Indie 2023 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre

Tactics, Roguelike, Top-down view, Shooter, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Early Access: Linux → 13 April 2022; Game released: Linux → 28 February 2023

Players: 6.4/10

The events of the game take place back in 2221. More than two centuries ago, the surface of the planet became uninhabitable. The remnants of humanity are struggling...

Halls of Torment

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Indie, Roguelike, Fantasy, Old school

Early Access: Linux → 24 May 2023; Game released: Linux → 24 September 2024

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 88/100

The main action takes place in a dark fantasy world with monsters, demons and magic. The brave hero sets out to explore various underground spaces to find new...

Astral Ascent

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Slasher, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2023

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Four heroes with unique personalities try to escape from the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 godlike and treacherous Zodiacs. The game has dozens of unique...

Backpack Hero

Indie, Turn-based, Fantasy, Dungeons, Tactics, Card game, Side view, Roguelike

Early Access: Linux → 15 August 2022; Game released: Linux → 14 November 2023

Players: 10/10

Pixel roguelike about anthropomorphic animals and inventory management. The player sets out to conquer dungeons, collecting rare items, distributing them in a...

Full Void

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

Game released: Linux → 18 July 2023

The game takes place in a dystopian future. The main character is a frightened and lonely teenager who is trying to free humanity from the oppression of evil...

Lichenvale

Action, Adventure, Slasher, First-person view, Indie, Fantasy, Old school, Medieval era

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2023

A fantasy slasher film in which the main character finds himself in a real nightmare and tries to survive among hordes of monsters. The game features different...

Shogun Showdown

Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based, Roguelike, Medieval era, Card game

Early Access: Linux → 27 June 2023; Game released: Linux → 5 September 2024

Metacritic: 88/100

A tactical turn-based roguelike about a hero who challenges the powerful shogun. To win battles, you need to choose a good position, attack at the right moment and...

WooLoop

Free game, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 13 January 2023

Players: 4/10

Free tranquil game in the spirit of Crayon Physics Deluxe. The task is to "knit" pictures using colorful threads. The game features meditative gameplay, bright...

Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania

DLC, Action, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Roguelike, Platformer, Gothic

Game released: Linux → 6 March 2023

Metacritic: 88/100

An expansion for the hardcore side-scrolling action roguelike Dead Cells, which brings original content inspired by Castlevania to the game. The main character...

Meg's Monster

Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2023

Metacritic: 79/100

The game takes place in the Underworld — a land of monsters and mutants who eat people for breakfast. But a huge ogre named Roy doesn't want to eat people...

Mile High Taxi

Arcade, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2023

A game inspired by the film The Fifth Element, in which the gamer controls a futuristic flying taxi and delivers customers. Events take place in the 24th century in...

Dotage

Indie, Strategy, Construction, Turn-based, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 4 October 2023

The elder had a vision of a future apocalypse. To avoid the fate of a doomed future, he gathers his fellow villagers and leads them into an empty valley. There you...

Low Oxygen

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

Game released: Linux → 16 March 2023

The game is about an astronaut who crash lands on an alien planet while trying to find a way to get to Earth again. He must navigate through 50 rooms filled with...

Super Woden GP 2

Racing, Arcade, Top-down view, Old school, Indie, Online, Isometric

Game released: Linux → 10 November 2023

A racing arcade game inspired by arcade games from the 90s. The game has more than 100 cars from 7 manufacturers that can be bought and sold. A variety of modes are...

Crescent Loom

Arcade, Simulation, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 2 January 2023

Players: 1/10

Funny symbiosis of two simulators Kerbal Space Program and Spore. Players create their own underwater creatures from bones, muscles, and sensory organs. These...

Three Minutes to Eight

Indie, Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Science fiction, Detective

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2023

A pixel game set in the near future. The main character should die at exactly 19:57, but the gamer still tries to save him. We need to find ways to cheat death and...

Jewel Run

Casual game, Action, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Comics, Free game

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2023

A multiplayer asymmetrical game in which a group of village teenagers unite against the owner of a garden. The children are trying to collect valuable items and...

Tower Survivors

Free game, Indie, Fantasy, Top-down view, Action, Roguelike, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2023

Free clone of the popular Vampire Survivors. The evil Necromancer has escaped from the tower and flooded the kingdom with his minions, who are chasing the main...

Universe For Sale

Puzzle, Adventure, Exploration, Science fiction, Indie, Comics

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2023

A hand-drawn adventure set on an empty space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. You need to meet unusual local residents and reveal their secrets of survival...

Nobodies: After Death

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Hidden Objects

Game released: Linux → 20 April 2023

Players: 7.9/10

The main character is a cleaner for a secret government intelligence organization. Only he can carefully dispose of bodies, brilliantly destroy evidence and leave...

An Arcade Full of Cats

Hidden Objects, Arcade, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie, Free game

Game released: Linux → 17 November 2023

Free cute puzzle game where you have to look for cats in pictures. The player travels through a cat version of the arcade era, spanning from 1980 to 2000. As you...

Bonfire Peaks - Lost Memories

Logic, Isometric, Adventure, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2023

Addition for Bonfire Peaks. The developers have added new mechanics and puzzles that are available in new areas. The main character explores small levels and uses...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2023 for Linux