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Curse of Mermos - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: PC → 23 June 2015

Steam: 57/100

This hack-and-slash action game is set among the ruins of Ancient Egypt, where adventurer Abdu searches for fame and fortune and discovers the tomb of Pharaoh Ebo...

Escape Machines

Action, Indie, Strategy

Early Access: PC → 14 April 2015

Steam: 41/100

This science-fiction action game with strategy elements takes place in the near future, where artificial intelligence and robots have turned against their creators...

SUPER DISTRO

Indie, Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 22 July 2015

Steam: 38/100

SUPER DISTRO is a 2D platformer inspired by retro games, including Mega Man and Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels. Progress depends on overcoming a steep...

Square Brawl

Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 October 2015

Steam: 79/100

Square Brawl is a local multiplayer action party game built around battles with weapons and combinations of their effects. Matches support up to four players, with...

Ragdoll Runners

Sports game, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 13 July 2016

Steam: 89/100

A physics-based athletics simulator built around eight events, including sprinting, the long jump, the triple jump and hurdles. Each of the athlete’s legs is...

Vehicle Simulator

Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 March 2009

Steam: 89/100

Vehicle Simulator is an open-world simulator of flying, sailing and driving, with flight physics and marine dynamics. Players can operate aircraft, boats and land...

Jelly Killer

Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: PC → 24 March 2016

Steam: 81/100

This retro platformer combines action and puzzles with a story about a sentient biological weapon that escapes from a laboratory in 2784. After decades of zombie...

Mindless Running

Indie, Adventure, Comedy

Game released: PC → 22 February 2016

Steam: 62/100

A classic runner with a story mode, Mindless Running follows a hero on a dangerous journey to reach his grandmother, who has prepared his favorite treats. Along the...

Regeria Hope Episode 1

Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 5 March 2016

Steam: 82/100

A courtroom visual novel about lawyer Regeria Hope, who uses logic and evidence to defend clients in unusual criminal cases. In the first trial, she represents a...

The Secret of Pineview Forest

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 31 October 2016

Steam: 54/100

An action-adventure prequel to Pineview Drive, this horror game follows a journey through the dark Pineview Forest, whose trail leads to an abandoned mansion...

Dashy Square

Indie, Action, Music game

Game released: PC → 26 April 2016

Steam: 81/100

Dashy Square is a music-driven action game in which players dash, jump, and fly through levels set to electronic soundtracks. It features both regular and endless...

Winter Novel

Indie, Visual novel, Casual game

Game released: PC → 10 August 2016

Steam: 82/100

A visual novel about Sveta, a young bank employee, and Vlad, a freelancer, who are forced to work together on an urgent project. Sveta longs to change jobs but...

Mini Golf Arena

Sports game, Indie, Casual game

Early Access: PC → 22 April 2018

Steam: 51/100

This multiplayer sports game centers on online mini golf, with matches for up to 24 players. It features seven courses with 18 holes each, and balls can be...

Factory Engineer

Simulation, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 March 2017

Steam: 42/100

This factory management simulator is about building production lines, turning raw materials into finished goods and using the profits to grow an industrial...

Metamorfose S

Indie, Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 4 July 2017

Steam: 80/100

This 2D action-adventure game with RPG elements and metroidvania structure follows Sebastian, a being created by the scientist Gerry and ordered to destroy...

Masked Forces

Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 November 2016

Steam: 67/100

Masked Forces is a first-person shooter in which players eliminate enemies in a single-player campaign and online modes. The campaign is made up of individual...

Boogeyman 2

Indie, Strategy, Horror

Game released: PC → 7 February 2017

Steam: 80/100

This horror game with strategy elements follows a character awakened at night by a doll that warns of a monster come to take them away. The goal is to find the...

Chroma Lab

Simulation, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 22 August 2017

Steam: 95/100

Chroma Lab is a particle-physics sandbox where colorful masses behave like a fluid and can be manipulated. Tools let players pick up, push, pull, explode, shoot and...

Canvas The Gallery

Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 February 2017

Steam: 91/100

Canvas The Gallery is a casual indie game about creating artwork in an empty gallery with a spray can. The player chooses a color and stencil, then paints on...

