Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 229

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Science fiction, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → 21 October 2025

Steam: 82/100

The player controls a small flying drone with a unique ability—it can hack and take control of other robots. Each robot has unique skills that must...

Epics of Noche, Brain Busted

Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 6 November 2025

Steam: 100/100

A short adventure where you need to jump, run, and slide while completing challenges. There are different types of platforms, such as slippery...

Loop Theory

Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Detective, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 March 2024

Steam: 64/100

A short game that takes about 45 minutes to complete. The main character investigates a crime related to his past and paranormal events. You need to...

Afterblast

Arcade, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Steampunk, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Action

Early Access: PC → 26 November 2025; Game in development: PC → 2027

Steam: 77/100

A dynamic game with co-op, where you need to explore random dungeons. You must collect gear and improve skills to deal with the most dangerous...

Skarven

Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Horror, Action, Science fiction

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A first-person shooter inspired by the Half-Life series. The player will explore an alternative Denmark at the turn of the millennium, distorted by a...

Battington Manor

Arcade, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Virtual Reality (VR), Casual game

Game released: PC → 3 January 2026

Steam: 100/100

A game for virtual reality points. The main character moves through the rooms of a huge mansion and fights against hordes of bats to save the...

PUNCHBALL

Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Science fiction, Runner, Parkour, Action, Racing

Game released: PC → 16 June 2025

Steam: 100/100

A free dynamic platformer where players navigate technically challenging levels using mechanics of grabbing and punching to overcome obstacles. The...

Roguefall

Action, Top-down view, Indie, Free game, Roguelike, Fantasy, Procedural generation, Slasher

Game released: PC → 3 April 2026

Steam: 91/100

A dynamic roguelike where the journey takes place through a withered world filled with ruins, ancient mechanisms, and strange forms of life...

Dark Quest 3

Role-playing game, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie, Dungeons, Exploration, Fantasy, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 24 May 2023

Steam: 73/100

A tactical adventure with the atmosphere of a board game, where a team of heroes sets out to face the growing threat from the Chaos Sorcerer. The...

Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

Adventure, Indie, Free game, Side view, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: PC → 20 March 2014

Steam: 88/100

A hybrid of an adventure game and RPG, inspired by Norse mythology. The story begins with the summoning of the heroine by the earl Yarnvidr, who is...

Tiny Night Inside

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 8 May 2026

Steam: 50/100

A short adventure about a child's fear of the dark and the first night spent alone. The player controls a small child exploring a quiet bedroom...

Firepower Forge

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Action

Game released: PC → 22 July 2024

Steam: 91/100

A fast-paced multiplayer first-person shooter with customizable classes. Players can select weapons, passive and active abilities, creating their own...

Ironsand

Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Combat robots

Game released: PC → 20 August 2026

Steam: 68/100

A cooperative first-person shooter with roguelike elements set on a distant desert planet. After receiving a distress signal, it becomes clear that...

Sniper Road

Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Action, Casual game

Game released: PC → 24 November 2021

Steam: 87/100

Free sniper action game dedicated to finding and eliminating hidden enemies. The player must advance through a gloomy city, spotting enemy snipers...

Dead Pixels

Zombies, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 December 2012

Steam: 86/100

This zombie action game begins when toxic waste contaminates the water supply and causes the recently deceased to rise from their graves. To escape...

Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos

Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 4 April 2013

Steam: 75/100

This visual novel follows Winter Harrison, a student mediator who travels to chaotic worlds to help resolve their problems. In the series’ first...

Soul Gambler

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie

Early Access: PC → 1 August 2013; Game released: PC → 10 July 2014

Steam: 81/100

This interactive graphic novel inspired by Goethe’s Faust is set in the present day. Its protagonist, Faust, is an ordinary young man who meets a...

FRAMED Collection

Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 May 2018

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This collection of FRAMED and FRAMED 2 consists of puzzles in which the panels of an animated comic are rearranged to shape a noir spy adventure...

Battle Ranch: Pigs vs Plants

Strategy, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 2 February 2015

Steam: 49/100

This strategy game combines tower defense and time management as the player protects a ranch from boars that threaten its livestock and the rancher's...

