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Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria

Game released: PC → 21 November 2003

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

This adventure follows Gilbert Goodmate as he tries to recover Phungoria’s sacred mushroom and save his grandfather from execution. He has a week to...

Harvest: Massive Encounter

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 5 March 2008

Steam: 78/100

A futuristic real-time strategy game with tower-defense elements, Harvest: Massive Encounter centers on defending a base from endless waves of alien...

iBomber Defense

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Historical, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: PC → 26 May 2011

Steam: 76/100

This tower defense strategy game pits Allied and Axis forces against each other across the fronts of North Africa, Europe, and Russia. The player...

Legend of Crystal Valley

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

Game released: PC → 12 March 2009

Steam: 85/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles blends the real world with fantasy and science fiction. After receiving a mysterious letter from her...

Lifestream

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 27 September 2004

Steam: 100/100

Lifestream is a first-person horror adventure with puzzle elements. It's a modern blast from the past, combining the best elements of interactive...

The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure

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

Game released: PC → 20 August 2008

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This adventure horror game follows paranormal investigators in a seaside town on England’s east coast. Ghost-hunters Nigel Danvers and Lucy Reubans...

Mission in Snowdriftland

Action, Platformer, Side view, Arcade, Indie, Old school

Game released: PC → 1 December 2021

Steam: 95/100

Mission in Snowdriftland is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer where you'll go on amazing adventures with the snowman Chubby...

No Time To Explain

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 15 August 2011

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 53/100

No Time To Explain is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer in a sci-fi setting. One day, he himself breaks into the main character’s house...

Esper

First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Casual game, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 6 July 2018

Steam: 86/100

This first-person puzzle game takes place in a single room, where people with the ability to move objects with their minds are tested by the...

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...

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

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

Game released: PC → 16 April 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 85/100

This exploratory action-adventure follows a wandering warrior monk on a quest through a mythic realm of mountains and forests in a Bronze Age...

War on Folvos

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 March 2007

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 82/100

War on Folvos is a turn-based strategy game set on a desert planet whose people face the loss of their freedom after the Vasgalan Empire discovers an...

Yume Nikki

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration

Game released: PC → 2005

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 94/100

This horror-tinged adventure takes place in a dark dream world that the protagonist can explore at her own pace. There is no defined goal or...

Zenonia

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 31 August 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Zenonia is a top-down role-playing game with a touch of action from developers from the Gamevil Inc. studio. The game is published by Gamevil Inc...

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...

Sir, You Are Being Hunted

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Survival

Game released: PC → 19 August 2013

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Sir, You Are Being Hunted is an indie shooter with stealth elements and a first-person view in a fantasy setting. You find yourself in a dimension...

Tiny Brains

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

Game released: PC → 11 December 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Tiny Brains is a cooperative action puzzler about four super-powered laboratory animals trying to escape a mad scientist’s experiments. Players work...

Planck

Shooter, Music game, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game canceled: PC → 2016

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Planck is a shooter with a mixture of music game and indie game from developers from the ShadeGrownGames studio. The main publisher of the game is...

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...

Shelter

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Survival, Exploration

Game released: PC → 28 August 2013

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Shelter is a captivating third-person adventure where you learn about the challenges of surviving in the wild as a badger. Together with your cubs...

StarMade

Action, Shooter, MMO, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Space, Sandbox, Open world

Early Access: PC → 27 November 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 66/100

StarMade is a voxel-based space sandbox about exploring a procedurally generated universe and building ships, stations, and bases. Players can travel...

Solar Flux

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Logic, Indie, Strategy, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 24 October 2013

Steam: 79/100

This puzzle strategy game follows an effort to save dying stars in a perishing universe. The player pilots a ship through zero gravity, collecting...

Cat Lady

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 December 2012

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This psychological horror game follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year-old woman on the verge of suicide. With no family, friends or hope for a...

Teleglitch: Die More Edition

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

Game released: PC → 24 July 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Ballpoint Universe Infinite

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 17 December 2013

Steam: 87/100

Ballpoint Universe Infinite is an arcade shoot-’em-up adventure set in worlds drawn entirely with a ballpoint pen, where doodles provide the setting...

CONSORTIUM

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Adventure

Game released: PC → 8 January 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 66/100

A first-person science-fiction role-playing game about a murder investigation aboard a Consortium command vessel in 2042. The player takes the role...

Galcon Legends

Strategy, In real time, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 January 2014

Galcon Legends is a strategy game with an indie twist from the developers of Hassey Enterprises, Inc.. The game is published by Hassey Enterprises...

Estranged: Act I

Arcade, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 16 January 2014

Steam: 93/100

This first-person adventure follows a lone fisherman whose ship runs aground near a mysterious island during a violent storm. He explores the island...

Child of Light 2

Role-playing game, Arcade, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Indie

Not officially announced: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 8.6/10

Child of Light 2 is a continuation of the atmospheric puzzle platformer with role-playing elements and turn-based...

Shadows on the Vatican - Act 2: Wrath

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 26 October 2015

Steam: 80/100

This point-and-click adventure continues the Shadows on the Vatican series, following Silvia as she is hunted by the conspirator behind an attempted...

#IDARB

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 February 2016

Metacritic: 77/100

#IDARB is an arcade action-platformer that began as an image of a red box. It evolved into a minimalist sketchbook of game mechanics shaped by...

ReignMaker

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game

Game released: PC → 16 April 2014

Steam: 80/100

ReignMaker is a unique match-3 strategy game set in a fantasy setting. The game has many classic game elements: you have to arrange your city, build...

H-Hour: World's Elite

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Tactics, Indie, Online

Game released: PC → 17 February 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 60/100

H-Hour: World's Elite is a multiplayer tactical shooter with a third-person view. Exciting battles await you in 8v8 team...

Battle of Sol

Simulation, Futurism (Future), Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 July 2015

Steam: 57/100

A space action game with simulation elements, Battle of Sol is set in a future where humanity has left an Earth made uninhabitable and spread across...

Anode

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 October 2015

Steam: 88/100

Anode is an arcade match-3 puzzle game. The game is built on the classic mechanics of Tetris, in which the cubes are colored and destroyed as they...

Orc Attack: Flatulent Rebellion

Action, DLC, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 May 2014

Steam: 42/100

An expansion for Orc Attack, this fantasy hack-and-slash action game follows orcs fighting humans who are polluting the environment. Players battle...

Nelo

Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Cyberpunk

Early Access: PC → 20 November 2017

Steam: 69/100

Nelo is an arcade action game with a top-down and third-person view in a futuristic setting. The main character is a mutant who can move on any...

Starship Assassin

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

Frozen: PC → 2016

Starship Assassin is a multiplayer arena shooter with a first-person view in a futuristic setting. You have to become a space assassin and go up...

Combat Core

Action, Fighting, MMO, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 10 January 2019

Steam: 77/100

This 3D arena fighter blends colorful science fiction with cyberpunk, bringing fighters from across the galaxy together to compete in the Combat Core...

Roundabout

Arcade, Action, Racing, Isometric, Indie, Comedy, Casual game

Game released: PC → 18 September 2014

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This driving puzzle game follows a limousine that constantly spins as it travels through a city in 1977. Its story charts the rise to fame of Georgio...

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