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Bit.Trip Fate - a game in the Indie genre

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie, Music game

Game released: PC → 11 July 2013

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Bit.Trip Fate is a third-person action game with a dash of shooter from the developers at Gaijin Games. The main publisher of the game is Aksys Games...

DX-Ball 2

Arcade, Action, Arkanoid, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 1999

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 96/100

This arcade brick-breaker has the player bounce a ball off a paddle to clear bricks from each board. DX-Ball 2 includes 150 boards, with anniversary...

Zapitalism

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Indie

Game released: PC → 1996

Players: 10/10

Steam: 72/100

Zapitalism is a business strategy game about growing a retail operation: the player starts with a small store and aims to turn it into a large retail...

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Metroidvania, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 April 2012

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This 2D action-adventure with shooter and metroidvania elements follows a journey toward the center of the mysterious Shadow Planet. The protagonist...

Baseless

Arcade, Action, Indie, Shooter, Space

Game released: PC → 4 December 2025

Steam: 93/100

Baseless is an arcade action shooter built around travelling between planets with 360-degree gravity. Shooting also serves as movement: blasts propel...

Steel Empire

Shooter, Beat them all, Steampunk, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 September 2018

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Steel Empire is an old-school side-scrolling shooter in steampunk style. You have to repel the attack of the powerful Motorhead empire, which has...

Stellar Impact

Online, Action, Strategy, MMO, In real time, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 August 2011

Steam: 38/100

Stellar Impact is an online action, strategy, massively multiplayer and indie game from developers Headup Games and Tindalos Interactive. The game is...

ArmA Tactics

Strategy, Isometric, Tactics, Indie, Turn-based, Shooter

Game released: PC → 1 October 2013

Players: 8/10

Steam: 33/100

ArmA Tactics — turn-based indie strategy with tactics and shooter elements. You take control of a four-man special forces squad. There are no...

Spate

In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 27 March 2014

Steam: 71/100

This surreal third-person adventure follows a man struggling with addiction, the loss of his daughter, and a descent into madness. The game’s world...

Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy

Game released: PC → 30 January 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This comedic adventure follows an octopus posing as a human father and trying to keep his true nature secret from his family. In Octodad: Dadliest...

DreadOut

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

Game released: PC → 15 May 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 55/100

DreadOut is an action-horror game played from a third-person perspective. The events of the game will tell the story of young Linda and her friends...

Stonehearth

Role-playing game, Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, City Building, Construction, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 25 July 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 71/100

Stonehearth is a cubic city-planning simulator with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. You will take control of a group of settlers who...

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Stealth

Game released: PC → 24 April 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This tactical stealth game follows a crew of thieves as they case buildings and carry out heists while avoiding security. The cast includes a...

Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

Strategy, God Simulator, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Grand strategy

Game released: PC → 8 July 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

A turn-based fantasy strategy game about divine beings who rule nations and compete for dominion over the world. In Dominions 4, the player chooses a...

Tetrobot and Co.

Arcade, Platformer, Logic, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 22 October 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This puzzle platformer follows Psy, a microscopic robot built to help repair Tetrobot, a popular but imperfect machine. Maya created Psy as...

SpeedRunners

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Racing, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 April 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

SpeedRunners is a co-op arcade action platformer that puts running at the center of the game, challenging players to compete in speed races online...

Trove

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game, Roguelike, Sandbox, Open world

Game released: PC → 9 July 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 76/100

Trove is a free-to-play multiplayer action game with a third-person view and survival elements. Together with your friends, you have the opportunity...

Eschalon: Book 3

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 14 February 2014

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 77/100

Eschalon: Book 3 is an isometric role-playing game with action and fantasy elements from the developers of Basilisk Games. The main publisher of the...

Savant: Ascent

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Music game

Game released: PC → 4 December 2013

Steam: 93/100

This arcade action-platformer follows the Alchemist, a mechanical wizard cast from his tower by a mysterious orb that turns his surroundings into...

Half-Life: Before

Action, Shooter, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 5 March 2009

Half-Life: Before is a fan modification for the sci-fi first-person shooter Half-Life. You will play the role of a scientific scientist from the...

