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The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: PC → 12 May 2017

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is a 2D action platformer about a bloody quest for revenge, played as either Yuki, a prisoner with machine arms, or the reanimated...

Grass Simulator

Indie, Walking Simulator, Casual game

Game released: PC → 1 April 2015

Steam: 68/100

Grass Simulator is a walking simulator with shooting elements, set in a dimension filled with cows and grass. The player controls Garry Rambler, a mercenary who...

Town of Salem

Online, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 December 2014

Steam: 87/100

Town of Salem is an online social deduction and strategy game in which players receive secret roles and try to determine whom they can trust. Matches involve 7 to...

Splice (2012)

Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 13 June 2012

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Splice is a puzzle game set in a microbial world, where cells must be rearranged to form a target structure. Each level, called a “strand,” consists of several...

Three Fourths Home

Indie, Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 3 August 2014

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This visual short story is set in Nebraska and follows Kelly on a drive home through an intense thunderstorm. Along the way, she has an extended conversation with...

Angels Fall First

Action, Indie, Online

Game released: PC → 11 July 2026

Steam: 81/100

Angels Fall First is a first-person science-fiction wargame that combines infantry, vehicle and spacecraft combat. Battles are team-based and built around...

Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio

Action, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 22 June 2015

Steam: 91/100

This 2D platformer, styled after 8-bit games, follows Tcheco as he tries to escape a mysterious castle full of deadly creatures. The game is divided into 65 rooms...

Game Corp DX

Business / Management, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 October 2015

Steam: 87/100

A game studio management simulation in which the player builds a small company and competes with rival studios. The team starts by making microgames to gain...

Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

Indie, Free game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 1 December 2014

Steam: 97/100

This fantasy adventure follows Remedy, a recent graduate of the Saturnian healing school, as she travels to Hurtland to help its inhabitants. Using her healing...

Survival Zombies The Inverted Evolution

Action, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 May 2017

Steam: 57/100

This first-person survival shooter pits heavily armed fighters against hordes of undead. Players use guns and grenades to fight back, relying on speed and...

Aquaria

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Metroidvania, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 7 December 2007

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Aquaria is a metroidvania set in a vast underwater world filled with living creatures and ancient secrets. Naija, a solitary ocean dweller, searches for her family...

Spacebase DF-9

Arcade, Simulation, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 27 October 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 16/100

This space simulation focuses on building a home for humans and aliens in Earth's distant future. The player expands the base by mining asteroids, growing it from a...

Velocity Ultra

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 December 2013

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Velocity Ultra is an arcade action game with beat ’em up elements, built around fast-paced encounters with enemies. It features HD graphics, online leaderboards and...

The Plan

Free game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 10 February 2013

Steam: 91/100

This short experimental game follows a fly ascending into the sky and pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence. The ascent becomes a contemplative journey...

Greyfox RPG

Adventure, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 24 February 2015

Steam: 76/100

This adventure RPG follows a newcomer to the foggy, mysterious town of Greyfox, who encounters an old woman with magical powers and begins inhabiting other...

Eternal Hope

Platformer, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 20 August 2020

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Eternal Hope is a fantasy adventure about Ti’bi, a boy who sets out to find the soul of his beloved. His journey centers on love and...

Driftmoon

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 October 2012

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Flood of Light

Adventure, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 15 June 2017

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A girl in a raincoat arrives in a city submerged by rain. Using a small light, she illuminates lamps and stone posts to make the rain subside and save the city. As...

Zombie Shooter 2

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 December 2009

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 80/100

Zombie Shooter 2 is a furious shooter with role-playing elements and an isometric camera view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. In the game you can choose the...

Mini Motor Racing X

Racing, Indie, Top-down view

Game released: PC → 23 June 2020

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 68/100

An arcade racing game built around a career mode featuring races and championships with miniature cars. The career includes hundreds of races, while new cars can be...

Best Month Ever!

Point & Click, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 May 2022

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 65/100

During a road trip across the late-1960s United States, Louise tries to teach her son Mitch how to navigate a cruel modern world. The player makes choices that...

Fresh Tracks

Skiing, Fantasy, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 August 2025

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A music-driven action roguelite about a skier making their way through the snow-covered land of Norwyn, which has fallen into darkness. The player navigates...

Gunslugs

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Shooter, Action

Game released: PC → 2 June 2015

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Gunslugs is a side-scrolling tactical arcade action game where you take control of an elite squad of soldiers trying to destroy the Black Duck Army and stop their...

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Action

Game released: PC → 26 May 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition is a complete edition of the arcade platformer with puzzle elements. As a bizarre creature, you have to fly through colorful...

Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Side view, Comics, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 April 2026

Steam: 62/100

Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch is a side-scrolling arcade beat-em-up starring popular characters Jay and Silent Bob. The developers took inspiration from...

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...

DISTRAINT

Adventure, Horror, Free game, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 October 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

DISTRAINT is a psychological horror game with a side view for mobile platforms. You have to play as a young ambitious guy Price, who in an unholy way took the...

The Negative

Role-playing game, Horror, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike

Frozen: PC → 1 December 2017

Anticipation Rating: 5.2/10

The Negative is a dark role-playing game with turn-based combat in a medieval setting. As a plague doctor, you'll wander through dark, procedurally generated...

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...

Pode

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 3 April 2020

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Pode is a cute action-adventure platformer with an isometric camera view and lots of interesting co-op puzzles. The game will tell the story of a small rock that...

Westerado: Double Barreled

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Open world

Game released: PC → 16 April 2015

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Westerado: Double Barreled is a side-scrolling arcade-western adventure with RPG elements. You have to try on the role of a brave cowboy who sets out to take...

Project Winter

Online, Action, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Adventure

Game released: PC → 13 May 2019

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Project Winter is an isometric competitive action game with survival elements for up to 8 people. In the game, you will take on the roles of survivors who will have...

Cris Tales

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 20 July 2021

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Cris Tales is an adventure role -playing play with step -by -step battles in the Japanese style. The main feature of the game was the unique mechanics of “Time...

Unbound: Worlds Apart

Adventure, Action, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 28 July 2021

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Unbound: Worlds Apart is an atmospheric puzzle platformer with a side view in a fantasy setting. The main character, named Soli, can create magical portals...

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...

Gold Rush: The Game

Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Open world, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 October 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 69/100

Gold Rush: The Game is a fascinating simulator with a first-person view, in which you will experience the hard life of a gold miner first-hand. In the game you will...

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...

Just Die Already

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Simulation, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Online, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 20 May 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Just Die Already is an exciting third-person arcade sandbox from the creators of Goat Simulator. The game tells the story of retirees trying to secure a spot in a...

Lamentum

Adult game, Adventure, Action, Side view, Indie, Puzzle, Survival horror, Exploration, Horror

Game released: PC → 27 August 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 87/100

Lamentum is a dark side-scrolling action adventure game set in New England in the mid-19th century. The game tells the story of a young aristocrat named Victor. He...

The Infected

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

Game released: PC → 7 August 2020; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 83/100

The Infected is an action-adventure sandbox with a first-person view and survival elements. The world is on the brink of destruction — a malicious virus has...

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