Indie 2019 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 2

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Action, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 19 September 2019

Steam: 86/100

Deadly Days is an arcade action strategy game with bagel elements and a top-down view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. In the game you will control a group of...

Woven

Adventure, Indie, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Arcade, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 November 2019

Steam: 74/100

Woven is an arcade action-puzzle adventure with a third-person view. The events of the game take place in a fairy-tale world consisting of wool, cotton and fabric...

Ord.

Adventure, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2019

Steam: 92/100

Ord. is a short text adventure where the main feature is that there cannot be more than three words on the screen at any one time. The essence of the game is simple...

Knights and Bikes

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

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2019

Steam: 86/100

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...

KIDS

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2019

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

KIDS — a short interactive animated game created by Michael Fray and Mario von Rickenbach. The gameplay lasts up to 30 minutes and allows you to control the...

Moonlighter: Between Dimensions

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

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2019

Steam: 53/100

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

A.N.N.E.

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

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

Steam: 50/100

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...

At the Gates

Strategy, God Simulator, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2019

Steam: 39/100

Metacritic: 63/100

At the Gates is an engaging turn-based strategy game with an isometric camera view from the creator of Sid Meier's Civilization 5. You will take on the role of a...

Baba Is You

Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Baba Is You is a hardcore top-down puzzle game in pixel style. At each level, the rules themselves are presented in the form of blocks with which you can interact...

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...

OMON Simulator

Role-playing game, Online, Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 October 2019

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 69/100

OMON Simulator is an unusual simulator with a first-person view, which will offer you to take on the role of an officer of a special squad, ensuring the safety of...

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 16 May 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

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...

Vambrace: Cold Soul

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Vambrace: Cold Soul is an adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. The King of Shadows has cursed the great city of Icenair, causing...

Meeple Station

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

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

Steam: 57/100

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...

AI War 2

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie, Grand strategy, Online, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2019

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 86/100

AI War 2 is the cult continuation of the asymmetrical space strategy AI War: Fleet Command. The events of the game develop 353 years later and tell about the...

Mosaic

Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2019

Steam: 73/100

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...

Stone Story RPG

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

Early Access: Linux → 8 August 2019

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 90/100

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...

Arcade Spirits

Simulation, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Futurism (Future), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 12 February 2019

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Arcade Spirits is an adventure visual novel with elements of a dating simulator. The game takes place in an alternate historical universe, where there was no crisis...

Padre

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2019

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 54/100

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

Akuto: Showdown

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

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2019

Steam: 80/100

Akuto: Showdown is an isometric multiplayer action game where you will fight with swords against other players in various arenas. The game itself takes place in...

Mable & The Wood

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

Game released: Linux → 23 August 2019

Steam: 59/100

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...

Guard Duty

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 2 May 2019

Steam: 90/100

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...

Hell is Other Demons

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

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2019

Steam: 92/100

Hell is Other Demons is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer with roguelike elements. The game has you exploring a vast, hand-crafted world filled with...

Byte Driver

Arcade, Action, Racing, Indie

Game released: Linux → 28 May 2019

Steam: 100/100

Byte Driver — arcade retrowave race in which the main character drives along the roads and fights with other cars. Self-driving cars have become self-aware...

Sky Racket

Indie, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Arcade, Side view, Futurism (Future), Sports game, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 22 October 2019

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Sky Racket is an adventure arcade shooter with a side view in a sci-fi setting. The game features a unique combination of genres that mixes classic shoot'em up and...

Exogenesis: Perils of Rebirth

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Post-apocalyptic, Visual novel, Point & Click, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 20 April 2019

Steam: 66/100

Exogenesis: Perils of Rebirth is a visual adventure novel with anime elements in a post-apocalyptic setting. From the ashes of war, humanity struggles to survive in...

Bombfest

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

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2019

Steam: 100/100

Bombfest is a fast-paced arcade action game with an isometric camera view for multiple players. Along with your friends, you'll battle through wooden forts, folding...

Marble Skies

Arcade, Puzzle, Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game, Racing

Game released: Linux → 4 July 2019

Steam: 82/100

Marble Skies is a 3D action platformer with a third-person view where you control a marble. The player goes through intricate levels and overcomes difficult...

Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Tactics, Side view, Stealth, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2019

Steam: 60/100

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...

The Great Perhaps

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2019

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 54/100

The Great Perhaps is an exciting side-scrolling adventure set in a sci-fi setting. You have to try on the role of an astronaut who returns to the Earth destroyed by...

Elsinore

Indie, Adventure, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 23 July 2019

Steam: 95/100

This adventure game with social simulation elements is set in the world of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. After a vision warns Ophelia that everyone in Elsinore...

Smith and Winston

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

Game released: Linux → 27 August 2019

Steam: 86/100

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...

AWAKE - Definitive Edition

Adventure, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 14 January 2019

Steam: 74/100

Mark and Caroline go on a romantic trip, but a brutal murder occurs. Now the heroes live the same day over and over again, being in a time loop. The player must...

Pesterquest

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Visual novel, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 4 September 2019

Steam: 91/100

Pesterquest is an adventure visual novel set in a science fiction setting. You will embark on an amazing journey through time and space in a wonderful universe. As...

NABOKI

Puzzle, Indie, Logic, Isometric, Casual game, Mini-game / browser-based

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2019

Steam: 92/100

NABOKI is an indie logic puzzle game with an isometric view. The game is a puzzle game in the style of minimalism. No tutorials, no advice, no tips. Just you and...

Snakebird Primer

Indie, Casual game, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Linux → 20 February 2019

Steam: 93/100

An arcade puzzle in the spirit of the snake game, only the main characters are long birds. By collecting fruits, players gradually increase the size of the bird...

Sanator: Scarlet Scarf

Adventure, Horror, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: Linux → 6 June 2019

Steam: 89/100

Sanator: Scarlet Scarf is an adventure visual novel with horror elements, inspired by the ancient legend of the Plague Maiden. You have to take into your own hands...

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 12 August 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is a continuation of the action-adventure Anodyne. You take on the role of Nova, a nanoscavenger tasked with collecting dangerous nanodust...

Dead End Job

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 December 2019

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 71/100

Dead End Job is a 2D top-down cartoon shooter in a fantasy setting. You have to get used to the role of an efficient ghost hunter and carry out various contracts to...

Rise of Industry

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

Game released: Linux → 2 May 2019

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 73/100

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...

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