Hello, i was wondering if there are any good indie games on steam to try out. Can be free or paid, i don’t mind if there’s no native linux build either (i play stuff with wine/proton anyways lol) and i don’t mind the genre. I’ve been thinking of trying something new as of recent so i thought i might ask it here.
How small indie do you mean, like one person teams or teams of 5 ok?
Dyson sphere project, is a great factory game in development for ages and one of my favourites by a 5 person Chinese team.
Rift breaker by a small Polish group is like a cross between Diablo and Tower defence factory builder lite
Criticality, is a fun incremental game that will keep you occupied for a few days, hit neutrons to create a chain reaction, basically bubble wrap
“Lost wiki Kozlovka”, is a very unique find the clue by reading Wikipedia articles in early 90’s internet only about 2 hours long, highly recommended.
Take a look at the “secret of weapstone demo”, DnD in hand drawn black and white
Alan’s automation workshop, is good before it gets too hard it you like programming challenges, try the demo first
Silicon dreams, is like a physiological interrogation, you are trying to determine if the people are human or malfunctioning Androids, again there is a demo
Horripilant, is an interesting auto batteler, again with demo
Terraformental, is an incremental text adventure where you build skills to survive a time loop
A dark forest, was entertaining, currently free demo
Cleared hot, it’s basically desert strike helicopter gunship game
Tower wizard, fun for a few hours
Little rocket lab, like factorio but you take over a town and it’s cute
Kids recommend “look outside,” and “mouthwashing”, lobotomy corporation, lethal company,
The signal state, another programming type game
My youngest recommends "rainworld’ like a 2d dark souls
That’s my list from the last couple of months. I tend to search demos by genre and wish list things that get my attention. No idea how any of them works under Linux
EDIT: had to fix up the formatting on mobile.
Edit 2: went through my review and added:
“Town to city” like cities skyline but fun and cute
IXION, nice little confined space city building game
The crust, heaps of potential but waiting for them to finish it
Shapez and Shapez 2, fun little puzzle factory games.
Sandustry is more fun than it has any reason to e
cataclismo
space rock breaker, a cross between pachinco and asteroids
older games,
TIS-100, like assembler but more limited
papers please, love this one, love the aesthetic. If you don’t want to play it watch the live action video homage ~10 minutes
I’ve ignored VR games, let me know if you want those too.
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How small indie do you mean, like one person teams or teams of 5 ok?
Kids recommend “look outside,” and “mouthwashing”, lobotomy corporation, lethal company,
My youngest recommends "rainworld’ like a 2d dark souls
That’s my list from the last couple of months. I tend to search demos by genre and wish list things that get my attention. No idea how any of them works under Linux
EDIT: had to fix up the formatting on mobile.
Edit 2: went through my review and added:
older games,
I’ve ignored VR games, let me know if you want those too.