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Crazy Ball Adventures - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: PC → 20 July 2017

Steam: 85/100

This casual adventure game challenges players to guide a ball to the end of each level while keeping it balanced. Every stage has a different layout...

Blood Covenant

Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Zombies, Survival horror, Horror

Game in development: PC → 5 January 2027

A cooperative survival horror game for a team of up to four players. The main characters are cleaners in protective suits who take night jobs from a...

I Am A Stick

Action, Platformer, Indie, Free game, Comedy, Simulation, Adventure

Game released: PC → 30 September 2025

Steam: 100/100

A challenging physics-based platformer with a sense of humor. The protagonist is a stick that fell from a tree and is now trying to return to its...

Rock of Ages

Action, Third-person view, Comedy, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 September 2011

Players: 8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This arcade action game with strategy elements centers on a clash between two fortresses: the player steers a giant boulder toward the enemy’s...

Gratuitous Tank Battles

Strategy, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 17 May 2012

Players: 1/10

Steam: 55/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This strategy game combines tower defense and RTS elements in an alternate history where World War I continues until 2114. Across European...

Oil Rush

Strategy, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 23 March 2012

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This real-time naval strategy game is set in a world reshaped by nuclear war, which melted the ice caps. The player captures, upgrades, and defends...

1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby)

Action, Music game, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 April 2011

Steam: 27/100

A first-person music action game about BASE jumping from giant aerial sculptures inspired by the player’s music. Set ten years after the events of...

3 Stars of Destiny

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 28 March 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 69/100

This 2D role-playing game unfolds in a fantasy world and follows three teenagers—Random, Sarah, and Luciana—who have yet to meet and are unaware of...

Airline Tycoon Deluxe

Simulation, Strategy, Flight Simulator, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 February 2010

Steam: 84/100

This real-time economic simulation in a comic style puts the player in charge of an airline. Responsibilities include buying and outfitting aircraft...

BasketBelle

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sports game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 9 December 2014

Steam: 80/100

An experimental 2D basketball platformer about a heroine who must save her sister. Set on improvised courts across Paris, the game gives the...

Darwinia

Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Puzzle, God Simulator

Game released: PC → 3 April 2012

Steam: 78/100

This real-time strategy game blends action and puzzles in a digital world inhabited by intelligent creatures called Darwinians. When a dangerous...

SCP-087

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 18 January 2012

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 34/100

This first-person horror game follows the story of Dr. Kester and the classified object SCP-087. The player explores the site, investigates its...

DEFCON

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: PC → 4 December 2008

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 84/100

DEFCON is a real-time strategy game simulating global nuclear war during the Cold War. From an underground bunker, a general must destroy the enemy...

Eerie Estate Agent

Adventure, Horror, Text quest, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 January 2018

Steam: 66/100

Eerie Estate Agent — adventure text quest with horror elements. Your work — rent out a haunted house before your tyrannical boss fires...

Eufloria

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 4 November 2008

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Eufloria is a meditative real-time strategy game with a top-down view. You'll explore a beautifully realized universe, created in a unique and...

Fotonica

Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 November 2014

Steam: 87/100

FOTONICA is a first-person arcade platformer about running, jumping, and moving at high speed through abstract environments. Its mostly two-color...

Garshasp: The Monster Slayer

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Slasher

Game released: PC → 31 May 2011

Steam: 49/100

Metacritic: 49/100

Garshasp: The Monster Slayer is a third-person action game with a mixture of fighting, puzzle and fantasy from Dead Mage. The game is published by...

Geneforge 2

Role-playing game, Isometric, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 1 July 2003

Steam: 89/100

This fantasy role-playing game with science-fiction elements follows an open-ended adventure through a large world, where the player chooses which...

Geneforge 3

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

Game released: PC → 1 April 2005

Steam: 87/100

Geneforge 3 is a fantasy role-playing adventure and the third chapter of the Geneforge Saga, set in unfamiliar, hostile lands. The player explores...

AdventurOS

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 December 2013

AdventurOS is an arcade-style RPG, platformer, fantasy and indie game from the masters at Eveland Games. The game is published by Eveland...

Tiny Diggers 2

Arcade, Action, God Simulator, Business / Management, Third-person view, Indie

Game canceled: PC → 23 November 2013

Anticipation Rating: 6.7/10

Tiny Diggers 2 is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, business simulator and indie game from developers from the TouchTilt Games...

Gratuitous Space Battles: The Tribe

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 2 December 2009

Steam: 100/100

Gratuitous Space Battles: The Tribe is an add-on for the sci-fi strategy game Gratuitous Space Battles. The universal war continues endlessly and...

Joe Danger

Action, Third-person view, Sports game, Stunts, Racing, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 June 2013

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Joe Danger is a racing action game with a third-person view in the stunt genre. You'll have to combine, speed up, and pull off ridiculous stunts as...

For Each Our Roads of Winter

Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Frozen: PC → 2015

For Each Our Roads of Winter is a puzzle adventure and indie game from Orihaus. The game is published by...

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...

Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 April 2010

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This puzzle-platformer follows P. B. Winterbottom through a macabre, comical silent world as he searches for the mysterious Chronoberry Pie. The...

Offspring Fling!

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

Game released: PC → 11 May 2012

Steam: 89/100

Offspring Fling! is a puzzle-platformer about a forest creature who has lost all her children and sets out to bring them home. She makes her way...

Runespell: Overture

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

Game released: PC → 20 July 2011

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A role-playing game set in an alternate medieval Europe where historical figures meet characters from Norse sagas and mythology. The protagonist is...

Space Xonix

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 17 September 2015

Steam: 78/100

This arcade game in the style of classic Xonix puts the player in control of a flying saucer claiming sections of outer space. Each level calls for...

Syder Arcade

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

Game released: PC → 24 October 2013

Steam: 84/100

This multidirectional scrolling shoot ’em up draws on the style of 1990s Amiga games. The player pilots a starship and battles waves of alien...

Zombie Exodus

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Text quest, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 October 2015

Steam: 85/100

Zombie Exodus is a role-playing adventure horror game with a first-person view. You'll create your own character and fight your way out of a...

Storm

Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 27 June 2013

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Storm is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle. Take a deep breath and get ready for a meditative journey with Storm, which represents a piece of living...

Lumino City

Arcade, Adventure, Logic, Indie, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 2 December 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A game created entirely by hand from paper, cardboard, miniature light bulbs and mechanisms. The main character explores the city of Lumino and...

Twin Moons

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 September 2013

Players: 10/10

Twin Moons is an adventure game with puzzle elements and indie games from G5 Entertainment AB. The game is published by G5 Entertainment...

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...

Pavilion

Arcade, Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 September 2016

Steam: 66/100

Pavilion is an adventure puzzle game with an isometric camera view and fourth-person controls. The main character of the game is not controlled by...

Machines At War 3

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 July 2014

Players: 5/10

Steam: 80/100

This real-time strategy game follows the search for the missing scientists of the Omicron Initiative and their secret research. After discovering a...

Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm

Arcade, Fighting, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → February 2014

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This traditional-style 2D fighting game is set in Japan in 1925, where, following a coup, the old government orders a secret organization to begin a...

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