Indie 2016 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 7

DMT: Dream Dealer Trip - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: Linux → 1 October 2016

Steam: 52/100

This experimental first-person walking simulator takes the player into dreams and follows a journey between worlds. As the surroundings are explored, it remains...

Powargrid

Strategy, Turn-based, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 October 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 75/100

Powargrid is a tactical turn-based strategy game in which you must destroy your opponent's power plants and protect your own. You have to find a balance between...

Clouds & Sheep 2

Arcade, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 86/100

Clouds & Sheep 2 is an indie arcade game from the developers of HandyGames. The game is a simulator of a sheep farm, where you can grow garden animals, take care of...

SkyTime

Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: Linux → 2 December 2016

Steam: 61/100

SkyTime is a 3D platformer about a scientist trying to get back the family he lost in an avalanche. He builds a time machine, but it needs a reactor core to work...

Triennale Game Collection

Arcade, Puzzle, Free game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 December 2016

Steam: 80/100

Triennale Game Collection is a shareware arcade collection of mini-games and experiments for mobile platforms. The game is a virtual exhibition created for the 21st...

Slash It

Arcade, Educational game (Education), Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2016

Steam: 71/100

Slash It is an educational arcade puzzle game that can teach you how to quickly type on the keyboard. Along with the music, keys appear on the screen that you need...

Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click, Music game, Detective, Mini-game / browser-based

Early Access: Linux → 20 April 2016

Steam: 41/100

This 2D point-and-click adventure follows a young musician’s path to fame in Jamaica. Bolt Riley, a poor boy from Trenchtown, struggles to survive and faces a gang...

Starr Mazer: DSP

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Side view, Indie, Arcade

Early Access: Linux → 26 August 2016

Steam: 68/100

Starr Mazer: DSP is a side-scrolling arcade shoot ’em up with role-playing elements and a roguelike take on the lives-and-continues system. A squadron of pilots...

NeonXSZ

Role-playing game, Action, Warships / Submarines, Futurism (Future), Indie, Sandbox, Open world

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2016

Steam: 75/100

This futuristic action RPG centers on zero-gravity gunship combat and an attempt to escape a strange world structured like a system. The protagonist is an anomaly...

CUPID - A free to play Visual Novel

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Steam: 87/100

A gothic visual novel about revenge and the different faces of love, set in 18th-century France. After her friend Catherine dies, Rosa blames her fiancé, Marquis...

StarDrive 2: Sector Zero

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Turn-based, Science fiction, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 75/100

StarDrive 2: Sector Zero is an add-on to the sci-fi strategy with turn-based battles in space StarDrive 2. It introduces large-scale changes to the structure of the...

Carnivore Land

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2016

Steam: 80/100

Carnivore Land is a top-down arcade zombie shooter. You have to go on a dangerous journey with your friends in search of a mysterious package. A detailed destroyed...

Paws: A Shelter 2 Game

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 24 March 2016

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 90/100

Paws is an adventure game with survival elements and a third-person perspective. The game takes place in the same universe as Shelter 2. This time you play as a...

'n Verlore Verstand

Adventure, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2016

Steam: 48/100

This abstract adventure takes place in a realm of dreams and nightmares, where the player travels through labyrinths of memories in search of personal truth. The...

Solar Division

Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 20 April 2016

Steam: 52/100

Solar Division is a futuristic top-down tower defense strategy game. The main feature of the game is that you will not only place defensive structures, but also...

Zombillie

Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2016

Steam: 74/100

This casual action game follows Zombillie, a creature setting out across a changed world to reach a legendary meat farm. After a global upheaval, parks and meadows...

DubWars

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Music game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 19 July 2016

Steam: 82/100

DubWars is a top-down arcade shooter built around electronic music: the ship’s weapons fire in time with each track, with different beats triggering different...

Clock Simulator

Arcade, Simulation, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 July 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Clock Simulator is a meditative arcade puzzle game from independent developers from the Kool2Play studio. The game will give you the opportunity to immerse yourself...

Antihorror

Action, Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 27 July 2016

Steam: 71/100

An action horror game about a wayfarer who finds himself in an unfamiliar place after a strange turn of events. The surroundings are ominously deserted, with no one...

