Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 17

Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Runner

Game released: PC → 25 March 2026; Early Access: PC → 12 March 2026

A dynamic first-person platformer where the player must quickly navigate through levels, fight opponents, and use various abilities to overcome obstacles. Special...

Stitchlings

Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Beat them all, Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy

Game released: PC → 12 May 2026

Bright cooperative action game built around a shared adventure and an unusual character development system. After defeating monsters, their parts can literally be...

Crushed In Time

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Comedy, Detective

Game released: PC → 10 June 2026

Metacritic: 76/100

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return in an unusual adventure, where classic detective investigation meets absurd humor, meta-narrative, and time travel. This time...

KingFish

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

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 King — running...

Kingdom Rush

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 6 January 2014

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Kingdom Rush is a real-time strategy game with fantasy elements and a top-down view. In this game you have to fight enemies with the help of your towers and protect...

Outlast: Whistleblower

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

Game released: PC → 6 May 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Outlast: Whistleblower is an add-on for the first-person horror adventure game Outlast. The add-on will tell the story of software engineer Waylon Park, who worked...

Hotline Miami 3

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Indie

Not officially announced: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 9.5/10

Hotline Miami 3 is a continuation of a dynamic action game with a top-down view, where the main character killed Russian mafiosi left and right, received strange...

Neon Chrome

Shooter, Top-down view, Cyberpunk, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 28 April 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Neon Chrome is a top-down cyberpunk roguelike shooter where you have to conquer the Neon Chrome Corporation by hacking your brain. Sleeping bodies have different...

Deadly Tower of Monsters

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 January 2016

Deadly Tower of Monsters is an arcade action game with an isometric camera view from the developers of Zeno Clash, Rock of Ages and Abyss Odyssey. Inspired by 50s...

Last Horizon

Arcade, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 18 November 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Last Horizon is an adventure arcade game in the world of space science fiction. The player will have to go in search of a new home for a dying civilization, where...

Rabi-Ribi

Action, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 28 January 2016

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Rabi-Ribi is a Japanese-style 2D side-scrolling action platformer. In the game you will find a huge world to explore, where you will take on the role of a quirky...

Goetia

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 14 April 2016

Players: 3.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Goetia is a point and click adventure with a side view. The main character is the ghost of a girl, Abigail Blackwood, who died forty years ago and returned to the...

Deliver Us The Moon

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 10 October 2019

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Humanity began to die from a lack of resources on Earth. Many corporations have cast their eyes on the distant Moon, which has the necessary resources for survival...

Nidhogg 2

Arcade, Fighting, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 15 August 2017

Metacritic: 76/100

Nidhogg 2 is a sequel to the arcade side-scrolling indie fighting game. The sequel received completely new graphics and animation, characters stylistically similar...

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 3 January 2017

Players: 8.8/10

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. The addition has expanded possibilities for creating...

Hell Warders

Action, Strategy, Slasher, Third-person view, Indie, Tactics

Game released: PC → 21 February 2019

Hell Warders is a dynamic action slasher with elements of tactical strategy in the tower defense genre. Hell is raging at your gates! You have to try on the role of...

Somerville

Action, Adventure, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 November 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Adventure action game from the creator of Limbo, which tells the story of an alien invasion on Earth. The action takes place on Earth, which has been almost...

Vagante

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC → 22 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Vagante is a side-scrolling action RPG platformer that features permadeath and procedurally generated levels. A dangerous adventure awaits you in a dark fantasy...

Reign of Guilds

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Open world, Old school, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 4 April 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7.2/10

A multiplayer role-playing game set during the Dark Middle Ages. Players unite in guilds to gain power and untold riches. Some guilds fight in bloody battles for...

Garden Paws

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

Game released: PC → 18 December 2018

Garden Paws is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view, in which you play as seemingly cute little animals. A colorful open world awaits you with...

The Black Masses

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Fantasy, Medieval era, Indie, Zombies

Early Access: PC → 12 March 2020; Game released: PC → 3 October 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Role-playing action in the dark world of the zombie apocalypse from the authors of Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator. The story takes place on a small island, where a...

Castle Flipper

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 May 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Castle Flipper is an exciting sandbox with a first-person view in a medieval setting. The game will give you a unique chance to become a royal master. You'll be...

