Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 24

Arcade, Side view, Futurism (Future), Shooter, Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game, Action

Game released: PC → 22 April 2019

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 88/100

Zombotron is a driving role-playing shooter with a side view in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place in the future on an unknown mysterious planet...

Goose Goose Duck

Futurism (Future), Action, Arcade, Logic, Top-down view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Free game, Indie

Early Access: PC → 29 April 2021; Game released: PC → 3 October 2021

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 89/100

Goose Goose Duck is a free arcade multiplayer online social deduction game that clearly resembles Among Us, but with ducks and geese. Some control a spaceship...

White Shadows

Adventure, Indie, Platformer, Horror, Stealth, Action, Side view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 7 December 2021

Players: 5.3/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 73/100

White Shadows is an indie action adventure with platforming elements and a side view. Much time has passed since the Great War. Humanity is half human, half animal...

Demeo

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

Game released: PC → 15 December 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Noble Fates

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, City Building, Sandbox

Early Access: PC → 14 December 2021; Game in development: PC → 12 November 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 83/100

Noble Fates is a management strategy with elements of a colony simulator with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. In a land far, far away, mortals vie...

The Tales of Bayun

Fantasy, Visual novel, Indie, Text quest, Adventure, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 16 February 2023

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 74/100

An exciting adventure in a dark Slavic fantasy setting. The game takes place in a flat world that stands on the backs of three demon bears. In it, ordinary people...

Sker Ritual

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies, Indie, Online, Survival horror, Adventure

Early Access: PC → 6 October 2022; Game released: PC → 18 April 2024

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Cooperative shooter inspired by the British horror Maid of Sker. Players will face hordes of familiar and new elite monsters with supernatural abilities...

Filament

Logic, Puzzle, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 April 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Filament is an adventure game with lots of puzzles in a sci-fi setting. You will board the Alabaster, one of the leading scientific starships of the Thread...

REVEIL

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Exploration, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 March 2024

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A narrative thriller about Walter Thompson and his dark past at the Nelson Brothers Circus. The main character sorts out fragments of memories, explores the...

Murky Divers

Action, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Survival horror, Indie, Horror

Early Access: PC → 19 June 2024; Game released: PC → 12 December 2024

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 86/100

A cooperative diving horror game involving a team of up to 4 people. At the bottom of the ocean hide abandoned laboratories full of terrible secrets and dangers. A...

The Hungry Town

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Fantasy, Horror

Game in development: PC → Q4 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

An interactive visual novel in a dark urban fantasy setting with vampires. The main character is a young vampire who is drawn into a brutal confrontation between...

Tellyport

First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Science fiction, Action

Game released: PC → 8 June 2026

Steam: 97/100

A free first-person puzzle game in the spirit of Portal, Quantum Conundrum , and Viewfinder. A young girl named Sally explores her grandmother's secret inventor...

Antivirus Girl

Action, Strategy, Casual game, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Anime / Manga, Science fiction, Top-down view, Shooter, Arcade

Game released: PC → 1 July 2026

Steam: 89/100

The game combines elements of "tower defense" and dynamic shooting, allowing not only to build defenses but also to directly control the main character. As an agent...

Whispered World

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 October 2010

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This point-and-click fantasy adventure follows Sadwick, who dreams of a mysterious blue sphere and a world collapsing around him. The oracle Shana foretells the end...

Adam's Venture Chronicles

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 3 August 2015

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 49/100

Set in the Roaring Twenties, this adventure game follows a search for ancient artifacts. Adam Venture and Evelyn seek relics, solve puzzles and tackle platforming...

Clicker Heroes

Arcade, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 13 May 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Clicker Heroes is a shareware arcade clicker with role-playing elements in a fantasy setting. Like many games of this type, there's a lot of pointing involved, or...

60 Seconds!

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 25 May 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 81/100

60 Seconds! — an arcade survival simulator in times of post-apocalypse. Ted has only 60 seconds to take everything he needs and hide in the bunker before the...

Shelter 2: Mountains

Adventure, DLC, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 25 August 2015

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 97/100

An add-on for Shelter 2, Mountains follows the lynx Inna and her cubs as they explore a new highland region. The family travels from dense lowland forests to...

Witch It

Arcade, Action, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Casual game, Indie

Early Access: PC → 31 May 2017; Game released: PC → 22 October 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Witch It is a cooperative arcade action game with a first-person view. The action takes place in the Middle Ages, during a time when witch hunts took place. The...

7 Billion Humans

Arcade, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 23 August 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 93/100

7 Billion Humans is the sequel to the fun indie puzzle game Human Resource Machine. This time you have to automate a swarm of employees so that they become part of...