Groundskeeper2

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

Game released: PC → 7 April 2014

Players: 5/10

Steam: 100/100

Groundskeeper2 is an arcade action game about an invasion of Earth by alien robots that use portals to spread across the planet. A heroine and her...

Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians

Arcade, Music game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 6 August 2013

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This musical adventure with arcade elements follows Beatbuddy, an ethereal creature who awakens and sets out to save his companions and his own...

Volgarr the Viking

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 September 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Volgarr the Viking is a hardcore arcade platformer in which the Viking hero fights enemies and navigates deadly traps across a series of dangerous...

Cart Life

Simulation, Adventure, Business / Management, Indie, Point & Click, Survival

Game released: PC → 18 March 2013

Metacritic: 79/100

Cart Life is a retail simulation about the lives of street vendors. It combines point-and-click adventure with elements of business management and...

Deadly 30

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Slasher, Platformer, Indie, Zombies

Game released: PC → 8 January 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 80/100

Deadly 30 is a retro-style survival horror game set in a zombie-infested world, where the goal is to survive 30 days and nights while fighting off...

StarDrive 2

Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Space

Game released: PC → 9 April 2015

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 55/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A turn-based space 4X strategy with real-time tactical space battles and turn-based ground combat. In StarDrive 2, the player rules a race and builds...

Organic Panic

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Action, Casual game, Indie

Early Access: PC → 14 May 2014

Steam: 40/100

This physics-based action platformer with puzzles follows organic characters battling the cronies of meat and cheese. Levels are fully destructible...

Magnetic By Nature

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 10 November 2014

Steam: 76/100

A science-fiction platformer about the last surviving robot, who journeys through forgotten ruins to reactivate its friends. The levels are built...

Sebastian Frank: The Beer Hall Putsch

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Frozen: PC → 2016

Anticipation Rating: 3.3/10

Sebastian Frank: The Beer Hall Putsch is a “point and click” adventure from the independent Portuguese studio Cláudio Fernandes. The game takes...

Nightmare Creatures Revival

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

Frozen: PC → 2018

Anticipation Rating: 8/10

Nightmare Creatures Revival is a revival of the classic third-person action horror game that first came out on PlayStation, Dreamcast and N64 in...

Golden Wake

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 9 October 2014

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This point-and-click adventure follows real estate agent Alfie Banks as he tries to succeed in the property market of 1920s Coral Gables, Florida...

Seasons after Fall

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

Game released: PC → 2 September 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Seasons after Fall is a side-view arcade adventure in a fantasy setting. The main character is a wild fox who fell under the control of the spirit of...

Castle in the Darkness

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 February 2015

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This action-exploration platformer with RPG elements follows a knight who awakens in the monster-overrun city of Alexandria after an evil sorcerer...

Nom Nom Galaxy

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: PC → 3 August 2015

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A platforming game with base-building and tower-defense elements, Nom Nom Galaxy centers on establishing soup factories on unexplored planets. The...

Creativerse

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, MMO, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: PC → 12 August 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 75/100

Creativerse is a free-to-play multiplayer sandbox with a first-person view, where you can transform the world as you wish. You will be able to...

Sentinels of the Multiverse

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Card game, Comics, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: PC → 22 December 2014

Steam: 92/100

Sentinels of the Multiverse is a superhero card strategy with turn-based combat, made in a comic book style. The action takes place in classic comic...

Cosmonautica

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: PC → 31 July 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 48/100

This space simulation combines trading with crew management in a procedurally generated galaxy. Starting out aboard an old spacecraft, the captain...

Nightmare Cooperative

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 16 July 2014

Steam: 63/100

A turn-based strategic roguelike about a band of unlikely companions seeking gold to help their village through hard times. Each character brings a...

Infested Planet

Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 6 March 2014

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This tactical real-time strategy game pits a squad of five soldiers against a swarm of 100,000 aliens. To hold back the enemy, players use weapons...

Interstellar Marines

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Indie

Early Access: PC → 2 July 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 50/100

This tactical sci-fi first-person shooter is set in the early 22nd century, when the discovery of an inexhaustible energy source has enabled humanity...

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