Bus World

Simulation, First-person view, Racing, Third-person view, Adventure, Indie, Sandbox, Open world

Early Access: PC → 29 September 2022; Game released: PC → 14 September 2023

Players: 7.1/10

A realistic driving simulator in which the player carries out passenger bus transportation in a variety of scenarios: from working as a bus driver to evacuation in...

Shady Part of Me

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Platformer, Arcade

Game released: PC → 10 December 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Shady Part of Me is an adventure puzzle platformer where you have to solve the mystery of a poor girl. An exhilarating journey through the land of dreams awaits you...

Cattle and Crops

Simulation, Business / Management, Action, Indie, Third-person view, First-person view

Game released: PC → 15 October 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Cattle and Crops is a realistic farming management simulator with first and third person views. In the game you will always have a choice: drive the vehicles...

Plebby Quest: The Crusades

Strategy, Indie, Top-down view, Side view, Arcade, Role-playing game, Simulation

Game released: PC → 9 April 2020

Plebby Quest: The Crusades is a top-down and side-view turn-based strategy game set in a medieval setting. The events of the game will take you to the times of the...

HAAK

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 25 August 2022; Early Access: PC → 16 September 2020

Players: 8.5/10

HAAK is a side-scrolling action adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic setting. You will find yourself in a dark futuristic world of the future, where unique...

Firework

Indie, Adventure, Side view, Horror, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 4 February 2021

Players: 10/10

Firework is a side-scrolling indie horror adventure with visual novel elements. An accidental fire at a funeral forces police to re-investigate a closed mass murder...

The Last Friend

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Action, Arcade, Side view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 30 September 2021

Metacritic: 86/100

The Last Friend is a fun side-scrolling tower defense strategy game with action elements. Dogs have started disappearing all over the world. And only Alpha can...

Bloons TD Battles 2

Online, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Free game, Top-down view, Tactics, In real time, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 November 2021

Bloons TD Battles 2 is a continuation of the shareware arcade puzzle game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre. In the game, you will engage in a...

Black One Blood Brothers

Shooter, Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Tactics

Early Access: PC → 11 January 2022; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 10/10

Black One Blood Brothers is a first-person military tactical shooter inspired by the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series. The game is designed for single...

Demeo

Virtual Reality (VR), Card game, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Indie, Turn-based, Cooperative (co-op), First-person view

Game released: PC → 15 December 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Demeo is a card role-playing game with turn-based combat from a first-person view in a fantasy setting for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve...

Guns and Spurs 2

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Historical

Game released: PC → 29 April 2022

Players: 7.2/10

Guns and Spurs 2 is an action-adventure game with a third-person view and indie elements. Jack Lane is a bounty hunter who has just arrived in town to find a better...

Skate Story

Arcade, Adventure, Third-person view, Sports game, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 December 2025

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An adventurous third-person skateboarding simulator where the main character is a glass demon, for whom any fall means complete destruction. The gameplay revolves...

Lost in Play

Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 10 August 2022

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Young brother and sister are lost in the vastness of their own imagination. Now Toto and Gel must stick together and solve puzzles to return home. Along the way...

Hardland

Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Open world, Procedural generation, Action

Game released: PC → 18 September 2019

Hardland is an indie action-adventure game with elements of exploration in an open world with procedural generation. In the year of Our Elder King 1018, an...

Outerverse

Action, Role-playing game, First-person view, Space, Survival, Crafting, Exploration, Adventure, Construction, Open world, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 August 2022

Outerverse is a role-playing space action game with a first-person view in an open world with elements of crafting and construction. This is a game based on quests...

Rogue: Genesia

Action, Indie, Top-down view, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Fantasy, Arcade, Casual game, Survival

Early Access: PC → 19 September 2022; Game released: PC → 7 March 2025

Players: 9.1/10

An arcade action roguelike where the world is completely drowning in hordes of enemies. Hundreds and thousands of monsters, bosses, chaos - all this in a fantasy...

Farmer Against Potatoes Idle

Free game, Indie, Casual game, Clicker, Comedy, Role-playing game, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 25 August 2022; Game released: PC → 5 September 2024

Players: 7.7/10

A free role-playing clicker game in which an ordinary farmer goes against a rebel army of potatoes. The brave hero holds back the mutated horde, earning two main...

Time Flies

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Open world

Game released: PC → 31 July 2025

Metacritic: 80/100

A minimalist adventure about a fly with a huge list of wishes and a very short life to realize them. In the game, she can learn to play an instrument, read a book...

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