Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 15

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Exploration, Survival, Open world

Game released: PC → 10 November 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 65/100

Among Trees is an atmospheric adventure with survival elements and a first-person view. You will travel through a colorful forest, where a small house is located in...

Hellish Quart

Action, Fighting, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Indie, Side view, Arcade

Early Access: PC → 16 February 2021; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7/10

Steam: 87/100

Hellish Quart is a side-scrolling historical fighting game that focuses on realism and dueling with bladed weapons. A full-fledged dismemberment awaits you in real...

TORMENTOR

Action, Horror, Stealth, Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 11 December 2025

Steam: 49/100

Tormentor is a streamer-torturer simulator who torments his victims on camera and gets money for it from the creators of Agony. The main character, a...

Survival Machine

Action, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Arcade, Indie, Survival, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Zombies

Early Access: PC → 7 May 2025; Game released: PC → 12 June 2026

Steam: 69/100

A cooperative action game where survival involves traveling on a giant tracked vehicle. The world is full of dangers: zombies attack a mobile home, and you have to...

SCP: Secret Files

Indie, Exploration, Simulation, Horror, Puzzle, First-person view, Role-playing game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 13 September 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 82/100

SCP: Secret Files is a collection of paranormal cases from the SCP Foundation. You take a job as a research assistant and go through an induction program that will...

Shadow of the Depth

Top-down view, Action, Roguelike, Fantasy, Dungeons, Role-playing game, Indie, Slasher

Early Access: PC → 22 April 2024

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 69/100

The player selects a character from one of the classes and goes to destroy monsters in the dungeons. As you progress, the heroes learn new techniques and improve...

The World of Kungfu: Dragon and Eagle

Adventure, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Indie, Tactics, Turn-based, Old school, Exploration

Game released: PC → 24 October 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 67/100

The player explores the lands of ancient China and masters different martial arts. There are many techniques that are used in step -by -step battles. You can find...

Vintage Story

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 27 September 2016

Players: 10/10

A hardcore sandbox survival game inspired by the ideas of classic voxel games in the spirit of Minecraft, but reimagined through the lens of realism and...

Pawsome Resort

Top-down view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Farm Simulator, Indie, Simulation, Role-playing game

Early Access: PC → 22 June 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027

Steam: 82/100

A cozy pixel simulator with farming elements and a cooperative, dedicated to managing your own resort for animals. In the small town of Pebble Town, you will...

Pinata Smash: Incremental Circus

Action, Indie, Casual game, Clicker, Casino, Business / Management

Game in development: PC → 13 November 2026

A fast-paced clicker about breaking pinatas, collecting candies, and managing your own arena. The main feature is that the pinatas are broken not by the player...

Signal Veil

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Indie, Survival horror

Game in development: PC → 2027

Classic survival horror focused on psychological terror, with the aesthetic of 90s anime. The main character is Aki Mizuno, a schoolgirl whose mother vanished...

Baldi's Basics Plus

Action, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Comedy, Old school, Procedural generation

Early Access: PC → 12 June 2020; Game in development: PC → 2027

Steam: 97/100

A stealth roguelike with horror elements that parodies cheap educational games from the 1990s. Behind the bright, deliberately simple graphics lies an unusual...

Journey

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 11 June 2020

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 92/100

Journey is an atmospheric adventure with a third-person view. The main character is a nameless wanderer who must cross the desert and get to the mountain that is...

Cobalt

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 2 February 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Cobalt is a side-scrolling co-op action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. You will take on the role of robot agent Cobalt, who discovers the lost colonization...

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Action, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Detective, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC → 25 September 2014

Players: 7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and horror elements. You take control of a detective searching for a missing boy...

Visage

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Survival horror, Online

Early Access: PC → 2 October 2018; Game released: PC → 29 October 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Visage is a first-person horror adventure inspired by the work of Hideo Kojima — P.T. The main actions of the game take place in the 80s of the last century...

Tesla vs Lovecraft

Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 January 2018

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Tesla vs Lovecraft is a fast-paced top-down shooter that combines the dark horror of Lovecraft and the sci-fi inventions of Tesla. The events of the game will tell...

Conarium

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 June 2017

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Conarium is a first-person psychological horror game based on the works of Lovecraft. You play as Frank Gilman, who finds himself in a room filled with strange...

Trüberbrook

Adventure, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 March 2019

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Trüberbrook is a mysterious point-and-click adventure game with a unique visual style, set in a German village in the late 1960s. You will play as a young American...

Feudal Alloy

Role-playing game, Arcade, Action, Side view, Medieval era, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 17 January 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Feudal Alloy is a fun side-scrolling action RPG in which the main character is an aquarium fish dressed in medieval armor. Bandits attacked the protagonist’s home...

