Indie 2018 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 3

Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic, Exploration, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 January 2018

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 65/100

InnerSpace is a post-apocalyptic atmospheric adventure with a third-person view. The game will take you to a destroyed world, which, unlike the Fallout series, is...

Dandara Trials of Fear

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

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2018

Steam: 85/100

Dandara Trials of Fear is a side-scrolling fantasy action-adventure platformer. The citizens, once free-spirited, are now oppressed and isolated. But all is not...

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Visual novel, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2018

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an original adventure game from one of the creators of Gone Home. The plot follows the road adventure of a man interacting with...

I Hate Running Backwards

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Beat them all, Indie, Roguelike, Action, Runner

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 65/100

I Hate Running Backwards — a dynamic arcade action game with a top-down view in the "Serious Sam" universe. You will engage in a bone-crushing battle against...

RC Simulation 2.0

Arcade, Racing, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2018

Steam: 62/100

RC Simulation 2.0 is an arcade racing game starring radio-controlled cars. Among the usual toy cars there is also water transport. The game allows you to use...

Violet Cycle

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2018

Steam: 57/100

Violet Cycle is an arcade action roguelike with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. Something terrible has happened to life itself in the far corner of...

Molecats

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 28 August 2018

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 80/100

Molecats is a fun side-scrolling arcade puzzle game set in the mysterious and wonderful world of cats. They love to collect mushrooms in the most dangerous...

Fall Part 2: Unbound

Action, Adventure, Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2018

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This side-scrolling action adventure continues the story of a dystopian world through the perspective of Arid, an AI infected by an unknown program. After breaking...

Fox n Forests

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

Game released: Linux → 17 May 2018

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Fox n Forests is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with pixel graphics. You will play as a lively representative of nature, the fox cub Fox. In the game...

GNOG

Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

GNOG is a psychedelic side-scrolling puzzle game inspired by Montreal illustrator Samuel Boucher. You will go on a journey through a colorful world inhabited by...

BFF or Die

Action, Stealth, Online, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 13 September 2018

Steam: 65/100

BFF or Die is a top-down cooperative stealth action game about funny aliens. You have two options: either help each other or die. As you play the game, you will use...

Underhero

Role-playing game, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Turn-based, Adventure, Puzzle, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2018

Steam: 91/100

Underhero is a role-playing puzzle platformer with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of a chosen hero who is...

Orphan

Arcade, Adventure, Stealth, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Action

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2018

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 59/100

Orphan is a 2D dark platformer with stealth elements and a side view. The main character is an orphan who survived an alien attack on Earth. You have to solve...

Varion

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2018

Steam: 100/100

Varion is an arcade isometric action game in a sci-fi setting. You will find dynamic battles designed for four people, which take place in a futuristic universe...

Tangledeep

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 1 February 2018

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Tangledeep is a Japanese-style top-down indie roguelike RPG. You find yourself in amazing underground villages from which you have to find a way out to the surface...

Dungreed

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

Game released: Linux → 15 February 2018

Players: 8/10

Steam: 93/100

Dungreed is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with roguelike elements. The events of the game will take you to a dark fantasy world, where an entire...

Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kokoro

Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2018

Steam: 83/100

This visual novel follows Ichitarou Ichinose, an easygoing high school student whose childhood friend, Kokonoe Kokoro, is a giant grasshopper. He tries to win her...

LifeZ - Survival

Action, Isometric, Simulation, Role-playing game, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2018

Steam: 68/100

LifeZ — Survival is a fun sandbox action game with an isometric camera view in an open world. The game takes place during a zombie apocalypse, where you will...

Hyper Sentinel

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

Game released: Linux → 11 May 2018

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Hyper Sentinel is a top-down retro sci-fi shooter. You have to go through 12 different levels, full of action in the best traditions of the scrolling shooter genre...

Iro Hero

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

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2018

Metacritic: 57/100

Iro Hero is a dynamic top-down arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. The year is 2306. After alien visitors taught humanity how to generate electricity from their...

Polygod

Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 August 2018

Steam: 86/100

Polygod is a randomly generated rogue-like first-person shooter with a brutal difficulty curve. Combining the fast-paced style of Quake with the randomness...

The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World

Arcade, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 7 September 2018

Steam: 95/100

The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World is an unusual visual novel in which a pizza delivery boy saves the world at his leisure. The plot will tell about a guy...

