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: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox focused on freedom of action and exploring an almost infinite open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...

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...

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...

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...

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance

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

Game released: PS Vita → 31 March 2021

Players: 8.9/10

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...

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...

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...

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...

Color Guardians

Arcade, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 14 April 2015

Players: 10/10

Color Guardians is an arcade game with indie game elements from developers from the Fair Play Labs studio. The game is published by Fair Play Labs and Niffler...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gunslugs

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Shooter, Action

Game released: PS Vita → 19 February 2014

Metacritic: 81/100

Gunslugs is a side-scrolling tactical arcade action game where you take control of an elite squad of soldiers trying to destroy the Black Duck Army and stop their...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Bridge

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: PS Vita → 18 August 2015

The Bridge is a two-dimensional logic game that will allow you to look at physics and perspective from a different angle. You have to walk on the ceiling, explore...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nidhogg

Fighting, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 15 September 2017

Players: 4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Burly Men at Sea

Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: PS Vita → 19 September 2017

Metacritic: 72/100

Burly Men at Sea is a minimalist side-scrolling adventure. The game tells a fairy tale about three big bearded fishermen who were tired of quietly and peacefully...

Gnosia

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 6 June 2019

Metacritic: 82/100

Gnosia is an indie adventure role-playing game. The crew of a drifting spaceship, faced with a mysterious and deadly threat known as Gnosia, and with no idea who...

Electronic Super Joy

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Music game, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 23 August 2013

Metacritic: 78/100

Electronic Super Joy is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer, music game and indie game from the developers of Michael Todd Games. The main publisher...

STAY

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view

Game released: PS Vita → 9 December 2018

STAY is an unusual adventure with a side view and horror elements. Quinn woke up in a closed room, where there is only a computer connected to the chat you are in...

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...

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...

Fez

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PS Vita → 20 August 2014

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Fez is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. The action takes place in a 3D world, allowing the player to explore and traverse colorful worlds by rotating...

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Best Games in the Indie genre for PS Vita