Games Compilations Indie-RPG

Indie-RPG

Just five years ago, role-playing games were the lot of large studios and teams under the wing of large publishers. But after the indie boom, it became clear that RPGs can be created even without large budgets.

Many role-playing games from independent developers cannot boast of realistic graphics, but they captivate with fresh solutions that AAA publishers do not allow. This is why such games are valuable.

Valheim
Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Crafting, Survival, Open world
February 2, 2021
Players: 8.3/10
Steam: 94/100
Fantasy sandbox with survival elements. You can play alone or with others, exploring the world and gathering resources, finding and plundering tombs...
Stardew Valley
Role-playing game, Simulation, Business / Management, Indie
February 26, 2016
Players: 9/10
Steam: 98/100
Metacritic: 88/100
Stardew Valley is a farming simulator with role-playing elements, an open-world sandbox with an isometric camera and visual style reminiscent of '90s...
No Man's Sky
Online, Simulation, Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Open world, Survival
August 9, 2016
VGTimes: 5.6/10
Players: 7.5/10
Steam: 79/100
Metacritic: 75/100
No Man's Sky is an adventure simulator with a first-person view in a futuristic setting. You will embark on an exploration of space and planets, some...
Project Zomboid
Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Roguelike, Survival, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies, Open world
November 8, 2013
Players: 8.2/10
Steam: 94/100
A zombie apocalypse is about to occur in the world of Project Zomboid. So far, humanity has not understood what happened, but the houses still have...
Disco Elysium
Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Interactive movie
October 15, 2019
Players: 9.3/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 91/100
Text RPG with an isometric camera and point-and-click interface Disco Elysium received worldwide recognition thanks to its plot and unusual...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world
February 13, 2018
VGTimes: 8.6/10
Players: 8.3/10
Steam: 82/100
Metacritic: 71/100
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a medieval role-playing action game in a fully open world with a first-person perspective. You will take on the role of...
Vampire Survivors
Indie, Top-down view, Action, Roguelike, Fantasy, Gothic, Casual game
December 17, 2021
Players: 8/10
Steam: 98/100
Metacritic: 87/100
A gothic action roguelike about vampires where players fight off hordes of monsters. All that is required of the player is to move around the arena...
Dead Cells
Action, Roguelike, Side view
August 6, 2018
VGTimes: 8.8/10
Players: 8.9/10
Steam: 97/100
Metacritic: 89/100
The main character tries to reach the end of a large castle, but along the way, he will encounter a whole horde of different monsters that will beat...
Undertale
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Indie
September 15, 2015
Players: 8.8/10
Steam: 96/100
Metacritic: 92/100
Undertale is a role-playing game where you control a man who falls underground into a scary world of monsters. Some of the main features of the game...
Grim Dawn
Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval
February 25, 2016
Players: 8.2/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 83/100
Grim Dawn is an isometric action role-playing game in a fantasy setting. Venture into an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of...
Darkest Dungeon
Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike
February 3, 2015
Players: 8.2/10
Steam: 91/100
Metacritic: 84/100
Darkest Dungeon is a unique party RPG, where the skills of your heroes are tied not to abstract indicators of strength, dexterity, intelligence, but...
Cult of the Lamb
Action, Isometric, Roguelike, Adventure, Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Simulation
August 11, 2022
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 95/100
Metacritic: 84/100
Cult of the Lamb is a dark action roguelike with base building and dungeon crawling. The main character is an possessed lamb who was once saved from...
V Rising
Isometric, Action, Slasher, Online, MMO, Fantasy
May 17, 2022
Players: 8.8/10
Steam: 88/100
Metacritic: 81/100
Players take on the role of a vampire awakened from centuries of sleep, stripped of his dark powers. To regain his strength and quench his thirst for...
Starbound
Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival
July 22, 2016
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 90/100
Metacritic: 81/100
Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship...
Battle Brothers
Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics
April 27, 2015
Players: 9/10
Steam: 88/100
Metacritic: 77/100
Hades
Action, Isometric, Roguelike, Fantasy, Dungeons
December 6, 2018
Players: 8.4/10
Steam: 98/100
Metacritic: 93/100
Isometric action-roguelike from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. The main character is the god Zagreus (the son of the ancient Greek god...