Reigns: Game of Thrones

Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Visual novel, Logic, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 October 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Reigns: Game of Thrones is a unique card board game in the Game of Thrones universe. As in the original game, the heads of the kingdoms will have to solve problems...

Cyber Shadow

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Anime / Manga, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 26 January 2021

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Cyber Shadow is a dynamic side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The world has been taken over by synthetic life forms. A desperate cry for help...

Yuppie Psycho

Indie, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Top-down view, Puzzle, Exploration

Game released: PC → 25 April 2019

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Yuppie Psycho is an adventure horror game with stealth elements and a top-down view. The game takes place in a dystopian world from the 90s, where in the role of...

art of rally

Arcade, Simulation, Racing, Isometric, Sports game, Indie, Top-down view

Game released: PC → 23 September 2020

Players: 8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Exciting rally arcade from the creators of Absolute Drift, where players can participate in the "Golden Era" rally. The game features a career mode with 72 tracks...

Before We Leave

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, City Building, Casual game, Construction

Game released: PC → 13 May 2021

Players: 5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Before We Leave is a top-down real-time management strategy game. After a long period of imprisonment in the bowels of the earth, your people emerge to the surface...

Unrailed!

Arcade, Online, Action, MMO, Business / Management, Trains, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Early Access: PC → 9 September 2019; Game released: PC → 23 September 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Unrailed! is a crazy multiplayer action game in which you have to build a railway in an endless procedurally generated world. Together with your friends, you will...

Windbound

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

Game released: PC → 28 August 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Windbound is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person perspective and survival elements. The events of the game take place on a desert island, where the warrior...

Jet Lancer

Arcade, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Side view, Futurism (Future), Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 May 2020

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Jet Lancer is a hair-raising arcade shooter with a side view in a sci-fi setting. You will play the role of a desperate mercenary in the distant future and will...

First Class Trouble

Online, Action, Indie, Arcade, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: PC → 2 November 2021; Early Access: PC → 8 April 2021

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 78/100

First Class Trouble is an asymmetrical multiplayer action game with survival elements and a third-person view. The game takes place on a luxury space cruise ship...

Roguebook

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

Game released: PC → 17 June 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Roguebook is a roguelike with procedurally generated locations and card-based turn-based combat. The plot of the game tells the story of a legendary book written...

Tormented Souls

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Action, Survival horror, Horror, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 27 August 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Tormented Souls is a third-person psychological horror game inspired by classic horror films Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Alone in the Dark. The main character is...

Stormworks: Build and Rescue

Arcade, Indie, Third-person view, First-person view, Action, Shooter, Educational game (Education), Combat robots, Flight Simulator, Warships / Submarines, Sandbox, Construction, Open world

Game released: PC → 17 September 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 90/100

Stormworks: Build and Rescue is a fun sandbox simulator where you take control of your own search and rescue team by modeling and creating vehicles. As you...

Spellcaster University

Fantasy / Medieval, Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Card game, In real time

Game released: PC → 16 June 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Spellcaster University is a real-time strategy game with simulation and management elements. In this game you take on the role of the director of a magical...

PICO PARK

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Casual game

Game released: PC → 7 May 2021

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 92/100

PICO PARK is a fun multiplayer puzzle platformer with action elements and a side view. In the game you need to collect all the keys in the level and get to the...

Russian Train Trip

Simulation, Indie, First-person view, Trains, Business / Management, Adventure

Game released: PC → 28 December 2021

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 43/100

Russian Train Trip is an adventure simulator of riding a passenger train in Russia with a first-person view. In the game you have to buy tickets, food, take the...

Limbus Company

Indie, Side view, Anime / Manga, Tactics, Science fiction, Roguelike, Free game, Visual novel, Strategy

Game released: PC → 27 February 2023

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 92/100

The game takes place in a huge city, divided into 26 districts, each of which is unique in its technological achievements and culture. No two areas are alike. A...

REVEIL

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

Game released: PC → 6 March 2024

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A narrative thriller about Walter Thompson and his dark past at the Nelson Brothers Circus. The main character sorts out fragments of memories, explores the...

Tiny Glade

Casual game, Construction, Sandbox, Indie, Medieval era

Game released: PC → 23 September 2024

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 74/100

A meditative game in which the gamer builds castles. There are no battles or farming of resources, but only a creative process. Buildings are created from various...

Pool Cleaning Simulator

First-person view, Simulation, Indie, Casual game

Early Access: PC → 7 September 2023; Game released: PC → 5 June 2024

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 61/100

The main character is engaged in cleaning pools and cleaning the surrounding area. You will have to visit both elite areas and abandoned houses. Also, sometimes it...

Tales of Kenzera: ZAU

Adventure, Metroidvania, Indie, Fantasy, Side view, Platformer

Game released: PC → 23 April 2024

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The main character is Zau, a young warrior seeking adventure in the fantasy world of Kenzer. He has unusual abilities that allow him to change the shape of his...

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