Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 30

The Black Masses - a game in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Fantasy, Medieval era, Indie, Zombies, Adventure

Early Access: PC → 12 March 2020; Game released: PC → 3 October 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 58/100

Role-playing action in the dark world of the zombie apocalypse from the authors of Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator. The story takes place on a small island, where a...

Gleamlight

Arcade, Side view, Adventure, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 August 2020

Players: 5.3/10

Steam: 37/100

Metacritic: 42/100

Gleamlight is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer set in a dark fantasy setting. You will set off to conquer the amazing stained glass world to unravel the...

Windbound

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Third-person view, Simulation, Action

Game released: PC → 28 August 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Windbound is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person perspective and survival elements. The events of the game take place on a desert island, where the warrior...

SteamDolls - Order of Chaos

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Adult game, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Metroidvania

Early Access: PC → 11 February 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

Steam: 90/100

SteamDolls — Order Of Chaos is a side-scrolling stealth action adventure game in the Metroidvania format, made in a steampunk style. The game takes place in a...

First Class Trouble

Online, Action, Indie, Arcade, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: PC → 2 November 2021; Early Access: PC → 8 April 2021

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 78/100

First Class Trouble is an asymmetrical multiplayer action game with survival elements and a third-person view. The game takes place on a luxury space cruise ship...

Idol Manager

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Music game, Strategy

Game released: PC → 27 July 2021

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Idol Manager is a cute management simulator with visual novel elements in anime style. You will take on the role of manager in a small (but growing) talent agency...

Maquette

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

Game released: PC → 2 March 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Maquette is a recursive puzzle game with a first-person view. The main feature of the game world is that all buildings, plants and other objects are both tiny and...

Spellcaster University

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

Game released: PC → 16 June 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Spellcaster University is a real-time strategy game with simulation and management elements. In this game you take on the role of the director of a magical...

Aces in the Dust

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Indie, Free game

Early Access: PC → 15 July 2021; Game in development: PC → 2026

Steam: 80/100

Aces in the Dust is a free arcade flight simulator with a third-person view and on-rails shooter elements. In the game you will control combat aircraft equipped...

Sand-Blox

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game canceled: PC → 13 November 2021

Anticipation Rating: 2.5/10

Sand-Blox is a sandbox adventure game with a first-person view and abundant opportunities for creating objects and buildings. In the game you can create your own...

Afterlove EP

Adventure, Indie, Music game, Side view, Visual novel, Comics

Game released: PC → 14 February 2025

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

An interactive visual short story with elements of a musical rhythm game and a dite simulator, the action of which unfolds in a modern Jakarta. In the center of...

Guns and Spurs 2

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Historical

Game released: PC → 29 April 2022

Players: 7.2/10

Guns and Spurs 2 is an action-adventure game with a third-person view and indie elements. Jack Lane is a bounty hunter who has just arrived in town to find a better...

Zombie Death Quota

Free game, Action, First-person view, Shooter, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies

Game released: PC → 13 May 2022

Steam: 92/100

Zombie Death Quota — a free first-person zombie shooter with graphics in the style of Minecraft. In the game, you take on the role of Special Forces operative...

Skate Story

Arcade, Adventure, Third-person view, Sports game, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 8 December 2025

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

An adventurous third-person skateboarding simulator where the main character is a glass demon, for whom any fall means complete destruction. The gameplay revolves...

Exapunks

Puzzle, Indie, Simulation, Cyberpunk

Game released: PC → 22 October 2018

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Exapunks — an adventure puzzle game from the creators of Opus Magnum, SHENZHEN I/O , and TIS-100. The year is 1997. You used to be the greatest hacker, but...

Sky Rogue

Flight Simulator, Action, Indie, Procedural generation, Simulation

Game released: PC → 24 August 2017

Steam: 92/100

A combat flight simulator where you can cut through the skies near countless randomly generated islands. The game has different missions in which you need to...

OFF

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 15 August 2025

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

The player plays the role of a certain Puppeteer, who is helped by an entity named Butter. Together they will try to cleanse the eerie and hopeless world inhabited...

