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Guise Of The Wolf - a game in the Indie genre

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

Game released: PC → 24 January 2014

Steam: 36/100

This first-person Gothic action-adventure is set in the medieval kingdom of Uhorsko. The young alchemist Dominik is summoned to protect its people from a ravenous...

Halfway

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 July 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A turn-based tactical RPG set in a future where humanity has begun colonising new worlds, Halfway follows a violent invasion aboard the colonial vessel Goliath. The...

Hitogata Happa

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 September 2011

Steam: 80/100

A vertically scrolling shoot ’em up in the Gundemonium Collection series follows an invasion by an army terrorizing the land. Rosa turns to the witch Kreutzer, who...

Huntsman: The Orphanage

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

Game released: PC → 13 September 2013

Steam: 35/100

Huntsman: The Orphanage is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. You have to go explore an abandoned orphanage and find out the reason for the...

Indigo Loop

Free game, Indie, Puzzle, Card game, Logic, Casual game

Game released: PC → 30 June 2022

Steam: 71/100

A free, addictive number puzzle game where gamers interact with cards to reach the number...

Tale of Three

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game canceled: PC → 2015

Tale of Three is a third-person action game with a touch of adventure and indie game from developers from gameDNA studio. The game is published by gameDNA...

Mega Coin Squad

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 August 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This 2D platformer with arcade action centers on collecting Mega Coins across a single-player campaign. Procedurally generated levels change as the game progresses...

Primrows

Logic, Match-3 (Three in a row), Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 April 2025

Steam: 100/100

The player tends to the garden by solving puzzles. There is a figure on the screen, for example a square with different flowers inside - they need to be moved so...

Retro/Grade

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Music game, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 March 2013

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A music-driven action game in the style of a classic shoot ’em up, set in a timeline that runs backwards. After a temporal anomaly, Rick Rocket sets out to restore...

Mutant Storm: Reloaded

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 March 2012

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This top-down arcade twin-stick shooter challenges players to survive 89 levels filled with hostile creatures. Players blast their way through waves of enemies...

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 story campaign...

Spatials

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Indie

Game released: PC → Q4 2014

Steam: 67/100

In the year 5781, the player is tasked with building and leading a space station in a remote corner of the galaxy. Rooms and corridors are designed for the crew...

Defenders of Time

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Historical, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: PC → 4 November 2014

Steam: 39/100

This tower defense strategy game is set in an alternate universe where players must protect the fabric of time from alien forces attacking the Time Beacons. Players...

Meadowland

Indie, Side view, Arcade, Simulation, Exploration

Game released: PC → 22 October 2014

Steam: 64/100

An interactive poem about a faerie exploring a world of dreams, magic, and distant places. The player can choose the pace and route, encountering magic, secrets...

Strata (2014)

Casual game, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 May 2014

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Strata is a puzzle game about layering colored ribbons to match a given pattern. Solving each puzzle requires planning ahead and choosing the right sequence of...

Animal Gods

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 October 2015

Steam: 16/100

Metacritic: 50/100

This 2D top-down adventure follows the fall of the Animal Gods, sacred beings turned into haunted beasts by toxic fumes from a bronze industry. Thistle, a small and...

Three Dead Zed

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Zombies

Game released: PC → 7 July 2014

Steam: 62/100

Three Dead Zed — a hand-drawn platformer where players are asked to control an experimental zombie. He can transform into other forms, which allows him to...

Wanderlust: Rebirth

Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 27 July 2012

Steam: 51/100

This action RPG is set in the fantasy world of Valandria, where heroes are summoned to Westhaven Arena to prove their worth. Their journey soon becomes a fight to...

XenoRaptor

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie, Space

Game released: PC → 24 December 2019

Steam: 81/100

This top-down space shooter follows a cyberdragon battling an armada of space skeletons. The player salvages parts from defeated enemies to build weapons and equips...

ZAMB! Biomutant Extermination

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 June 2014

Steam: 41/100

This isometric action game with strategy elements follows two special operatives fighting an army of mutants inside a mad scientist’s secret asteroid base. Cye is a...

