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  • 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.