Indie 2017 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 4

Game released: Linux → 4 March 2017

Steam: 81/100

DED is a dynamic shoot ’em up about rescuing a kidnapped granddaughter and tracking down those behind the crime. After the murder of his daughter and son-in-law...

Love Ribbon

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 January 2017

Steam: 91/100

This visual novel follows Iris as her younger sister Zoey moves in with her and transfers to her school, setting the stage for a forbidden attraction between the...

UBERMOSH:WRAITH

Action, Indie, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 29 January 2017

Steam: 92/100

UBERMOSH:WRAITH is an arcade action game and the fourth entry in the UBERMOSH series. In an arena filled with enemies and bullets, the player cuts down projectiles...

Bleed 2

Arcade, Action, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 February 2017

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Bleed 2 is a continuation of the fun arcade action game with a side view. As in the original, you will again have to save the world from an impending disaster in...

AereA

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Top-down view, Fantasy, Adventure, Indie, Music game

Game released: Linux → 20 June 2017

Steam: 46/100

Metacritic: 48/100

Musical role-playing action set on the shattered flying island of Aezir. The story centers around one of the students of the great maestro Guido, who must explore...

Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!

Business / Management, In real time, Strategy, Simulation, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 14 September 2017

Steam: 90/100

Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! is an arcade restaurant management simulator that will give you complete control over absolutely everything. You can go the hard way...

Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?!

Simulation, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 October 2017

Steam: 46/100

Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! — a crazy culinary simulator in the scenery of hell. Take on the role of a chef in an underworld inhabited by potatoes. Assign...

Maybot Run

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

Game released: Linux → 19 October 2017

Steam: 100/100

Maybot Run is a crazy arcade runner with a side view. Run through randomly generated levels, collect bonuses, taxes and votes. Jump over crazy enemies from angry...

Opus Magnum

Simulation, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 December 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 97/100

Opus Magnum is an indie puzzle game with simulation elements in a medieval setting. You have to take on the role of a powerful alchemist. Unravel the mysterious...

Lines X

Casual game, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2017

Steam: 81/100

This Numberlink-based puzzle challenges players to connect colored tiles by finding paths through a grid. Lines X features 100 puzzles to solve. Its abstract...

Linelight

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2017

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 77/100

The player controls a light line and goes through puzzle levels or intricate labyrinths. Each mechanic is intuitive, and the difficulty of tasks increases...

Your Friend Hana

Anime / Manga, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 April 2017

Steam: 63/100

A text-based chat simulator about Hana, a seventeen-year-old girl who connects with the player through a chat program and answers questions. In Oracle Mode she...

Bomb Defense

Arcade, Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2017

Steam: 50/100

Bomb Defense is an arcade puzzle game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre and a top-down view. You will have a limited supply of gold at your disposal...

Galaxy of Pen & Paper

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 27 July 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Galaxy of Pen & Paper is a side-scroll sci-fi turn-based RPG from the creators of Knights of Pen & Paper. The same unforgettable adventures await you, only there...

Escapists 2 - Wicked Ward

Simulation, Adventure, DLC, Business / Management, Top-down view, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 October 2017

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Escapists 2 — Wicked Ward is an add-on for a prisoner management simulator with a top-down view. The add-on brings to the game new clothes, items, blueprints...

PATHOS

Puzzle, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Logic, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 December 2017

Steam: 78/100

PATHOS is an indie adventure arcade puzzle game. You have enough moves to get to the end. No more, no less. To deliver objects to the right place, you have to...

Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes

Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 22 December 2017

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 77/100

Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes is a top-down turn-based indie strategy game in a fantasy setting. In this game you will take command of a small army and move across...

Frequent Flyer

Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 20 January 2017

Steam: 88/100

An arcade shoot ’em up inspired by classic games in the genre, where a plane faces successive waves of enemies. The goal is to survive for as long as possible by...

Slash It 2

Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Action, Music game, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 24 January 2017

Steam: 87/100

Slash It 2 is an indie musical adventure game. The goal is to press letters, numbers and enter words at the right time and in the right...

Sudoku Universe / 数独宇宙

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 18 December 2017

Steam: 89/100

Sudoku Universe is a logic puzzle built around Sudoku: the goal is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits from 1 to 9 without repeating them in any row, column, or 3×3...

