Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 258

Nevermore (2009)

Action, Horror, Fighting, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 March 2009

This visual novel follows Cheng Feng, who returns to his hometown of Mocheng after three years away, having received an anonymous letter, and becomes...

Cloudphobia

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Combat robots, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 December 2016

Steam: 80/100

This arcade-style, horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up puts players in control of combat robots defending a mothership from incoming missile attacks...

Snood

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 1999

Steam: 80/100

A puzzle game about rescuing trapped creatures by launching matching figures at them. Groups of three or more identical Snoods disappear, and any...

Gratuitous Space Battles: The Parasites

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 17 October 2011

Steam: 80/100

An expansion for Gratuitous Space Battles centered on a race of parasites that travels the galaxy in search of new host species roughly every 200...

7FRAMED

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

Game canceled: PC → 2015

7FRAMED is a first-person action game with elements of a shooter, puzzle and indie game from developers from the Vie Games studio. The game is...

Hamlet (2012)

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 April 2010

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This puzzle adventure reimagines William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: an explorer from the future arrives amid the events of the play and sets out to rescue...

Influence

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 January 2018

Players: 10/10

A casual real-time strategy game about spreading an idea, in which the player leads a flock of ids and seeks to influence every other mind. Ids sway...

8-Bit Night

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 September 2011

8-Bit Night is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer, puzzle and indie game from the masters from the RetroSouls studio. The game is...

Kumoon

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 2005

Steam: 50/100

This action puzzle game follows Nax, a robot stacker who starts knocking over boxes instead of arranging them. In Kumoon, players line up shots so...

Jumper Two

Arcade, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 June 2004

Jumper Two is an arcade-platformer/indie game from Matt Makes Games. The main publisher of the game is Matt Makes...

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...

Raycatcher

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 5 March 2009

Steam: 6/100

This casual puzzle game with action and strategy elements adapts its gameplay to music from the player’s library. Players rotate a cluster of colored...

Blue Estate Prologue

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

Game released: PC → 15 October 2013

Blue Estate Prologue is a first-person action game with a touch of shooter and indie game from developers from HeSaw studio. The main publisher of...

Vanguard Princess

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 June 2009

Steam: 69/100

This classic 2D fighting game features an all-female cast and follows a young girl whose mystical powers emerge after a government experiment. A...

Witch's Yarn

Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 14 May 2005

Steam: 16/100

This point-and-click visual novel combines adventure puzzles with the story of Wednesday, a witch who gave up magic for love of a mortal. After his...

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...

Whitewash

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 1 May 2015

Whitewash is a first-person adventure with indie game elements from developers from the Bedroom Developer studio. The game is published by Bedroom...

Test Chamber: Mind-bending Puzzles

Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 April 2015

Test Chamber: Mind-bending Puzzles is an indie-infused puzzle game from Shark Jump. The main publisher of the game is Shark...

Red Goblin: Cursed Forest

Arcade, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 October 2014

Red Goblin: Cursed Forest is an arcade game with platformer and indie elements from the masters at Eerie Games. The main publisher of the game is...

Skylight Freerange

Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC → 2014

This post-apocalyptic role-playing game follows the aftermath of a firestorm that devastated Canada. The remnants of Severin, the agency responsible...

Indie Apocalypse

Arcade, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 24 November 2016

Indie Apocalypse is a side view arcade game with a touch of indie game from the developers from the Red Dwarf Games studio. The game is published by...

Into the Dark

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

Game released: PC → 1 May 2014

Players: 4.2/10

Steam: 51/100

A horror-tinged adventure shooter styled as a low-budget B-movie follows private detective Pete O’Brannon, who is hired by insurance investigator Sam...

Helvetii

Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 3 February 2023

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This historical fantasy is set in Helvetii lands around a hundred years BC, where the young war chief Divico defeats a Roman legion with the aid of...

Soulblight

Indie, Action, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 15 March 2018

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 46/100

This dark, top-down action roguelike follows a journey through an unforgiving Sanctuary, where the hero walks a thin line between good and evil. To...

Infernium

Horror, Indie, First-person view

Game released: PC → 3 April 2018

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Infernium combines survival horror with an approach inspired by Pac-Man. Hell is presented as a nonlinear space where the protagonist is trapped in a...

Spuds Unearthed

Action, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 19 September 2019

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 43/100

An action-strategy game about building a Spud tribe and helping its planet prosper. The player travels to different planets, upgrades heroes and...

SELF

Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 January 2020

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 65/100

A text-based adventure with simulation elements and puzzles follows an introspective search for a missing father and a sense of self. SELF builds...

Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl

Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 7 May 2020

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

A side-scrolling beat ’em up set in the View Askewniverse, designed for one or two players. Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl can be played solo or...

SuperEpic: The Entertainment War

Indie, Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 12 December 2019

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 76/100

SuperEpic is a Metroidvania-style action adventure about a raccoon and a llama trying to save videogames from the evil Regnantcorp. The game combines...

Foresight

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 28 November 2014

Steam: 76/100

A space real-time strategy game in which the player commands fleets and sends them through wormholes to fight the enemy. Ships, fighters and bombers...

Starship Rubicon

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 December 2014

Steam: 94/100

This arcade space shooter with roguelike elements follows a pilot tasked with saving humanity’s survivors after Earth is destroyed and finding them a...

Ruzh Delta Z

Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 8 May 2015

Steam: 61/100

This arcade shoot ’em up draws on classics such as Gradius, DoDonPachi, and R-Type. The player battles through perilous stages, destroying rogue...

SquareCells

Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 7 December 2015

Steam: 90/100

SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game about revealing patterns in a grid by interpreting the clues around it. It features 36 puzzles that...

Party Jousting

Indie, Free game, Casual game

Game released: PC → 2 March 2016

Steam: 75/100

Montaro

Anime / Manga, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 July 2016

Steam: 94/100

This casual runner follows a dog named Doge through randomly generated street levels. As the dog runs, he lifts schoolgirls’ skirts to collect...

Zup!

Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 October 2016

Steam: 92/100

A minimalist physics puzzle game built around explosions. It features more than 40 levels, with over 110 achievements to unlock as players...

Zup! 4

Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 February 2017

Steam: 90/100

A minimalist physics puzzle game built around solving challenges with explosions. It features more than 60 levels and achievements tied to...

Loading Screen Simulator

Free game, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 July 2017

Steam: 86/100

Loading Screen Simulator turns the seemingly endless wait familiar from launching games, downloading files, and installing operating systems into a...

Zup! Zero 2

Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 September 2018

Steam: 94/100

A minimalist physics puzzle in which the goal is to keep a blue ball on a platform for three seconds to complete each level. Explosions affect...

Cypher

Puzzle, Indie, Educational game (Education)

Game released: PC → 20 February 2018

Steam: 89/100

This first-person puzzle game focuses on cryptography and its history. The player explores a museum, learns about ciphers ranging from simple...

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