Indie

Adventure, Horror, Indie, First-person view

2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A dark game from the authors of Ether One, The Occupation and Dahlia View, set in the UK in 1988. We need to investigate a series of murders taking place in a...

King Arthur's Gold

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Free game

September 4, 2011

Players: 5.9/10

King Arthur's Gold is a free-to-play side-scrolling pixel action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will travel back to the glory days of King Arthur, where you...

Naval Warfare

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Warships / Submarines, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

May 19, 2010

Metacritic: 61/100

Naval Warfare is a dynamic top-down shooter in a steampunk setting. The game will take you to a fantasy world where a war is raging between industrial superpowers...

Existensis

Arcade, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Side view

July 19, 2021

Existensis is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer where all the elements are completely hand-drawn on paper. You will play the role of an artist and...

Bad End Theater

Indie, Adventure, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

October 26, 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Bad End Theater is a pixelated puzzle adventure with visual novel elements in which you explore the creepy stories of a cast of characters. The decisions made...

Luto

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie

July 21, 2025

Metacritic: 81/100

A psychological horror where personal tragedy takes the form of a labyrinth. The protagonist loses a loved one and finds himself locked in his own house - not as a...

Captive (2018)

Horror, Indie, Role-playing game, Puzzle, Top-down view

April 8, 2018

Captive (2018) — Captive is an indie horror RPG with a top-down view. This game is about a woman who wakes up badly injured in an unknown cell, without any...

The One We Found

Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Indie

October 31, 2018

Players: 5.5/10

The One We Found is an adventure shooter with horror elements and a first-person view. The game takes place in Whisperwood Psychiatric Hospital, where you take on...

Nyan Cat: Lost In Space

Arcade, Indie, Side view

May 12, 2011

Players: 10/10

Hotline Miami 3

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

2027

Anticipation Rating: 9.5/10

Hotline Miami 3 is a continuation of a dynamic action game with a top-down view, where the main character killed Russian mafiosi left and right, received strange...

Milanoir

Action, Shooter, Indie

May 31, 2018

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 50/100

Milanoir is an action game with a dash of platforming in a retro pixel style. Plunge into the criminal life of the city of Milan. All the accompanying adventures...

Caves of Qud

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike

July 15, 2015

Metacritic: 91/100

A turn-based RPG from the minds of Sproggiwood. The game world is generated anew each time, offering unique adventures with each visit. The environment can be...

Fearmonium

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

May 20, 2021

Players: 6.8/10

Fearmonium is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with Metroidvania elements. The game takes place in the mind of a boy named Max, who once saw several clowns...

GiAnt

Simulation, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie

May 20, 2016

GiAnt is an ant simulator with a first-person view from the developers from the Wreck Tangle Games studio. Players will have to go on an unusual adventure in the...

Project Mercury

Indie, Action, Platformer, Side view, Futurism (Future)

September 20, 2017

Project Mercury is a side-scrolling pixelated action platformer that takes you into the future where you must defeat nine dangerous bosses to save the world. The...

Welcome to Elk

Adventure, Indie, Side view

September 17, 2020

Players: 6.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Welcome to Elk is an atmospheric side-scrolling adventure set on a fictional island, filled with whimsical stories and tall tales. You will take on the role of...

This Bed We Made

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Detective

November 1, 2023

Players: 9/10

An adventure detective story in which the main character is a hotel maid. The main action takes place in the 1950s. The heroine spies on hotel guests to reveal...

Chain Chronicle

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Indie, Free game, Tactics

July 25, 2013

Chain Chronicle is a free-to-play adventure role-playing game with strategy elements and turn-based combat for mobile platforms. The events of the game take place...

Pony Island

Puzzle, Logic, Indie

January 4, 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Pony Island is a logic puzzle game from the developers of Daniel Mullins Games. The story is that the devil locks the player in an arcade, and in order to get out...

Steelborn

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Combat robots, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

March 8, 2023

Players: 9/10

Earth headquarters have lost contact with a remote colony on planet VL-744. The main character, together with his faithful fighting vehicle, goes on reconnaissance...

Melvor Idle

Casual game, Role-playing game, Indie, Adventure, Fantasy

June 23, 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Casual game in the style of RuneScape. The gamer creates a character and levels up their skills by completing quests, exploring the world, and battling monsters...

