Indie 2017 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 2

CryptoMoneya - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: Linux → 3 September 2017

Steam: 68/100

This casual puzzle game casts the player as a cryptocurrency miner who collects currencies by matching pairs against a time limit. The selection includes Bitcoin...

Ghost Blade HD

Arcade, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2017

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Ghost Blade HD is an improved edition of the top-down arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. 10,000 years ago, an artificial intelligence named Shira was created...

Crimson Gray

Visual novel, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2017

Steam: 95/100

This psychological thriller visual novel follows John, a young man with severe depression who meets Lizzie as he begins to lose hope. She seems affectionate and...

Alicia Quatermain: Secrets Of The Lost Treasures

Casual game, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2017

Steam: 88/100

This casual adventure strategy game follows Alicia Quatermain, the granddaughter of the famous traveler Allan Quatermain. She sets out to find her father, who...

Morphite

Action, Platformer, First-person view, Roguelike, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 September 2017

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Morphite is a first-person action platformer with a procedurally generated world. You have to go on a journey to unknown planets. Their landscapes are generated...

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story

Adventure, Puzzle, Interactive movie, Text quest, Indie, Casual game, Detective

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2017

Steam: 91/100

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story is an unusual adventure for mobile platforms. The game is based on the gameplay where all the events take place on someone's phone...

Reigns: Her Majesty

Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Visual novel, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 December 2017

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Reigns: Her Majesty is a continuation of the card board game, where you will become the ruler of a small kingdom and take part in deciding important elections on...

SteamWorld Dig 2

Arcade, Platformer, Steampunk, Side view, Adventure, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 September 2017

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 87/100

SteamWorld Dig 2 is a continuation of the side-view arcade platformer in steampunk style. The main character of the game this time will not be Rusty, but a certain...

Bomb Squad Academy

Casual game, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2017

Steam: 86/100

This bomb-defusal puzzle game challenges players to disarm explosives under a time limit. Each task involves examining an electronic board, identifying its...

Chasing Styx

Free game, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2017

Steam: 84/100

This run-and-gun action game with bullet-hell elements follows Cerberus, guardian of the Underworld, after a herd of woodland rabbits wanders into the realm of the...

Open Sorcery

Indie, Role-playing game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2017

Steam: 98/100

This adventure RPG follows a fire elemental bound by C++ code to protect a network of people and places. The player’s choices shape its development: it can learn...

One Dog Story

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2017

Steam: 71/100

One Dog Story is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with RPG elements. You have to take on the role of a dog (EO-43) from a mysterious underground...

OVIVO

Platformer, Indie, Side view, Action, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 8 September 2017

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

OVIVO is a minimalist side-scrolling indie platformer. In the world of the game, Black and White live in harmony. Intertwining and replacing each other, they...

ClickRaid

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2017

Steam: 81/100

A multiplayer incremental game with action and adventure elements, ClickRaid has players team up to fight enemies and steadily increase their numbers and bonuses...

MidBoss

Role-playing game, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 25 May 2017

Steam: 84/100

MidBoss is an isometric role-playing game in a fantasy setting. You have to go into a dangerous dungeon, where bloodthirsty creatures and crowds of monsters live...

West of Loathing

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Indie, Side view, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 10 August 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 86/100

West of Loathing is an unusual adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat. You have to go to the minimalistic world of the city of Boring Springs, where you...

Sky Rogue

Flight Simulator, Action, Indie, Procedural generation, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2017

Steam: 92/100

A combat flight simulator where you can cut through the skies near countless randomly generated islands. The game has different missions in which you need to...

Pinstripe

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Pinstripe is an atmospheric side-scrolling exploration adventure from developer Coma and Skinny. The events of the game take place in Hell, where the main character...

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Replayability, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 3 January 2017

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. The addition has expanded possibilities for creating...

Avenger Bird

Indie, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 January 2017

Steam: 72/100

This pixel-art side-scrolling platformer follows a bird on a quest to rescue its kidnapped chicks. The adventure spans four worlds connected by an open...

Pyre

Role-playing game, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2017

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Pyre is an isometric RPG set in a fantasy setting from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. Luck has almost left you when wanderers find you and rescue you from...

