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The Dolls: Reborn - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: PC → 25 May 2016

Steam: 47/100

A horror simulator about a night watchman at an old toy factory, where dolls left behind after production ended begin hunting people. The protagonist monitors the...

Need to Know

Simulation, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 28 August 2018

Steam: 74/100

This investigative simulation is set in a modern intelligence agency amid the growth of mass surveillance. Working for the Department of Liberty, the player...

Selma and the Wisp

Indie, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: PC → 4 August 2016

Steam: 62/100

This eerie platform adventure follows a child alone in the darkness, facing her worst nightmare. Lights offer a glimmer of hope, while a wisp leads the way through...

Drayt Empire

Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 16 July 2016

Steam: 53/100

A classic role-playing game about two friends, Ronarke and Drayt, who set out to find the lost forbidden city of Rahland. Their journey brings challenges that test...

Box Maze

Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: PC → 3 March 2017

Steam: 73/100

This platforming adventure follows Cubert as he makes his way through obstacle-filled mazes to reach his true love. Along the way, he collects cupcakes, discovers...

Animal Lover

Indie, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: PC → 14 February 2017

Steam: 88/100

This visual novel and dating sim follows a young woman trying to break the curse that has turned five time-displaced men into animals. She helps Edmund, Frankie...

Castle of no Escape 2

Indie, Action, Procedural generation

Game released: PC → 21 December 2016

Steam: 77/100

Castle of no Escape 2 is an action roguelike set in a cursed castle, where monsters guard the sword shards said to be capable of defeating its demonic owner. An...

Root Of Evil: The Tailor

Adventure, Horror, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 December 2016

Steam: 83/100

This first-person adventure horror game follows an investigation into a house where a married couple died twenty years earlier, leaving behind a newborn who was...

Frequent Flyer

Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 20 January 2017

Steam: 88/100

An arcade shoot ’em up inspired by classic games in the genre, where a plane faces successive waves of enemies. The goal is to survive for as long as possible by...

Drunken Fight Simulator

Action, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 17 January 2017

Steam: 73/100

A drunken fighting simulator in which brawls use physics and animations that respond to interactions between characters. The game offers modes for one or two...

Gunman Taco Truck

Action, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 28 January 2017

Steam: 82/100

Gunman Taco Truck is an action roguelike about driving across the post-apocalyptic United States to reach safety in Winnipeg, where the family’s taco business can...

Flix and Chill

Indie

Game released: PC → 27 February 2017

Steam: 80/100

A dating simulator about first blind dates, where the goal is to win over a companion and spend an evening watching a film together. In Flix and Chill, the player...

VOLTED

Action, Indie, Racing

Game released: PC → 10 July 2018

Steam: 85/100

VOLTED is a team-based multiplayer vehicular shooter set in a world where electricity has become the main resource. Teams fight to secure it by destroying and...

Russian Roads

Racing, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 January 2018

Steam: 68/100

This racing simulator features cars from the Russian automotive industry competing on rough roads, dirt tracks, and muddy routes. The goal is to finish first. In...

Rock of Ages

Action, Third-person view, Comedy, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 September 2011

Players: 8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This arcade action game with strategy elements centers on a clash between two fortresses: the player steers a giant boulder toward the enemy’s defenses to destroy...

Ancients of Ooga

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 20 May 2011

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This platforming puzzle adventure takes place in the primeval land of Ooga, where seven tribes rise up against the tyrannical Boolis. The hero befriends the tribes...

Atlantis Sky Patrol

Arcade, Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 August 2006

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Atlantis Sky Patrol is a top-down arcade game with a dash of action, strategy and puzzle from Big Fish Games, Inc. The game is published by Big Fish Games...

Gazillionaire Deluxe

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 1996

Steam: 94/100

Gazillionaire Deluxe is a simulator with elements of strategy and business simulator from the masters from the LavaMind studio. The game is published by...

Beat Hazard

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Music game, Space, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 April 2010

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Beat Hazard is a musical arcade shooter with a top-down view and elements of a rhythm game. In the game, you will control a spaceship to upbeat music. Each track in...

