Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 29

Of Bird and Cage - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, First-person view, Interactive movie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Action, Indie, Music game

Game released: PC → 20 May 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 43/100

Of Bird and Cage is an interactive adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the dark story of Gitta Barbot, a 25-year-old drug addict who is trying to...

Broken Pieces

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Puzzle, Logic, Role-playing game, Action

Game released: PC → 9 September 2022

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller set in a French coastal village stuck in time. When Elisa and her fiancé decided to leave city life behind and live off...

Midnight Fight Express

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

Game released: PC → 23 August 2022

Players: 8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Midnight Fight Express is a dynamic action game with an isometric camera view in the spirit of Hotline Miami and "John Wick." In the game, you will have to...

Anarchy: Wolf's law

Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Role-playing game, Third-person view, Survival, Open world, Online, Zombies

Early Access: PC → 5 November 2021; Game released: PC → 9 June 2023

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 76/100

The main action takes place in an alternative universe. The main character is an employee of an industrial zone who must defend his territory. He fights various...

Loco Motive

Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Comedy, Detective, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 21 November 2024

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A humorous side-scrolling adventure in which the heroes investigate the mysterious death of Lady Unterwald. To find the culprit, you need to meet eccentric...

Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, DLC, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 January 2022

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea is an expansion for the hardcore side-scrolling action-slasher inspired by the Dark Souls series. In the expansion, you will...

SANABI

Adventure, Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Cyberpunk

Early Access: PC → 21 June 2022; Game released: PC → 9 November 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 83/100

The game takes place in a cyberpunk city in which power belongs to a corrupt conglomerate. One day something inexplicable happens — after a sudden power...

Army of Ruin

Top-down view, Action, Shooter, Roguelike, Fantasy, Indie, Exploration, Slasher

Game released: PC → 8 June 2023; Early Access: PC → 27 October 2022

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 88/100

A dynamic action game in which players lead legendary heroes on a campaign against the hordes of evil. As you progress, you can collect a deadly arsenal, capable of...

Cart To The End

Free game, Online, Action, Indie, Casual game, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy

Game released: PC → 19 July 2024

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 78/100

A multiplayer game in which you need to drive to the end of the railway, avoiding various obstacles and eluding other gamers in order to win. Among the traps there...

HEART ABYSS

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Slasher

Game in development: PC → 3 November 2026

Dynamic action inspired by Japanese mythology. The plot takes place in the dark lands of the Human Empire, where creatures from Japanese legends are encountered...

Mini Royale

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Battle Royale

Early Access: PC → 27 March 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 61/100

A free dynamic shooter in which toy soldiers unleashed large -scale battles in ordinary household places. Using a hook-cat, you can quickly move in level, evade...

Age of Reforging: The Freelands

Adventure, Open world, Exploration, Role-playing game, Sandbox, Action, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 29 April 2025; Early Access: PC → 28 August 2023

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 69/100

A dark RPG set in a harsh land where luck is the only thing you can truly rely on. The world is dominated by thieves, profit seekers and reckless adventurers, and...

Wires and Whiskers

Free game, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Side view, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: PC → 1 August 2025

Steam: 94/100

A free cooperative action puzzle game in which a combat hamster and his exosuit become the only chance to survive in a post-disaster world. One player controls a...

Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 9 December 2025

Steam: 92/100

A pixel adventure in the spirit of 90s quests about a young writer named William, who is searching for inspiration. He goes to an abbey where the monks have taken a...

Allelon

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 5 May 2026

Steam: 66/100

A free third-person stealth detective game set in the futuristic city of Andropolis, where human consciousness has migrated into robot bodies. The story intertwines...

SHRIMP GAME: KRILL CONFIRMED

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy, Dungeons, Open world

Game released: PC → 6 May 2026

Steam: 96/100

Free cooperative third-person action game where players take on the role of mechanized shrimp. The game features three levels, each requiring players to defeat a...

BLOODY RAVE

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

Game in development: PC → 13 November 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

The game tells the story of a journalist and treasure hunter who searches for lost relics that ordinary people consider urban legends. After spending years on...

eXSert

Action, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Beat them all, Indie, Free game, Exploration

Game released: PC → 19 June 2026

Steam: 50/100

The plot tells the story of Vera — a hot-headed girl who infiltrates a giant flying ship to destroy an artificial intelligence known as the Cleaner, which has...

Going my way?

