Indie 2025 for Linux — top best games in the Indie genre

Slender Threads - a game in the Indie genre

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2025

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Atmospheric quest, where reality is intertwined with nightmares. Harvey, a wandering salesman, is in a small town of Villa Ventat. Its days are filled with...

Soulstone Survivors

Role-playing game, Indie, Top-down view, Fantasy, Action, Roguelike, Shooter, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 17 June 2025

Players: 9.4/10

An action RPG with roguelike elements, where the fantasy world is filled with hordes of monsters and giant bosses. The player becomes a Void Hunter, destroying...

Backpack Battles

Strategy, Online, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 13 June 2025

Players: 9.2/10

As players progress, they acquire rare items and assemble powerful builds from them. After this, the character can be sent to fight with the heroes of other...

Necesse

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

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...

Live Lens

Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Tactics

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2025

A tactical shooter with a body-camera view and real-life graphics. The game has three modes: a single story campaign, where you need to uncover a conspiracy...

The Roottrees are Dead

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: Linux → 15 January 2025

Metacritic: 86/100

A detective adventure in the spirit of Return of the Obra Dinn, but set in the 90s. The main character is a young investigative journalist trying to establish the...

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DLC, Visual novel, Casual game, Indie, Anime / Manga, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 24 April 2025

Players: 6.2/10

A new addition to the visual short story Altushka for Skuf, which expands the plot with new characters and forks. The players are waiting for a meeting with...

Hired 2 Die

First-person view, Survival horror, Stealth, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2025

Players: 3.8/10

The main character is a person who is able to sense Distortions that generate strange objects and dangerous creatures. During the experiment, he will have to...

#DRIVE Rally

Racing, Sports game, Indie, Old school

Game released: Linux → 16 April 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 57/100

A stylish racing game dedicated to the motorsport era of the 90s. Players can get behind the wheel of legendary rally cars including Das Holzwagen, The Doggo and...

Neon Highways

Racing, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game, Old school

Game released: Linux → 12 November 2025

A racing game where you can drive through a retro-futuristic neon city. There are a total of 12 highways in 6 unique regions and a Synthwave soundtrack that adds to...

s.p.l.i.t

Action, Simulation, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Horror

Game released: Linux → 24 July 2025

Metacritic: 83/100

A horror story about hackers from the creator of Buckshot Roulette. In the game you need to hack the structure of an evil corporation without leaving any traces...

Pixel Frontier: Tactics

Strategy, Turn-based, Indie, Free game, Tactics, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2025

Turn-based strategy with elements of roguelike and a dice-rolling system, where the player assembles a team of heroes and completes missions in the dangerous world...

NODE: The Last Favor of the Antarii

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

Game released: Linux → 28 August 2025

The game takes you to an abandoned nuclear complex from the Cold War, where the ruins of Soviet technology are intertwined with something otherworldly. As an...

Nordhold

Roguelike, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Casual game, Procedural generation, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2025

The player controls the medieval Scandinavian village and protects it from the waves of opponents. 8 species of defense towers help to cope with all types of...

Bridge Constructor Studio

Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2025

A game from the Bridge Constructor series that supports both regular and virtual reality glasses modes. The gamer builds structures from various elements that must...

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Comedy, Detective

Game released: Linux → 22 May 2025

Metacritic: 83/100

A bright adventure about a duck detective, set in a campsite where ghosts may have appeared. You need to examine evidence, question suspects, and analyze the data...

Fragile Reflection

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Old school, Zombies, Survival horror

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2025

Players: 9.9/10

The old Japanese town of Nankofuraku is shrouded in a haze of memories and pain. When Karyo Ito returns there to her family, she discovers not a cozy village, but a...

Pairs & Perils

Collectible card game (CCG), Roguelike, Tactics, Turn-based, Casual game, Fantasy, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 January 2025

The player explores dungeons where he fights opponents. In battles, you need to memorize and combine creature and weapon cards for attacks. During breaks, you can...

Jaded

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view

Game released: Linux → 25 January 2025

Players: 10/10

A fun platformer where you can slow down time, perform 360-degree dashes and fight hordes of enemies. The main character explores picturesque snowy mountains, dense...

