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Sparkle Unleashed - a game in the Indie genre

Action, Shooter, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 December 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This arcade marble-shooter puzzle game takes place in a secluded world overtaken by darkness. The player travels through fallen lands, lights magical...

Blue Estate

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

Game released: PC → 8 April 2015

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 49/100

A rail shooter with black humor follows the Los Angeles mob’s criminal feuds. Players take the roles of Tony Luciano, the son of an Italian mob boss...

DeadCore

Action, Shooter, Platformer, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 October 2014; Early Access: PC → 13 August 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 71/100

DeadCore is an adventure shooter with a first-person view and platforming elements in a sci-fi setting. You have to try on the role of a hero who...

The Bridge

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: PC → 22 February 2013

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Bridge is a two-dimensional logic game that will allow you to look at physics and perspective from a different angle. You have to walk on the...

Heavy Bullets

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

Game released: PC → 18 September 2014

Players: 9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Heavy Bullets is a first-person roguelike shooter set in a randomly generated, colorful maze filled with aggressive creatures and malfunctioning...

Golden Turd

Online, Action, First-person view, Indie

Game canceled: PC → 2016

Golden Turd is a competitive action game with a first-person view, where you, as a fly, have to fight with other players for control of the dinner...

El Somni Quas

Role-playing game, MMO, Indie

Game canceled: PC → 2021

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

An indie sandbox game from the Czech studio ESQ Team, set in ancient...

Rex Rocket

Arcade, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 August 2014

Steam: 71/100

Set in Earth’s distant future, this 2D platformer follows a former war hero trying to stop a starship’s rogue artificial intelligence. The player...

Solarix

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

Game released: PC → 30 April 2015

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 47/100

This first-person science-fiction stealth horror follows an electrical engineer struggling to survive after an infection wipes out the crew of an...

140

Platformer, Music game, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 October 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A minimalist puzzle platformer in which obstacles are tied to the rhythm of electronic music. The player controls a geometric shape in an abstract...

Wardialler

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Logic, Free game, Text quest

Game canceled: PC → 2020

Anticipation Rating: 5/10

Wardialler is a text adventure game where the main task is to be a hacker. A distinctive feature of the game is that you need to hack like in the...

Choice of the Deathless

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: PC → 29 August 2014

Steam: 91/100

This text-based role-playing game is a necromantic legal thriller set in a fantasy world of scheming magicians and monsters. The protagonist works at...

hocus

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 18 November 2015

Steam: 91/100

hocus is an atmospheric spatial puzzle game based on Escher's figures. The game features relaxing music, more than 65 different levels, and the...

Draconian Wars

Strategy, Card game, Indie

Game released: PC → 28 August 2014

Steam: 36/100

This strategic card game centers on the Draconians’ and Technocrats’ struggle for control of Hyperborea, a continent rich in natural resources and...

Bardbarian

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 1 April 2014

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Combining action, role-playing, strategy, and tower defense, Bardbarian follows Brad, a barbarian tired of fighting who takes up a lute fashioned...

No Response

Adventure, Indie, Interactive movie, First-person view

Game released: PC → 14 July 2018

No Response — an interactive first-person adventure with an atmosphere reminiscent of Firewatch. According to the plot, you get into an accident in...

Dark Blood

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Slasher, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 24 May 2019

Steam: 8/100

This fantasy action RPG follows Athanas, a knight seeking power to avenge his wife, who was killed during the demon legion’s invasion. With help from...

Freedom Planet

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 July 2014

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 83/100

This combat-focused platform adventure follows the dragon girl Lilac and her friends as they defend the world of Avalice from an alien attack. The...

Gigantic Army

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

Game released: PC → 6 March 2014

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Gigantic Army is a classic side-scrolling arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the 21st century, where Earth is at war with...

Global Outbreak

Action, Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 August 2014

Steam: 70/100

Global Outbreak is a post-apocalyptic strategy with action elements. Global changes await you on planet Earth. The virus that attacked the planet...

LA Cops

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 July 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 47/100

This top-down shooter follows Los Angeles police officers in the 1970s as they take on criminals and a boss known as Hawaiian Mo. 3D cutscenes tell...

