Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 14

Grow & Go: Cozy Deliveries - a game in the Indie genre

Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Casual game, Farm Simulator, Simulation, Open world, Indie

Game released: PC → 10 July 2026

A cozy farming and delivery simulator. Players can settle in a peaceful countryside, gather fruits and other resources, and then prepare orders for the locals. The...

Thank You Bus Driver

Arcade, Action, Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Comedy

Game released: PC → 14 October 2026

Steam: 93/100

Players take on the role of a city bus driver who tries to survive the day with minimal violations and maximum gratitude from passengers. At first glance, the...

Arcadia Cafe

Indie, Simulation, First-person view

Game released: PC → 30 April 2026

Steam: 92/100

A domestic horror game about a college student working night shifts at a roadside cafe in an unnamed Ukrainian city in the early 2000s. The worker serves strange...

Pro Gamer Manager 2

Simulation, Indie, Sports game

Early Access: PC → 5 October 2017

Steam: 11/100

A management simulator about building an esports organization and preparing a team of professional gamers for competition. The player looks after the team’s...

Legend of Grimrock

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Puzzle, Dungeons

Game released: PC → 11 April 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Legend of Grimrock is an action role-playing game with a first-person view in a fantasy setting. A group of prisoners are sentenced to death by exile to the...

Solar 2

Arcade, Space, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 17 June 2011

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This open-world arcade sandbox takes place in an infinite abstract universe where the player controls a celestial body. In Solar 2, players can complete varied...

Kentucky Route Zero

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 22 February 2013

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 86/100

A mystical adventure with a side view and a unique graphic design. The main character Conway travels to Kentucky to deliver a package. Upon arrival, it is...

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Replayability

Game released: PC → 30 October 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 85/100

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It adds over 100 hours of content, including the new...

The Red Strings Club

Adventure, Cyberpunk, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 January 2018

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The Red Strings Club — a "point and click" adventure with a side view in a cyberpunk style. The game's plot centers around a bartender and his hacker friend, who...

The Black Masses

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Fantasy, Medieval era, Indie, Zombies, Adventure

Early Access: PC → 12 March 2020; Game released: PC → 3 October 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 58/100

Role-playing action in the dark world of the zombie apocalypse from the authors of Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator. The story takes place on a small island, where a...

Train Station Renovation

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Business / Management, First-person view, Trains, Indie, Casual game

Early Access: PC → 30 April 2020; Game released: PC → 1 October 2020

Players: 8/10

Steam: 84/100

Train Station Renovation is a first-person management simulator where you take on the role of the self-proclaimed guardian of historic train stations. You will go...

A Short Hike

Adventure, Indie, Logic, Arcade, Exploration

Game released: PC → 30 July 2019

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 99/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A Short Hike is an adventure arcade game with a top-down view. The game will take you to the expanses of the colorful mountains of Hawk Peak Provincial Park. You...

When The Past Was Around

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Hidden Objects, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 22 September 2020

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 78/100

When The Past Was Around is a point & click adventure puzzle game with a sad story about a girl who has lost the meaning of life. She couldn't find him until she...

Have a Nice Death

Arcade, Side view, Action, Platformer, Roguelike, Slasher, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 22 March 2023; Early Access: PC → 8 March 2022

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The main character is the mortally bored director Death, whose subordinates have completely lost their shores and turned the balance of the coming and going of...

The Tales of Bayun

Fantasy, Visual novel, Indie, Text quest, Adventure, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 16 February 2023

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 74/100

An exciting adventure in a dark Slavic fantasy setting. The game takes place in a flat world that stands on the backs of three demon bears. In it, ordinary people...

An alt girl for skoof

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game, Comedy

Game released: PC → 21 April 2024

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 83/100

The game, based on a popular meme, tells the story of the acquaintance of a pot-bellied and balding man with altushki from State Services. In the game you can start...

The Big Con

Adventure, Comedy, Indie

Game released: PC → 31 August 2021

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The game is about a curious and sarcastic high school student, Ali, who leaves music camp to go on a trip. But this is not just entertainment, the heroine also...

Yarimono

Adventure, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 30 August 2024

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 87/100

The main character explores locations and collects special creatures — Yarimons — who can fight for him. In total, the game has more than 150 unique...

Real Shoot

Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC → 7 December 2024

Players: 6.3/10

A game with realistic graphics powered by Unreal Engine 5. The gamer, in the role of an operative of the Shadow Ops squad, performs various tasks and fights...

