Indie 2015 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 5

Centauri Sector - a game in the Indie genre

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

Game released: Linux → 24 June 2015

Steam: 50/100

A top-down tactical space action game about defending the Tabula Rasa system from repeated attacks by space pirates. The player commands a fleet that starts with a...

Devouring Stars

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 July 2015

Steam: 65/100

Devouring Stars is a minimalistic real-time strategy that takes you into space, where you, playing as Something, will fight with other equally incomprehensible and...

Feist

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Feist is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer. The game combines a minimalist art style and physics reminiscent of Limbo. As a small black animal, you will...

#I.X.

Shooter, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2015

#I.X. is a scary top-down indie shooter. The game takes place in the not-too-distant future, where prisoners are used for dangerous work, against their will. As...

INK

Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 August 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 87/100

INK is a color-based platformer about navigating levels with invisible terrain, gradually revealing the surroundings with paint. The goal is to defeat every enemy...

Brawl (2015)

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2015

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This horror-themed arena game combines bomb-based arcade combat with MOBA elements in the dark Emporium. Players choose from eight characters, each with a backstory...

RymdResa

Arcade, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 20 August 2015

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 64/100

RymdResa is a space adventure with roguelike and RPG elements, following a pilot who has lost their home and searches for a new one in a vast, unfamiliar universe...

WonderCat Adventures

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 11 September 2015

Steam: 76/100

WonderCat Adventures is a runner-platformer about a cat trying to escape mysterious caves and find its way home after a UFO crash. Along the way, WonderCat searches...

Orion Trail

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2015

Steam: 68/100

Orion Trail is a procedurally generated side-scrolling adventure with pixel graphics. You will have to travel in outer space, where only the luckiest, bravest and...

Showing Tonight: Mindhunters Incident

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2015

Steam: 58/100

Showing Tonight: Mindhunters Incident is an adventure arcade game in the hidden object genre about a gloomy cinema in which something otherworldly is happening. The...

MetaHuman Inc.

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

Game released: Linux → 18 December 2015

Steam: 90/100

MetaHuman Inc. — text adventure role-playing game. Based on the novel by Paul Gresty, the game tells the story of the executive director of a company that...

Battle Ranch: Pigs vs Plants

Strategy, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2015

Steam: 49/100

This strategy game combines tower defense and time management as the player protects a ranch from boars that threaten its livestock and the rancher's family. Mutant...

Abomination Tower

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Action

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2015

Steam: 77/100

Abomination Tower is an arcade indie platformer with a side view and generated levels. You have to control a headless hero who wants to escape beyond the level. To...

Rktcr

Adventure, Indie, Racing

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2015

Steam: 100/100

This physics-based side-view platformer blends action with puzzles, asking for careful play at a pace slower than real time. Rktcr lets players see the future and...

Voyage to Farland

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 27 June 2013

Steam: 91/100

A turn-based roguelike about a wanderer searching for a missing sister in the forested Iya Gorge. The region is filled with dangerous creatures and mysteries, and...

Nightside

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2015

Steam: 62/100

This science-fiction real-time strategy game centers on the struggle for the valuable “green ice” resource on the dark side of an unknown planet. In a 14-mission...

DiscStorm

Arcade, Top-down view, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 August 2015

Steam: 88/100

A top-down arcade action game about arena battles, where players dodge discs ricocheting off walls at high speed. In single-player mode, the hero travels through...

Tic-Toc-Tower

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

Game released: Linux → 28 September 2015

Steam: 45/100

Tic-Toc-Tower is a side-scrolling adventure arcade puzzle platformer. The main task of the game is to complete the levels, avoiding various traps, abysses and other...

Never Ending Night

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2015

Steam: 37/100

Never Ending Night is an adventure platformer with action elements. The action takes place in a night that lasts forever. The game has the opportunity to play with...

Star Sky

Adventure, Third-person view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2015

Steam: 78/100

This casual adventure follows a man taking a midnight stroll along the same road, where each journey can bring new encounters. Every step shapes the story, and its...

