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Resonance (2012)

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 July 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows four ordinary people whose lives become entangled after the unexpected death of a particle...

Space Pirates and Zombies

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 June 2011

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This space action game with strategy and role-playing elements follows a pirate assembling a fleet and travelling towards the galactic core in search...

TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Helicopters, Combat robots, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 December 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Set in the Australian Outback, this action platformer follows the Tasmanian tiger TY as he tries to stop Boss Cass from taking over the world. After...

Who's That Flying?!

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 31 January 2011

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Who's That Flying?! is a side-scrolling arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. As the mysterious and powerful "Guardian of the Earth" with an iron eye...

Wildlife Park: Wild Creatures

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, In real time, Business / Management, Third-person view, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 April 2015

Steam: 67/100

This expansion for Wildlife Park adds new animals, including prehistoric species, and missions to the zoo-management game. Players develop the park...

Inquisitor

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 September 2013

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 70/100

This isometric role-playing game is set in a dark fantasy land where, after famine, plague, and a rain of fire, the protagonist becomes an inquisitor...

Face Noir

Action, Adventure, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 July 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 59/100

A noir detective adventure follows private investigator Jack Del Nero, who is falsely accused of murdering the man who left a little girl in his...

Legends of Dawn

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 October 2012

Steam: 26/100

Legends of Dawn is a role-playing game set in the world of Narr, where a darkness spreading from the ancient battlefield of Ashglades twists...

Secrets of Raetikon

Action, Adventure, Indie, Metroidvania

Early Access: PC → 7 January 2014; Game released: PC → 17 April 2014

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This 2D action-adventure with an open world takes place in the Alps, where a bird explores the wilderness and traces of an ancient culture. The...

Redshirt

Adventure, God Simulator, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Simulation, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 13 November 2013

Steam: 42/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This comedy sci-fi social simulation takes place aboard the Megalodon-9 space station, where a new arrival begins a career as a Transporter Accident...

Meridian: New World

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Combat robots, Indie, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 26 September 2014

Steam: 49/100

This science-fiction real-time strategy game with RPG elements follows Daniel Hanson, commander of the first expedition to the planet Meridian. The...

Maia

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Simulation, Science fiction

Early Access: PC → 3 December 2013; Game released: PC → 23 November 2018

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 39/100

Maia is a real-time management strategy game with an isometric camera view set in a science fiction environment. You will need to build a colony on a...

A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda EX

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

Game released: PC → 3 October 2014

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 66/100

A third-person sci-fi action platformer about reclaiming the Minos space station after rebel machines seize control. In 2094, the insurgent leader...

Montague's Mount

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

Game released: PC → 9 October 2013

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 39/100

Montague's Mount is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and horror elements. The events of the game will take you to a gloomy Irish...

Project Root

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 1 May 2014

Steam: 47/100

Metacritic: 42/100

Project Root is a classic shoot ’em up with open scenarios, set against the conflict between a group of rebels and Prometheus Corporation, which...

Lumini

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 3 September 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Lumini is an atmospheric side-scrolling adventure that takes you on a path to unprecedented discoveries and encounters a long-forgotten species of...

Positron

Arcade, Racing, Indie, Science fiction, Action

Early Access: PC → 21 November 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026

Steam: 100/100

A racing arcade with bright neon graphics, inspired by the classics of the 80s, but reworked with a modern approach. The game offers three modes with...

Gunman Clive

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

Game released: PC → 3 January 2014

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Gunman Clive is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with a beat 'em up style. The game takes place in 1800, where the player controls the main...

Mutant Mudds

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

Game released: PC → 30 August 2012

Metacritic: 75/100

A retro-styled action platformer in which the hero, Max, fights mutants with a water cannon. Armed with the cannon and a jetpack, he makes his way...

King Arthur's Gold

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Free game, Online, Construction

Game released: PC → 4 September 2011

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 82/100

King Arthur's Gold is a free-to-play side-scrolling pixel action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will travel back to the glory days of King...

Loren The Amazon Princess

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 15 January 2014

Steam: 83/100

This fantasy role-playing game with tactical turn-based combat follows Princess Loren on a search for her missing mother, the Queen of the Amazons...