Meg's Monster

Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie

March 2, 2023

Metacritic: 79/100

The game takes place in the Underworld — a land of monsters and mutants who eat people for breakfast. But a huge ogre named Roy doesn't want to eat people...

The Rewinder

Indie, Adventure, Detective, Side view, Puzzle, Horror, Mysticism / Supernatural

September 10, 2021

An adventure based on Chinese mythology. The main character's name is Yun, he is the last known "Rewinder" who can communicate with spirits and examine other...

Daimon Blades

Action, Slasher, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Fantasy, Demons

October 6, 2025

Atmospheric action roguelike from the creators of E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy, combining dark fantasy with occult themes. The story revolves around the Order of the...

10,000,000

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view

August 29, 2012

Players: 5.5/10

10,000,000 — Action role-playing roguelike in a fantasy style with puzzle elements and a side view. In this game you have to run non-stop, overcome obstacles...

Iesabel

Role-playing game, Action, Slasher, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

July 8, 2013

Iesabel is an indie action RPG with slasher elements. In times of darkness, only the strongest heroes can save the world. You'll stand up to evil alone in epic...

Templar Battleforce

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie

September 21, 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Templar Battleforce is a top-down RPG with action, strategy and indie elements from the masters at Trese Brothers. The main publisher of the game is Trese...

IS Defense

Shooter, First-person view, Indie

April 19, 2016

Players: 10/10

IS Defense is a first-person shooter from the developers of the game Hatred. The events of the game take players to 2020, where the terrorist organization "Islamic...

Chrono's Arena

Free game, Action, Indie, Top-down view, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Online

June 24, 2021

Chrono's Arena is a free-to-play top-down multiplayer action role-playing game in a fantasy setting. The game offers three multiplayer modes (solo, duo and squads...

Leak

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

The main character of the psychological horror is a laboratory worker. The character's life changes dramatically when the Refleaktion corporation, which plans to...

Xenolocus

Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Science fiction

2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A science fiction game for virtual reality glasses, in which you need to fight monsters. There is a large arsenal of weapons and skill upgrades. Among the opponents...

Monster Strike

Strategy, Indie, Free game, Tactics, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Online

October 21, 2014

Monster Strike — shareware tactical strategy with role-playing elements and a top-down view in the Japanese style for mobile platforms. You have to fight...

Legends of Ethernal

Indie, Action, Adventure, Side view

October 30, 2020

Legends of Ethernal is an atmospheric action-adventure game with a side view. One day, a young boy returns home to find it completely destroyed, and his parents...

Super Raft Boat

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Combat robots, Indie, Free game, Roguelike

February 22, 2021

Super Raft Boat is a shareware top-down action roguelike about a small raft that needs to be protected from approaching enemies. The raft can be expanded and...

Gravulse

Adventure, Puzzle, First-person view, Indie, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Free game

December 20, 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Gravulse is a free-to-play puzzle platformer with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in a mysterious laboratory in which you have to...

Stardander Revenant

Visual novel, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Indie, Free game

October 18, 2021

Stardander Revenant is an adventure game with RPG elements that tells the story of a young witch, Griselda, who studies magical spells at a witch school and wants...

Nobodies: After Death

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Hidden Objects

December 22, 2021

Players: 7.9/10

The main character is a cleaner for a secret government intelligence organization. Only he can carefully dispose of bodies, brilliantly destroy evidence and leave...

PI.EXE

Free game, Action, Platformer, Side view, Futurism (Future), Indie

March 7, 2022

PI.EXE is a free hardcore action platformer with a side view in a sci-fi setting that will take you into the world of the operating system, where in the role of an...

Toribash Next

Free game, Action, Fighting, Online, Indie, Third-person view

January 24, 2024

Players: 10/10

Free turn-based online physics-based fighting game. The game lets you create your own moves during a match using easy-to-understand 3D physics tools. There are also...

Pale Abyss

Free game, Indie, First-person view, Fantasy, Adventure, Medieval era, Dungeons, Old school

February 17, 2025

Gloomy and atmospheric adventure with research. When the darkness took the sunlight, distorting it into a pale and wicked radiance, the only way is to go down into...

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