Ascendant Hearts

Adventure, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 January 2018

Steam: 89/100

This adventure visual novel follows Hayato, who loses his memory and wakes in a world resembling the role-playing games he used to play. With help from the mage...

Alien Shooter: The Experiment

Arcade, Action, Shooter, DLC, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 2004

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Alien Shooter: The Experiment is an arcade game with an isometric view mixed with action and shooter from developers from the Sigma Team studio. The game is...

Bit.Trip Beat

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

Game released: PC → 2 November 2010

Players: 5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A rhythm-based arcade action game inspired by classic games, combining its gameplay, visuals, and music around the beat. The player controls a paddle to deflect...

Audiosurf

Music game, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 24 October 2008

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Audiosurf is a music-driven puzzle racer that turns a selected song into a track whose shape and speed are determined by the music. Each ride changes with the song...

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...

Spartan

Simulation, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Turn-based, Action, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 2 October 2017

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 56/100

A 2D platformer about King Leo, who sets out to recover his city-state’s stolen goods and punish those responsible. Armed with a sword and shield, he traverses...

You Don't Know Jack Movies

Strategy, First-person view, Trivia, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 1996

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 69/100

You Don't Know Jack Movies is a first-person strategy game from developers from Berkeley Systems and Jellyvision. The game is published by Berkeley...

Fabled Lands

Role-playing game, Indie, Turn-based, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Roguelike, Open world, Text quest

Game released: PC → 26 May 2022

Steam: 79/100

Fabled Lands is an old-school role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. In the game you can be whoever you want: explorer, merchant, priest...

You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2

Strategy, First-person view, Trivia, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 1998

Steam: 93/100

A fast-paced trivia game cast as a manic game show, with the player taking the role of a contestant and answering questions. You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2 follows...

Geneforge 2

Role-playing game, Isometric, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 1 July 2003

Steam: 89/100

This fantasy role-playing game with science-fiction elements follows an open-ended adventure through a large world, where the player chooses which side to support...

Killstorm

Action, Shooter, Helicopters, Indie

Game canceled: PC → 25 April 2014

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Killstorm is an action game with a mixture of shooter, helicopter simulator and indie game from developers from the Nice Touch Games studio. The main publisher of...

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...

Mr. Robot

Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Turn-based, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 10 January 2007

Steam: 81/100

This science-fiction action-puzzle adventure with role-playing elements follows Asimov, a service robot aboard the interstellar colony ship Eidolon. When the ship’s...

Nation Red

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Zombies, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 September 2009

Players: 4.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Nation Red is a top-down arena shooter about fighting hordes of zombies and their bosses. After a long lull, the undead return to the Arizona desert, and some are...

Puzzle Bots

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 May 2010

Steam: 87/100

Puzzle Bots is a third-person adventure with puzzle elements from developers from Ivy Games. The game is published by Wadjet Eye...

Razor2: Hidden Skies

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 19 July 2010

Steam: 22/100

Razor2: Hidden Skies is a top-down arcade shooter inspired by classic games in the genre. Players battle through eight levels, fighting waves of enemies and taking...

Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 15 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This side-scrolling action platformer with puzzles is set in Albatropolis, a land ruled by a totalitarian penguin regime. Hardboiled Chicken sets out to assassinate...

Saira

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 12 December 2009

Steam: 80/100

This nonlinear puzzle platformer follows Saira, a photographer who digitally captures dangerous places and animals across the universe. For reasons unknown, she...

Soldat

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: PC → 29 June 2002

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Soldat is a free-to-play, fun side-scrolling shooter inspired by games like Liero, Worms (2005), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Quake. The game has...

Red Rogue

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

Game released: PC → December 2012

Red Rogue is an action RPG, slasher, hack and slash, and indie game from the masters at Aaron Steed. The game is published by Aaron...

The Last Crown: Midnight Horror

Adventure, Horror, Indie,

Game released: PC → 30 October 2015

Steam: 80/100

This point-and-click horror adventure takes place in the harbour town of Saxton on Halloween. Ghost-hunter Nigel Danvers and his partner, Lucy Reubans, investigate...

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