Hades 2
Roguelike, Action, Hack and slash, Dungeons, Fantasy, Isometric, Indie, Replayability, Narrative
May 6, 2024
Players: 9.1/10
Steam: 94/100
The sequel to the ancient Greek "roguelike" Hades from 2018. The new story will tell about the immortal princess of the underworld, Melinoë, trying...
Loop Hero
Role-playing game, Roguelike, Top-down view, Fantasy
March 4, 2021
Players: 7.8/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 83/100
A Russian roguelike that tells the story of how the evil Lich created a time loop, erased the memory of all residents and plunged the world into...
Darkwood
Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Survival, Simulation
August 17, 2017
Players: 9.6/10
Steam: 94/100
Metacritic: 79/100
Top-down survival action-horror adventure. Events take place in a mysterious forest, where every night threatens to be the last. Players control a...
Darkest Dungeon 2
Role-playing game, Turn-based, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy, Medieval era, Dungeons, Gothic, Indie
October 26, 2021
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 75/100
Metacritic: 79/100
A continuation of a unique party RPG, where the heroes’ skills are tied not to abstract indicators of strength, dexterity, intelligence, but to a...
Children of Morta
Role-playing game, Hack and slash, Top-down view, Roguelike, Fantasy, Medieval era
September 3, 2019
Players: 9.2/10
Steam: 89/100
Metacritic: 81/100
The game tells the story of the Bergson family, who live at the foot of a cursed mountain. An ancient evil has awakened and now only a famous family...
My Time at Portia
Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Adventure, Business / Management, Third-person view
January 15, 2019
Players: 8.7/10
Steam: 91/100
Metacritic: 73/100
My Time at Portia is an action-adventure role-playing game with a third-person view and elements of a management simulator. You have to go to a...
Black Book
Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Strategy
August 10, 2021
VGTimes: 8.0/10
Players: 9.5/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 75/100
Black Book is a mixture of an adventure game and a card RPG in the setting of Russian fairy tales. The game tells the story of a young peasant woman...
Divinity: Original Sin
Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Hack and slash, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie
June 30, 2014
Players: 8/10
Metacritic: 87/100
Divinity: Original Sin is an action-adventure RPG with turn-based combat and a fantasy setting. The game is a true sequel, the plot of which will...
Endless Legend
Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based
April 24, 2014
Players: 6.4/10
Steam: 84/100
Metacritic: 82/100
Endless Legend is a global turn-based strategy about managing a civilization with random generation of worlds and quests. As you progress, you will...
Punch Club
Role-playing game, Boxing, Business / Management, Sports game, Side view
January 8, 2016
Players: 9.1/10
Steam: 82/100
Metacritic: 75/100
Punch Club is a boxing sports game with RPG elements that tells the story of a boxer searching for his father's killer. The game is made in pixel...
Tunic
Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie
March 16, 2022
VGTimes: 7.8/10
Players: 7.6/10
Steam: 91/100
Metacritic: 86/100
Tunic is an action-adventure game with an isometric camera view. The main character is a cute red fox who must go through a lot of tests, defeat a...
Shadowrun Returns
Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Cyberpunk
July 25, 2013
Players: 8/10
Steam: 88/100
Metacritic: 81/100
Shadowrun Returns — is a tactical turn-based role-playing game based on the 80s board game Shadowrun and is the spiritual successor to the...
Risk of Rain
Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike
November 8, 2013
Players: 8/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 77/100
Risk of Rain is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view and roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game will take you to...
Expeditions: Viking
Role-playing game, Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics
April 27, 2017
Players: 7.6/10
Steam: 83/100
Metacritic: 74/100
Expeditions: Viking is a tactical turn-based RPG that will take you back to the 700s during the time of the Vikings and allow you to become one of...
Rogue Legacy
Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie
June 27, 2013
Players: 8.2/10
Steam: 92/100
Metacritic: 84/100
Hyper Light Drifter
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie
March 31, 2016
Players: 7.6/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 82/100
Hyper Light Drifter is a top-down action-adventure RPG. The main character of the game suffers from a strange disease and goes to amazing countries...
Transistor
Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based
May 20, 2014
Players: 7.8/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 84/100
