Indie for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Indie genre

Strategy, Adventure, Business / Management, Comics, Indie, Tactics, Casual game, Comedy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 January 2026

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Adventure from the creators of The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands. The story is about a superhero whose mech armor was broken by his...

Graveyard Keeper 2

Action, Simulation, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Comedy, Medieval era, Construction, Zombies

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 September 2026

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 73/100

The continuation of the simulator of a graveyard keeper in the medieval era. The player takes on the role of the Grand Inquisitor, who develops the...

Minecraft

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 June 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox focused on freedom of action and exploring a practically endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled...

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 September 2025

VGTimes: 8.2/10

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 91/100

A sequel to the hardcore action platformer Hollow Knight. The game takes you to a new world — the fallen kingdom of Pharlum, where silk and song...

Stray

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 November 2024

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk of a distant future. A suffocating city with a stale atmosphere, inhabited by robots. A lost lonely cat that wants to...

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

Simulation, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Exploration, Fantasy, Medieval era, Crafting

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 December 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 74/100

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Mouthwashing

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Old school, Walking Simulator

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 October 2026

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Space indie horror in the style of games from the PlayStation One era. The game tells the dark story of the crew of the Tulpar ship, drifting in...

No, I'm not a Human

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Old school

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2027

VGTimes: 5.0/10

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The game introduces players to a disturbing world on the brink of an apocalypse. During the day, city dwellers suffer from the sun, burning out all...

Five Dates

Interactive movie, First-person view, Adventure, Indie, Adult game, Visual novel, Point & Click

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 November 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Five Dates is a dating simulator with elements of an interactive adult adventure and a dash of romantic comedy. Unlike most similar projects, the...

Stardew Valley

Role-playing game, Simulation, Online, Business / Management, Indie, Farm Simulator

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 October 2017

Players: 8.8/10

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 the visual style of 90s arcade...

Hades 2

Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Fantasy, Replayability, Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 September 2025

VGTimes: 9.2/10

Players: 9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 94/100

A continuation of the roguelike Hades, taking players into even deeper and darker layers of ancient Greek mythology. This time the story revolves...

Vampire Survivors

Action, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Casual game, Fantasy, Gothic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 August 2023

Players: 8.4/10

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...

Deltarune

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Comedy, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 June 2025

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 98/100

An RPG from Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale. The story centers on Chris, an ordinary schoolboy who, together with a classmate, accidentally finds...

Chants of Sennaar

Isometric, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 September 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Once upon a time, the peoples of the tower stopped understanding each other. But everyone has heard about the legend about the traveler who will...

Sifu

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Beat them all, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 November 2022

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Hurricane hand-to-hand combat with a multitude of enemies from the creators of Absolver. A young kung fu student embarks on a path of revenge...

Frostpunk

Strategy, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival, City Building

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 October 2026

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Frostpunk is a city-building strategy game from the creators of This War of Mine. It tells the story of people surviving in a snow-covered world and...

Breathedge

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Survival, Comedy, Space, Sandbox

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 April 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Breathedge is a science fiction adventure action game with a first-person view and survival elements. The game tells the story of an ordinary guy and...

Hades

Action, Isometric, Roguelike, Dungeons, Fantasy, Slasher, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 September 2020

Players: 8.7/10

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...

SIGNALIS

Action, Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Survival horror, Science fiction, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 October 2022

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 81/100

SIGNALIS is a classic sci-fi horror, the style of which is very reminiscent of the movie "Alien". Finding herself alone on the snowy planet Elster...

Warhammer Survivors

Action, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Science fiction, Casual game, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 November 2026

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A frantic action roguelike in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. The game combines a frantic pace with the dark spirit of the Warhammer 40,000 and...

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Action, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 November 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 82/100

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance — an expansion to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. The expansion includes the fan-made...

Loop Hero

Role-playing game, Roguelike, Top-down view, Fantasy, Tactics, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 December 2021

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 91/100

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...

Hollow Knight

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 June 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 89/100

An atmospheric action-platformer about a journey through the dying underground kingdom of Hallownest, inhabited by mysterious insects and strange...

Graveyard Keeper

Action, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era, Crafting, Role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 June 2019

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Graveyard Keeper is a simulator of a true manager of a medieval cemetery. In the game world, heroes await death in coffins and entire tombs of your...

Subnautica

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival, Open world, Horror

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 May 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A single-player adventure in a vast open world, with a first-person view, survival elements, and sandbox features. Playing the game will evoke...

Darkest Dungeon 2

Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Dungeons, Fantasy, Medieval era, Gothic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 July 2024

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...

Cat Quest 2

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Exploration, Slasher

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 October 2019

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Cat Quest 2 is a continuation of the fun role-playing action game with an isometric camera view. The game will take you to a fantasy universe in...

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 May 2019

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a unique action-adventure game with many interesting puzzles. The story revolves around two brothers who must...

Rogue Legacy 2

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 November 2022

Players: 8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 89/100

One day, a brave knight gets to a mysterious place where some kind of devilry happened many years ago. Skeletons, ghosts and other evil spirits roam...

Moadra

Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Science fiction, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 October 2026

Steam: 86/100

A dark metroidvania set on the forgotten planet Protea VI. Its landscape combines sandy wastelands, icy peaks, and research facilities overrun by...

Thronefall

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), City Building, Construction

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 October 2024

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 95/100

A game with minimalistic graphics, in which the gamer builds the defense of a settlement during the day and defends against enemy attacks at night...

Undertale

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Comedy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 September 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 92/100

An RPG with a unique combat system, where each battle can be completed without a single blow. Instead of the usual violence, there are conversations...

This War of Mine

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Survival, Simulation

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 November 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This War of Mine is an atmospheric adventure with survival elements and a side view. The game allows you to plunge into the life of ordinary...

Hotline Miami

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 August 2019

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Hotline Miami is a brutal and bloody top-down action game. You have to step into the shoes of a serial killer who kills hundreds of various bandits...

Children of Silentown

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 January 2023

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Lucy grew up in a village where people periodically disappeared. Now she is an adult and seeks to investigate the mystery of the disappearance of...

Core Keeper

Adventure, Online, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Exploration, Crafting, Farm Simulator, Open world, Survival

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 August 2024

Players: 7.8/10

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...

Delivery from the Pain: Survival

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Roguelike, Survival, Zombies

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 June 2022

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 79/100

An action role-playing game with survival elements and a top-down perspective, set during a zombie apocalypse. A research institute working on a cure...