Indie 2019 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre

Adventure, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 October 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Pilgrims — an atmospheric side-view adventure from the creators of Machinarium and Samorost 3. The game will delight you with the absence of a rigid script...

Necesse

Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting, Procedural generation

Early Access: Linux → 12 December 2019; Game released: Linux → 16 October 2025

Players: 6.8/10

A colorful action sandbox that combines exploration, crafting, settlement building, and cooperative play. The procedurally generated world is filled with various...

Mindustry

Strategy, Top-down view, In real time, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Mindustry is a fun real-time strategy game with elements of the tower defense genre and a top-down view. In the game, you have to create complex conveyor chains to...

Dicey Dungeons

Arcade, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Card game, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 13 August 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Dicey Dungeons — an exciting card-based turn-based game with RPG elements and a simplified roguelike from the creators of Super Hexagon and VVVVVV. In the...

This War of Mine: Final Cut

Action, Historical, Business / Management, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

This War of Mine: Final Cut — an enhanced and complete edition of the atmospheric adventure with survival elements and a side view. The package includes an expanded...

A Short Hike

Adventure, Indie, Logic, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2019

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

A Short Hike is an adventure arcade game with a top-down view. The game will take you to the expanses of the colorful mountains of Hawk Peak Provincial Park. You...

We Were Here Together

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2019

Players: 7.7/10

A story about two companions trapped within the icy walls of an ancient citadel, where every room oozes mystery and the joker's laughter echoes through the gloomy...

Buoyancy

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 30 August 2019

Buoyancy is a real-time city planning and management simulator with an isometric camera view in a post-apocalyptic setting. In the game you have to build a real...

Forager

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Open world, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Forager is a fun top-down arcade clicker game with RPG elements, inspired by Stardew Valley, Terraria and Zelda. You will explore everything around, create objects...

Meeple Station

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: Linux → 17 January 2019; Game released: Linux → 10 April 2020

Meeple Station is an isometric management simulator set in a sci-fi setting, inspired by the game RimWorld. You will need to build your own space station and...

Riot: Civil Unrest

Action, Strategy, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 12 February 2019

Players: 1/10

Metacritic: 54/100

Riot: Civil Unrest is a real-time uprising simulator that puts you in the thick of world-famous conflicts. The following campaigns await you: Outraged (Spain), Arab...

Rise of Industry

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 May 2019

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 62/100

Rise of Industry is a top-down real-time economic strategy game. You will become the manager of an industrial conglomerate of the 20th century. Develop your...

Shotgun Farmers

Arcade, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 8 March 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Shotgun Farmers is a fun multiplayer first-person shooter where you use weapons that sprout from the ground. All battles take place on farmland, where the amount of...

Yuppie Psycho

Indie, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2019

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Yuppie Psycho is an adventure horror game with stealth elements and a top-down view. The game takes place in a dystopian world from the 90s, where in the role of...

We. The Revolution

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 21 March 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 75/100

We. The Revolution is a unique adventure strategy with role-playing elements, where you will try on the role of a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the...

Warlocks 2: God Slayers

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 18 July 2019

Metacritic: 59/100

Warlocks 2: God Slayers is a side-scrolling co-op action RPG with a pixel art style. Challenge the vile gods and wring their necks with the help of wizards and...

Wildermyth

Role-playing game, Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based, Board / Group Game, Fantasy

Early Access: Linux → 13 November 2019; Game released: Linux → 15 June 2021

Metacritic: 86/100

Tactical role-playing game with turn-based battles. The player leads a group of heroes who have left their farming duties to protect their home. Each character has...

Monster Sanctuary

Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 28 August 2019; Game released: Linux → 8 December 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Monster Sanctuary is a side-scrolling pixel Metroidvania in a fantasy setting, in which you become monster trainers and can fight in 3v3 tactical battles...

Stone Story RPG

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

Early Access: Linux → 8 August 2019

Players: 8.4/10

Stone Story RPG is an unusual adventure role-playing game with a side view and ASCII animation. The game takes place in a dark world where monsters and sinister...

