Indie 2016 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 3

Highway Blossoms - a game in the Indie genre

Simulation, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 June 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Highway Blossoms — a visual novel with elements of a Japanese-style dating simulator. The game's plot unfolds in the southwestern USA, where young Amber seeks to...

Habitat: A Thousand Generations in Orbit

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Space, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2016

Steam: 32/100

This physics-based space strategy game with action elements follows an effort to save humanity after Earth becomes uninhabitable. The player leads a team of...

Spacejacked

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Indie, Tactics, Side view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 26 February 2016

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 100/100

Spacejacked is an exciting arcade game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre with a side view. In the role of space engineer Dave Paprovsky, you have to...

Pharaonic

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Side view, Exploration, Slasher, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2016

Steam: 77/100

Pharaonic is a side-scrolling action RPG that will take players to Ancient Egypt. You have to explore the cursed kingdom to solve the riddle of the Red Pharaoh. The...

Girl and the Robot

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 August 2016

Steam: 67/100

Girl and the Robot is an action-adventure game with a third-person view. The events of the game develop in a colorful world where you have to play as a little girl...

Slayaway Camp

Arcade, Strategy, Horror, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Slayaway Camp is an exciting strategy game with horror elements and a lot of puzzles. You have to get used to the role of a maniac killer, calling himself...

SoulHunt

Action, Online, First-person view, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 December 2016

Steam: 81/100

A free multiplayer game in the "hide and seek" genre, where players compete as hunters and hiding participants. The project offers a set of unique abilities and...

Move or Die

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Online, Action

Early Access: Linux → 16 December 2015; Game released: Linux → 21 January 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Move or Die is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer for a noisy group. The game is a collection of mini-games in which several people can participate. Among the...

Green Game: TimeSwapper

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

Game released: Linux → 4 April 2016

Steam: 91/100

Green Game TimeSwapper is a side-scrolling arcade platformer adventure game. Your goal will be to guide the flying chicken from one box to another, but since its...

Goetia

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2016

Players: 3.7/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Goetia is a point and click adventure with a side view. The main character is the ghost of a girl, Abigail Blackwood, who died forty years ago and returned to the...

Romopolis

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 May 2016

Steam: 79/100

This casual city-building simulation centers on creating cities in ancient Rome. The player places houses, structures, and other buildings within a limited area...

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Visual novel, Point & Click, Comedy, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Demetrios — The BIG Cynical Adventure is a fun visual novel with puzzles and a side view. The main character is a slob living in Paris named Björn Thonen. One...

Lost Sea

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

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2016

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 59/100

An action-adventure roguelike set in the Bermuda Triangle, Lost Sea follows a survivor stranded on a mysterious island after a freak storm. To escape, the player...

Okhlos

Action, Strategy, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 18 August 2016

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Okhlos is a real-time action strategy game with eight-bit graphics. The events of the game take players to Ancient Greece, where the people, dissatisfied with the...

Le Havre: The Inland Port

Arcade, Strategy, Board / Group Game, Card game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 29 August 2016

Steam: 55/100

Le Havre: The Inland Port is an arcade game with strategy and card game elements from developers from the Digidiced studio. The game is published by...

NeuroVoider

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

Game released: Linux → 31 August 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 85/100

NeuroVoider is a top-down cooperative arcade shooter with procedurally generated levels. Players will take on the role of preserved human brains, whose task is to...

King Oddball

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This arcade puzzle game follows a king who swings a boulder with his tongue and uses it to destroy targets. The player chooses when to release the rock, with...

BattleTime

Arcade, Indie, Strategy, Isometric, Action, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 78/100

BattleTime is an arcade strategy game in the tower defense genre with an isometric camera view. You will act as the leader of a real army and will capture enemy...

Along the Edge

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 October 2016

Steam: 89/100

Along the Edge is an adventure interactive visual novel that will take you to the European outback, where your choices will affect the personality and appearance of...

For Each Our Roads of Winter

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Frozen: Linux → 2015

For Each Our Roads of Winter is a puzzle adventure and indie game from Orihaus. The game is published by...