Super Cyborg

Action, Indie, Shooter, Platformer

Game released: PC → 8 July 2015

Steam: 86/100

This arcade run-and-gun shooter is set in the near future and follows Super Cyborg, sent to a mysterious island after an ancient alien known as the...

Splice (2012)

Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 13 June 2012

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Splice is a puzzle game set in a microbial world, where cells must be rearranged to form a target structure. Each level, called a “strand,” consists...

Bad Hotel

Indie, Casual game, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 16 October 2013

Steam: 33/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Bad Hotel combines tower defense with procedurally generated music. The player is a budding entrepreneur whose hotel lies in the territory of...

Seduce Me

Strategy, Indie, Casual game, Adventure, Free game, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 2 January 2013

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 41/100

After receiving an invitation to a wealthy socialite’s holiday home, the protagonist finds himself in a Mediterranean mansion by the sea. He meets a...

Adorables

Sports game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 31 March 2016

Steam: 80/100

A casual sports game in which cute characters compete across six different events. Players control the characters, customize their appearance, and...

LOTUS-Simulator

Simulation, Indie, Online

Early Access: PC → 14 September 2018

Steam: 44/100

A public transport simulator featuring buses, trams and trains. Players choose a vehicle and drive around town, then take on more demanding tasks...

Tap Tap Infinity

Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 June 2015

Steam: 73/100

Tap Tap Infinity is a casual incremental RPG about defending a village from attacking monsters and trying to defeat the mysterious Master. Players...

Hylics

Indie, Role-playing game, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 2 October 2015

Steam: 98/100

A recreational program with light JRPG elements. In Hylics, the player takes part in RPG battles, while much of the text is generated at random. The...

Legend of Mysteria RPG

Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 October 2015

Steam: 70/100

This JRPG is set in the kingdom of Labyronia, where mages have gained the power of demigods and upset the old balance of power. After Dinyon, the...

CUPID - A free to play Visual Novel

Free game, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 March 2016

Steam: 87/100

A gothic visual novel about revenge and the different faces of love, set in 18th-century France. After her friend Catherine dies, Rosa blames her...

Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology Project

Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 27 January 2016

Steam: 97/100

This anthology of visual novels explores terminal illness, life and death, and the bonds between those who are leaving and those left behind. Its...

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Japanese role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 November 2018

Steam: 98/100

A turn-based role-playing adventure with video game references, juvenile humor, and anime fanservice. Alongside battles, Epic Battle Fantasy 5...

Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle

Educational game (Education), Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 February 2016

Steam: 91/100

This educational role-playing game introduces Japanese hiragana through a story in which the characters learn the writing system alongside the...

BLUE REVOLVER

Indie, Action, Arcade

Game released: PC → 11 October 2016

Steam: 98/100

BLUE REVOLVER is an arcade shoot-’em-up about Mae, a rabbit-eared programming genius whose homemade devices draw the attention of the environmental...

Sixtieth Kilometer

Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 August 2016

Steam: 78/100

This visual novel follows passengers on a commuter train that stops beside a pink fog. A man who steps outside dies, leaving the others trapped in...

REDCON

Strategy, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 22 April 2016

Steam: 85/100

A strategy game set in a dystopian steampunk future where the First World War never ended and humanity remains at war. As an Imperial Strike...

Ghost 1.0

Action, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 7 June 2016

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This action metroidvania follows a mysterious agent sent by two hackers to infiltrate the Nakamura Space Station and steal a major electronic secret...

Memory Oblivion Box

Indie, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 14 June 2016

Steam: 92/100

This Chinese visual novel follows Qin Youyu, whose parents have disappeared: her father went missing first, and her mother later left without...

東周列萌志 Philosophic Love

Free game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 17 August 2018

Steam: 89/100

This romantic text adventure follows a modern heroine transported to a mountain village in the state of Qi during the Warring States period. To find...

Machine Hunt

Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 May 2017

Steam: 53/100

Machine Hunt is a first-person shooter about armed humans fighting machines intent on destroying humanity. When an advanced weapons base goes dark...

One Night Stand

Indie, Visual novel, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 7 November 2016

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This interactive visual novel with point-and-click elements follows a person who wakes after a night of partying and drinking beside a stranger. The...

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