Indie

September 26, 2017

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Hob is a third-person adventure game from the creators of Torchlight. The protagonist of the adventure game wakes up on a mysterious planet. You have to find out...

Clicker Heroes

Arcade, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game

May 13, 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Clicker Heroes is a shareware arcade clicker with role-playing elements in a fantasy setting. Like many games of this type, there's a lot of pointing involved, or...

Zombie Driver

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Racing, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie

December 4, 2009

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Zombie Driver is a whirlwind racing action game with a top-down view in the dangerous world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to travel around a city inhabited by...

SUPERHOT

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

February 25, 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 83/100

SUPERHOT is a first-person shooter-puzzle game from the Polish studio SUPERHOT Team. The main feature of the game mechanics is the passage of time — only...

PowerWash Simulator 2

Action, Simulation, First-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Comedy

October 23, 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

The sequel continues the atmosphere of meditative cleaning, where, with the help of a mechanical washing, you can save the world of dirt and return Muckingma to its...

Hyper Light Drifter

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

March 31, 2016

Players: 7.6/10

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 to find a...

Stormworks: Build and Rescue

Arcade, Indie, Third-person view, First-person view, Action, Shooter, Educational game (Education), Combat robots, Flight Simulator, Warships / Submarines

September 17, 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Stormworks: Build and Rescue is a fun sandbox simulator where you take control of your own search and rescue team by modeling and creating vehicles. As you...

One-armed robber

First-person view, Action, Online, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy, Stealth, Indie

December 15, 2023

Players: 8.3/10

A co-op heist game. The difficulty is that each character has one hand, so to solve problems you will have to act as a team. There are various weapons and useful...

Infernax

Arcade, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game

February 14, 2022

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Infernax is a side-scrolling action-adventure RPG in a fantasy setting. The main character is a brave knight who returned to his homeland to defeat monsters caused...

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

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 the distant...

Anger Foot

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Comedy

July 11, 2024

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

A lightning-fast hardbass shooter about gangsters, the main feature of which is an unusual combat system. You can use not only different guns as weapons, but also...

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

July 1, 2014

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Ratropolis

Card game, Strategy, Indie, Arcade, Tactics, In real time

November 1, 2019

Ratropolis is a real-time tactical strategy card game with a side view. In the game you will become the head of a settlement of tiny but valiant rats. You have to...

The Stanley Parable

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie

October 17, 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 88/100

The Stanley Parable is an indie project with a first-person view. The player plays the role of office plankton Stanley, who has spent his whole life pressing keys...

Before We Leave

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

May 8, 2020

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Before We Leave is a top-down real-time management strategy game. After a long period of imprisonment in the bowels of the earth, your people emerge to the surface...

Tiny Rogues

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Fantasy, Old school

September 23, 2022

Tiny Rogues is a hardcore action roguelike with RPG elements and a top-down view in a fantasy setting. As you progress, you will have to create your own unique...

Tunic

Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie

March 16, 2022

Players: 7.8/10

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 large number of...

Killer Bean

Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie

June 8, 2026

A dynamic action game about a vengeful bean who goes against a powerful organization after betrayal and the revelation of its true nature. The path to retribution...

Concubine

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy, Indie

October 13, 2025

Players: 5.5/10

A fantasy game about harem concubines who fight monsters at night. There are different enemy classes, a wide selection of equipment, and a variety of skills. You...

Nuclear Throne

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

December 5, 2015

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Nuclear Throne is a dynamic arcade action game with roguelike elements and a top-down view. Having chosen one of 12 unique characters and armed with an arsenal of...

Crying Suns

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Roguelike

September 18, 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Crying Suns is a tactical strategy game with turn-based combat and roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place in the distant future...

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

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

April 27, 2022

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an improved version of the office adventure with a first-person view. You will play the role of office plankton Stanley, who...