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 dark rituals...

RPG Tycoon

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 12 February 2016

Steam: 50/100

RPG Tycoon is an exciting adventure sandbox, created based on the game Game Dev Tycoon, only in the genre of role-playing games. You can create your own unique...

Hegemony 3: Clash of the Ancients

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Medieval era, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 August 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Armies can be directed in real time or with the game paused, with units manoeuvred and arranged into larger formations. Building and protecting farms and supply...

The Fridge is Red

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 27 September 2022

Steam: 51/100

Metacritic: 49/100

A psychological analog horror anthology of six episodes built around the mystery of the Red Fridge. The player explores liminal spaces where surreal events unfold...

But to Paint a Universe

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 15 January 2015

Steam: 40/100

This puzzle game follows a little girl trying to restore a sky broken by an evil monster. Its story unfolds as a storybook narrative set in an atmospheric world...

Lex Mortis

Action, Adventure, Horror, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 February 2015

Steam: 41/100

This open-world horror game is set on the fictional island of Berdwood in Northern Europe. The protagonist returns to their birthplace and finds no living people...

Hero of the Kingdom 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 20 February 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 95/100

An isometric adventure RPG about a journey across the islands to rescue the hero’s sister, who has been taken by pirates. To reach her, the hero gathers supplies...

New Star Soccer 5

Simulation, Football, Sports game, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 September 2012

Steam: 71/100

New Star Soccer 5 is a simulator with elements of a football simulator and sports game from developers from the New Star Games Ltd studio. The game is published by...

Fermi's Path

Arcade, Third-person view, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 20 April 2015

Steam: 61/100

This arcade action game follows Fermi, a particle travelling through subatomic space. On increasingly fast levels, the player dodges obstacles and destroys hostile...

Oik

Casual game, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 14 February 2017

Steam: 90/100

A casual physics puzzle in which the goal is to keep a blue block on a platform for three seconds to complete each level. The game features more than 60 levels and...

#monstercakes

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 5 May 2017

Steam: 87/100

A casual puzzle game combining elements of 2048 and match-three, #monstercakes has players place monster cakes in suitable holes and merge them to create...

Void & Meddler

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click, Cyberpunk

Game released: PC → 28 October 2015

Steam: 61/100

This cyberpunk point-and-click adventure follows Fyn, who, after two years of wandering without purpose or memories, sets out to pursue her past. The story unfolds...

Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut

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

Game released: PC → 21 May 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A first-person futuristic puzzle game centered on solving challenges and following a story. Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut adds new puzzles and content, along with a new...

A Raven Monologue

Free game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 11 January 2018

Steam: 91/100

An experimental silent story follows a raven who cannot croak and his relationship with the people in a town. Presented as an interactive work with hand-drawn art...

Fort Meow

Strategy, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Point & Click

Game released: PC → 25 June 2015

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Fort Meow is a physics-based puzzle adventure set in an old manor, where Nia finds her grandfather’s journal in the attic and faces an invasion of cats. The player...

Relive

Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 15 October 2015

Steam: 74/100

Relive is a sci-fi adventure game about cardiopulmonary resuscitation, introducing its basic principles through a story. Progressing through the narrative and...

Objects in Space

Action, Strategy, Stealth, In real time, Business / Management, First-person view, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 March 2019

Players: 5.4/10

Steam: 51/100

Objects in Space is an exciting simulator with management elements and a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the open world of Apollo, a...

Never Alone: Foxtales

Arcade, DLC, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 28 July 2015

Steam: 83/100

An expansion for Never Alone, in which Nuna and Fox travel across the waters of Northwest Alaska to rescue a new friend. The companions paddle a sealskin canoe...

Vapour

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

Game released: PC → 3 July 2015

Steam: 36/100

This experimental first-person horror game combines elements of classic and modern horror with the fast-paced action of a shooter. The protagonist, a warlock named...

TechWars Online

Online, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Mini-game / browser-based, MMO, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 March 2016

Steam: 65/100

TechWars Online is a turn-based strategy game about a conflict between the American corporation Kato and the Russian company Dominion over control of the latest...

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