Exodus of the Ancients

Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Side view

Game in development: PC → 2027

A turn-based 2D battler inspired by the works of G.F. Lovecraft and board game elements. As the player progresses, he needs to expand his territory...

Iron Soul

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 26 February 2014

Steam: 13/100

This science-fiction 3D action game combines third-person shooting with fast platforming in an industrial world where a robot army created to defend...

MouseCraft

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 July 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 72/100

MouseCraft is a puzzle game about guiding mice to their goal as the cat scientist Schrödinger works on a mysterious mouse-powered machine. Players...

KingFish

Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), City Building, Fantasy, Medieval era, Simulation

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A cooperative roguelike for two players, where both players do completely different things and are fully dependent on each other. One controls the...

Wrack

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

Game released: PC → 30 September 2014

Steam: 70/100

Wrack is a fast-paced first-person arcade shooter focused on battles against alien enemies. In its single-player mode, players take down foes in...

Living Dungeon

Role-playing game, Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Tactics, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 November 2015

Steam: 69/100

Living Dungeon is a tactical board-game adventure set in a perilous dungeon, where players compete to survive and complete their objectives. In the...

Pineapple Smash Crew

Action, Beat them all, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 2 February 2012

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 62/100

A tactical action game with a retro-futuristic style, Pineapple Smash Crew sends a squad to fight aliens, robots and zombies aboard randomly...

Rain Blood Chronicles: Mirage

Arcade, Action, Slasher, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 11 November 2013

Steam: 72/100

A wuxia-inspired action platformer follows two assassins who seize the chance to strike at their enemies gathered in one place. Soul and Shang Zuo...

Bloo Kid 2

Action, Platformer, Indie

Early Access: PC → 6 March 2014; Game released: PC → 1 October 2015

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 64/100

A 2D retro-style platformer featuring pixel graphics and a full chiptune soundtrack. The game pairs a classic platforming format with pixel-art...

Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball

Action, First-person view, Sports game, Combat robots, Indie, Shooter, Arcade

Game released: PC → 19 February 2015

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This futuristic first-person sports shooter centers on dodgeball matches in arenas styled as skate parks and neon-lit dance clubs. The player...

Space Ark

Arcade, Action, Pinball, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 16 March 2012

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This arcade game with puzzle elements follows a team of animal astronauts who flee their home solar system after it is shattered by a wandering black...

Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes

Pinball, Zombies, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 March 2022

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 74/100

An arcade game that combines classic pinball with tower defense, pitting powerful pinballs against waves of zombies. Before each run, the player...

Spellbind

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 4 March 2016

Steam: 78/100

This classic point-and-click adventure with puzzles is set in a fantasy world and follows Luppe, a 16-year-old leader of Riathon’s largest street...

Wild Season

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Farm Simulator, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 8 December 2015

Steam: 24/100

This farming-life simulation with visual novel and RPG elements follows a character who leaves the big city to start a farm in the south. After a...

Death Skid Marks

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Racing, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 21 November 2014

Steam: 90/100

Death Skid Marks is a top-down arcade roguelike about a violent road trip to a music concert along Route 666. The player fights enemies from behind...

Democracy 3: Extremism

Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Turn-based, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 May 2014

Steam: 87/100

An expansion for Democracy 3 that adds new situations and policies representing more extreme political positions within a democracy. The player...

Aero's Quest

Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 8 June 2015

Steam: 94/100

Aero's Quest is a side-scrolling puzzle-platformer in which Aero sets out to rescue Ariella from the evil Andraus. Progress depends on solving...

Turbo Dismount

Simulation, Action, Logic, Indie, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 21 May 2014

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 94/100

A physics-based sandbox about high-speed crashes featuring Mr. Dismount and the cars that love him. Points are awarded for damage, with outcomes...

Windforge

Arcade, Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Indie, Steampunk, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 11 March 2014

Players: 7/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 53/100

This side-scrolling, block-building role-playing adventure takes place in the steampunk world of Cordeus, where civilization depends on oil from sky...

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