Indie 2016 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre

Stardew Valley - a game in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Simulation, Online, Business / Management, Indie, Farm Simulator

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Stardew Valley is a farming simulator with role-playing elements, an open-world sandbox with an isometric camera and the visual style of 90s arcade games. After...

Owlboy

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 1 November 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Owlboy is a side-scrolling arcade platformer with a pixel art style. The main character is an owl boy, capable of both running around locations and flying. In the...

Enter the Gungeon

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Beat them all, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Enter the Gungeon is a top-down arcade shooter from the developers at Dodge Roll. The roguelike takes place in the ever-changing fortress of Gungeon, which is a...

Hyper Light Drifter

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Hyper Light Drifter is a top-down action-adventure RPG. The main character of the game suffers from a strange disease and goes to amazing countries to find a...

Firewatch

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 9 February 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Firewatch is an indie adventure with a first-person view, developed by former developers of The Walking Dead and BioShock 2. The action takes place in the forests...

Defense Zone 3

Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Strategy, Action, In real time, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 December 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 79/100

Defense Zone 3 Ultra HD is an indie tower defense strategy game with a top-down view in real time. This is a sequel to the famous Defense Zone strategy, only now...

Pankapu

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

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2016

Steam: 73/100

Pankapu: The Gates of Omnia is an episodic side-scrolling action platformer. The events of the game develop in the fantasies of Jaarell, a child who once...

Reigns

Board / Group Game, Card game, Logic, Medieval era, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Reigns is a card board game where you will become the ruler of a small kingdom and take part in important elections that will determine your reign and the fate of...

This Is the Police

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 July 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This Is the Police is an adventure strategy game with management game elements and an isometric camera view. Scandals, intrigues, investigations are commonplace for...

Planet Explorers

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Sandbox, Open world, Survival

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2016

Players: 5.2/10

Steam: 59/100

Planet Explorers is a free-to-play action role-playing game with a third-person view and survival elements in a sci-fi setting. The plot tells about the distant...

N++

Arcade, Indie, Side view, Action, Parkour

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2016

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

N++ is a side-scrolling platformer set in a science-fiction world where success depends on controlling momentum. The player navigates obstacles, evades hostile...

SUPERHOT

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Linux → 25 February 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

SUPERHOT is a first-person shooter-puzzle game from the Polish studio SUPERHOT Team. The main feature of the game mechanics is the passage of time — only...

Sunless Sea: Zubmariner

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Sunless Sea: Zubmariner is an addition to the top-down role-playing adventure with horror elements Sunless Sea. If the original action took place on the surface of...

Vintage Story

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2016

Players: 10/10

A hardcore sandbox survival game inspired by the ideas of classic voxel games in the spirit of Minecraft, but reimagined through the lens of realism and...

Shadows of Kurgansk

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Survival, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Shadows of Kurgansk is an action shooter with a first-person view and horror elements in a post-apocalyptic world. You have to survive in a Zone where zombies live...

Oxenfree

Adventure, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Oxenfree is a mystical adventure with a side view about teenagers who decide to spend a weekend on a mysterious island. The main character, along with her friends...

The Final Station

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view, Survival

Game released: Linux → 30 August 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Action platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The player will have the opportunity to become a train driver in a desert world, carrying his passengers from...

This War of Mine: The Little Ones

Strategy, Adventure, DLC, Business / Management, Roguelike, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 June 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 80/100

This War of Mine: The Little Ones is an expansion to the side-scrolling management strategy adventure This War of Mine. The addition tells the story of young...

Golf With Your Friends

Arcade, Golf, Sports game, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Simulation, Online, Casual game

Early Access: Linux → 30 January 2016; Game released: Linux → 19 May 2020

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Golf With Your Friends is a fun sports arcade game dedicated to golf. Exciting matches await you, designed for cooperative play by up to 12 people. You will find 7...

Mother Russia Bleeds

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Side view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 5 September 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Mother Russia Bleeds is a side-scrolling arcade action game. You advance through the level, destroying all enemies along the way using hand-to-hand combat and...

OneShot

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 December 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This surreal top-down puzzle adventure follows a child travelling through a mysterious world in an attempt to restore its long-dead sun. In OneShot, the world is...

Plague Inc: Evolved

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Business / Management, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 18 February 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Plague Inc: Evolved is an updated version of an unusual simulator with elements of management strategy for modern platforms. The game will give you the opportunity...

SpeedRunners

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Racing, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 April 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 84/100

SpeedRunners is a co-op arcade action platformer that puts running at the center of the game, challenging players to compete in speed races online. Your task is to...

Slain: Back from Hell

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Slasher

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Slain: Back from Hell is an action-adventure platformer in a gothic setting. The story follows the doomed hero Bathoryn as he travels through a Gothic world and...

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a side-scrolling action platformer. You have to go explore the dark lands where the curse has fallen. Evil is penetrating...

Ice Lakes

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Sports game, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Linux → 19 April 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Ice Lakes is an ice fishing sports simulator with first and third person views, supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices. You will have the...

Idling to Rule the Gods

Free game, Text quest, Casual game, Clicker, Fantasy, Role-playing game, Mysticism / Supernatural, Indie, Simulation

Game canceled: Linux → 28 May 2016

Steam: 84/100

The game takes place in the year 9001, where people have destroyed all the inhabited planets in the universe. On the last planet, they managed to create a device...

Zombie Night Terror

Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Zombies, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 July 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Zombie Night Terror is a side-view management strategy set in the world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to control a squad of zombies, whose goal is to infect...

Seasons after Fall

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Side view, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Seasons after Fall is a side-view arcade adventure in a fantasy setting. The main character is a wild fox who fell under the control of the spirit of the forest. He...

Pony Island

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Demons

Game released: Linux → 4 January 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Pony Island is a logic puzzle game from the developers of Daniel Mullins Games. The story is that the devil locks the player in an arcade, and in order to get out...

Hue

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

Game released: Linux → 30 August 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Hue is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game with platforming elements. In it you have to remake the world by changing its background color. Together with a character...

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Online, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in the style of Super Meat Boy. You have to create levels with a huge number of traps and other...

Trial by Viking

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2016

Steam: 75/100

Trial by Viking is a side-scrolling action role-playing platformer in a fantasy setting. As a brave Viking, you have to conquer many dangerous dungeons, fraught...

Lumo

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Isometric

Game released: Linux → 24 May 2016

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Lumo is an isometric platform adventure built around exploring rooms, each presenting a self-contained challenge. It draws on platformers from the 1980s and early...

Clustertruck

Arcade, Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie, Parkour

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Clustertruck is an arcade action platformer with a first-person view, in which the player has to stay on top of speeding long-range trucks. Jumping from one car to...

Meadow

Online, Simulation, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, MMO, Open world

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Meadow is a multiplayer adventure simulator where you take on the role of a wild animal. Choose one of the many animals and go. Use all five senses to find others...

My Night Job

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Survival horror, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2016

Steam: 82/100

My Night Job is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. Players have to go to an abandoned building where nightmarish monsters are rampant. And over 60 types of...

The Way of Life Free Edition

Free game, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 72/100

The Way of Life Free Edition is a walking simulator about everyday experiences seen through the eyes of three characters at different stages of life: an adult, an...

Little Acre

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 13 December 2016

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Little Acre — point and click adventure from the developers from the Pewter Games studio. The game tells the story of Irishman Aidan, who is trying to find...

MechRunner

Action, Third-person view, Combat robots, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2016

Players: 1/10

Steam: 50/100

An endless action game about piloting a combat mech against the robotic forces of the secret organization O.S.O. After Soviet intelligence discovers an alien...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2016 for Linux