Indie for PS Vita — top best games in the Indie genre

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

Game released: PS Vita → 14 October 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox game focused on freedom of action and exploration of a virtually endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...

Teslagrad

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: PS Vita → 24 November 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Teslagrad is an arcade quest with platformer elements and futurism style. In this game, you use the power of electromagnetism to solve puzzles and battle horrors as...

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PS Vita → 31 March 2021

Players: 8.8/10

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

Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PS Vita → 5 November 2014

Players: 8.6/10

Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a top-down indie RPG. You will play as the boy Isaac, hiding in the basement from his mother, whom God ordered to sacrifice him. To...

Undertale

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

Game released: PS Vita → 15 August 2017

Players: 8.5/10

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, mercy, and...

Broken Age

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: PS Vita → 29 April 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Broken Age is an exciting point-and-click side-scrolling adventure from the author of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. The game will tell two parallel developing...

Papers, Please

Arcade, Adventure, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 12 December 2017

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Papers, Please is an unusual simulator of an immigration officer. You will have to sit in a small booth and check the documents of visiting residents, identify...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view

Game released: PS Vita → 18 February 2016

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 57/100

Knock-knock is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. In the depths of a dense forest there is a wooden house. A man lives in this house...

Risk of Rain

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PS Vita → 12 April 2016

Players: 7.8/10

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 a distant...

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 10 March 2015

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a continuation of the dynamic top-down action game. The main action takes place parallel to the events of the original Hotline...

Hyper Light Drifter

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

Game canceled: PS Vita → 9 September 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...

Mercenary Kings

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

Game released: PS Vita → 6 February 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Mercenary Kings is a side-scrolling run-and-gun platformer similar to games like SNK's Metal Slug series. Players can jump, crouch, roll, shoot in four directions...

Talisman: Digital Edition

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 3 June 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Talisman: Digital Edition is a board card game in a fantasy setting. You are about to go on an exciting adventure where you need to outrun your opponents and get...

Super Meat Boy

Action, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 6 October 2015

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...

Broforce

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Isometric, Indie

Game canceled: PS Vita → 2016

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Broforce is a brutal 2D platformer full of pure, unadulterated fun that requires the player to destroy everything that moves in order to defeat the Satanic...

SteamWorld Dig

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PS Vita → 28 August 2014

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 80/100

SteamWorld Dig is a charming side-scrolling arcade action-platformer about a robotic miner named Rusty, who arrives in a small town with the goal of finding...

Neverending Nightmares

Action, Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view

Game released: PS Vita → 4 May 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Neverending Nightmares is a side-scrolling adventure horror game. You have to get used to the role of Thomas — a man who has fallen into a long string of...

ScourgeBringer

Action, Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: PS Vita → 22 April 2021

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

ScourgeBringer is a dynamic action-platformer with a side view and roguelike elements from the creators of NeuroVoider. The events of the game unfold in a...

TorqueL

Indie, Action, Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle

Game released: PS Vita → 11 August 2015

TorqueL is a minimalistic 2D side-scrolling puzzle platformer. In the game you will find many interesting levels based on the use of physics. As you progress...

Neon Chrome

Shooter, Top-down view, Cyberpunk, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PS Vita → 8 June 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Neon Chrome is a top-down cyberpunk roguelike shooter where you have to conquer the Neon Chrome Corporation by hacking your brain. Sleeping bodies have different...

The Swapper

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: PS Vita → 6 August 2014

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in a sci-fi setting. In this game, a lone astronaut will explore a cave created by aliens. In order to get to its secrets...

Doodle God

Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 16 July 2013

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Doodle God is a casual, logical game for all ages. You will have four elements in your hands: air, water, earth and fire. By combining them, the player will receive...

Chasm

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PS Vita → 31 July 2018

Players: 5.9/10

Chasm is a side-scrolling adventure RPG action platformer in a fantasy setting. You have to try on the role of a young recruit performing his first mission...

Luftrausers

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 18 March 2014

Metacritic: 81/100

Luftrausers is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer and indie game from developers from the Vlambeer studio. The game is published by Devolver...

VVVVVV

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PS Vita → 25 August 2015

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 85/100

VVVVVV is an arcade indie platformer with a side view. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension explorers who have crashed and lost contact with each...

Don't Starve

Adventure, Horror, Simulation, Isometric, Indie, Survival

Game released: PS Vita → 2 September 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Don't Starve is an adventure game about survival in a randomly generated world. In it you have to collect resources, stock up on food, grow berries and vegetables...

Dex

Role-playing game, Adventure, Stealth, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: PS Vita → 20 December 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Dex is a 2D open-world cyberpunk RPG that focuses on exploration and non-linear...

Nidhogg

Fighting, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 15 September 2017

Players: 4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Rogue Legacy

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

Game released: PS Vita → 29 July 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Slain: Back from Hell

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

Game released: PS Vita → 5 December 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...

bit Dungeon

Role-playing game, Roguelike, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 27 March 2018

bit Dungeon is a top-down arcade action roguelike with role-playing elements in a fantasy setting. A dynamic pixel game awaits you about a hero looking for his...

A-men

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 17 October 2012

Players: 5.5/10

A-men is an arcade game with elements of action, adventure, platformer and indie game from developers from the Bloober Team studio. The game is published by Bloober...

Devious Dungeon

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

Game released: PS Vita → 25 April 2018

Metacritic: 69/100

Whispering Willows

Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PS Vita → 30 June 2015

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Whispering Willows is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a mysterious mansion. The plot centers on Elena Elkhorn. She goes to the estate in search...

Level 22

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 11 February 2016

Level 22 is a fun adventure stealth game with pixel graphics. You will play as an office subordinate who, after a long party, overslept on his way to work. And now...

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: PS Vita → 6 December 2016

Metacritic: 72/100

Demetrios — The BIG Cynical Adventure is a fun visual novel with puzzles and a side view. The main character is a slob living in Paris named Björn Thonen. One...

Habroxia 2

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

Game released: PS Vita → 3 February 2021

Metacritic: 73/100

Habroxia 2 is an old-school space shooter with pixel graphics and a top-down view. After a brutal attack in the free space zone, humanity sends reconnaissance ships...

Thomas Was Alone

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PS Vita → 24 April 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a series of...

Swindle

Arcade, Adventure, Stealth, Platformer, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: PS Vita → 28 July 2015

Swindle is an arcade, stealth, platformer, indie and steampunk game from the developers of Size Five Games. The main publisher of the game is Size Five...

Monster Slayers

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Side view

Game released: PS Vita → 18 May 2018

Monster Slayers is a side view role-playing game with a dash of action and indie game from developers from the studios Nerdook and Nerdook Productions. The main...

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Best Games in the Indie genre for PS Vita