandits: Outpost

Role-playing game, Adventure, Online, Indie, Steampunk

Early Access: Linux → 15 January 2014

Players: 1/10

Steam Bandits: Outpost is an indie steampunk adventure RPG. You'll explore the skies of a steampunk world, discovering islands, taming beasts, and battling anything...

Last Tinker: City of Colors

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2014

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This third-person action adventure takes place in Colortown, a world built around creativity, emotion, and collaboration. Koru, a boy from the city’s slums, sets...

DreadOut

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

Game released: Linux → 15 May 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 55/100

DreadOut is an action-horror game played from a third-person perspective. The events of the game will tell the story of young Linda and her friends, who find...

Roundabout

Arcade, Action, Racing, Isometric, Indie, Comedy, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 18 September 2014

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This driving puzzle game follows a limousine that constantly spins as it travels through a city in 1977. Its story charts the rise to fame of Georgio Manos, a...

TRI

Action, Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 9 October 2014

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This first-person puzzle-platformer takes place in the world of the Odd Gods, among towers and dungeons. Using the TRI artifact, the protagonist creates triangular...

Detail

Adventure, Interactive movie, Indie, Point & Click,

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Detail is an episodic point and click adventure in a noir style, inspired by the HBO series The Wire. The game tells an intriguing story of police officer Reginald...

Fall of the New Age

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 January 2014

Steam: 52/100

Fall of the New Age is an adventure arcade puzzle game in the hidden object genre. The game will tell about the dark times of the Middle Ages, where a secret...

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy

Role-playing game, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 14 June 2014

Steam: 79/100

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy is a text adventure with role-playing elements in a fantasy setting. In the game you will find yourself in an amazing world where...

Rex Rocket

Arcade, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 August 2014

Steam: 71/100

Set in Earth’s distant future, this 2D platformer follows a former war hero trying to stop a starship’s rogue artificial intelligence. The player chooses Captain...

GoD Factory: Wingmen

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 29 August 2014

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 76/100

GoD Factory: Wingmen is a team-based multiplayer space action game from Nine Dots Studio. Two teams of 4 people each will have to fight each other in various space...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2014 for Linux