Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 10

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival, Open world

Early Access: PC → 4 September 2026; Game in development: PC → 2028

Steam: 83/100

The action takes place in Zalessye — a land ravaged by war and the mysterious Mist. The player takes on the role of a Scavenger, a person who survives on what...

Tales of Fear - Episode Zero

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 1 September 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

A horror adventure from the first person, combining several standalone scary stories. Some of them are completely fictional, while others are based on real events...

Towerfall: Ascension

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

Game released: PC → 11 March 2014

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Towerfall: Ascension is a fun side-scrolling multiplayer action platformer where you take on the role of archers who hate each other very much and fight on a...

Night Call

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 17 July 2019

Players: 1/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Night Call is an atmospheric noir adventure set in Paris and told from the perspective of a taxi driver. The main character unwittingly witnesses evidence that...

Broken Lines

Role-playing game, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Strategy

Game released: PC → 25 February 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Broken Lines is a tactical turn-based strategy with RPG elements and an isometric camera view. Set during World War II, the game follows a group of eight soldiers...

SpaceBourne 2

Role-playing game, Action, Simulation, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Open world

Early Access: PC → 17 February 2023; Game released: PC → 18 November 2025

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 74/100

A continuation of the space game, which takes place in a fantastic open world filled with many solar systems and planets. The game offers tens of thousands of...

Travellers Rest

Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Farm Simulator, Role-playing game

Early Access: PC → 28 July 2020; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 88/100

Travelers Rest is a fun top-down, co-op innkeeper simulator from a fantasy world. He runs a run-down establishment and must turn it into a magical place where a...

Neon Blood

Cyberpunk, Role-playing game, Side view, Adventure, Science fiction, Indie, Detective, Exploration

Game released: PC → 26 November 2024

Steam: 60/100

An adventure role-playing game set in the cyberpunk future of 2053. The main character is former police detective Axel McCoin, who must uncover a terrible...

Sun Haven

Indie, Farm Simulator, Online, Adventure, Crafting, Exploration, Fantasy, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 11 March 2023; Early Access: PC → 26 June 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

A fantasy farm simulator with dragons, magic, an interesting story and a final boss. The game offers a huge world full of opportunities for development and...

Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings Game

Adventure, Farm Simulator, Fantasy, The Lord of the Rings, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 July 2025

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 59/100

A cozy simulator of hobbit life in the Lord of the Rings universe. The player creates his own hobbit and sets off to conquer Bywater, a small village in Hobbiton...

Crime Simulator

Simulation, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Shooter, Indie, Stealth, Online

Game released: PC → 18 June 2025

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 81/100

A co-op game in which the main character was pulled out of prison by some people. Now he must work off his debt by carrying out illegal assignments. You will have...

Hell Clock

Action, Role-playing game, Slasher, Roguelike, Fantasy, Dungeons, Isometric, Demons, Indie, Horror

Game released: PC → 22 July 2025

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The game takes place in an alternate version of 19th century Brazil, where mysticism and history are intertwined into a dark plot. The player takes on the role of...

Below, Rusted Gods

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

Game released: PC → 29 July 2026

Steam: 87/100

An atmospheric sci-fi thriller where you take on the role of an operator observing an expedition into a mysterious underground abyss. By monitoring the squad's...

Zarya-1: Mystery on the Moon

Adventure, Indie, Text quest

Game released: PC → 30 May 2017

Steam: 88/100

This text-based adventure blends science fiction and horror in a story about investigating a distress signal from the far side of the Moon. Four astronauts are sent...

The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Text quest, Medieval era, Replayability, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 20 July 2026

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 73/100

A new narrative role-playing game from the creators of The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante. The game is not a direct sequel, but a standalone story in the same...

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

Role-playing game, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 April 2019; Early Access: PC → 16 August 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based RPG with an emphasis on storytelling and tactical combat. A serious, adult story will unfold before you, the action of...

Stoneshard

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

Early Access: PC → 6 February 2020; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 74/100

Stoneshard is a tactical RPG with roguelike elements and an open world from the creators of 12 is Better Than 6. You will embark on a grand journey across the...

Gylt

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Action, Exploration, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC → 6 July 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 70/100

The main character is a little girl, Sally, who one day, fleeing from a group of bullies, finds herself in a distorted version of her city, where her fears and...

Two Point Campus

Business / Management, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Simulation, Isometric, Construction

Game released: PC → 9 August 2022

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Two Point Campus is a real-time strategy game with management and simulation elements. In this game you have to build an entire university with everything that...

