Indie 2016 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 6

Crazy Pixel Streaker - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, Online, Action, Top-down view, Sports game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 June 2016

Steam: 63/100

Crazy Pixel Streaker is a cooperative arcade action game with elements of a sports game and a top-down view. The game provides insanely simple gameplay where you...

Cat President ~A More Purrfect Union~

Visual novel, Comedy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2016

Steam: 94/100

This comedic visual novel follows a teenage girl who, after her college plans fall through, is looking for work when she wanders backstage at a national political...

Castles of Dr. Creep

Action, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 September 2016

Steam: 93/100

This platforming puzzle game sends players into 13 castles belonging to Dr. Creep, where the goal is to escape alive. Each castle has a time limit and challenges...

Zombo Buster Rising

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Free game, Side view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 2 October 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

A 2D action game with tower-defense elements, in which the player fights off zombies by shooting at them from a terrace. Two AI-controlled characters assist in...

Inklings

Arcade, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Strategy, Action

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2016

Steam: 84/100

Inklings is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game for mobile platforms. You have to save little bespectacled hedgehogs by leading them from point A to point B. The...

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...

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human

Arcade, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human is an arcade platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The events of the game take place in the distant future, where life...

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...

Asteroid Bounty Hunter

Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2016

Steam: 61/100

Asteroid Bounty Hunter is a space shooter about John, a veteran who defends planets from asteroids and faces rival bounty hunters. His ship’s AI accompanies him as...

Mind Games

Indie, Puzzle, Board / Group Game

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2016

Steam: 64/100

This collection of logic puzzles challenges players with different kinds of problems involving logic and mathematics. Mind Games features 20 puzzle types and more...

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...

FORCED SHOWDOWN

Arcade, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Action, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Forced 2: The Rush is a multiplayer arcade game with procedurally generated levels. The game consists of arena levels where the gladiators are each on their own...

Terrarium Land

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

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2016

Steam: 75/100

Terrarium Land is a top-down arcade puzzle game in a futuristic setting. The main character of the game is the robot Tix, who is shipwrecked on an unknown planet...

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...

Axes and Acres

Indie, Strategy, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2016

Steam: 85/100

A turn-based, single-player strategy game about developing a village on a small plot of land. The player is its lord, managing peasants represented by dice...

StarsOne

Survival, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 8 April 2016

Steam: 73/100

StarsOne is a survival action game about searching for missing colonists on a distant planet. After an emergency landing scatters the crew across different regions...

Bunny Bash

Arcade, Online, Action, Isometric, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2016

Steam: 66/100

Bunny Bash is a colorful multiplayer arcade action game with an isometric camera view. You have to take on the role of a rabbit who jumps and runs across vast...

Selenon Rising

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2016

Steam: 70/100

Selenon Rising is a Japanese style sci-fi visual novel. The Earth has come under alien invasion. When these all-powerful beings arrived to take control of the...

Tumbleweed Express

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Indie, Steampunk, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Steam: 89/100

This arcade action game with strategy and route-defense elements is set in the American West of 1885, where entrepreneur Dirigibaus has monopolized trade with a...

Home Improvisation: Furniture Sandbox

Simulation, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 28 July 2016

Steam: 67/100

Home Improvisation: Furniture Sandbox is a furniture-building simulator in which players furnish a house by assembling items without instructions. They can try to...

Frozen State

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, Indie, Survival

Game released: Linux → 5 August 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 63/100

This role-playing game with action and horror elements is set in a retro-futuristic world plunged into a man-made ice age. The protagonist becomes stranded in the...

Heart&Slash

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Slasher, Combat robots

Game released: Linux → 9 August 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This 3D action game follows Heart, a robot trying to escape the machines’ control in a world where human civilization has disappeared. Standing in Heart’s way is...

Stellar Stars

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action, Strategy, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 10 November 2016

Steam: 100/100

Stellar Stars is a multiplayer arena that combines MOBA and roguelite elements in a science-fiction and fantasy setting with procedurally generated stages. Players...

Cyber Chicken

Action, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 23 November 2016

Steam: 66/100

This side-scrolling action adventure follows a cybernetic chicken sent to suppress a cyberpunk revolt in a dystopian future New York City. After realizing he has...

WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.03

Indie, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 21 December 2016

Steam: 96/100

WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.03 is the concluding visual novel in a trilogy set in a future where humanity has begun colonizing the Moon. Eight years after the...

Dreii

Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2016

Steam: 40/100

Dreii is a fun puzzle game with 3D graphics and physics. Using available blocks, you have to build a tower and protect it from natural disasters, explosions and...

Sabres of Infinity

Adventure, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2016

Steam: 92/100

A text-based role-playing adventure set in Tierra, where a war of gunpowder and magic pits the kingdom against the Antari. The player takes the role of an officer...

Gunscape

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Gunscape is a first-person shooter built around a level editor that uses a block-placement interface. Players can create single-player campaigns, co-op maps and...

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...

Sparkle ZERO

Indie, Simulation, Action

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2016

Steam: 52/100

An action-tinged simulation about organisms beginning their evolutionary journey as a spark of life. The player searches for food to grow and change while competing...

Dead End Road

Indie, Racing, Action

Game released: Linux → 8 July 2016

Steam: 86/100

This atmospheric driving game follows a protagonist racing through the night to escape a supernatural threat and reach the elderly woman who may be able to end the...

Bacteria

Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 March 2016

Steam: 62/100

Bacteria is a casual puzzle game built around the rules of the cellular automaton Conway’s Game of Life. Each level presents a square field in a stable state, and...

My Lady

Casual game, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2016

Steam: 80/100

This casual indie game with simulation elements follows the heiress to the Bauxmont estate, who is in love with her personal butler. While her mother is away on...

The Hero Project: Redemption Season

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 April 2016

Steam: 63/100

This text-based role-playing adventure follows a superpowered contestant in a reality show for heroes, where winning votes may be the key to saving a sister. The...

Zombie Parking

Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 14 April 2016

Steam: 74/100

A third-person shooter with survival horror elements, Zombie Parking challenges the player to fend off zombie attacks and hold out for as long as possible. The...

Retool

Action, Stealth, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Tactics, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2016

Steam: 77/100

Retool is a top-down tactical action puzzle game in a sci-fi setting. The main character Maria is a hacker engineer who is trying to get out of a destroyed orbital...

Sol Trader

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2016

Steam: 61/100

Sol Trader is a new sci-fi game that puts people and their relationships at the forefront. It's a mix of 2D, classic top-down arcade action with deep, tactical...

The Final Take

Indie, Adventure, Horror

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2016

Steam: 56/100

This first-person horror game revolves around found-footage recordings made in different places and connected by a sinister mystery. The player controls a young...

Champions of Breakfast

Indie, Action, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 23 June 2016

Steam: 78/100

An arcade shoot ’em up about kitchen appliances fighting to reclaim stolen ingredients and save breakfast—and the world. Players control different characters...

Regeria Hope Episode 1

Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2016

Steam: 82/100

A courtroom visual novel about lawyer Regeria Hope, who uses logic and evidence to defend clients in unusual criminal cases. In the first trial, she represents a...

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