Indie 2016 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 2

Arcade, Action, Online, Board / Group Game, Indie, Mini-game / browser-based, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2016

Steam: 61/100

Marooners is an arcade, cooperative action game from independent developers from the M2H studio. The game is designed for a fun group of friends, where you will...

MYTH - Steam Edition

Visual novel, Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2016

Steam: 88/100

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...

Soul Axiom

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 29 February 2016

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 51/100

This first-person science-fiction adventure unfolds in Elysia, a digital world where memories and dreams become reality. After a soul is uploaded, the protagonist...

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...

ALONE?

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2016

Steam: 60/100

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...

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...

Sakura Shrine Girls

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2016

Steam: 86/100

This visual novel follows Toru, a skeptical priest in training who is visited by two cat girls. One carries herself with dignity and grace, while the other lives...

Buried: An Interactive Story

Indie, Adventure, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 22 January 2016

Steam: 95/100

This text-based adventure follows logger Roger Hastings, who wakes to find his crew missing and has no memory of what happened. As he searches for them, he uncovers...

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...

The Deer

Indie, Adventure, Educational game (Education)

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2016

Steam: 67/100

This educational interactive adventure for children is set in the Pleistocene, where the player takes the role of an ancient deer. The game introduces the animals...

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...

Highway Blossoms

Simulation, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 June 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

A Japanese-style visual novel with dating sim elements. The game’s story takes place in the southwestern United States, where a young woman named Amber sets out to...

Giant Machines 2017

Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2016

Players: 5.8/10

Steam: 68/100

Giant Machines 2017 — giant vehicle driving simulator. You will be able to take control of seven industrial, the largest in the world, machines that have...

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...

Intralism

Music game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2016

Steam: 87/100

Intralism is a rhythm game where players follow arcs on screen and press the corresponding buttons in time with the music. A wrong input ends the attempt, so...

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...

Starlight Vega

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2016

Steam: 92/100

This visual novel follows Aria, a high-school student who accidentally frees the demon Lyria from a stone while exploring her grandfather’s old house with her...

Kelvin and the Infamous Machine

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game, Comedy, Old school, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 21 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 79/100

An eminent physicist goes crazy when the scientific community ridicules his life's work — a shower-shaped time machine. Seeking to leave his mark on history...

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...

Wheels of Aurelia

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 20 September 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Wheels of Aurelia is an adventure game with driving elements. The events take place on the road in Italy in the 70s. The main character is a very restless woman who...

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...

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...

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...

Pirate Pop Plus

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

Game released: Linux → 4 November 2016

Steam: 88/100

This pirate-themed arcade platformer follows Pete Jr and Polly as they take on the nefarious Bubble Pirate and try to free townsfolk trapped in bubbles. The player...

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Vive la France

Simulation, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Open world

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Euro Truck Simulator 2 — Vive la France is an add-on for a truck driver simulator with first- and third-person views. The addition introduces more than 20...

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...

Attractio

Action, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 40/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Attractio is a puzzle game with action elements and a first-person view. The game will tell the story of three characters who participate in a futuristic reality...

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...

Predynastic Egypt

Strategy, Business / Management, Historical, Turn-based, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 91/100

Predynastic Egypt is a historical turn-based strategy game with management elements. You will take control of an ancient Egyptian tribe. You have to guide him...

Draw Slasher

Arcade, Action, Slasher, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 13 October 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 74/100

Draw Slasher is a side-scrolling arcade action slasher about a ninja named Hanzo. While Hanzo was learning the way of the ninja, pirate zombie monkeys kidnapped his...

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...

Chasing Dead

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Tanks, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2016

Steam: 61/100

Chasing Dead is a first-person sci-fi action game with horror elements and the ability to control futuristic technology. The game begins with a strange phenomenon...

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...

Fatal Theory

Free game, Action, Fighting, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2016

Steam: 86/100

Fatal Theory — shareware classic bitmap with a side view, made in retro style. The main character Nick Mayhem will have to save the city from hordes of...

Magical Otoge Ciel

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2016

Steam: 92/100

A romantic comedy visual novel set in a magical world, Magical Otoge Ciel follows Ciel, a kind and ambitious princess eager to set out on an adventure. She is...

Shardlight

Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2016

Players: 4/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Shardlight is a "point-and-click" adventure set in a post-apocalyptic environment. The main character is a dying woman named Amy. The thing is, even though Amy is...

Melodys Escape

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Music game, Indie, Runner, Side view

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2016

Steam: 90/100

A side-scrolling rhythm runner where the obstacles and the heroine’s actions adapt to the beat and energy of music from the player’s own library. Melody runs along...

Summer Fling

Simulation, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 70/100

Summer Fling is a Japanese-style adventure with elements of a dating simulator. You and two friends are about to go on a summer vacation before starting university...

Near Death

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

Game released: Linux → 2 August 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Near Death is an indie action adventure game with a first-person view and horror elements. The events of the game will take you to the cold corridors of a research...

Layers of Fear: Inheritance

Adventure, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 August 2016

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 76/100

Layers of Fear: Inheritance is an addition to the adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a first-person view Layers of Fear. The main character will be the...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2016 for Linux (Game released)