Bunny Mahjo

Simulation, Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Online, Board / Group Game, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2018

Steam: 92/100

Bunny Mahjo is an online simulator of a strategic tactical board game. This is classic mahjong with the ability to create your own levels and play or do them with...

Pipe Push Paradise

Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Open world

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2018

Steam: 96/100

Pipe Push Paradise is a hardcore, top-down, open-world puzzle game about plumbing. You will find yourself on a large island where you need to solve a problem with a...

Verdant Skies

Simulation, Arcade, Adventure, Role-playing game, Indie, Isometric, Farm Simulator, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 12 February 2018

Steam: 78/100

Verdant Skies is an arcade adventure simulator with RPG elements and an isometric view. You will be immersed in a lovingly hand-drawn alien world. You can ensure...

Deep Sixed

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Roguelike, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 12 February 2018

Steam: 85/100

Deep Sixed is an amazing simulator with a third-person view and roguelike elements. A secret corporation with a monopoly on the technology necessary to “bend space...

Space Tyrant

Strategy, Indie, Roguelike, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 27 February 2018

Steam: 83/100

Space Tyrant is a 4X space strategy game with roguelike elements in which players will build a terrifying space fleet, lay waste to planets, destroy enemy fleets...

Lost Cities

Strategy, Top-down view, Board / Group Game, Card game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2018

Steam: 38/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This card strategy game follows expeditions to lost cities around the world. Players collect cards and send expeditions to different regions, aiming to score more...

Zero G Arena

Action, Indie, Online

Game released: Linux → 9 August 2018

Steam: 88/100

Zero G Arena is an arena shooter set in zero gravity, where ragdoll physics shape both movement and combat. Players switch between running on magnetic surfaces and...

Airships: Conquer the Skies

Strategy, In real time, Indie, Steampunk, Construction, Grand strategy

Game released: Linux → 16 August 2018

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

This steampunk strategy game centers on designing airships and land vehicles for large-scale battles over control of the skies. Players assemble craft from modules...

Despotism 3k

Side view, In real time, Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Indie, Simulation, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Despotism 3k is a side-scrolling real-time strategy game in a post-apocalyptic style. Humanity is enslaved by artificial intelligence and this is great because we...

Mhakna Gramura and Fairy Bell

Indie, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 97/100

A visual novel styled as a children’s book follows Mhakna and Sebiarno as they escape the Mullbear Orphanage with help from Bell, a fairy who promises them eternal...

Shooty Skies

Arcade, Shooter, Indie, Free game, Action

Game released: Linux → 7 March 2018

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Shooty Skies is a pixel arcade game for mobile platforms. The main task is to shoot enemies and accumulate bonuses. Players can expect colorful graphics, many...

Varenje

Adventure, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 3 July 2018

Steam: 86/100

An adventure quest follows a hero who, while spending the summer in the countryside, tries an unfamiliar berry by a stream and shrinks to the size of a bug. At this...

Helium Rain

Free game, Space, Simulation, Strategy, Indie, Exploration, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 11 October 2018

Steam: 79/100

A free space simulator in which the player manages his own company. During the passage, you can trade resources, buy ships and entire stations. In addition, the...

Woodpunk

Action, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 22 November 2018

Steam: 68/100

Woodpunk is a dynamic action game with roguelike elements and a top-down view in a medieval setting. You will play the role of a skilled inventor who accidentally...

Play with Me

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

Game released: Linux → 1 January 2018

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 63/100

Play with Me is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a first-person perspective, inspired by the Saw film series. The events of the game revolve around...

Algo Bot

Arcade, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 14 February 2018

Steam: 82/100

Algo Bot is an arcade puzzle game with an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place on the cross-galactic colonizer ship...

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Detective

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2018

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 68/100

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case is a continuation of the Japanese-style adventure visual novel Silver Case. The events of the game take place five years after the...

Lethal Lawns: Competitive Mowing Bloodsport

Arcade, Online, Action, Isometric, Sports game, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 30 March 2018

Steam: 88/100

Lethal Lawns: Competitive Mowing Bloodsport is a bloody arcade action game with an isometric camera view and co-op for up to eight people. Players will have to arm...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2018 for Linux (Game released)