Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 158

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Action, Construction

Game released: PC → 27 March 2015

Steam: 83/100

A physics-based puzzle game about building vehicles to carry the fragile Bobble through a series of levels and rescue as many Keebles as possible. In...

Line Of Defense Tactics: Tactical Advantage

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 11 February 2014

Steam: 9/100

A tactical strategy game set in the science-fiction world of Line Of Defense, where a squad of four Galactic Command marines undertakes classified...

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...

WellBound

Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Free game, Survival, Crafting, Procedural generation

Early Access: PC → 5 February 2026

Steam: 100/100

The main character fell into a well and found himself in a dark world. You need to gather materials, create traps, and hunt for food to perform...

Black Border 3

Arcade, Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Business / Management

Game in development: PC → 19 November 2026

The player, in the role of a customs officer, checks the documents of people crossing the border. For example, you will have to look for fake...

Detective Case and Clown Bot: Murder in the Hotel Lisbon

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 5 December 2013

Steam: 86/100

This point-and-click adventure follows an investigation into a bizarre incident at the Hotel Lisbon: a man died from 14 stab wounds to the back while...

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...

NEON STRUCT

Indie, Stealth, Cyberpunk

Game released: PC → 20 May 2015

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This story follows former spy Jillian Cleary, framed for treason and hunted by her former agency. She must stay hidden, survive off the grid, and...

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...

Satazius

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

Game released: PC → 16 July 2011

Steam: 85/100

This side-scrolling arcade shooter takes place on SATAZIUS, a long-abandoned planet where space pirates attack the cruiser Agano. The crew of the...

The King's Bird

Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 August 2018

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 67/100

The King's Bird is a precision platformer built around momentum-based movement. It combines parkour with aerial movement, making both central to its...

Slam Bolt Scrappers

Arcade, Action, Logic, Indie, Puzzle, Strategy

Game released: PC → 14 March 2013

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 66/100

An arcade action game with puzzle and strategy elements, Slam Bolt Scrappers has players build towers in Slam Bolt City while fighting rivals and...

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...

Stellar Stars

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action, Strategy, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 10 November 2016

Steam: 100/100

Stellar Stars is a multiplayer arena that combines MOBA and roguelite elements in a science-fiction and fantasy setting with procedurally generated...

Wallachia: Reign of Dracula

Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 28 February 2020

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This retro-styled action platformer and shooter draws on the history of Vlad the Impaler rather than traditional vampire myths. Players take the role...

SOLAS 128

Logic, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 January 2021

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 82/100

SOLAS 128 is a rhythmic puzzle game about restoring an ancient machine to life. The player redirects and reconfigures pulses of light as they travel...

Wizorb

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 November 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 80/100

An arcade game set in a fantasy medieval world, Wizorb combines classic block-breaking action with light role-playing...

Woodle Tree Adventures

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

Game released: PC → 2 March 2016

Steam: 70/100

Woodle Tree Adventures is a classic arcade action platformer with a third-person perspective. Explore six colorful worlds and save lands with magical...

Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Board / Group Game, Indie, Card game

Game released: PC → 17 February 2015

Steam: 65/100

A card-based adventure with role-playing and strategy elements, Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night continues the board game and sends its hero into...

Courier of the Crypts

Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 April 2019

Steam: 84/100

This 2D puzzle adventure follows a courier on his first errand in ominous crypts. Once a sacred place of mourning, the crypts have become a site of...

Avernum 2: Crystal Souls

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

Game released: PC → 14 January 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This fantasy role-playing game takes place in Avernum, an underground land of tunnels and caverns dotted with towns, dungeons, and settlements of...

Love at First Sight

Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 May 2015

Steam: 96/100

This romantic visual novel follows a high school student who falls in love at first sight with Sachi Usui, a shy, reclusive girl with one eye and a...

BOID

Online, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Free game, Indie

Early Access: PC → 8 January 2015; Game released: PC → 8 July 2016

Steam: 79/100

A real-time strategy game about microorganisms fighting for control of the distant planet Kepler 42-C, where life was changed by a malfunctioning...

Strafe

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 May 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Strafe is a bloody retro shooter with a first-person view. The game is a tribute to classic shooters and a subtle play on nostalgia at the same time...

Magnetic: Cage Closed

Action, Adventure, Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 May 2015

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This first-person puzzle game follows a prisoner trapped in a mysterious facility filled with deadly traps. To survive and find a way out, the...

Pix the Cat

Arcade, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 29 January 2015

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This arcade game follows Pix the Cat through digital mazes, where the cat hatches ducklings, forms a line behind him and guides them to target...

Dark Echo

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Horror, Mysticism / Supernatural, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 May 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Dark Echo is an arcade logic puzzle with mystical horror elements. Stuck in the dark, you must use sound visualization to find your way through the...

Traps n' Gemstones

Arcade, Platformer, Adventure, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 16 April 2015

Steam: 79/100

This Metroidvania-style platform adventure follows an archaeologist exploring an ancient pyramid in Egypt. Precious relics have begun disappearing...

Galaxy Trucker

Board / Group Game, Logic, Indie, Free game, Strategy, Space

Game released: PC → 7 March 2019

Steam: 89/100

Galaxy Trucker is an adaptation of the famous board game for smartphones. Build spaceships, dodge passing meteorites and fight bad guys in your quest...

Convoy

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 April 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 78/100

In a post-apocalyptic future, this tactical roguelike follows a squad crossing a wasteland to find parts for a broken spaceship. The group travels in...

Run Zeus Run

Casual game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 11 October 2017

Steam: 81/100

Run Zeus Run is an endless platformer in which Zeus runs through stages that grow faster over time. The player jumps and double-jumps, dodges...

Elementary My Dear Majesty!

Logic, Indie, Arcade, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game, Hidden Objects, Adventure

Game released: PC → 24 November 2011

Steam: 76/100

Elementary My Dear Majesty! — an exciting fantasy arcade puzzle game in the "hidden object" genre. During the meal, the king’s beloved daughter...

Unholy Heights

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

Game released: PC → 4 October 2013

Steam: 90/100

This apartment-management simulation with tower-defense elements centers on a tenement the Devil has turned into housing for monsters. The player...

Curious Expedition

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 2 September 2016

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Curious Expedition is a procedurally generated adventure role-playing game set in the 19th century. You can feel like a real explorer and discoverer...

Vagrant Hearts 2

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

Game released: PC → 20 May 2015

Steam: 56/100

A role-playing adventure in the style of 16-bit RPGs, Vagrant Hearts 2 continues the story of the original game. After Valmor’s defeat, the kingdom...