Indie

The Backrooms 1998

Survival horror, Old school, First-person view, Adventure, Action, Walking Simulator, Indie, Survival

May 25, 2022

Steam: 80/100

A psychological horror game from the first person, styled as a found videotape. The story tells about a teenager who accidentally finds himself in the endless maze...

How Fish Is Made

Horror, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Mysticism / Supernatural, Walking Simulator

January 14, 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

A surreal short adventure where a sardine navigates through the insides of a giant machine and talks to other fish. Each character encountered reflects on fate...

Circuits

Music game, Puzzle, Indie

April 17, 2014

Steam: 89/100

Circuits is a musical puzzle game in which players listen closely to separate sound parts and assemble them into complete songs. Each level involves working out how...

TownCraft

Indie, Simulation, Strategy

September 10, 2013

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A surreal city-building and crafting game set in a medieval world where kingdoms vie for control. The player begins alone in the wilderness and establishes a town...

Immortal Planet

Role-playing game, Action, Indie

July 27, 2017

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This action RPG takes place on a planet where the remnants of an immortal society are trapped in endless cycles of rebirth. The player explores the ruins and fights...

Cubicle Quest

Role-playing game, Indie, Simulation

February 25, 2015

Steam: 73/100

Set in the world of modern office life, this role-playing game turns dead-end jobs, routine obligations, and irritating coworkers into enemies in old-school RPG...

Home is Where One Starts...

Adventure, Indie, Walking Simulator

May 13, 2015

Steam: 78/100

A first-person adventure about childhood and memory, set in the rural American South. The player explores the quiet countryside as a girl from a troubled home...

Adorables

Sports game, Indie, Casual game

March 31, 2016

Steam: 80/100

A casual sports game in which cute characters compete across six different events. Players control the characters, customize their appearance, and collect...

Angels Fall First

Action, Indie, Online, Science fiction

July 11, 2026

Steam: 81/100

Angels Fall First is a first-person science-fiction wargame that combines infantry, vehicle and spacecraft combat. Battles are team-based and built around...

Contradiction: Spot The Liar

Detective, Indie, Point & Click

July 10, 2015

Steam: 95/100

This detective adventure, presented entirely through live-action video, centers on a murder investigation and identifying liars. The player can move freely around...

Fingerbones

Free game, Horror, Indie

March 20, 2014

Steam: 79/100

Fingerbones is a short, narrative-focused horror game set in an abandoned building. The player explores its dark rooms and finds notes that piece together a...

VERGE:Lost chapter

Walking Simulator, Horror, Indie

October 2, 2015

Steam: 47/100

This walking-simulator horror game follows a man who leaves the city for a cabin in the mountains, only to be stranded by a sandstorm and a broken-down car. As he...

Apotheon Arena

Free game, Action, Indie

December 8, 2015

Steam: 82/100

An online action game set in mythic ancient Greece, where players fight one another in arenas across Olympus. Apotheon Arena complements the role-playing game...

hackmud

Indie, Simulation, MMO

September 22, 2016

Steam: 78/100

This multiplayer role-playing game takes place in a retro-futuristic cyberpunk internet, where players inhabit digital personas amid abandoned networks, hidden...

Soundboxing

Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Music game

September 29, 2016

Steam: 87/100

This VR music game turns music videos into kickboxing challenges, with players punching to the beat to score points. In Soundboxing, players can search for...

NITE Team 4 - Military Hacking Division

Simulation, Strategy, Indie

February 27, 2019

Steam: 90/100

NITE Team 4 is a military hacking simulation about cyberwarfare and the work of an elite cyber warfare agent. In the campaign, the player tracks suspects on the...

Just Ignore Them

Horror, Adventure, Indie

April 28, 2017

Steam: 78/100

This point-and-click adventure horror follows an eight-year-old boy tormented by monsters in his home. He lives with his mother, who works from home so she can look...

The Cat Games

Casual game, Indie, Simulation

March 24, 2017

Steam: 89/100

This casual simulation game about cats features three main challenges. Indoor Racing sends players through an obstacle course that tests reflexes and dexterity...

恒水中学连环虐杀 / The untold story of hengshui school

Indie, Casual game, Adventure

May 2, 2018

Steam: 85/100

This detective adventure takes place at Hengshui School, known for its students’ strong academic results. After student Shen Jige dies, police officer Song Tianqi...

Treasure Hunter Simulator

Simulation, Indie, First-person view

December 6, 2018

Steam: 59/100

An arcade-leaning simulation game about searching for artefacts at historically significant locations around the world. The player explores with a metal detector...

