Best Indie Games Online
Indie and multiplayer are a great combination. Independent developers often come up with fresh ideas, resulting in seemingly simple games becoming multiplayer hits.
In this selection, you'll find the most interesting indie online games: fun co-ops, original PvP shooters, survival games, and social simulators. All of them offer a unique experience, available for both solo gamers and groups of friends.
Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting, Online
February 2, 2021
VGTimes:
7.8/10
Players:
8.4/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
90/100
A fantasy sandbox with survival elements. You can play alone or with others, exploring the world and gathering resources, finding and raiding tombs, building bases...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Fantasy, Open world, Survival, Online
January 19, 2024
VGTimes:
8.0/10
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
79/100
An arcade action-survival game from a third-person perspective in a vast open world with the key mechanic of taming unusual creatures called Pal. They resemble...
Action, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Survival horror, Crafting, Online, Open world, Exploration
February 24, 2023
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
86/100
Continuation The Forest about survival in the woods. The main character sets out to search for a missing billionaire on a remote island and ends up in a...
Simulation, Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world
April 30, 2018
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
81/100
The Forest is an adventure action-horror game with survival elements set in an open world and presented from a first-person perspective. The main character is the...
Online, Business / Management, Roguelike, Side view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival horror, Survival
June 6, 2019
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
95/100
A game about a submarine, which features procedural generation of tasks, a character editor and an online mode for 16 players. The gamer will be able to visit a...
Action, First-person view, Online, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
July 28, 2020
Players:
8.3/10
Steam:
92/100
Metacritic:
61/100
Grounded is a cooperative survival game from Obsidian. The plot tells about children who have shrunk to the size of insects. Now the grass seems huge to them, like...
Adventure, Online, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Exploration, Crafting, Farm Simulator, Open world, Survival
March 8, 2022
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
86/100
An arcade sandbox that you can play with friends in co-op for up to eight people. The main character is an explorer who wakes up in an ancient dungeon filled with...
Action, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Procedural generation, Survival horror, Horror
April 1, 2024
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
93/100
A cooperative horror puzzle game in the spirit of Lethal Company. The game is about a group of bloggers trying to get viral on the local equivalent of YouTube. To...
Role-playing game, Action, Online, Slasher, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy
April 6, 2023
Players:
8/10
Steam:
85/100
Metacritic:
78/100
A game from the creators of Curse of the Dead Gods featuring characters from folk tales. Each hero has their own abilities: Beowulf relies on fierce attacks and...
Cooperative (co-op), Business / Management, Roguelike, Procedural generation, Casual game, Action, Top-down view, Construction
August 4, 2022
Players:
7.6/10
Steam:
96/100
PlateUp! is a top-down cooperative action roguelike where you manage a restaurant. First you have to choose a layout, furnish the establishment with furniture...
Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Online, Cooperative (co-op), Roguelike
March 28, 2019
Players:
8.6/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
85/100
Risk of Rain 2 is a dynamic action platformer with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. In the second part you will find a full three-dimensional environment...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Turn-based
April 19, 2018
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
78/100
For the King is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view and random level generation. You have to travel through an endless fantasy world. You can play...
Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting, Procedural generation, Online
December 12, 2019
Players:
6.8/10
Steam:
94/100
A colorful action sandbox that combines exploration, crafting, settlement building, and cooperative play. The procedurally generated world is filled with various...
Action, Top-down view, Shooter, Role-playing game, Fantasy, Roguelike, Survival, Horror, Casual game
June 8, 2022
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
91/100
A minimalist action roguelike where heroes fight against countless hordes of monsters straight out of the pen of H. P. Lovecraft. With a wide variety of characters...
Roguelike, Fantasy, Collectible card game (CCG), Strategy, Turn-based, Cooperative (co-op), Role-playing game
February 16, 2023
Players:
7.8/10
Steam:
88/100
Colorful card roguelike set in the paper dungeons known from the game Book of Demons. The new game focuses on building your own deck and dynamic turn-based card...
Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
August 26, 2023
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
83/100
An open world survival simulator. The game takes place in the near future, when glaciers have melted and global warming has submerged most of the land. As players...
Action, Tactics, Online, Anime / Manga, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Top-down view, Free game
September 17, 2022
Players:
5.5/10
Steam:
85/100
A free tactical action game where the main keys to victory are ingenuity and dexterity. There are no loot boxes in the game, there are no power-ups that work...
Futurism (Future), Action, Arcade, Logic, Top-down view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Free game, Indie
April 29, 2021
Players:
8.1/10
Steam:
89/100
Goose Goose Duck is a free arcade multiplayer online social deduction game that clearly resembles Among Us, but with ducks and geese. Some control a spaceship...
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