Tunche

Arcade, Side view, Action, Adventure, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Role-playing game, Slasher

November 2, 2021

Metacritic: 68/100

Tunche is a side-scrolling action-RPG slasher game with co-op for up to four people. The game is based on an ancient legend of Peruvian folklore and will delight...

Regiments

Strategy, Tactics, Isometric, In real time, Historical, Indie

August 16, 2022

Players: 9.2/10

Regiments is a tactical real-time strategy about the Third World War. The events take place in 1989. One day, the Cold War between NATO and the countries belonging...

Hell Pie

Platformer, Adventure, Action, Comedy, Indie, Arcade, Third-person view

July 21, 2022

Players: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Hell Pie is an action-adventure arcade platformer with elements of humor and a third-person view. You have to take the demon of bad taste, Nate, by the horns. He is...

Ori and The Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

March 11, 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition is an expanded edition of the indie adventure platformer. The game tells the story of a little guardian spirit named...

Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker

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

October 20, 2025

Players: 4/10

Psychological horror that immerses you in a disturbing story where the ordinary gradually gives way to the inexplicable. At the center of the events is Steve...

Omega Crafter

Survival, Action, Third-person view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Crafting, Sandbox, Exploration, Indie

March 29, 2024

Players: 5.5/10

The events take place in a virtual gaming world that is under development and has been attacked by a mysterious malware. The player goes on an exciting adventure to...

Kynseed

Role-playing game, Simulation, Adventure, Indie

November 8, 2018

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Kynseed — a role-playing sandbox with elements of a farming simulator from the creators of the Fable 3 series. As in other games of this genre, you will take care...

MIO: Memories in Orbit

Platformer, Indie, Side view, Science fiction, Metroidvania

January 20, 2026

Players: 4.6/10

Metacritic: 82/100

An android named Mio awakens on a large spaceship that has fallen into disrepair. The main character explores overgrown locations filled with hostile machines to...

Super Meat Boy

Action, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie

October 20, 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Super Meat Boy is a hardcore 2D side-scrolling platformer. You have to help the meat cube save his beloved, who was kidnapped by the evil scientist Dr. Fitus. The...

Otherworld Legends

Cooperative (co-op), Action, Indie, Roguelike, Role-playing game, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

August 18, 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Otherworld Legends is a dynamic cooperative action game with roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. Great warriors from different eras and corners of the universe...

Slain: Back from Hell

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Slasher

March 24, 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Slain: Back from Hell is an action-adventure platformer in a gothic setting. The story follows the doomed hero Bathoryn as he travels through a Gothic world and...

Windbound

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Third-person view, Simulation, Action

August 28, 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Windbound is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person perspective and survival elements. The events of the game take place on a desert island, where the warrior...

Game Dev Tycoon

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

April 28, 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Game Dev Tycoon is a game developer simulator in which you play the role of a project manager. You will be able to come up with names for games, choose or create an...

Eastern Era

Strategy, Simulation, Sandbox, Indie, City Building, Open world, Medieval era, Construction

March 28, 2026

Players: 9/10

A construction and management simulator in the style of a saga, where the story begins with the escape of a small group of students from a fading sect. In a harsh...

Insurmountable

Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Top-down view, Turn-based, Tactics

April 29, 2021

Metacritic: 74/100

Adventure tactical roguelike with turn-based combat. The main character alone challenges mountain landscapes and tries to withstand the endless hardships of...

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

December 4, 2018

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a classic side-scrolling action platformer from the Wonder Boy series. Together with the young hero you will have to defeat...

The Survivalists

Action, Roguelike, Isometric, Adventure, Indie

October 9, 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

The Survivalists is a sandbox adventure game with roguelike elements and an isometric camera view set in the Escapists universe. In the game you will go to conquer...

Gunsmith Simulator

Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Shooter, Educational game (Education), Business / Management

July 19, 2023

Players: 8.2/10

A gunsmith simulator about assembling and disassembling different types of firearms. It can be repaired and sold to make a profit and grow your business. Over time...

Best Games in the Indie genre