Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 213

Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Turn-based, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 10 January 2007

Steam: 81/100

This science-fiction action-puzzle adventure with role-playing elements follows Asimov, a service robot aboard the interstellar colony ship Eidolon. When the ship’s...

Planet Busters

Action, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 30 June 2008

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 33/100

This futuristic puzzle-action game follows humanity’s fight against the mysterious Scourge, a force that has destroyed Earth. Most of the fleet was lost in the...

Asteria

Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 4 July 2014

Players: 3.9/10

Steam: 53/100

This science-fiction platformer blends action and adventure with a sandbox world where terrain can be destroyed and mined, and items can be collected and crafted...

Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers

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

Game released: PC → 19 June 2012

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This comic-styled platformer with puzzle elements follows Tiny, an inventor crossing a desert to reclaim his grandfather’s favorite possession: a pair of white...

Tobe's Vertical Adventure

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 18 July 2011

Steam: 68/100

This retro platformer follows Tobe, who is sent by Nana on a treasure hunt through crumbling caves. Along the way, the characters rescue fluffy animals and explore...

Obludia

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

Game released: PC → 18 July 2014

Steam: 42/100

Obludia is an action role-playing game, fantasy game and indie game from the developers of FobTi interactive studio. The game is published by FobTi...

Ice-Bound Concordance

Futurism (Future), Visual novel, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Ice-Bound Concordance is a visual novel with an indie and free-to-play twist from the developers at Aaron A. Reed Studios. The game is published by Aaron A...

Zack Zero

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 29 April 2013

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 58/100

A 3D platform action game with classic 2D-style gameplay follows Zack Zero as he sets out to rescue his beloved Marlene. She has been kidnapped by the villain...

A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda EX

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

Game released: PC → 3 October 2014

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 66/100

A third-person sci-fi action platformer about reclaiming the Minos space station after rebel machines seize control. In 2094, the insurgent leader Zytron takes over...

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 ransacked...

Let's Sing

Arcade, Music game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 December 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 50/100

This karaoke arcade game lets players perform songs by well-known pop and rock artists, with voice recognition evaluating their singing. Songs can be performed solo...

Darkout

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Sandbox, Crafting

Game released: PC → 10 February 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Darkout is a science-fiction action platformer with role-playing and sandbox elements, centered on survival on Illuna, a world of harsh, procedurally generated...

Retrovirus

Action, Shooter, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 January 2013

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This six-degrees-of-freedom shooter sends the player into the depths of an infected computer, where an antivirus program must destroy the virus and uncover its...

Nikujin

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 2005

Nikujin is an arcade action, platformer and indie game from Ikiki studio. In some circles, Nikujin is also called...

Estranged: Act I

Arcade, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 16 January 2014

Steam: 93/100

This first-person adventure follows a lone fisherman whose ship runs aground near a mysterious island during a violent storm. He explores the island and meets its...

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Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Top-down view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 3 January 2014

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This third-person action adventure with a top-down view follows a dead, failed video game character wandering through the depths of random-access memory. In...

AVSEQ

Arcade, Isometric, Indie, Casual game, Music game

Game released: PC → 23 August 2012

Steam: 56/100

AVSEQ is an audio-visual sequencer puzzle game in which falling atoms are connected to unlock musical variations. Each level functions as a music sequencer, with...

Cashtronauts

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

Game released: PC → 1 September 2016

Steam: 75/100

This arcade space shooter with trading takes place in an alternate universe ruled by capitalist dinosaurs. Players earn money and compete to climb the economic food...

Battle of Sol

Simulation, Futurism (Future), Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 July 2015

Steam: 57/100

A space action game with simulation elements, Battle of Sol is set in a future where humanity has left an Earth made uninhabitable and spread across the solar...

Battle Squadron (2015)

Action, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 June 2015

Battle Squadron (2015) is a top-down action game with a mix of beat 'em up and indie games from the developers of Cope-com and GoldenCode.eu. The game is published...