Zavod

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Early Access: PC → 14 February 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 91/100

Dmitry Morozov devoted his whole life to the plant, but once reality failed. Time turned back, and the factory worker again gained youth. The old workshop no longer...

Big Hops

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy, Casual game, Parkour

Game released: PC → 12 January 2026

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A young frog named Hop was kidnapped from his home by a deceiving spirit. Now the main character wants to find his way home. Along the way, he meets different...

The Twilight Project

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Exploration, Zombies, Survival horror

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

An atmospheric survival horror inspired by the Resident Evil and Silent Hill franchises. Players find themselves in the role of a tourist lost in an abandoned...

60 Seconds! Reatomized

Simulation, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Point & Click, Survival, Comedy, Strategy, Exploration

Game released: PC → 25 July 2019

Steam: 95/100

An updated version of the black comedy 60 Seconds! with survival elements, where a few dozen seconds separate ordinary family life from a nuclear apocalypse...

Abattoir: Cow Escape

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Comedy, Arcade, Simulation

Game released: PC → 4 March 2026

Steam: 100/100

A dynamic action game set in a dystopian future, where the player takes control of a cow fighting against the meat industry. According to the story, scientists...

Pixel Devil and the Broken Cartridge

Indie, Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 27 February 2019

Steam: 60/100

A classic pixel-art platformer about a protagonist who is transported to the world of 8-bit games. He sets out to rescue his girlfriend and uncover who is behind...

Bastion

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 August 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Bastion is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. You will go to a fairy-tale world, which, by the will of fate, is gradually...

Mark of the Ninja

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 October 2012

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 91/100

A 2D stealth platformer about a ninja whose cursed tattoos heighten his senses and allow different approaches to each situation. The protagonist can evade enemies...

Reus

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Business / Management, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 May 2013

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Reus is a side-scrolling real-time management strategy game set in a fantasy setting. You have to take control of the universe as mighty titans, possessing all...

Dungeon of the Endless

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy, Medieval era, Indie, Roguelike, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 11 June 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A hardcore roguelike in which a group of prisoners suddenly become explorers of a hostile world. After a prison ship crashes on the mysterious planet Auriga, the...

Horizon

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Grand strategy, Space

Game released: PC → 6 February 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 58/100

A turn-based space strategy game about galactic exploration and conquest, in which humanity expands its empire and encounters alien civilizations. The player...

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

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

Game released: PC → 26 June 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is an old-school pixelated platformer about Shovel Knight, who must destroy his enemies to save his beloved and defeat the evil...

Expendabros

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Adventure, DLC, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Free game, Online

Game released: PC → 5 August 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Expendabros is an action-adventure game with platformer elements. You'll fight through a barrage of bullets and non-stop action in ten fast-paced missions set among...

Thief Simulator

Simulation, Action, Stealth, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Indie

Game released: PC → 9 November 2018

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Thief Simulator is a dynamic first-person stealth simulator where you will become the best thief in the world. Observe your target and gather information that will...

Mad Bullets

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

Game released: PC → 10 June 2016

Steam: 92/100

This first-person arcade shooter is set in the Wild West, where players take on enemies at high speed and climb the leaderboards. The cast includes desperados...

Subterrain

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Indie, Survival, Top-down view, Crafting

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 79/100

Subterrain is an action-horror adventure with RPG elements and a top-down view. In the game you will play as one Doctor West, apparently the only survivor of an...

Monument Valley 2

Isometric, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: PC → 12 July 2022

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Continuation of the atmospheric puzzle, where architecture again becomes the stage for a quiet and beautiful journey. This time, the story follows a mother and...

GORN

Action, Fighting, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Indie

Early Access: PC → 10 July 2017; Game released: PC → 18 July 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A VR gladiator simulator built around physics-driven combat. The player fights through an endless supply of opponents using swords, maces, bows, nunchucks, throwing...

The Blackout Club

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: PC → 29 July 2019

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 68/100

The Blackout Club is an action-adventure game with horror elements and a first-person view. The game will take you to a mysterious town that hides many terrible...

Beyond Blue

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 11 June 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Beyond Blue is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Never Alone. Beyond Blue takes place in the near future...

Kynseed

Role-playing game, Simulation, Adventure, Indie, Farm Simulator, Exploration, Sandbox

Early Access: PC → 8 November 2018; Game released: PC → 6 December 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Kynseed — a role-playing sandbox with elements of a farming simulator from the creators of the Fable 3 series. As in other games of this genre, you will take care...

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