Last Leviathan

Action, Shooter, Warships / Submarines, Puzzle, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 22 June 2016

Last Leviathan is a shipbuilding simulator with a detailed physics model. You will construct combat ships and test them against monsters that inhabit the ancient...

Woodle Tree Adventures

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2016

Steam: 70/100

Woodle Tree Adventures is a classic arcade action platformer with a third-person perspective. Explore six colorful worlds and save lands with magical water drops...

Woodle Tree Adventures Deluxe

Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Arcade, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2016

Steam: 70/100

Woodle Tree Adventures Deluxe is a side-scrolling arcade adventure platformer. You'll find all the classic elements from 90's games plus some cool new ideas. You...

Epistory: Typing Chronicles

Action, Adventure, Isometric, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 March 2016

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Epistory: Typing Chronicles is an adventure game with action elements. The story follows a writer who asks his muse to help him write a book. Players, in the role...

Tumblestone

Arcade, Online, Puzzle, Logic, Match-3 (Three in a row), Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 July 2016

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Tumblestone is an action-puzzle game with a story campaign and competitive multiplayer. Players solve increasingly difficult puzzles, help a sausage make friends...

Zombasite

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

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2016

Steam: 76/100

Zombasite is an isometric role-playing action game set in a fantasy zombie apocalypse. Dark elves have always portrayed themselves as gods, creating and perfecting...

Kick Ass Commandos

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

Game released: Linux → 18 November 2016

Steam: 91/100

Kick Ass Commandos is a furious top-down retro shooter. The main character's task is very simple: destroy everything in his path, simultaneously rescuing captured...

Dungeon Souls

Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 December 2016

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Dungeon Souls is an isometric role-playing action game set in a fantasy world. As a brave hero, you will venture into randomly generated dungeons to battle...

Starward Rogue

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Role-playing game, Dungeons, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 22 January 2016

Steam: 89/100

Starward Rogue is a futuristic top-down arcade game. The player will take on the role of a space marine who must rescue his colleague Rodney from a huge alien ship...

Zombie City Defense 2

Strategy, In real time, Action, Tactics, Isometric, Simulation, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 20 August 2016

Steam: 64/100

Zombie City Defense 2 is a tactical post -apocalyptic game in the genre of tower protection. In the near future, the world was devastated by a virus, turning...

Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Third-person view, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 22 March 2016

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is a point and click adventure with a side view. The spirit of Captain Bloodbeard returns, mentioning that the main character did not...

Ara Fell

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

Game released: Linux → 2 June 2016

Steam: 94/100

Ara Fell is an indie role-playing adventure in a fantasy setting with pixel graphics. A large open world awaits you to explore with many mysteries and mystical...

Cats are Liquid

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

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2016

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 93/100

Cats are Liquid is a funny arcade platformer with a side of the side, where you have to take a cat under control, which behaves as if it is a drop of liquid. The...

Neon Space 2

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 26 July 2016

Steam: 73/100

Neon Space 2 is a top-down tactical indie action game with adventure elements. The game retains all the elements of its predecessor, but at the same time the...

Snow Horse

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

Game released: Linux → 4 August 2016

Steam: 90/100

Snow Horse — arcade racing game with a third-person view. Players will play as a horse that masterfully conquers the snowy slopes on a snowboard. If just a...

Typoman

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Typoman is an unusual side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer. The creators of Typoman were inspired by the biographies of dedicated writers. It will take you on...

SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Detective, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 90/100

A murder-mystery visual novel about ten friends gathered at a secluded mountain resort for Halloween. Their party turns into a night of horror when one of the...

Rive

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Beat them all, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

RIVE is a futuristic shooter-platformer about space scavenger Roughshot, who becomes trapped aboard a mysterious starship and has to form an unexpected alliance...

Manual Samuel

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 14 October 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Manual Samuel is a fun adventure game that tells the story of Samuel. He is handsome and rich, but most importantly, he is dead. Samuel decides to make a deal with...

Ultimate Rock Crawler

Free game, Racing, Indie, Sports game

Game released: Linux → 25 January 2016

Steam: 36/100

A free extreme racing game where gamers drive off-road. There is a garage where you can use the credits you earn to purchase various parts to upgrade your...

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