Mars Colony:Challenger

Simulation, Adventure, Indie

March 4, 2014

Steam: 64/100

This first- or third-person simulator focuses on establishing a remote base on the surface of Mars. The player maintains equipment that provides pressure and a...

CodeSpells

Simulation, Indie, Sandbox

September 18, 2015

Steam: 38/100

A sandbox about magic and programming, CodeSpells lets players create spells with code. Its unguided format leaves players free to invent magical effects and...

Rencounter

Indie, Role-playing game, Strategy

November 4, 2016

Steam: 71/100

Rencounter is a turn-based RPG roguelike about a squad trying to survive in a gloomy world of procedurally generated mazes. The player explores networks of...

Dark Egypt

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle

February 8, 2017

Steam: 31/100

This adventure puzzle game takes place in an ancient pyramid where an archaeologist is trapped after an earthquake. A cursed horde follows the explorer, while a...

Avadon 2: The Corruption

Role-playing game, Indie, Isometric

October 30, 2013

Steam: 81/100

This is an isometric fantasy role-playing game about serving the fortress of Avadon as a spy and warrior defending the homeland from civil war and destruction...

Undead Overlord

Strategy, Indie, Zombies

July 18, 2014

Steam: 25/100

A real-time strategy game about a zombie uprising, in which the player commands a horde and tears down the human-made world. Zombies devour brains, grow and mutate...

Heroes Rise: HeroFall

Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

July 11, 2014

Steam: 87/100

This text-based role-playing game concludes the Heroes Rise trilogy, following a hero fighting for the rights of people with superpowers in America. When President...

Royal Bounty HD

Strategy, Role-playing game, Indie

August 10, 2015

Steam: 52/100

Royal Bounty HD is an adventure RPG strategy game about Jim, an adventurer who escapes from an island prison with neither gold nor an army. Pursued by a guard, he...

The Confines Of The Crown

Visual novel, Indie, Adventure

April 3, 2015

Steam: 89/100

A visual novel of romance and royal intrigue, set against a succession crisis that raises the question of whom to trust. Madeleine Valois is a prince’s companion...

Return NULL - Episode 1

Indie, Comics, Point & Click

April 2, 2015

Steam: 61/100

This point-and-click adventure is set in a distant dystopian society under oppressive militaristic rule. The player takes the role of Jack Drebin, a longtime member...

Project Explore

Survival, Adventure, Indie

August 11, 2017

Steam: 62/100

Project Explore is a 2D sandbox survival game where players explore the game world and can create their own content. Its inventory system uses metadata to give...

Dungeons and Robots

Action, Role-playing game, Indie

January 23, 2024

Steam: 39/100

This online action shooter RPG is set in a future where humanity has left an uninhabitable Earth and settled on the planet TSI-5. While exploring its dungeons...

Codename: Rogue Fleet

Free game, Action, Indie

January 15, 2016

Steam: 59/100

This multiplayer team-based action game centers on combat between spaceships, with two teams of 12 players facing off. Before a match, each player chooses a ship...

Army Gals

Visual novel, Adventure, Indie

April 17, 2017

Steam: 88/100

A romance-adventure visual novel about a delinquent sent to a retreat after a misunderstanding at home. Instead of the fortnight of misery he expects, he meets...

White Mirror

Walking Simulator, Indie, Horror

January 27, 2016

Steam: 41/100

White Mirror is a horror walking simulator about a hunter of ancient relics who sets out to find a legendary mirror. The artifact holds great power and an equally...

Witch and Hero(魔女と勇者)

Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie, Action

April 21, 2016

Steam: 82/100

This 8-bit-style action game follows a hero battling the monsters of Medusa to save a witch who has been turned to stone. By collecting the blood of defeated...

Jelly Killer

Indie, Casual game, Action

March 24, 2016

Steam: 81/100

This retro platformer combines action and puzzles with a story about a sentient biological weapon that escapes from a laboratory in 2784. After decades of zombie...

Asteroid Bounty Hunter

Indie, Action, Casual game

February 17, 2016

Steam: 61/100

Asteroid Bounty Hunter is a space shooter about John, a veteran who defends planets from asteroids and faces rival bounty hunters. His ship’s AI accompanies him as...

Dead End Road

Indie, Racing, Action

July 8, 2016

Steam: 86/100

This atmospheric driving game follows a protagonist racing through the night to escape a supernatural threat and reach the elderly woman who may be able to end the...

My Lady

Casual game, Indie, Simulation

January 14, 2016

Steam: 80/100

This casual indie game with simulation elements follows the heiress to the Bauxmont estate, who is in love with her personal butler. While her mother is away on...

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