Sixtieth Kilometer

Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2016

Steam: 78/100

This visual novel follows passengers on a commuter train that stops beside a pink fog. A man who steps outside dies, leaving the others trapped in the train with no...

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Adventure, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 31 August 2016

Steam: 76/100

This fantasy tabletop-style adventure sends heroes into the depths of Firetop Mountain, where the warlock Zagor’s lair awaits. The route and available choices...

Sumeru

Indie, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2016

Steam: 73/100

This 2D physics puzzle game follows Yun, a traveler who finds a gem and is drawn into the Sumerian World while admiring it. To help him get home, the player draws...

ALONE?

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2016

Steam: 87/100

A psychological horror game about a family mystery, ALONE? follows a protagonist who receives a plea for help from a missing sister, Michelle, and returns to the...

Alice VR

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Linux → 27 October 2016

Steam: 40/100

Alice VR is a first-person sci-fi adventure for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and OSVR. The game is a new interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, set on a...

DROD: The Second Sky

Arcade, Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Turn-based, Logic, Indie, Tactics, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 18 November 2016

Steam: 93/100

A turn-based puzzle adventure with tactical elements and dungeon exploration follows Beethro Budkin as he faces the Rooted Empire with the Grand Event approaching...

Little Briar Rose

Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 December 2016

Steam: 82/100

Little Briar Rose is an adventure puzzle game with visual novel elements for mobile platforms that will take you to the world of fairy tales. You will be able to...

Super Helmets on Fire DX Ultra Edition Plus Alpha

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 15 February 2016

Steam: 68/100

This side-scrolling action platformer combines runner gameplay with light RPG elements and follows an ordinary construction worker tasked with saving the world...

Next World

Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Futurism (Future), Virtual Reality (VR), Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2016

Steam: 70/100

Next World is an adventure game that reunites visual novel elements with real-time strategy. As the captain of a colony ship, you crash land on an unknown planet...

Mimpi Dreams

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

Game released: Linux → 22 March 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 94/100

Mimpi Dreams is a free-to-play adventure platformer with puzzle elements. The game will tell the story of the dog Mimpi, who marks literally everything, marks his...

Candice DeBébé's Incredibly Trick Lifestyle

Adventure, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 March 2016

Steam: 91/100

This comedy action RPG follows Candice DeBébé as the singer Krystal causes havoc and takes her friend’s tanning business. After discovering her magical powers...

True or False

Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2016

Steam: 66/100

This quiz tests intuition and knowledge by asking players to decide whether each statement is true or false. Some claims sound implausible but are accurate, while...

MYTH - Steam Edition

Visual novel, Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2016

Steam: 87/100

This horror visual novel follows Meito Tanabe, who lives in a world of light without shadows. Shimon, a girl who has a shadow, brings him to the world of...

Blue Sheep

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

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2016

Steam: 43/100

Blue Sheep is an arcade platformer with a third-person view. Together with a little girl, you will go on a journey through a strange and cruel world full of...

Share

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

Game released: Linux → 3 May 2016

Steam: 71/100

Share is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. In the backwoods of civilization, left by fate, you will find a house on a hill. It will become your...

Adele: Following the Signs

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

Game released: Linux → 2 June 2016

Steam: 30/100

Adele: Following the Signs is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. The events of the game will take you to 2029 during the zombie apocalypse. The main...

Legacy of the Elder Star

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

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2016

Steam: 87/100

Legacy of the Elder Star is a side-scrolling arcade action game. You have to get used to the role of the Cosmonaut — the eternal space hero who must destroy...

Too Angry To Space

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 8 August 2016

Steam: 66/100

Too Angry To Space is a side-scrolling sci-fi arcade action platformer. The game is served with a pixel art sauce straight out of the 90s. What's the story? Who...

Lichtspeer

Arcade, Action, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Lichtspeer is an arcade action game set in a futuristic world inspired by ancient Germanic myths. Summoned by the gods, a hero sets out on a perilous journey and...

Major Minor

Simulation, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2016

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 77/100

This science-fiction and fantasy visual novel follows a mysterious wave of murders and suicides connected to another world. The protagonist is one of two contest...

Quiver of Crows

Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 19 October 2016

Steam: 76/100

A twin-stick shooter set in a grim world of flesh, bones, and ash, inhabited by demons and ghouls. Enemies hunt the player, attack at close range, or shoot from a...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2016 for Linux