Padre

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2019

Padre is a survival-horror adventure that combines deep, evocative storytelling, monster-slaying, and puzzle-solving in a dark, Lovecraftian setting. You are a...

Fate Hunters

Adventure, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 18 July 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Fate Hunters is a collectible card game with turn-based combat in a dark fantasy setting. In the game you have to collect your deck of cards, explore the dark game...

School Owner

Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2019

A management and construction simulator where players take on the role of a school manager. The school owner's job is to build the school from the ground up and...

while True: learn()

Educational game (Education), Simulation, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 18 January 2019

An indie puzzle game with elements of a simulator and adventure, where all the mechanics are tied to machine learning. The main character is a programmer who...

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical quest about life in the Soviet Union. The great nation of Matryoshka invites a Western journalist to witness...

Moonlighter: Between Dimensions

Role-playing game, Action, DLC, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2019

Moonlighter: Between Dimensions is an action RPG expansion with a procedurally generated world and a Japanese-style isometric camera view. Along with the expansion...

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition

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

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2019

Players: 10/10

Adventure role-playing game, which is a direct sequel to Sunless Sea. The setting is not murky water-filled spaces like in Sunless Sea, but the sunlit sky. The...

Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Tactics, Side view

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2019

Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics is a side-scrolling tactical arcade action game where you take control of an elite squad of soldiers trying to destroy the Black Duck army...

A.N.N.E.

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Early Access: Linux → 26 June 2019; Game in development: Linux → 2027

A.N.N.E. is an adventure platformer with RPG elements and a side view. The game tells the story of robot Number25, accused of loving another robot A.N.N.E. Love...

Smith and Winston

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2019

Smith and Winston is an arcade voxel shooter with a Metroid-style isometric camera view. The events of the game take place in a ring world of the future, which...

Mosaic

Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2019

Metacritic: 67/100

Mosaic is an unusual point and click adventure about the horrors of everyday life. You have to take on the role of a person who has to live in a gray and gloomy...

Interrogation: You will be Deceived

Simulation, Indie, Strategy, Role-playing game, Adventure, Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2019

Metacritic: 67/100

Interrogation: You will be Deceived is a thrilling noir detective story with role-playing elements, where you take control of a special police department tasked...

Earthshine

Adventure, Visual novel, Arcade, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 December 2019

Earthshine is an adventure visual novel. The game tells the story of two travelers who are trying to cross the desert, but get into trouble. The heroes head to the...

Angeldust

Role-playing game, Action, Online, MMO, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 22 December 2019

Angeldust is a first-person MMORPG with indie action elements. Explore endless magical worlds and battle fearsome creatures with millions of friends. Ride your...

KIDS

Indie, Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2019

Players: 10/10

KIDS is a short interactive animated game created by Michael Frei and Mario von Rickenbach. The passage is designed to last up to 30 minutes and will allow you to...

Mable & The Wood

Adventure, Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Horror

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2019

Metacritic: 62/100

Mable & The Wood is a side-scrolling Metroidvania adventure with horror elements set in a dark fantasy world. The plot tells the story of a mysterious girl named...

Spinnortality

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 February 2019

Spinnortality is a management simulator in a cyberpunk setting. In the game, you can try on the role of the head of a global megacorporation and gradually gain...

Guard Duty

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 May 2019

Guard Duty is a fun pixel adventure about love, loss and the end of the world. The events of the game take place in two time periods: in medieval Winklewood and in...

Bloody Chronicles - New Cycle of Death Visual Novel

Simulation, Adventure, Indie, Anime / Manga, Arcade, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 2 August 2019

Bloody Chronicles — New Cycle of Death Visual Novel is an adventure visual novel with elements of a Japanese-style dating simulator. The plot tells the story...

Electronic Super Joy 2

Arcade, Action, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: Linux → 9 August 2019

Players: 5.3/10

Electronic Super Joy 2 is a free-to-play hardcore action platformer with a pixelated side view. The game involves a lot of running and jumping, making your way...

Knights and Bikes

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2019

Metacritic: 80/100

Knights and Bikes is an adventure game with role-playing elements that tells about the lives of ordinary kids and their hobbies. Like many children, you have to...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2019 for Linux