Marble Duel: Sphere-Matching Tactical Fantasy

Puzzle, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 59/100

Marble Duel: Sphere-Matching Tactical Fantasy is a casual indie match-3 puzzle game. Players will have to become powerful magicians and free the kingdom captured by...

Super Galaxy Squadron

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

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A fast-paced vertical shooter in which players pilot one of 17 ships. The game features multiple modes, while its forgiving health system and gradual difficulty...

Gravity Ghost

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2015

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Gravity Ghost — arcade indie platformer from the developers of Ivy Games. The action takes place in a destroyed galaxy, where a ghost named Ione is looking...

Grass Simulator

Indie, Walking Simulator, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2015

Steam: 68/100

Grass Simulator is a walking simulator with shooting elements, set in a dimension filled with cows and grass. The player controls Garry Rambler, a mercenary who...

Last Word

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 May 2015

Steam: 83/100

An adventure RPG set at a society gathering where having the last word means holding power over others. Photographer Whitty Gawship attends a party hosted by...

Kung Fury: Street Rage

Arcade, Fighting, Beat them all, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2015

Steam: 89/100

Stars Beyond Reach

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2015

Stars Beyond Reach is a strategy game with indie game elements from developers from the Arcen Games studio. The game is published by Arcen...

Tile Rider

Arcade, Action, Racing, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 June 2015

Steam: 54/100

Tile Rider is an arcade race with puzzle elements. Driving a small car equipped with a weapon and a magnetic grip, you have to try to escape from the virtual tile...

Chicken Invaders: Revenge of the Yolk

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 8 June 2015

Steam: 66/100

Chicken Invaders: Revenge of the Yolk is a top-down arcade game with action and shooter elements from developers from InterAction studios. The main publisher of the...

Cheats 4 Hire

Strategy, Indie, Free game, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 25 June 2015

Steam: 72/100

Set in Travian High School, this tactical puzzle game follows a group of students who help their classmates cheat on exams as more and more of them fail. Janitor...

Duet

Arcade, Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 4 August 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 98/100

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 right to dodge...

VERSUS: The Lost Ones

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 21 August 2015

Steam: 81/100

This science-fiction text adventure follows an interstellar warrior held captive on the unfamiliar planet Versus. To survive and seek a way out, the protagonist...

Circa Infinity

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2015

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Circa Infinity is an arcade action game from indie developers from the Kenny Sun studio. The players' task is to move through an endless cycle of circle levels...

Statues

Action, Adventure, Horror, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2015

Steam: 65/100

Statues is an action-adventure game with survival-horror elements, set among statues that come to life. The protagonist must survive encounters with stone enemies...

Poncho

Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Action

Game released: Linux → 3 November 2015

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 63/100

This puzzle-platforming adventure follows Poncho, a robot exploring a ruined world where humanity has vanished and only robots remain. The journey leads toward the...

Invisible, Inc. Contingency Plan

Action, Strategy, Stealth, DLC, Turn-based, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2015

Steam: 90/100

Invisible, Inc. Contingency Plan is an add-on to the spy action game that adds new missions and achievements. Players will be able to explore new locations...

Wild Season

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Farm Simulator, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 8 December 2015

Steam: 24/100

This farming-life simulation with visual novel and RPG elements follows a character who leaves the big city to start a farm in the south. After a storm, the...

Spartans Vs Zombies Defense

Free game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 January 2015

Steam: 47/100

This casual tower-defense game follows Leonidas, king of Sparta, as he faces zombie hordes at Thermopylae. The player summons allies and builds defenses to hold...

MagNets

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 January 2015

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 49/100

MagNets is a fun arcade action platformer with an isometric camera view. In the game you will fight in various arenas to restore order in the Polar City. To do...

Three Fourths Home

Indie, Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2015

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This visual short story is set in Nebraska and follows Kelly on a drive home through an intense thunderstorm. Along the way, she has an extended conversation with...

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