Caveman Caravan

Strategy, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Roguelike, Old school

Game released: Linux → 6 October 2025

Free roguelike strategy game where the player leads a caravan of primitive people to a new land. The gameplay revolves around combining tile cards and tools that...

A Game About Feeding A Black Hole

Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Clicker

Game released: Linux → 15 December 2025

A casual game about feeding a black hole with material elements. The project is built around a simple yet engaging cycle: the player destroys asteroids, planets...

Кризис в Кремле: Холодная война

Simulation, Strategy, Historical, Indie, Grand strategy

Game released: Linux → 11 July 2025

Players: 9.9/10

A global political strategy in real time, dedicated to the last decade of the USSR. As you progress, you must manage the economy, domestic politics and foreign...

Catanks

Shooter, Third-person view, Tanks, Indie, Free game, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 25 September 2025

Players: 10/10

The player controls a tank, driven by a cat, and tries to defend their home from a rat invasion. Each location offers new mechanics and challenges, such as...

Rhythm Doctor

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

Game released: Linux → 7 December 2025

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 89/100

An unusual musical rhythm game in which every keystroke becomes the pulse of life. Here, medicine and music intertwine: synchronizing keystrokes at the right moment...

Conformer

Platformer, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2025

A dynamic two-dimensional platformer featuring 50 levels with various challenges. Before each stage, players can allocate points for upgrades that help overcome...

Tankazooka

Indie, Side view, Casual game, Arcade, Platformer

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2025

The tank was moving with its convoy, but ran over a mine and broke down. Now you need to go through different levels, using the cannon to move to catch up with your...

Culinary Wizard

Platformer, Indie, Adventure, Side view, Free game, Role-playing game, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 2 July 2025

A pixel game about a chef apprentice who tries to master the secrets of culinary art. The main character travels through magical lands, revives ingredients and...

Lady Umbrella

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Linux → 17 October 2025

An adventure in which the player assumes the role of special agent Francesca De Angelis. She infiltrated Italy's last mafia family but was betrayed. Now the...

The December Job

Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Old school, Survival horror

Game released: Linux → 12 December 2025

A dark short game where the main character has behaved well for years but hasn't received gifts for Christmas. Therefore, the character sneaks into the workshop...

Mirrored Phantoms

Free game, Puzzle, First-person view, Horror, Indie

Game released: Linux → 24 February 2025

The game takes place at the Nightmare Factory of mannequins. It is necessary to explore the gloomy locations, to collect the secret of the broken fragments of the...

They Came for More Pasta

Comedy, Adventure, Science fiction, Indie, Top-down view

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2025

Players: 10/10

Comedy adventure about aliens. Their intentions do not include conquest or kidnapping, the only thing they are interested in is Italian food. A courier, forced to...

Guac & Load

Horror, Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2025

The player manages a restaurant where true chaos reigns. You will have to cook dishes in the kitchen, deliver orders to guests, and work at the cash register to...

Brave Escape

Platformer, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Linux → 31 January 2025

Cooperative platformer for two, built on constant synchronization and joint overcoming of obstacles. The story follows Colin and Floyd, who embark on a dangerous...

Slumbering Feline

Free game, Adventure, Side view, Platformer, Metroidvania, Fantasy, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 March 2025

The story of Momo, who has lost his way in a strange dream and is trying to get out of it. It is necessary to use magical equipment to fight enemies and discover...

Blobun Mini

Casual game, Puzzle, Top-down view, Indie, Free game, Old school

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2025

A free puzzle game with nice pixel graphics. The rules are simple - the player needs to touch every tile on the map, but can only step on a tile...

Bait & Tackle

Hunting / Fishing, Platformer, Indie, Free game, Side view, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 3 October 2025

The player takes on the role of a legendary fisherman, catching exotic fish and battling sea monsters. The protagonist, a retired fisherman, must rebuild his...

Monster Looter

Indie, Side view, Casual game, Clicker

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2025

A pixel adventure where you must fight monsters in a dungeon. Each subsequent opponent is stronger than the previous one, but will bring more loot. You also need to...

Cython Cat

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: Linux → 1 December 2025

A dynamic open-world game about a cat exploring ruins. You will need to move quickly through locations and jump across platforms. You also need to collect shards...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2025 for Linux (Game released)