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

Q*bert: Rebooted - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 8 July 2014

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 50/100

This arcade puzzle game centers on jumping across a pyramid of blocks, combining the classic 2D Q*bert mode with a 3D reimagining called Rebooted. In both versions...

Flockers

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Strategy, Action

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2014

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 64/100

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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...

Steam Marines

Roguelike, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 September 2014

Steam: 52/100

This tactical roguelike follows a squad of marines making their way through the decks of a besieged steampunk spaceship. The player commands up to four marines...

Tom Sparks And The Quakes Of Ruin

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 May 2014

Tom Sparks And The Quakes Of Ruin is a top-down arcade game with a mix of action, shooter, adventure, platformer, puzzle and indie game from Tasty Poison Games. The...

Appointment with F.E.A.R.

Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2014

Steam: 57/100

Appointment with F.E.A.R. is an adventure with puzzle and visual novel elements from the developers of Tin Man Games. The game is published by Tin Man Games...

ReignMaker

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 16 April 2014

Steam: 80/100

ReignMaker is a unique match-3 strategy game set in a fantasy setting. The game has many classic game elements: you have to arrange your city, build buildings and...

Shiny The Firefly

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2014

Steam: 76/100

A platform adventure about Shiny, a firefly searching for his children, scattered across a mysterious garden after an accident. The garden is home to dangerous...

Munin

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 10 June 2014

Players: 5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This puzzle-platformer set in Norse mythology follows Munin, Odin’s messenger, on a journey through Yggdrasil to reclaim her power. The player moves mountains and...

War in a Box: Paper Tanks

Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 July 2014

Steam: 72/100

This tower defense strategy game centers on a battle against paper tanks escaping from a toy box and threatening to make a mess in a room. The player places...

Only If

Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Free game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2014

Steam: 61/100

Only If is a surreal first-person adventure puzzle game about Anthony Clyde, who wakes up in an unfamiliar bed after a night of partying with no memory of what...

Tesla Breaks the World!

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2014

Steam: 38/100

This 2D platformer with puzzles follows Nikola Tesla as he tries to repair the world after Thomas Edison accidentally damages one of his inventions and opens a tear...

99 Levels To Hell

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2014

Steam: 58/100

This fantasy platform shooter sends the hero into dungeons filled with monsters, traps, and a path leading to the devil. Each run generates a new set of levels...

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...

Light

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Stealth, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2014

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This top-down stealth action game follows a man who wakes up with no memory in a strange but familiar place and tries to uncover what happened to him and the secret...

Micron

Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2014

Steam: 92/100

This rhythm puzzle game challenges players to guide energy pulses to an exit by placing pieces that deflect them across a board. The pulses fire to the beat, and...

Shopkeeper

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2014

Steam: 20/100

This point-and-click narrative adventure follows a man who must choose the right antique to impress a wealthy relative. His choice will have dreadful...

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...

Saturday Morning RPG

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Saturday Morning RPG is a fantastic side-scrolling RPG with turn-based combat. The developers took inspiration from cartoons and the culture of the eighties. The...

Rogue's Tale

Roguelike, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2014

Steam: 74/100

This turn-based dungeon crawler is set in Frostmourn Keep and the dungeons beneath it, in the World's End Mountains. The goal is to overthrow the current king and...

Noir Syndrome

Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 4 June 2014

Steam: 65/100

A procedurally generated detective adventure set in a stylized film-noir world, where each playthrough brings a new murder case, suspects, and clues. The player...

Magicite

Arcade, Role-playing game, Online, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2014

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 83/100

Magicite is an action role-playing platformer with procedurally generated levels. The player, together with his friends, will have to explore the dungeons. The game...

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...

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...

Ground Pounders

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

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 36/100

Ground Pounders is a unique turn-based strategy game with a top-down view in a sci-fi setting. The game will allow you to control an army of one of two available...

Mega Coin Squad

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This 2D platformer with arcade action centers on collecting Mega Coins across a single-player campaign. Procedurally generated levels change as the game progresses...

Bravada

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

Game released: Linux → 22 August 2014

Steam: 77/100

Bravada is a fantasy turn-based tactical RPG about a young dwarf who sets out with his bat companion to discover why his beard will not grow. Along the way, the...

Gigantic Army

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Indie, Runner

Game released: Linux → 6 March 2014

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Gigantic Army is a classic side-scrolling arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the 21st century, where Earth is at war with the Ramulons, 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...

Heldric - The Legend of the shoemaker

Role-playing game, Action, Slasher, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Steam: 66/100

This action game combines hack-and-slash combat with tower defense, casting the player as a village shoemaker who joins the locals to protect their home from waves...

You Have to Win the Game

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania, Free game

Game released: Linux → 6 May 2014

Steam: 92/100

An exploration platformer with the look and sound of 1980s PC games, set among the ruins of a lost world. The player runs and jumps past deadly pitfalls while...

Ichi

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 12 June 2014

Steam: 84/100

Ichi is a casual puzzle game controlled with a single button. Each level challenges the player to collect golden rings by rotating objects, using teleporters...

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...

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...

Secrets of Raetikon

Action, Adventure, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This 2D action-adventure with an open world takes place in the Alps, where a bird explores the wilderness and traces of an ancient culture. The player flies through...

Planet Stronghold

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 May 2014

Steam: 72/100

Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi RPG adventure with turn-based combat. You will play as a recruit who ends up serving at the most famous human outpost in the galaxy...

Prophour23

Action, Strategy, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2014

Steam: 58/100

A fast-paced real-time strategy game in which the player builds an organism from different organs and tries to withstand mounting odds. Organs can be connected in...

TinyKeep

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

Game released: Linux → 2 December 2014

Steam: 66/100

This fantasy action game follows a prisoner trying to escape a forgotten keep filled with procedurally generated dungeons. The character wakes in an open cell with...

The Plan

Free game, Indie, Casual game

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...

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...

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