Red Haze

Adventure, Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2017

Steam: 83/100

A psychological horror game with a surreal story about Rockette, who lives in an abandoned apartment complex and sets out to find her dealer, Aunti G. Along the...

Shadows of Adam

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 February 2017

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Shadows of Adam is a pixel RPG with Japanese-style turn-based combat. An exciting adventure awaits you, made in the style of classic role-playing games of the 90s...

Guns of Icarus Alliance

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

Game released: Linux → 31 March 2017

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Guns of Icarus Alliance is a paid add-on for the online action game Guns of Icarus Online. It will introduce a new game mode, a whole range of ships, guns and...

Block'hood

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Indie, City Building, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 11 May 2017

Steam: 73/100

Block'hood is a city planning simulator with strategy elements from indie developers from the Plethora-Project studio. You have to build the greatest creation of...

Face It - A game to fight inner demons

Indie, Adventure, Action

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2017

Steam: 58/100

This 3D platformer combines puzzles with a maze of feelings, turning darker aspects of consciousness into monsters and traps and brighter states of mind into powers...

Greedy Guns

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

Game released: Linux → 1 September 2017

Steam: 73/100

This 2D run-and-gun platformer follows a team of mercenaries sent to explore alien worlds and retrieve artifacts and DNA samples for HOLO CORP. The team takes on...

Citadale: The Legends Trilogy

Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2017

Steam: 52/100

Citadale: The Legends Trilogy is a side-scrolling hardcore action platformer set in a dark fantasy universe. The game includes all three parts of the retro game...

The First Tree

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 14 September 2017

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 75/100

The First Tree is an atmospheric adventure with a third-person view. The game intertwines two stories: a boy who is trying to find his father and a fox who goes in...

Journey Down: Chapter Three

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

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2017

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Journey Down: Chapter Three is the final point and click episode of the Journey Down adventure. The game follows Lina, a young girl who searches for a lost book and...

Press X to Not Die

Adventure, Interactive movie, Horror, Action, First-person view, Comedy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2017

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 89/100

Press X to Not Die is a fun interactive action game, much like a trash zombie movie, that makes fun of all the classic tropes and stereotypes. The game plays in the...

Cube Racer

Indie, Casual game, Racing

Game released: Linux → 30 October 2017

Steam: 91/100

A multiplayer racing game in which cubes compete to reach the finish line on tracks shaped by the players. Before each round, players place obstacles, boosters or...

Rumu

Indie, Adventure, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 12 December 2017

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This point-and-click adventure follows Rumu, a robot vacuum cleaner beginning a journey toward sentience in a smart home overseen by Sabrina, its AI. Rumu’s...

Bombernauts

Action, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 29 December 2017

Steam: 74/100

Bombernauts is an online multiplayer action game in which robots battle across arenas with destructible voxel terrain. Players drop bombs to knock opponents off the...

welcome to heaven

Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2017

Steam: 74/100

An adventure game about disillusionment with religion, presenting heaven as a monument to its emerging problems. The player judges sinners and decides who is worthy...

Fidget Spinner

Simulation, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 6 September 2017

Steam: 83/100

This 2D casual simulator focuses on spinning fidget spinners. Players can try different models, each with its own features. Progress unlocks additional spinners and...

TTV2

Indie, Action, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 11 September 2017

Steam: 86/100

A retro-styled arcade game about navigating mazes with quick reflexes, TTV2 is a sequel to Trip to Vinelands. This indie project features original audio and artwork...

Locomancer

Simulation, Indie, Arcade, Virtual Reality (VR), First-person view, Trains, Action, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2017

Steam: 84/100

Locomancer is an exciting arcade game with a first-person view for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality and Valve Index. In the game...

Factory Engineer

Simulation, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 March 2017

Steam: 42/100

This factory management simulator is about building production lines, turning raw materials into finished goods and using the profits to grow an industrial...

Blossoms Bloom Brightest

Indie, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 28 April 2017

Steam: 68/100

A science-fiction visual novel with a mystery element and romance between women. Three strangers wake up aboard a spaceship called the Blossom and find themselves...

Survival Zombies The Inverted Evolution

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 May 2017

Steam: 57/100

This first-person survival shooter pits heavily armed fighters against hordes of undead. Players use guns and grenades to fight back, relying on speed and...

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