Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 31

Dog Sled Saga - a game in the Indie genre

Simulation, Racing, Business / Management, Side view, Indie, Sports game

Game released: PC → 22 September 2016

Steam: 93/100

Dog Sled Saga is a pixelated sled racing game with management simulator elements and a side view. You have to harness horse-drawn dogs to a sleigh and participate...

Just Shapes & Beats

Action, Music game, Side view, Online, Indie

Game released: PC → 31 May 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Just Shapes & Beats is a hardcore multiplayer rhythm game with fast-paced shootouts. Together with your friends you have to survive the attack of musical waves...

Unavowed

Adventure, Side view, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 August 2018

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Unavowed is a side-scrolling mystery adventure inspired by the point and click games of the '90s. Demons constantly break into familiar New York to confuse the next...

Deiland

Role-playing game, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Farm Simulator, Sandbox, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 9 August 2018

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Deiland is an adventure role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting, created based on “The Little Prince” by the famous French writer Antoine de...

Star Renegades

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Roguelike, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 8 September 2020

Players: 10/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Star Renegades is a tactical turn-based strategy game with role-playing elements and a side-view in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Halcyon 6: Starbase...

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

Shooter, Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Sandbox

Early Access: PC → 5 April 2016; Game released: PC → 4 July 2026

Steam: 97/100

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades is a fun weapon simulator with a first-person view for HTC Vive virtual reality devices. You have to go on an ordinary boring...

Rising Lords

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Medieval era, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 January 2024; Early Access: PC → 28 May 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 69/100

A turn-based strategy game set in medieval Europe that combines tactical battles, elements of card games, and multiplayer battles for up to four players. Each...

Void Bastards

Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Roguelike, Stealth

Game released: PC → 28 May 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Void Bastards is a hybrid FPS and strategy game about a prison full of dangerous criminals drifting through space. You have to try on the role of captain of a space...

Operencia: The Stolen Sun

Role-playing game, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Dungeons

Game released: PC → 29 March 2019

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Operencia: The Stolen Sun is a classic party role-playing game with a first-person view and turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. The game is based on the myths...

Ghost Parade

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 31 October 2019

Steam: 81/100

Ghost Parade is a side-scrolling adventure platformer in a fantasy setting. The game tells the story of a little girl, Suri, who gets lost in a mysterious forest...

Ratropolis

Card game, Strategy, Indie, Arcade, Tactics, In real time, Simulation

Early Access: PC → 1 November 2019; Game released: PC → 22 December 2020

Steam: 85/100

Ratropolis is a real-time tactical strategy card game with a side view. In the game you will become the head of a settlement of tiny but valiant rats. You have to...

Tainted Grail: Conquest

Role-playing game, Indie, Turn-based, Fantasy / Medieval, Top-down view, Card game, Roguelike

Early Access: PC → 19 June 2020; Game released: PC → 27 May 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Tainted Grail: Conquest is a dark role-playing game with turn-based combat and a top-down view in a fantasy setting. Avalon is dying. King Arthur is long gone, and...

Magin: The Rat Project Stories

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Side view, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 29 April 2026

Steam: 70/100

A narrative adventure in a dark fantasy world, combining exploration, choices, and card battles with deck building. The action takes place in a grim universe at the...

Doors & Rooms

Puzzle, Logic, Adventure, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 1 February 2019

Steam: 70/100

Doors & Rooms is a logic puzzle game in the point and click genre. Plot: Do you know why you're stuck here? From now on, I will give you the basics you need to...

Gordon Streaman

Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Role-playing game, Casual game

Game released: PC → 27 September 2019

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Gordon Streaman is an indie simulator with a first-person view. Gordon Strayman is a newcomer to the world of streaming and blogging, he strives to realize his most...

Try to Survive!

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

Game released: PC → 3 August 2020

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 100/100

Try to Survive! — an unusual shooter with a first-person view and horror elements on Unreal Engine 4. The trick is that you won’t be able to completely beat...

Aeon Must Die!

Action, Indie, Side view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Role-playing game, Adventure, Beat them all, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 14 October 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 50/100

Aeon Must Die! is an indie side-scrolling action game in a futuristic style with tactical and side-scrolling RPG elements. Eon, the fearsome Emperor of the...

Cyber Manhunt

Simulation, Indie, Role-playing game, Puzzle, Cyberpunk, Horror

Game released: PC → 3 February 2021

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Cyber Manhunt is an adventure simulator with role-playing elements in a cyberpunk setting, in which you can try yourself as a hacker. You have to monitor the...

Nigate Tale

Role-playing game, Roguelike, Isometric, Action, Indie, Anime / Manga, Fantasy, Slasher

Early Access: PC → 12 April 2021; Game released: PC → 25 September 2024

Steam: 67/100

A dynamic action-rogal with an isometric look, where magic and dangers are hidden behind each angle. The main character, a guy named Roy, accidentally crashes into...

