Invaoids-fected Is Free on Linux — Debian, Fedora, Flatpak, AppImage

2026-07-25T19:32:43Z

Invaoids-fected key art — infected asteroids and arcade combat

Invaoids-fected is free on Linux. No storefront account. No launcher tax. No wishlist-and-wait.

If your weekend still has room for one more triangle ship and a screen full of bad decisions, grab the native build and boot into the infection.

Download free Open the landing page

What it is

Invaoids-fected is Martian Bacon’s hybrid arcade space combat game: rotate, thrust, fire, and survive waves that unlock more chaos every stage. Power-ups drop mid-fight. Virus Mode can yank you into portal hijacks. Clear enough damage and you unlock a shelf of minigames — platform leaps, side-shooter corridors, kart cups, soft landings, base recovery, and a purple-tile pyramid shootout.

Invaoids-fected main menu: Standard, Virus, Minigames, Scoreboard

Why Linux first (and free)

This drop is aimed at people who already live in a terminal or a software center. The same binary ships in the formats Linux players actually use:

Debian / Ubuntu — .deb via apt
Fedora / RHEL — .rpm via dnf
Flatpak — sandboxed com.martainbacon.InvaoidsFected
AppImage — chmod + run, no root required

Price: free. Controllers: gamepads get on-screen button labels. Keyboard WASD + Space still works if the coffee mug owns your right hand.

Standard mode gameplay with triangle ship firing at invaders

Install in under a minute

sudo dnf install ./invaoids-fected-1.2.1-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm
# or
sudo apt install ./invaoids-fected_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb
# or
flatpak install --user ./invaoids-fected-1.2.1-x86_64.flatpak
# or
chmod +x ./invaoids-fected-1.2.1-x86_64.AppImage && ./invaoids-fected-1.2.1-x86_64.AppImage

All four builds are on the Invaoids-fected download shelf at the top of the landing page.

After you boot

Skip the intro with Enter / A, pick Standard for a clean dogfight or Virus when you want OS-flavored sabotage. Climb the online scoreboard when a run feels unfairly good — then send a friend the link while their ship is still exploding.

Get the Linux builds