Virus Named Tom

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 August 2012

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This action-puzzle platformer follows TOM, a virus created for revenge after a corporation fires its creator, Dr. X. Players rewire circuits to...

Armillo

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

Game released: PC → 3 July 2020

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Armillo is a top-down action-adventure platformer inspired by the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Super Monkey Ball and Super Mario Galaxy. The game...

Canabalt

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action, Runner

Game released: PC → 30 April 2015

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Canabalt is a fantasy arcade platformer. You have to escape from the destruction of your city with just one button. The game that popularized the...

Lili: Child of Geos

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Logic, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 9 May 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This third-person adventure RPG follows Lili, who arrives on the mysterious island of Geos. She meets the locals, helps them with their problems, and...

Not A Hero

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

Game released: PC → 14 May 2015

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Not A Hero is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer. Professional hitman Steve, who has become the campaign manager for mayoral candidate Bunny...

Catlateral Damage

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 27 May 2015

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 57/100

A first-person destruction simulator in which a house cat makes a mess of its owner’s home. The player explores rooms, walks, jumps and crouches...

Light

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Stealth, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 July 2014

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This top-down stealth action game follows a man who wakes up with no memory in a strange but familiar place and tries to uncover what happened to him...

4-Block Dungeon

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Top-down view, Roguelike, Indie, Free game, Mini-game / browser-based

Game released: PC → 6 September 2019

4-Block Dungeon is a shareware and addictive puzzle game that is a mixture of the classic Tetris and a dungeon crawler. Unlike Tetris, the game will...

Fistful of Gun

Action, Top-down view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 24 September 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 60/100

This top-down action game is set in the Wild West and follows a posse seeking revenge on railroad baron Clayton Boon, who plans to build a track to...

Ace of Spades: Battle Builder

Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 December 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 49/100

A team-based first-person shooter set on a constantly changing voxel battlefield. Players destroy maps and use the freedom to build and reshape the...

Purrfect Cleaning Company

Arcade, Indie, Top-down view, Simulation, Action

Game released: PC → 1 July 2020

Players: 6.3/10

Purrfect Cleaning Company is an unusual top-down simulator about cleaning cats. Those dirty astronauts didn't wipe the Martian dust off their boots...

Hunters Of The Dead

Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 4 September 2014

Steam: 63/100

Hunters Of The Dead is a unique strategy game with role-playing elements and a top-down view in a fantasy setting. You will play the role of a hunter...

NEOTOKYO

Action, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Indie, Tactics, Steampunk, Free game, Online

Game released: PC → 1 May 2014

Steam: 78/100

This multiplayer first-person shooter is set in a futuristic Japan facing political and social upheaval. After a failed military coup, the prime...

Sigils of Elohim

Strategy, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Casual game

Game released: PC → 13 October 2014

Steam: 91/100

Sigils of Elohim is a puzzle mini-game tied to The Talos Principle, in which the player solves challenges involving sigil shapes under the watchful...

Haegemonia: Legions of Iron

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

Game released: PC → 1 May 2002

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 67/100

This real-time space strategy game follows a war between Earth and its colonized Mars, interrupted by an alien invasion. The two sides unite as the...

Crowntakers

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

Game released: PC → 28 November 2014

Steam: 74/100

Crowntakers is a turn-based strategy game with RPG elements set in a fantasy world. In a big fairy-tale world, a tragedy occurs — a good king...

Robocraft

Role-playing game, Simulation, Shooter, MMO, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Combat robots, Construction

Game released: PC → 24 August 2017

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Robocraft is a shareware multiplayer robot simulator in which you have to build your own personal robot and then send it to fight with other similar...

Shiny The Firefly

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 May 2014

Steam: 76/100

A platform adventure about Shiny, a firefly searching for his children, scattered across a mysterious garden after an accident. The garden is home to...

Space Pirates and Zombies 2

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Space

Game released: PC → 7 November 2017

Players: 7/10

Steam: 77/100

This post-apocalyptic space strategy game with action and role-playing elements follows survival in a galaxy after a zombie apocalypse...

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