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If you're generally looking for Indie games (meaning smaller teams, max. AA budget), there much selection in this comment section.

If you mean hidden gems, that not many people have played/know about, then take a look at https://buried-treasure.org/

I'll name some not yet mentioned in this 🧵.

Sulfur is a nice indie boomer shooter, very addictive and unique.

Witchfire is a single player extraction shooter by the devs of painkiller - still in early access, but very polished and amazing gunplay.

Shattered pixel dungeon is my go-to roguelike these days, for free at https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/releases - the paid Steam version comes with UI optimizations for PC.

Hardspace Shipbreaker puts you in the role of a worker in a spaceship recycling plant - it's a dangerous job, and the company is very anti-union. Good story, Very Zen or high pressure depending on the selected mode, good Americana soundtrack.

Utopia must fall is my go-to arcade game. Has roots in missle command, defeating waves and picking upgrades in a bit of a roguelike style. Timeless and unique graphics style.

DotAge is a turn based city builder where your doom has been foretold in a vision of your town elder. Make sure you stem against the tide of bad omens and the change of seasons.

Chronicon is an 2d ARPG. Done let the graphics fool you, it has very deep costumization options and unique builds to explore. It was finished, but Development has been picked up again unexpectedly after the dev came back to his roots after a failed project.

Cavalry Girls is a top-down Mecha game where you have to defend a city for 100 days. The UI is a bit convoluted, but it offers nice gameplay and deep costumization of your Mechas and you town defenses.

Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum is a minimalistic top down game, where you play an agent for a mysterious agency which brought you back to life, and you have to work off you debt. You can hack anything(including flying bullets!), try stealthy approaches or go in guns blazing.

Mortal Sin is a melee Fps Roguelike. Lots of classes, weapons, armor and perks to choose from, unique graphics style, special moves depending on the equipped weapon and satisfying hack-and-slash gameplay.

Delta V: Rings of Saturn Is a top-down hard sci-fi game with accurate physics where you play as captain of a mining ship based on Enceladus (a Saturn moon), mining for minerals in the asteroid belt. Very Zen, until you try racing through the Belts or pirates damage your ship and You have to jury-rig it to make it home while keeping an eye on your fuel reserves.

Last but not least, We who we are about to die is an third person Gladiator sim in ancient Rome. The gimmick here is the fighting mechanics, where your mouse input moves the weapon and the speed of your weapon, the part you hit with and where you hit are all important. Takes a while to get good at swinging or throwing your axe, aw well as realistically blocking hits with your shield. Permadeath raises the stakes.

Hades, Dave the diver, Terraria, dead cells... All good indies are on steam...

Into The Breach

I play this game called Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum a little while back. It's a weird sorta immersive sim type game. You hack computers and shoot people and a bunch of other stuff as a cyborg corporate agent/debt-slave. It was cool

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I love art of rally, iracing arcade, dome keeper, kingdoms and castles, stonks 9800, mini motorways and bzzzt, they all work on Linux. Hope you have fun with any game though.

There's a humble bundle out for popular indie games

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Shogun Showdown

Mega Knockdown is a turn-based fighting game that's super simple to pick up and play while still offering a surprising amount of depth.

I'm here at Combo Breaker 2026 where we just had a small side tournament for the game last night, hosted by the developer. I took second.

Everything is a crab

There is no game(and their new game)

Deep rock galactic

Mindustry - factory building + tower defense. For free on itch.io, runs in jvm

Grimshire - moody farming game where you keep your villagers alive during a plague

factorio squad expedition 33 no mans sky slay the spire 2 subnautica stardew valley terraria to the moon ib ao oni

these are the one i find good. your mileage may vary

Blueblood Arena

Heart of the Machine

Clair Obscur and Rogue: Genesia.

Call of duty. Jokes aside what about bloons td6

A gem is stationeers

Uboat

No, unfortunately there are not any good indie games on steam.

The Forgotten City. The less you know about it the better

And Inscryption is one of my favorite card battlers

Define 'good'. Everyone wants something different.

Make Way. Fun little racing game with Ultimate Chicken Horse and Mario kart mechanics

Captain of industry

Genre: Factory automation

Absolutely fantastic game

Absolum. Great modern take on side scrolling beat em ups.

And my favorite right now: IGTAP. full release soon but the demo is so fun already. Play with proton even though there is a Linux build

A good FPS that's indie (though it's actually AA) is a game called Operation Harsh Doorstop. I hadn't played it in a while, but from what I know, it's a fantastic Battlefield-like, with some inspiration from the H2M project as well.

It's made in Unreal Engine, which was on UE4 at the time. I think they use UE5, and likely optimize the game themselves.