Indie 2015 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 3

Paper Dungeons - a game in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Board / Group Game, Logic, Roguelike, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 26 March 2015

Steam: 48/100

Paper Dungeons is a role-playing logic action game with elements of a bagel and a board game. You start each dungeon as a new board from a long...

Square Heroes

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2015

Steam: 85/100

This comedic action shooter follows a genetically engineered hero who joins the Galactic Tournament after saving humanity. With that purpose...

Bloodbath Kavkaz

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Sakura Fantasy

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 May 2015

Steam: 89/100

A fantasy visual novel about a young woman who aspires to become a knight. The player follows her story and makes choices that shape how the...

Dungeon Crawlers

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

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2015

Steam: 50/100

This turn-based strategy game brings a comedic ghost-hunting concept to a dungeon setting. Its gameplay centers on tactical, turn-based encounters...

the static speaks my name

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Free game, Exploration, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 August 2015

Steam: 81/100

A short psychological adventure from the first person. The game tells the story of a man's last night, obsessed with a painting of two palm trees. He...

Celestian Tales: Old North

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 10 August 2015

Steam: 69/100

Celestian Tales: Old North is an adventure RPG with Japanese-style turn-based combat. The game takes place in a colorful fantasy world, where six...

Gathering Sky

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2015

Players: 3.7/10

Steam: 92/100

This adventure follows a flock of birds on a journey across the sky. The flight begins with a single bird: the player can steer it and grow the flock...

Shelter 2: Mountains

Adventure, DLC, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2015

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 97/100

An add-on for Shelter 2, Mountains follows the lynx Inna and her cubs as they explore a new highland region. The family travels from dense lowland...

Cute Things Dying Violently

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 3 September 2015

Steam: 85/100

This arcade puzzle-platformer tasks players with helping hapless Critters escape each level. They are launched around the stages, avoiding hazards...

Jotun

Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2015

Players: 7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Jotun is a hand-drawn action adventure game set in the world of Norse mythology. In the game, you will try on the role of Toru, a Viking warrior who...

Toby: The Secret Mine

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

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2015

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 56/100

Toby: The Secret Mine is a side-scrolling arcade platformer with puzzle elements. The main character Toby is trying to find out where his friends...

Dungeon Warfare

Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2015

Steam: 95/100

A strategy game in the tower defense genre, where the role of the dungeon defender is assigned not to towers, but to numerous deadly traps. Spikes...

Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2015

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This pixel-art RPG with roguelike elements follows the threat posed by the Sons of Dawn, a cult seeking to awaken an ancient god. The player forms a...

Anode

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 October 2015

Steam: 88/100

Anode is an arcade match-3 puzzle game. The game is built on the classic mechanics of Tetris, in which the cubes are colored and destroyed as they...

Slow Down Bull

Action, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 April 2015

Steam: 83/100

This action-collecting game follows Esteban, a bull who dreams of making beautiful art. The player steers him through a world styled like school...

Anna's Quest

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 July 2015

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Anna's Quest is an exciting point and click adventure in a fantasy setting. Anna spent her entire childhood on a distant, quiet farm, knowing nothing...

Blues and Bullets

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

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2015

Steam: 65/100

Blues and Bullets is a third-person, noir-style action-adventure episodic game. A long coat, booze, a gun, and talking to yourself are all part of...

Shadow Blade: Reload

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 August 2015

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Shadow Blade: Reload is a side-scrolling action platformer about Kuro, a ninja tasked with restoring balance to a modern world where ancient clans...

Ostrich Island

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Indie, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 8 January 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

This adventure RPG follows an ostrich left behind on an archipelago after a volcano erupts, searching for a way to escape and reunite with its...

GunSlugs 2

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Arcade, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2015

Steam: 56/100

A side-scrolling arcade platformer about the elite Gunslugs squad fighting the Black Duck Army, which has returned with alien technology and is...

Block Legend

Role-playing game, Action, Puzzle, Indie, Roguelike, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2015

Steam: 63/100

Block Legend is an indie action role-playing game in the roguelike genre with puzzle elements. You will travel through different regions with many...

Fire: Ungh's Quest

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2015

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 64/100

This puzzle adventure follows Ungh, a Neanderthal who falls asleep during his first night watch and lets the village fire go out. Banished by his...

Gratuitous Space Battles 2

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 April 2015

Steam: 36/100

A space-fleet management strategy and simulation game in which the player serves as supreme commander, preparing ships for battle without controlling...

Canabalt

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

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2015

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Canabalt is a fantasy arcade platformer. You have to escape from the destruction of your city with just one button. The game that popularized the...

Windward

Role-playing game, Action, Warships / Submarines, Historical, Indie, Sandbox, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Windward is an action sandbox about sailing a ship through a procedurally generated world shaped by growing towns, trade, and conflict. Each voyage...

Catlateral Damage

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 27 May 2015

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 57/100

A first-person destruction simulator in which a house cat makes a mess of its owner’s home. The player explores rooms, walks, jumps and crouches...

Ronin

Stealth, Platformer, Turn-based, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 30 June 2015

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Ronin is a side-scrolling turn-based stealth platformer. You have to play as a girl who takes revenge on corporations. During this dangerous...

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 July 2015

Steam: 71/100

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! — an arms dealer simulator with business and management elements. You have to become a weapons baron. Create new...

Duet

Arcade, Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 4 August 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Duet is an arcade game about guiding two linked spheres, orbiting a shared center, through mazes of falling obstacles. The player turns them left or...

Hyperdrive Massacre

Arcade, Beat them all, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sports game, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 85/100

Hyperdrive Massacre is a top-down arcade action game made in the style of the 80s. The game features local multiplayer in which you and your friends...

Conflicks - Revolutionary Space Battles

Strategy, In real time, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 5 November 2015

Steam: 82/100

Conflicks: Revolutionary Space Battles is an indie real-time strategy game. The game will take the player to an alternative universe, where the...

Vendetta - Curse of Raven's Cry

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 November 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 45/100

Metacritic: 27/100

Vendetta — Curse of Raven's Cry is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view from the creators of the Two Worlds series. The main...

Sumico

Puzzle, Logic, Free game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 3 July 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

A number puzzle game built around solving addition challenges and progressing through levels. It features 84 levels, an Endless Mode with adjustable...

Grave

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

Game released: Linux → 30 March 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Grave is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. The surreal world of the game will give you a huge space to explore with mystical...

Rustbucket Rumble

Online, Action, Platformer, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 4 May 2015

Steam: 56/100

Rustbucket Rumble is a team-based, side-scrolling arena action game set on an Earth abandoned by humanity. The machines left behind continue the...

You Must Build A Boat

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

Game released: Linux → 4 June 2015

Players: 1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 89/100

This role-playing puzzle game combines match-three tile combinations with runs through procedurally generated dungeons, all in pursuit of building a...

MadOut

Arcade, Action, Racing, Indie, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 38/100

MadOut is an arcade racing action game with a third-person view. Unlike other games where you can only knock your opponent off the track, this game...

Battle for the Sun

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2015

Steam: 26/100

A first-person shooter about a war against aliens, fought through the eyes of Dylan, a special forces soldier assigned to strategic missions. Four...

UBERMOSH

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2015

Players: 1.2/10

Steam: 92/100

UBERMOSH is a cyberpunk arcade shooter with an isometric view. Just like a pinball table or a slot machine, this game is designed to give you an...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2015 for Linux (Game released)