Connected Hearts - Visual novel

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 12 August 2017

Steam: 89/100

A thriller, mystery, and fantasy visual novel follows a protagonist who has a strange dream shortly after moving away. In it, he meets Alice, who tells him that he...

Slaps And Beans

Action, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Linux → 15 December 2017

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Slaps And Beans is a retro-style game about Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, Italian actors who together made many action-packed comedies and spaghetti westerns...

Alpacapaca Dash

Indie, Casual game, Runner

Game released: Linux → 24 January 2017

Steam: 91/100

Alpacapaca Dash is an endless runner with shooter elements, in which alpacas make their way through a changing, dark world. The player runs and jumps, dodges...

Hyper Knights

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2017

Steam: 88/100

Hyper Knights is a medieval arcade indie action game with adventure elements. You'll hack and break through hundreds of enemies in a fast-paced, skill-based game...

Doodle Devil

Logic, Puzzle, Simulation, Arcade, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 25 May 2017

Players: 7/10

Steam: 76/100

Doodle Devil — an arcade devil simulator that allows you to create your own universe with demons, monsters, and zombies. The game is a continuation of Doodle God...

Alwa's Awakening

Adventure, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2017

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Alwa's Awakening is a classic side-scrolling adventure platformer. The main character Zoya really loves video games. And one day, when she sat at the monitor and...

Yooka-Laylee

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

Game released: Linux → 11 April 2017

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Yooka-Laylee is an arcade action platformer with a third-person view, created according to the canons of the classic Banjo-Kazooie. The main characters are the...

City Climber

Platformer, Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2017

Steam: 76/100

A physics-based platformer about a floppy ragdoll climber tasked with saving the world. In Story Mode, the player navigates hand-crafted levels filled with...

Weapon Shop Fantasy

Role-playing game, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 March 2017

Players: 1/10

Steam: 78/100

Weapon Shop Fantasy is a unique top-down management simulator with RPG elements. In the game, you will be responsible for managing each element of your shop. Hire...

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment

Arcade, DLC, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Side view, Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2017

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment is a free add-on for owners of the side-scrolling arcade platformer Shovel Knight. You have to take the other side of the...

Robocraft

Role-playing game, Simulation, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Combat robots, Construction

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2017

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Robocraft is a shareware multiplayer robot simulator in which you have to build your own personal robot and then send it to fight with other similar creatures of...

The Coma: Recut

Action, Adventure, Horror, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 22 September 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Coma: Recut is an improved edition of adventure horror with survival elements. The main character will be a Korean student who fell asleep while taking an exam...

Space Pirates and Zombies 2

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Space

Game released: Linux → 7 November 2017

Players: 7/10

Steam: 77/100

This post-apocalyptic space strategy game with action and role-playing elements follows survival in a galaxy after a zombie apocalypse. Infrastructure has...

MHRD

Simulation, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 5 January 2017

Steam: 88/100

This puzzle game centers on designing hardware circuits at the Microhard startup amid the technology of the 1980s. The player writes designs in the MHRD hardware...

The Last Weekend

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2017

Steam: 61/100

The Last Weekend is a visual novel with quest elements, set around a group of young people staying at a remote hotel. The player chooses one of four characters...

Jumps

Indie, Action, Racing

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2017

Steam: 93/100

Jumps is a first-person 3D platformer set among sky islands. The player must reach the finish before time runs out while staying within the limited number of jumps...

Blackberry Honey

Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2017

Steam: 94/100

A visual novel about a romance between maids in mid-19th-century England. After losing her position at Hartwell, Lorina Waugh searches for work and arrives at the...

Finding Paradise

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

Game released: Linux → 14 December 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Finding Paradise is an indie top-down adventure that is a direct sequel to To the Moon and A Bird Story. Players will once again meet two doctors who travel through...

Hidden Folks

Hidden Objects, Casual game, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Isometric

Game released: Linux → 15 February 2017

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The player tries to find all the hidden people or other objects in hand-drawn interactive pictures. There are 32 areas and more than 300 hidden objects available...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2017 for Linux (Game released)