Nine Sols

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 28 May 2024

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Adventure action-platformer from the creators of psychological horrors Detention and Devotion. The game tells the story of an awakened hero who must fight nine...

The Past Within

Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Online, Puzzle, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC → 2 November 2022

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 68/100

The Past Within — an engaging cooperative puzzle game from the creators of Rusty Lake Hotel. In the game, you and a friend will solve puzzles together, but one...

Constance

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 24 November 2025

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A colorful metroidvania about a girl artist. The plot is based on the girl’s inner experiences about creativity, balance between life and work, personal motivation...

Bridge Constructor Studio

Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Simulation, Construction, Strategy

Game released: PC → 17 July 2025

Steam: 90/100

A game from the Bridge Constructor series that supports both regular and virtual reality glasses modes. The gamer builds structures from various elements that must...

Goat Simulator

Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy, Open world

Game released: PC → 1 April 2014

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Goat Simulator is an unusual goat simulator with a third-person view. You have to control such extraordinary characters in the world of computer games as a goat...

Whispered World

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 October 2010

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This point-and-click fantasy adventure follows Sadwick, who dreams of a mysterious blue sphere and a world collapsing around him. The oracle Shana foretells the end...

Gone Home

Adventure, First-person view, Visual novel, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC → 15 August 2013

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Gone Home is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the story of Caitlin Greenbriar, who returned home from a trip to Europe. She soon...

Firewatch

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 9 February 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Firewatch is an indie adventure with a first-person view, developed by former developers of The Walking Dead and BioShock 2. The action takes place in the forests...

Hero Siege

Action, Slasher, Hack and slash, Indie, Role-playing game, Online

Game released: PC → 29 January 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 60/100

This pixel-art action RPG with hack-and-slash combat and roguelike elements takes place in Tarethiel, a world besieged by the forces of Hell. The hero battles...

Death's Gambit

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

Game released: PC → 13 August 2018

Players: 9/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Death's Gambit is an arcade side-scrolling action platformer with RPG elements. You have to act as an agent of death, whose goal is to rid the world of “immortals...

Devil's Hunt

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 September 2019

Players: 8/10

Steam: 43/100

Metacritic: 47/100

Devil's Hunt is a hardcore action game with a third-person view and horror elements, based on the novel “Equilibrium” by Pavel Lesnyak. The main character Desmond...

Last Oasis

Role-playing game, MMO, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival, Open world

Early Access: PC → 27 March 2020; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 70/100

Last Oasis is a multiplayer role-playing game with a third-person perspective and survival elements. The events of the game take place on Earth, which, after a...

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Visual novel, Text quest, Medieval era

Game released: PC → 4 March 2021

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is a narrative role-playing game set in the pages of the protagonist's diary. You will find a story about a ruthless world...

Crowsworn

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Puzzle, Indie, Exploration, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 9.9/10

The game takes place in the kingdom of Fearandal, which was once hit by a dark curse that destroyed most of the population and summoned terrible creatures into the...

Necesse

Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting, Procedural generation, Online

Early Access: PC → 12 December 2019; Game released: PC → 16 October 2025

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 94/100

A colorful action sandbox that combines exploration, crafting, settlement building, and cooperative play. The procedurally generated world is filled with various...

Ludus

First-person view, Action, Role-playing game, Indie, Adventure, Historical, Open world, Simulation

Game released: PC → 20 February 2020

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 71/100

A simulator of the owner of a gladiator school, the events of which take place in Ancient Rome. The main task is to develop and expand our own school for arena...

Static Dread: The Lighthouse

Horror, Simulation, First-person view, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 August 2025

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The old lighthouse again lights the light after a long silence - the port service hopes to maintain shipping in the world that has survived the cataclysm. The main...

Keep Driving

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Business / Management, Exploration, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 February 2025

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

A pixel game, the main character of which goes on a trip by car to get to the music festival. You can choose a route and communicate with random fellow travelers...

Granny

Adventure, Stealth, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Survival horror, Horror, Online

Game released: PC → 20 November 2018

Steam: 94/100

A survival horror game in which the main character finds himself trapped in the home of a creepy old woman. Waking up in a dark room with a headache, he finds a...

Psychonauts 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Comedy, Adventure

Game released: PC → 25 August 2021

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Psychonauts 2 is a fantastic sequel to the third-person action platformer that takes players back to the world of psychonauts. The dream of the protagonist of the...

Mercenary Kings

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 22 July 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 74/100

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...

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