Inmost

Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: PC → 21 August 2020

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Inmost is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with horror elements. The events of the game take place in two parallel worlds in which three brave main...

The Iron Oath

Role-playing game, Indie, Tactics, Turn-based, Adventure, Fantasy, Strategy

Game released: PC → 2 November 2023; Early Access: PC → 19 April 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 76/100

Tactical role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. Players lead a group of mercenaries, making key decisions that affect the fate of their...

Ostranauts

Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike, Simulation, Sandbox, Survival

Early Access: PC → 10 September 2020; Game released: PC → 3 August 2026

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 76/100

Ostranauts is a sci-fi survival simulator with management elements and a side view. In the game you have to survive aboard a spaceship in a solar system where...

Bad End Theater

Indie, Adventure, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Demons, Simulation

Game released: PC → 26 October 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 97/100

Bad End Theater is a pixelated puzzle adventure with visual novel elements in which you explore the creepy stories of a cast of characters. The decisions made...

Fly Corp

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Early Access: PC → 28 May 2021; Game released: PC → 18 May 2023

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 86/100

A minimalist strategy game for managing an air network. The main objective is to develop air routes between real cities with populations corresponding to real data...

Stacklands

Strategy, Business / Management, Card game, Indie, Tactics, Roguelike, Casual game, Fantasy, Survival

Game released: PC → 8 April 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

Stacklands is a minimalist card roguelike with elements of tactical strategy in a fantasy setting. In the game you will become the head of your own village and with...

Bandit Brawler

Medieval era, Simulation, Action, First-person view, Indie, Open world

Game released: PC → 21 June 2023

Steam: 42/100

Bandit simulator in a harsh medieval world. The main task of the hero is to help the magic chicken return to normal life. To help him, the player sets out to...

Rift of the NecroDancer

Music game, Fantasy, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 February 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Continuation Crypt of the Necrodancer, inspired by the Guitar Hero series. The main character Kadens falls into a strange new world, where skeletons, bats-vampires...

ISLANDERS: New Shores

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Indie, Procedural generation, Casual game, City Building

Game released: PC → 10 July 2025

Steam: 96/100

The player creates a dream city on a small island. Locations feature different biomes, each with its unique abilities. There are 44 types of buildings and various...

Dark Quest 4

Role-playing game, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie, Dungeons, Exploration, Fantasy, Board / Group Game

Game released: PC → 5 November 2025

Steam: 76/100

Step-by-step adventure in the spirit of classic tabletop games like Hero Quest, where a party of heroes descends into dark dungeons filled with traps, monsters...

Tragedy is approaching

Action, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world

Early Access: PC → 6 June 2026; Game in development: PC → 2028

A first-person survival game set in a post-Soviet wasteland, devastated by infection and nuclear disaster. In the game's story, a mysterious parasite infected...

The Light Remake

Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Walking Simulator, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 4 June 2020

Steam: 87/100

An atmospheric meditative first-person walking simulator and a remake of the 2012 game of the same name, telling the story of an abandoned world where the traces of...

GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy, Construction

Game released: PC → 10 January 2020

Steam: 87/100

Continuation of the GemCraft series, combining real-time strategy, magic, and a deep development system. After a long imprisonment in the ice, the hero returns to...

NGU IDLE

Role-playing game, Indie, Free game, Casual game, Comedy, Clicker, Adventure

Game released: PC → 1 October 2019

Steam: 95/100

A free clicker RPG with absurd humor, a huge number of upgrades, and hundreds of hours of content. The core gameplay is based on continuous growth of numerical...

Paratopic

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Old school

Game released: PC → 6 September 2018

Steam: 78/100

Atmospheric first-person horror with a surreal story and intentionally low-polygon graphics. The plot connects the fates of three strangers, whose stories gradually...

Ghost Buster: Village

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC → 20 August 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Atmospheric horror inspired by Slavic mythology. The main character is an extreme blogger who goes to an abandoned village, where, according to legend, the...

The Unfinished Swan

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 10 September 2020

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The Unfinished Swan is an interactive adventure with a first-person view. In the game you control a boy who chased a swan and ended up in a strange invisible world...

Zeno Clash

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

Game released: PC → 21 April 2009

Players: 5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A first-person fighting game set in a punk-fantasy world, Zeno Clash follows Ghat, who is banished by his brothers and sets out across a forbidden desert on a...

Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 9 July 2013

Players: 1/10

Steam: 84/100

Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages is a space shooter with RPG elements, in which you will find a story campaign for 30 hours and the ability to play in multiplayer...

Slain: Back from Hell

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Slasher

Game released: PC → 24 March 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Slain: Back from Hell is an action-adventure platformer in a gothic setting. The story follows the doomed hero Bathoryn as he travels through a Gothic world and...

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