Indie 2014 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 4

Retrobooster - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2014

Steam: 100/100

Retrobooster is a 2.5D arcade shooter about piloting a nimble ship through strange worlds filled with enemies and hazards. Its flight controls use thrust and...

Orbital Gear

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

Game released: Linux → 8 August 2014

Steam: 82/100

A side-scrolling shooter-platformer about mech battles in space, where the gravity of celestial bodies provides momentum and affects movement and weapons. Each mech...

Golden Wake

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 9 October 2014

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This point-and-click adventure follows real estate agent Alfie Banks as he tries to succeed in the property market of 1920s Coral Gables, Florida. Based on actual...

Universe Edge

Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Indie

Game canceled: Linux → 22 May 2014

Universe Edge is a business simulator with sandbox and indie game elements from developers from the Albert Olivera studio. The game is published by Albert...

LOVE

Platformer, Indie, Side view, Arcade, Old school, Action

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2014

Steam: 92/100

A minimalist game with a retro aesthetic and an emphasis on challenge without being unfair. The game features an innovative revival system, 16 levels and an...

Spate

In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 27 March 2014

Steam: 71/100

This surreal third-person adventure follows a man struggling with addiction, the loss of his daughter, and a descent into madness. The game’s world reflects his...

Moebius

Adventure, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 April 2014

Steam: 78/100

A modern-day adventure follows Malachi Rector, an antiquities expert tasked by a secretive government agency with investigating a murder. He must determine whether...

Millie

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2014

Steam: 83/100

This casual puzzle game with arcade elements follows a millipede who dreams of flying and sets off for aviation school to become a pilot. The journey to that goal...

Pixel Boy and the Ever Expanding Dungeon

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 30 May 2014

Steam: 66/100

Pixel Boy and the Ever Expanding Dungeon is a top-down action RPG shooter set in dynamically generated dungeons filled with enemies. Pixel Boy descends into the...

Meltdown (2014)

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2014

Steam: 87/100

This tactical arcade shooter is set in a sci-fi world and follows Zed as he tries to escape a remote space station after a system malfunction. Enemies have distinct...

Spy Chameleon: RGB Agent

Arcade, Stealth, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 June 2014

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This arcade-puzzle game with stealth elements follows a chameleon secret agent who changes color to blend into the surroundings and avoid detection. Across five...

Derrick the Deathfin

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Derrick the Deathfin is a unique side-scrolling arcade adventure game with a world made entirely of paper. You will plunge into a bizarre underwater world, where...

Black Ice

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Steampunk, Exploration, Cyberpunk, Open world

Game released: Linux → 9 July 2014

Steam: 78/100

This first-person cyberpunk shooter with role-playing elements takes place in an open cyberspace where corporations protect their data with artificial intelligence...

9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Hidden Objects, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 10 July 2014

Steam: 89/100

This hidden-object puzzle adventure blends classical horror with 1950s noir. A paranormal private investigator travels to the coastal town of Serpent Creek to find...

Lovely Planet

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Lovely Planet is a first-person shooter set in a colorful abstract world, where the player fights through five enemy-filled worlds on the way to a distant...

Mecha Ace

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2014

Steam: 86/100

Mecha Ace is a text-based science-fiction role-playing game set during an interstellar civil war fought by pilots in giant robots. The protagonist can become a...

Signs of Life

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Sandbox, Survival

Early Access: Linux → 27 January 2014

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 80/100

This science-fiction survival sandbox platformer follows a survivor of a colony ship’s destruction. Escaping in a small pod, the protagonist is left with no...

Democracy 3: Social Engineering

Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Turn-based, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2014

Steam: 58/100

An expansion for Democracy 3 focused on subtle ways to influence the population. Rather than relying on broad economic measures, the player introduces campaigns and...

WazHack

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2014

Steam: 89/100

WazHack is an action role-playing strategy game in the roguelike genre. There are over 300 unique items to find, and you'll invent your own solutions to difficult...

Ku: Shroud of the Morrigan

Action, Slasher, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Steampunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 March 2014

Steam: 32/100

Ku: Shroud of the Morrigan is a fantastic slasher game with action elements and an isometric view. Set in a future Ireland devastated by techno-magic war and...