I AM RIPPER

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

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A dark game from the authors of Ether One, The Occupation and Dahlia View, set in the UK in 1988. We need to investigate a series of murders taking place in a...

Warstone TD

Strategy, In real time, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Casual game

Game released: PC → 23 May 2018

Steam: 86/100

A fantasy strategy game in the "tower defense" genre, combining the classic formula of defending against waves of enemies with a large-scale kingdom development...

NIGHTBELL

Horror, First-person view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Walking Simulator, Hidden Objects, Simulation

Game released: PC → 10 January 2026

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 75/100

Atmospheric first-person horror set on Christmas Eve. The main character is a boy who stays home with his mother. After hearing a bedtime story about a witch with a...

Ritter & Rotwein

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Comedy, Medieval era, Historical

Game released: PC → 20 July 2026

Steam: 68/100

Medieval action with deliberately absurd physics, where the path to glory often turns into a series of ridiculous falls and comical situations. Controlling a puppet...

Avoidvania

Top-down view, Indie, Free game, Runner, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Parkour

Game released: PC → 1 August 2026; Early Access: PC → 25 September 2021

Steam: 100/100

An adventure game where a small cat finds itself in a huge castle, drawn by a mysterious scent coming from its tower. Inside, a tangled maze of corridors awaits...

IMSCARED

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

Game released: PC → 3 February 2016

Steam: 94/100

A first-person horror game that gradually goes beyond a typical game. At first, everything seems familiar: pixelated corridors, locked doors, and the mysterious...

DunkRatz

Top-down view, Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Action

Game released: PC → 4 September 2019

Steam: 100/100

A local team game for 2–4 players, where participants control rats and try to score a cheese ball into the goal, which is represented by a giant baby rat. To do...

1943 Deadly Desert

Strategy, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Tactics, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 May 2018

Steam: 66/100

Step-by-step tactical strategy about battles for desert territories during World War II. In 1943, the forces of the Allies and the Hitler coalition clash in a...

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 the city, the...

The Way of Life Free Edition

Free game, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC → 31 May 2016

Steam: 72/100

The Way of Life Free Edition is a walking simulator about everyday experiences seen through the eyes of three characters at different stages of life: an adult, an...

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 mysterious woman...

Robotex

Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: PC → 18 November 2014

Steam: 30/100

This science-fiction action game with puzzles follows humanity’s search for a new home: the only planet discovered is inhabited by hostile monsters. The protagonist...

The Messenger

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 30 August 2018

Players: 8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 84/100

The Messenger is a side-scrolling pixel action platformer. When an army of demons lays siege to his home village, a young ninja breaks through a cursed world to...

Canabalt

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action, Runner

Game released: PC → 30 April 2015

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Canabalt is a fantasy arcade platformer. You have to escape from the destruction of your city with just one button. The game that popularized the endless runner...

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 an ancient boon...

Tanuki Sunset

Racing, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 December 2020

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 74/100

An arcade longboarding game in which a raccoon named Tanuki dreams of appearing on the cover of FISH!, the leading magazine on Sunset Island. Players guide him from...

Clandestine

Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 5 November 2015

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Set in 1996, this stealth-action game with hacking elements follows an investigation into the murders of former Cold War operatives and an international espionage...

The King's Bird

Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 August 2018

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 67/100

The King's Bird is a precision platformer built around momentum-based movement. It combines parkour with aerial movement, making both central to its...

Wattam

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 17 December 2019

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Wattam is an arcade puzzle game from the creators of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy. Your main job is to create big explosions by rallying the player characters...

GunSlugs 2

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Arcade, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 15 January 2015

Steam: 56/100

A side-scrolling arcade platformer about the elite Gunslugs squad fighting the Black Duck Army, which has returned with alien technology and is taking its war to...

Five Nights at Freddy's 3

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

Game released: PC → 2 March 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is an action-horror game in the point and click genre with a first-person view. Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed its...

Hue

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 August 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Hue is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game with platforming elements. In it you have to remake the world by changing its background color. Together with a character...

Mages of Mystralia

Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 May 2017

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Mages of Mystralia — A colorful action adventure with a side view in a fantasy setting. The events of the game take place in a world where magic is strictly...

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