Indie 2014 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 3

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...

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...

So Many Me

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Platformer, Logic, Indie, Action, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2014

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 78/100

So Many Me is a puzzle platformer about a creature who can control many clones of himself, joining forces to save a world threatened by an ancient evil. The hero...

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...

6180 the Moon

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2014

Steam: 91/100

This platforming puzzle game follows the Moon on a journey to find the Sun after it disappears. The top and bottom edges of the screen are connected: when the Moon...

Pyrite Heart

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 September 2014

Steam: 66/100

This visual novel follows Princess Ahri Remono, who accepts a challenge after a feud with her brother and leaves the Imperial Palace to study beyond its walls. On...

Poltergeist: A Pixelated Horror

Arcade, Horror, Isometric, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2014

Steam: 61/100

This puzzle game with strategy and horror elements follows Henry B. Knight, a ghost trying to drive the tenants out of his mansion. He earned the house through hard...

Fotonica

Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2014

Steam: 87/100

FOTONICA is a first-person arcade platformer about running, jumping, and moving at high speed through abstract environments. Its mostly two-color vector visuals use...

Retro City Rampage DX

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Open world, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 November 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Retro City Rampage DX is a retro arcade action game with a top-down view, which was developed under the impression of the first parts of the same GTA series. Very...

Journal

Indie, Adventure, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2014

Steam: 78/100

This narrative adventure unfolds in a hand-painted world and follows a young girl as she faces the choices and responsibilities of growing up. The story explores...

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...

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

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

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...

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...

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...

Lovely Planet

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

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 79/100

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...

Khet 2.0

Board / Group Game, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 1 October 2014

Steam: 89/100

This strategy board game centers on an Egyptian-themed arena where mirrored pieces redirect laser beams. Players take turns moving a piece and firing the laser...

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...

Foosball - Street Edition

Sports game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 16 April 2014

Steam: 58/100

This five-a-side arcade football game follows Rayados, a team of foosball players who have escaped the table and now compete against teams from around the world...

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...

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...

Monochroma

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

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Monochroma is an atmospheric puzzle platformer with horror elements and a side view. The game takes place in a gloomy industrial world. You will learn the story of...

Bridge Constructor Playground

Casual game, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 July 2014

Steam: 72/100

Bridge Constructor Playground is a bridge-building simulator in which players design crossings over valleys, canals and rivers, with settings ranging from cities...

Nightmare Cooperative

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

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2014

Steam: 63/100

A turn-based strategic roguelike about a band of unlikely companions seeking gold to help their village through hard times. Each character brings a different...

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...

Thief Town

Action, Indie, Stealth

Game released: Linux → 4 December 2014

Steam: 78/100

A local multiplayer stealth action game set in a pixel-art version of the Wild West, where players compete in an arena filled with identical characters. Each player...

Heroes Rise: The Hero Project

Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 17 June 2014

Steam: 77/100

This text-based role-playing game continues the story of Heroes Rise: The Prodigy, placing the protagonist on The Hero Project, a reality show where contestants...

Hack 'n' Slash

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

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2014

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Hack 'n' Slash is a fantasy puzzle adventure about a hero who defies a wizard’s restrictions and sets out to discover why the kingdom has fallen into disarray...

Bridge Constructor Medieval

Simulation, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2014

Steam: 80/100

This bridge-building simulation is set in the age of knights and castles. In Bridge Constructor Medieval, the player builds crossings to supply a city and protect...

Akaneiro: Demon Hunters

Role-playing game, Online, Hack and slash, Isometric, Free game, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 35/100

Metacritic: 53/100

An action RPG set in a dark fantasy interpretation of Edo-era Japan, where Japanese folklore meets elements of Little Red Riding Hood. Players hunt mythical...

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...

Stunt Runner

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → Q2 2014

Stunt Runner is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer, puzzle and indie game from developers from Kermdinger Studios. The main publisher of the game...

Pixel Piracy

Role-playing game, Arcade, Simulation, Platformer, Indie, Sandbox, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 52/100

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...

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...

Elliot Quest

Arcade, Role-playing game, Adventure, Platformer, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 November 2014

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 76/100

An adventure platformer with role-playing elements follows Elliot, who has been cursed with immortality and is slowly turning into a demon. After his wife...

Last Dream

Role-playing game, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2014

Steam: 83/100

This classic role-playing game follows a protagonist stranded in an unfamiliar world and searching for a way home. As the journey across Terra unfolds, the hero...

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

Strategy, Simulation, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 27 March 2014

Players: 7/10

Steam: 96/100

This strategy simulation centers on defending a base from a fluid-like substance that spreads across deformable terrain. Rather than sending discrete units with...

1001 Spikes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2014

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This arcade platformer with puzzle elements follows Aban Hawkins as he searches the ruins of Ukampa in South America for his missing father, archaeologist Jim...

Flashout 2

Action, Racing, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2014

Steam: 56/100

Flashout 2 is a third-person racing action game set in a fantasy world. This game offers a new look at racing thanks to a modernized career mode, major changes to...

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...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2014 for Linux (Game released)