Bit.Trip Core

Action, Music game, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 October 2012

Players: 5/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A retro arcade action-rhythm game inspired by 1980s games, with a modern twist. In Bit.Trip Core, players control two axes, unlike the single-axis controls of its...

CreaVures

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

Game released: PC → 23 February 2011

Steam: 79/100

CreaVures is a third-person action game with a mixture of platforming and puzzles from the studio Muse Games Corp.. The game is published by Muse Games Corp.. In...

Until Dark

Online, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → Q2 2014

Until Dark are third-person online games with indie game elements from developers Shiro Games. The game is published by Shiro...

Dominance (2014)

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie

Game canceled: PC → 23 March 2014

Dominance (2014) is an isometric strategy game with indie game elements from the developers of Aaron Ramsay Studio. The game is published by Aaron...

KaRu

Free game, Indie, Interactive movie, Casual game, Horror, Adventure, Visual novel, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 31 October 2022

Steam: 78/100

KaRu — A free adventure horror game made in visual novel format, in which the main character is a parasite. One day he wakes up next to a strange boy he has...

Zeit²

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 12 January 2011

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Zeit² is a side-scrolling 2D shoot ’em up built around time travel. The player can move into the past and interact with a time-shadow, combining attacks and gaining...

Edge of Twilight – Return To Glory

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Steampunk, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 September 2016

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 36/100

This third-person action adventure unfolds in a post-apocalyptic world that blends steampunk and fantasy and is divided into realms of Day and Night. Bounty hunter...

Final Exam

Action, Platformer, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 5 November 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 42/100

Metacritic: 59/100

This 2.5D side-scrolling action platformer follows four longtime friends heading to their old high school for a party, only to find themselves in a town full of...

Sword of the Stars: The Pit

Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Procedural generation

Game released: PC → 22 February 2013

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A turn-based role-playing game set in the science-fiction universe of Sword of the Stars, where an expedition ventures into an ancient alien facility beneath the...

The Void

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

Game released: PC → 17 April 2008

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 81/100

Turgor is a surreal adventure with a first-person view from the creators of Sea. Utopia. The nameless hero finds himself in the Between, a dark place reminiscent of...

Flashout 2

Action, Racing, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 6 June 2014

Steam: 56/100

Flashout 2 is a third-person racing action game set in a fantasy world. This game offers a new look at racing thanks to a modernized career mode, major changes to...

Teleglitch: Die More Edition

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 July 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This top-down roguelike shooter with pixel graphics is set in a grim future, where a small planet on the edge of habitable space hosts a secret research facility...

Violett

Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 December 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This fantasy point-and-click adventure follows Violett, a rebellious teenager whose parents move her from the city to an old house in the countryside. After...

Tengami

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 15 January 2015

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This adventure puzzle game unfolds inside a Japanese pop-up book depicting a world from ancient fairy tales. The player explores paper forests, abandoned shrines...

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 an empire in a...

Grave

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

Game released: PC → 30 March 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Grave is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. The surreal world of the game will give you a huge space to explore with mystical, strange...

Flockers

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Strategy, Action

Game released: PC → 19 September 2014; Early Access: PC → 6 May 2014

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 64/100

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Ascent: The Space Game

Role-playing game, Online, Simulation, Action, Strategy, Adventure, MMO, Business / Management, Indie, Free game, Space

Game released: PC → 11 April 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 76/100

This PvE space MMO centers on exploring the galaxy after the collapse of humanity’s empire and rebuilding knowledge of the universe and its past. Players explore...

1001 Spikes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 June 2014

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This arcade platformer with puzzle elements follows Aban Hawkins as he searches the ruins of Ukampa in South America for his missing father, archaeologist Jim...

Heat Signature

Arcade, Stealth, Indie, Space

Game released: PC → 21 September 2017

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Heat Signature is a space stealth action game about breaking into ships and carrying out missions across a galaxy. The player selects a target, flies a pod to its...

Kromaia

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

Game released: PC → 23 October 2014

Players: 7/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 68/100

An arcade shooter set in three-dimensional space, Kromaia has players pilot a spacecraft and battle hordes of enemies. Unlike shooters with fixed routes, it allows...

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