Horror, Simulation, First-person view, Trains, Indie, Detective

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A dark narrative game where you become the conductor of a train traveling through a world consumed by madness. Among the ordinary passengers, there are the...

Billy the Hero

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Indie, Comedy, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Post-apocalyptic

Game in development: PC → Q4 2026

Step-by-step RPG in a dark fantasy world, where the main character wakes up on a mysterious island of Hell, finding himself in the body of a huge bear and...

Outcore: Desktop Adventure

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Comedy, Exploration

Game released: PC → 26 September 2022

Steam: 96/100

An unusual adventure that takes place right on the computer desktop. The main character must help a mysterious girl named Lumi restore her lost memories by...

Celestial Command

Space, Simulation, Indie

Early Access: PC → 21 November 2014

Steam: 60/100

This space sandbox simulates orbital mechanics and centers on gathering resources, building ships and stations, and exploring a procedurally generated galaxy. The...

Among the Sleep

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 May 2014

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Among the Sleep is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view and horror elements. The main character is a very young child. He is hiding from a mysterious...

StarMade

Action, Shooter, MMO, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Space, Sandbox, Open world

Early Access: PC → 27 November 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 66/100

StarMade is a voxel-based space sandbox about exploring a procedurally generated universe and building ships, stations, and bases. Players can travel among...

Nidhogg

Fighting, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 13 January 2014

Players: 4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A fighting game with platforming elements built around sword duels played as a tug-of-war. In Nidhogg, two players battle across an arena that stretches in both...

Leo's Fortune

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 8 September 2015

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Leo's Fortune is an arcade indie platformer. Complete 24 levels of this colorful game. Solve puzzles and avoid dangerous...

Flame in the Flood

Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Survival

Game released: PC → 24 February 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Flame in the Flood is a survival adventure game in which the player will wander through procedurally generated levels, exploring the slums of the United States...

Lila's Sky Ark

Metroidvania, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 April 2022

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Lila’s psychedelic world is in danger in this action-adventure about a musical and magical realm under threat. Alongside her eccentric friends, she faces the...

Ice Cream Surfer

Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 22 June 2015

Steam: 33/100

Metacritic: 53/100

An arcade action game about Ice Cream Surfer, who sets out to defend the flavor galaxy from an army of vegetables created by the evil Broccoli. Joined by four...

Guns, Gore & Cannoli

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 30 April 2015

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Guns, Gore & Cannoli is a 2D arcade action shooter inspired by 1970s exploitation and grindhouse films, classic gangster movies, and old-school arcade...

Within the Blade

Action, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 17 August 2019

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 65/100

A ninja from the Black Lotus clan faces nine demons of hell and the samurai clan Steel Claw, which seeks to enslave the world. The source does not specify how the...

Buildings Have Feelings Too!

Strategy, Indie, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 22 April 2021

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 54/100

A strategy game about a city where buildings have feelings and the player manages the growth of businesses. The game features a range of businesses to discover and...

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 alongside a second...

Valhalla Hills

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 December 2015; Early Access: PC → 24 August 2015

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A strategy and simulation game about Vikings who are denied entry to Valhalla after death. Turned away by Odin, they travel through dangerous mountains toward a...

Goosebumps: The Game

Adventure, Horror, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 October 2015

Goosebumps: The Game is a casual adventure from the developers of WayForward Technologies. The game is based on the Goosebumps book series by R.L. Stine. The city...

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

Horror, First-person view, Indie, Survival horror, Combat robots

Game released: PC → 7 October 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Five Nights at Freddy's 5: Sister Location is a continuation of the popular series of horror stories with a first-person view. The next part delves even deeper into...

ICARUS.1

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

Game released: PC → 17 November 2016

Steam: 69/100

Icarus.1 - adventure puzzle with a first -person view. The once popular ICARUS 1 station for the storage and study of ore mined on various planets, for unknown...

Past Cure

Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 2 February 2018

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 24/100

Metacritic: 40/100

Past Cure is a futuristic action game with a third-person view and stealth elements. The action takes place between two worlds — reality and an abstract...

Rise of Insanity

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

Game released: PC → 1 March 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 79/100

Rise of Insanity is a first-person horror adventure game that supports HTC Vive, OSVR and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices. Act as a doctor of psychology and...

Ice Lakes

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Sports game, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 19 April 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Ice Lakes is an ice fishing sports simulator with first and third person views, supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices. You will have the...

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