Transistor is an adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell the story of a girl named Red. She is...
Dungeon Defenders
Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)
December 16, 2010
Players: 9.1/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 79/100
Dungeon Defenders is a dynamic cooperative action role-playing game with a third-person view and elements of the tower defense genre in a fantasy...
Bastion
Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic
July 20, 2011
Players: 8.5/10
Steam: 95/100
Metacritic: 89/100
Bastion is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. You will go to a fairy-tale world, which, by the will of fate...
Reigns
Board / Group Game, Card game, Logic
August 11, 2016
Players: 8.5/10
Steam: 87/100
Metacritic: 82/100
Reigns is a card board game where you will become the ruler of a small kingdom and take part in important elections that will determine your reign...
Torment: Tides of Numenera
Role-playing game, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based
January 26, 2016
VGTimes: 8.3/10
Players: 7.8/10
Steam: 72/100
Metacritic: 79/100
Torment: Tides of Numenera is a classic role-playing game with an isometric camera view and turn-based combat, which is the spiritual successor to...
Seven: The Days Long Gone
Role-playing game, Stealth, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic
December 1, 2017
VGTimes: 7.6/10
Players: 4.7/10
Metacritic: 68/100
Seven: The Days Long Gone is an isometric RPG that will allow you to freely explore the game world and steal everything that is bad. You have to get...
Dungeons of Dredmor
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based
July 13, 2011
Players: 3.2/10
Steam: 94/100
Metacritic: 79/100
Dungeons of Dredmor is a top-down role-playing game with a dash of fantasy from developers Gaslamp Games. The main publisher of the game is Gaslamp...
Dead State
Role-playing game, Isometric, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic
December 4, 2014
Players: 7.7/10
Metacritic: 70/100
Planet Explorers
Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op)
November 8, 2016
Players: 5.2/10
Steam: 62/100
Planet Explorers is a free-to-play action role-playing game with a third-person view and survival elements in a sci-fi setting. The plot tells about...
Dungeon of the Endless
Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Indie
October 27, 2014
Players: 7/10
Steam: 88/100
Metacritic: 79/100
Dungeon of the Endless is a roguelike Dungeon Defense style game in which gamers have to fight monsters for their survival. Several hundred convicted...
Legends of Eisenwald
Role-playing game, Online, Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based
July 21, 2014
Players: 7.8/10
Steam: 76/100
Metacritic: 71/100
Legends of Eisenwald is a medieval strategy game with turn-based combat and role-playing elements. After the death of the king, who left no heir, the...
Hard West
Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics
November 18, 2015
VGTimes: 9.2/10
Players: 10/10
Steam: 75/100
Metacritic: 73/100
Hard West is a turn-based tactical western. The plot of the game will suggest delving into the darkest recesses of the soul of the main character...
The Bard's Tale
Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval
October 26, 2004
Players: 9.4/10
Metacritic: 75/100
The Bard's Tale is a fun role-playing adventure with an isometric camera view in the fantasy universe of The Bard's Tale. In the game you will try on...
Zeno Clash 2
Role-playing game, Action, Beat them all, First-person view
April 30, 2013
Steam: 83/100
Metacritic: 61/100
Wild Terra 2: New Lands
Role-playing game, MMO, Adventure, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval, Isometric
November 10, 2022
Steam: 58/100
Wild Terra 2: New Lands is an indie adventure MMO in the medieval genre with an isometric view. You can live on the United Continent — build...
Nether
Action, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Futurism (Future)
October 29, 2013
Players: 5/10
Nether — a first-person multiplayer survival game in which the player must survive in a landscape loosely based on Chicago (where the...
Lords of Xulima
Role-playing game, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based
November 14, 2014
VGTimes: 7.0/10
Players: 10/10
Steam: 80/100
Metacritic: 71/100
Lords of Xulima is a turn-based role-playing game with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. You live in a world where gods and people walk...
ROKH
Adventure, Futurism (Future)
May 16, 2017
ROKH is a sci-fi adventure where you have to survive on Mars, collect various resources and supplies, and also set up your base. The main feature of...
Collection Quest
Adventure, Puzzle, Role-playing game, Post-apocalyptic, Top-down view
May 18, 2020
Steam: 66/100
Collection Quest is a top-down adventure role-playing game in the post-apocalyptic genre. You have to immerse yourself in the game world to move...

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