BORIS RUSSIAN BEAR

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

Game released: PC → 4 June 2021

Steam: 85/100

BORIS RUSSIAN BEAR — a fun third-person action game from the creator of LONELINESS SIMULATOR IN A RUSSIAN VILLAGE. In the game, you will take on the role of a...

Elderand

Adventure, Action, Side view, Role-playing game, Indie, Platformer, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 16 February 2023

Players: 9/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A game with Metroidvania elements and hardcore combat, inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. The main character travels through a dark world, swings and...

Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare

Arcade, Side view, DLC, Fighting, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 July 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Streets Of Rage 4 — Mr. X Nightmare — an expansion for the old-school side-scrolling beat 'em up Streets of Rage 4. After the events of the original game, our...

Kredolis

Adventure, Puzzle, First-person view, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration

Game released: PC → 27 September 2022

Steam: 54/100

Kredolis is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place on a small island that remains from Atlantis. A mysterious...

Cube Island

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Construction, Open world, Procedural generation

Game released: PC → 7 August 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 25/100

Cube Island — an exciting sandbox with an open world, crafting, and building, similar to Minecraft. In the game, you will embark on a tropical island made of...

The Battle of Polytopia

Strategy, Simulation, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie, Online

Game released: PC → 4 August 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 72/100

The Battle of Polytopia is a minimalist global strategy game with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. In the game you will go to conquer the Square...

Distortions

Adventure, Indie, Action, Role-playing game, Music game, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 2 March 2018

Steam: 57/100

Distortions is a beautiful, surreal, third-person adventure in which music plays a major role. The main character of the game travels through an unknown, endless...

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 22 April 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an adventure RPG puzzle game with horror elements and an isometric view. You are a nice baby turnip who was declared an enemy of...

ITORAH

Arcade, Side view, Adventure, Action, Platformer, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 March 2022

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 61/100

ITORAH is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. In the game, you can try on the role of Itora, the only person left in the colorful...

Bus Driver Simulator

Simulation, First-person view, Racing, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 December 2019

Players: 6.2/10

Bus Driver Simulator is a driving simulator with a first-person view. There are many different scenarios available in the game with different conditions. In...

Summer With You

Anime / Manga, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Comedy, Simulation

Game released: PC → 11 May 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 53/100

Summer With You is an adventure visual novel in the anime genre with humor. Every day at school for Kai — like a repetition of the previous one. Beating by...

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...

Another Space Opera - Episode 1: The Wake of The Giant

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Indie, Roguelike, Exploration, Fantasy, Old school, Demons

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Old school action inspired by the iconic platformers of the late 80s and early 90s. The game takes place in a science fiction setting, namely in 2297 after a...

Ghost Song

Arcade, Side view, Metroidvania, Science fiction, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure, Horror, Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 3 November 2022

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Ghost Song is an action-adventure platformer in the metroidvania genre with a side view in a dark post-apocalyptic setting. On the desert moon of Lorian, the...

Liber

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

Game released: PC → 11 January 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 80/100

An ordinary student finds a magical book that transports him through space and time to various eras. Now he must solve puzzles, find artifacts and fight with swords...

Bloody Hell

Metroidvania, Shooter, Indie, Demons, Adventure, Fantasy, Top-down view, Free game

Game released: PC → 28 January 2023

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 97/100

A pixel game about an angel who wants to destroy Satan. The huge world is divided into sectors, between which you can move on a trolley. The locations are filled...

Flame Keeper

Action, Indie, Roguelike, Slasher

Early Access: PC → 17 March 2023; Game released: PC → 17 June 2024

Steam: 68/100

A bright action roguelike about the warlike ember Ignis, who is trying to free the world of Orbis from the forces of darkness. The main character is trained in...

Crab Champions

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: PC → 1 April 2023; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 98/100

A multiplayer shooter where players take on the role of a crab as he travels through exotic islands, fighting hordes of enemies and collecting loot. The game has 3...

Tiny Rails

Strategy, Side view, Business / Management, Trains, Adventure, Indie

Early Access: PC → 8 August 2017; Game released: PC → 28 May 2018

Steam: 75/100

The player develops his railway empire with dozens of trains and tracks, having received his grandfather's modest locomotive company. You need to deliver passengers...

Venba

Indie, Puzzle, Simulation, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 31 July 2023

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The player controls an Indian mother who immigrated to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Gamers are engaged in preparing various dishes and restoring lost...

Kusan: City of Wolves

Shooter, Top-down view, Cyberpunk, Indie, Comics, Action, Arcade

Game released: PC → 30 July 2026

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Cyberpunk shooter in the spirit of Hotline Miami, set in a city of cats and dogs. The main character is a cat veteran who tries to protect a girl from the dogs of...

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