Escape Goat 2

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 March 2014

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer about a goat attempting to traverse the Stronghold of Toragos, which no one has conquered before. The goat must find a path...

Lost Marbles

Action, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 May 2014

Steam: 100/100

Lost Marbles is a platforming puzzle game in which the player controls three marbles at once, combining their properties to cross hazards and solve level...

Mountain

Simulation, Music game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 1 July 2014

Steam: 85/100

Mountain is an indie simulator that will allow you to become the god of an entire mountain. Forests grow on it, fireflies fly and day turns into night. In addition...

Cult of the Wind

Online, Action, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 July 2014

Steam: 69/100

This third-person online action game follows cultists who worship the wreckage of ancient airplanes and mimic dogfights in a world resembling a mausoleum to an Art...

Bik: A Space Adventure

Adventure, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2014

Steam: 94/100

Bik: A Space Adventure is a side-scrolling indie pixel adventure. Your hero is a boy who went on a hike with friends, but at one of the rest stops he is abducted by...

AI War: Destroyer of Worlds

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

Game released: Linux → 18 August 2014

Steam: 100/100

An expansion for AI War: Fleet Command that broadens its real-time strategy with new map layouts, AI opponents, and paths to victory. Nomad Planets alter the...

Shan Gui

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 August 2014

Steam: 96/100

Shan Gui — an adventure visual novel about a girl with beautiful art and a dramatic plot. Young Han Hui, who recently lost her father, goes to an amazing...

Schrodinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 September 2014

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 60/100

This puzzle platformer set in a world of quantum physics follows the chaos at the Particle Zoo after an emergency leaves it overrun with leptons, gluons and bosons...

Woah Dave!

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 October 2014

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This arcade platformer follows Dave Lonuts as he tries to survive an alien invasion and collect as many coins as possible. He fights back by throwing alien eggs...

Imagine Me

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 9 December 2014

Steam: 31/100

This 2D action platformer follows Robbe as he explores dungeons in an effort to reclaim his memories and confront his fears. The player searches spike-filled levels...

Jazzpunk

Action, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Indie, Comedy, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2014

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate-reality Cold War, where corporate espionage and cybercrime coexist with sentient martinis. The player takes the...

Eschalon: Book 3

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

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2014

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 77/100

Eschalon: Book 3 is an isometric role-playing game with action and fantasy elements from the developers of Basilisk Games. The main publisher of the game is...

Life Goes On: Done to Death

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This tragicomic puzzle platformer follows a band of knights searching for the Cup of Life. Progress depends on their deaths: fallen bodies become tools for solving...

Always Sometimes Monsters

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 21 May 2014

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Always Sometimes Monsters is an adventure RPG visual novel with horror elements and a top-down view. The events of the game will tell the story of the main...

Pivvot

Arcade, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2014

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This arcade game of avoidance challenges players to guide a moving object along a winding path while dodging obstacles. The route grows more difficult as the run...

Democracy 3: Clones & Drones

Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Turn-based, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 27 October 2014

Steam: 54/100

Democracy 3: Clones & Drones is a strategy game with a dash of business simulator from Positech Games. The main publisher of the game is Positech Games...

Magnetic By Nature

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 10 November 2014

Steam: 75/100

A science-fiction platformer about the last surviving robot, who journeys through forgotten ruins to reactivate its friends. The levels are built without...

Fight the Dragon

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

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2014

Steam: 78/100

This fantasy hack-and-slash RPG centers on adventures created by players, where heroes battle enemies and collect loot. Adventures can be played solo or with other...

Amazing Frog?

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Indie, Sandbox, Open world, Exploration

Early Access: Linux → 21 November 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 94/100

An open-world physics sandbox turns Swindon into a playground for farting ragdoll frogs that can be flung around by collisions. In Amazing Frog?, players explore...

Din's Curse

Role-playing game, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2014

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This real-time fantasy RPG follows a hero cursed by the god Din to spend a second life serving others; redemption depends on helping the inhabitants of towns. In...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2014 for Linux