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

Action, Indie, Top-down view, Roguelike, Shooter, Casual game, Procedural generation, Comedy, Online, Survival

Game released: Linux → 23 June 2023

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Arena shooter about a combat potato in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. The game tells the story of Spud from the planet Potato, who crashes on an alien planet...

Roots of Pacha

Top-down view, Action, Role-playing game, Simulation, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Farm Simulator, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 25 April 2023

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Sandbox with elements of a farmer simulator. The player is building a settlement in the Stone Age. You can grow plants to harvest crops, tame animals, and explore...

Astral Ascent

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

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2023

Players: 7/10

Steam: 95/100

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, Replayability

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

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

Gravity Circuit

Action, Platformer, Combat robots, Beat them all, Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: Linux → 13 July 2023

Steam: 95/100

The game takes place in a future world where intelligent robots face an old enemy — the Virus Army. Many years ago the villains were defeated, but now they...

Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania

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

Game released: Linux → 6 March 2023

Steam: 86/100

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...

Paleo Pines

Action, Third-person view, Farm Simulator, Exploration, Casual game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 26 September 2023

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 69/100

The game takes place on a colorful island where kind dinosaurs and eccentric people live. Together with their faithful companion, the dinosaur Lucky, players...

Kona 2: Brume

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Exploration, Detective, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 18 October 2023

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 80/100

The game takes place in Canada in 1970. A certain haze cut off a small mining village from the whole world. Private detective Karl Faber is trying to understand its...

Universe For Sale

Puzzle, Adventure, Exploration, Science fiction, Indie, Comics, Point & Click, Visual novel

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2023

Steam: 91/100

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...

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - West Balkans

Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, DLC, Indie, Open world

Game released: Linux → 19 October 2023

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 85/100

Euro Truck Simulator 2 — West Balkans — an expansion for the truck driving simulator with first-person and third-person views. As part of the expansion, you will be...

Three Minutes to Eight

Indie, Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Science fiction, Detective, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2023

Steam: 63/100

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...

Nobodies: After Death

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Hidden Objects, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 20 April 2023

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

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

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge - Dimension Shellshock

DLC, Side view, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Comics, Beat them all, Arcade, Online, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 August 2023

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 87/100

The Neutrino alien race from Dimension X needs help again: Shredder is planning to take over the entire multiverse by moving between dimensions. The add-on...

Lumencraft

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

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2023

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 75/100

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...

Treason

First-person view, Shooter, Detective, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Action, Battle Royale

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2023

Steam: 89/100

A multiplayer social game in which gamers try to identify killers. At the beginning of the round, some random characters become traitors, their goal is to kill...

Mile High Taxi

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

Game released: Linux → 14 March 2023

Steam: 63/100

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...

WooLoop

Free game, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 13 January 2023

Players: 4/10

Steam: 90/100

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...

ToriDori

Casual game, Hidden Objects, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Isometric

Game released: Linux → 6 April 2023

Steam: 94/100

The player, in the role of captain of a mystical ship, travels to different locations and tries to find all the differences and time paradoxes. The gamer carefully...

Ion Fury: Aftershock

Shooter, First-person view, Old school, DLC, Action, Indie, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 2 October 2023

Steam: 93/100

After defeating Heskel in her previous adventure, Shelley Harrison decides to celebrate at a local bar. The rest does not last long — explosions begin to...

Planet S

Strategy, In real time, Indie, Tactics, Free game, City Building, Online

Game released: Linux → 28 October 2023

Players: 8/10

Steam: 92/100

A tactical real-time strategy game with a world of 14 procedurally generated planets ready for colonization. The planet type affects things like appearance, farm...

Lichenvale

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

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2023

Steam: 80/100

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...

Dotage

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Construction, City Building, Board / Group Game

Game released: Linux → 4 October 2023

Steam: 94/100

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...

Super Woden GP 2

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

Game released: Linux → 10 November 2023

Steam: 88/100

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...

Full Void

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

Game released: Linux → 18 July 2023

Steam: 91/100

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...

An Arcade Full of Cats

Hidden Objects, Arcade, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie, Free game, Point & Click

Game released: Linux → 17 November 2023

Steam: 98/100

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...

Brichi Quest

Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Dungeons, Procedural generation, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 5 January 2023

Steam: 75/100

The protagonist finds a mysterious sword that takes him to an unknown land. The character must search every island and dungeon in search of a way to return home. On...

Meg's Monster

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

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2023

Steam: 96/100

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...

Bonfire Peaks - Lost Memories

Logic, Isometric, Adventure, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Linux → 3 March 2023

Steam: 96/100

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...

Jewel Run

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

Game released: Linux → 20 October 2023

Steam: 83/100

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...

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...

Roto Force

Arcade, Shooter, Puzzle, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 July 2023

Steam: 90/100

A dynamic game in which the gamer controls the shooting and direction of the character's movement. As you progress, you can unlock new weapons with unique fire...

Low Oxygen

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

Game released: Linux → 16 March 2023

Steam: 89/100

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...

Tower Survivors

Free game, Indie, Fantasy, Top-down view, Action, Roguelike, Casual game, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Arcade

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2023

Steam: 66/100

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...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2023 for Linux (Game released)