Murder (2015)

Adventure, Cyberpunk, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 21 October 2015

Steam: 52/100

Murder is a classic quest in the cyberpunk universe. You will be able to visit futuristic Tokyo and take part in solving an unusual and dangerous...

Heavy Bullets

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 18 September 2014

Players: 9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Heavy Bullets is a first-person roguelike shooter set in a randomly generated, colorful maze filled with aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices...

Expander

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 1 December 2015

Steam: 100/100

Expander is an indie puzzle game from the developers of All Civilized Planets. Players will have to collect stars and adjust the width of the controllable block so...

99 Spirits: Cage of Night

Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Visual novel, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 4 July 2014

Steam: 100/100

This visual novel tells a story of tragic love and foxes’ games during the events of 99 Spirits, with a darker tone than the main story. Cage of Night stars Saki...

Spacetours VR

Virtual Reality (VR), Indie, Simulation, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Casual game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 9 March 2017

Steam: 64/100

Spacetours VR is a first-person virtual reality experience with indie game and simulation...

Colour Bind

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 24 September 2012

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Colour Bind is a physics-based platform puzzler set in an abstract world where gravity depends on colour rather than mass. The player changes the character’s colour...

Coniclysm

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 26 March 2010

Steam: 55/100

This abstract third-person shooter follows an intelligence adapting to survive in a strange new universe. The player explores the world, uncovers its mysteries and...

Toast Time

Arcade, Action, Indie, Side view, Puzzle, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 27 August 2014

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This arena shoot-'em-up with tower-defence elements follows TERRY, a toaster defending an ordinary Monday morning from inter-dimensional creatures in search of...

Runaway VR

Arcade, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 August 2017

Steam: 76/100

Runaway VR is an arcade runner with a first-person view for virtual reality devices HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. You will visit colorful locations where you can gently...

Arcane Worlds

Action, Strategy, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 28 January 2014

Steam: 54/100

An action-adventure with strategy elements inspired by the classic Magic Carpet, the game casts the player as a sorcerer exploring mysterious worlds. Along the way...

Crimzon Clover

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 June 2014

Steam: 93/100

Crimzon Clover is a vertical arcade shooter in which a fighter pilot battles waves of enemies while dodging dense barrages of fire. Players can choose from three...

Dark Raid

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

Game released: PC → 3 June 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 39/100

Imagine Me

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 9 December 2014

Steam: 31/100

This 2D action platformer follows Robbe as he explores dungeons in an effort to reclaim his memories and confront his fears. The player searches spike-filled levels...

David.

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action

Early Access: PC → 14 March 2014; Game released: PC → 16 February 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This arcade platformer follows David, a small abstract hero in a simple world overrun by giant physics-based beasts. He fights the colossal enemies with a...

HappySnowMan

Platformer, Third-person view, Arcade, Indie, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: PC → 26 December 2022

Steam: 83/100

The snowman needs to get from one island to another by jumping on small platforms. Depending on the location, the speed and power of the jump...

Joylancer

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 November 2014

Steam: 32/100

Joylancer is an action-platformer about Joy Lantz, a young recruit at the Motor Knight Academy who takes on the Roselian army as it attempts to reclaim Antoria. She...

Dying Sun

Third-person view, Adventure, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 17 February 2025

Steam: 82/100

A game about a nomad who travels at a surf, which works on solar energy, on an alien world. The main character explores desert locations to find the causes of the...

Fake Colours

Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: PC → 1 January 2015

Steam: 88/100

This 3D puzzle game challenges players to roll coloured cubes across a board and guide them to platforms of matching colours. The cubes can roll over one another...

Nux

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 December 2006

Steam: 41/100

This arcade action platformer follows the last survivor of the Nexon tribe after Silthax invades the tribe’s home world. The creature has killed the other Nexons...

SunBlockers

Adventure, Casual game, Zombies, Clicker, Survival, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 December 2025

A colorful clicker with intuitive gameplay and a cartoon style, set on a snowy island. The goal of the game is to bring warmth back to the fading world. The player...

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