Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 33

Rain on Your Parade - a game in the Indie genre

Action, Isometric, Comedy, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle, Stealth

Game released: PC → 15 April 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A fun arcade game with an isometric camera view. A mischievous cloud wants to ruin the lives of absolutely everyone on the planet. She travels the world inventing...

Two Point Campus

Business / Management, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Simulation, Isometric, Construction

Game released: PC → 9 August 2022

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Two Point Campus is a real-time strategy game with management and simulation elements. In this game you have to build an entire university with everything that...

The Perfect Pencil

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration, Horror

Game released: PC → 29 January 2026

Steam: 69/100

A colorful metroidvania with a side view, where John finds himself trapped in a surreal "world of fear" and seeks a way to freedom. The hand-drawn graphics turn...

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...

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...

In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure

Online, Cooperative (co-op), Puzzle, First-person view, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 November 2024

Steam: 86/100

Two friends are shipwrecked on a mysterious island, where they find rifts to other worlds. Co-op players solve various puzzles and complete quests to escape the...

Tiny Glade

Casual game, Construction, Sandbox, Indie, Medieval era

Game released: PC → 23 September 2024

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 74/100

A meditative game in which the gamer builds castles. There are no battles or farming of resources, but only a creative process. Buildings are created from various...

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...

Dead Reset

Adventure, Horror, Interactive movie, Visual novel, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 September 2025

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 69/100

The main character, surgeon Cole Mason, was kidnapped and forced to perform an operation to remove a parasite from a patient in an underwater complex. At the same...

NODE: The Last Favor of the Antarii

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 28 August 2025

Steam: 91/100

The game takes you to an abandoned nuclear complex from the Cold War, where the ruins of Soviet technology are intertwined with something otherworldly. As an...

AETHUS

Indie, Science fiction, Survival, Construction, Crafting, Exploration

Game released: PC → 6 March 2026

Steam: 94/100

The expedition to the distant planet Aethus turns into a deep exploration of its underground depths, where rare resources and mysterious biomes are hidden. The...

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...

Candy Clicker

Free game, Casual game, Clicker, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 13 April 2026

Steam: 59/100

A free clicker game dedicated to developing your own candy factory and accumulating larger volumes of resources. Players need to improve click strength, unlock new...

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...

Vampirium: 1997

Adventure, Horror, Sandbox, Indie, Point & Click, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Fantasy

Game in development: PC → 2026

The events unfold in an alternative 1997, where Dracula has become the king of England and built his own vampire empire. Players will take on the role of one of his...

the static speaks my name

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Free game, Exploration, Indie

Game released: PC → 10 August 2015

Steam: 81/100

A short psychological adventure from the first person. The game tells the story of a man's last night, obsessed with a painting of two palm trees. He spends time in...

Exspelled

Action, Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Fantasy, Medieval era, Construction, Crafting, Strategy

Game released: PC → 5 September 2026

Steam: 100/100

A free fantasy life simulator with tower defense elements. The story centers around a young witch named Aurora, who wants to build her own village. The gameplay is...

Draw a Stickman: EPIC

Adventure, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 3 December 2013

Steam: 81/100

This adventure through a fantastical world centers on a stick figure drawn by the player, who must solve puzzles and overcome obstacles. In Draw a Stickman: EPIC...

Coma: Mortuary

Horror, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 12 May 2014

Steam: 53/100

Coma: Mortuary is an adventure horror game and the opening chapter of a trilogy about events in the world of the dead. After a car crash, the protagonist falls into...

Spartans Vs Zombies Defense

Free game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 6 January 2015

Steam: 47/100

This casual tower-defense game follows Leonidas, king of Sparta, as he faces zombie hordes at Thermopylae. The player summons allies and builds defenses to hold...

Cold Iron

Adventure, Shooter, Action, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 30 January 2018

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 71/100

A game about a new sheriff, centered on gun duels with enemies. Each opponent is distinct, every duel plays out differently, and every bullet...

Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 February 2016

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This fantasy role-playing adventure follows a journey through the Shamutanti Hills and the city-port of Kharé, where the protagonist seeks the Crown of Kings...

Fieldrunners

Strategy, Top-down view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: PC → 24 May 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A tower defense strategy game in which the player protects the field from waves of ground and air enemies. The defense relies on placing and upgrading towers...

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...

Guncraft

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Board / Group Game, Indie, Construction

Game released: PC → 10 August 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 49/100

Guncraft is a cubic indie shooter with a first-person view, in which the surrounding world is completely destructible. You have a wide arsenal of weapons, vehicles...

The Night of the Rabbit

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 28 May 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Night of the Rabbit is an atmospheric point and click adventure in which you will travel to the amazing country of Mousewood. One fine day, the boy Jerry...

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...

Kaiju Wars

Strategy, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 28 April 2022

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A 2D turn-based strategy inspired by kaiju movies, in which the player commands an outmatched military force defending a city from giant monsters. The player can...

Salt

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Indie, Open world, Survival

Game released: PC → 6 February 2018

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 54/100

Salt is an open-world role-playing game with action and survival elements, centered on sailing, island exploration, and looting. Starting on an island with...

Knytt Underground

Indie, Platformer, Adventure

Game released: PC → 25 October 2013

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Knytt Underground is a platform game and a sequel to Knytt and Knytt Stories, centered on exploring its world. It continues the series’ focus on exploration and...

Warhammer 40,000: Regicide

Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Chess game, Tactics, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 May 2015

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, combining traditional chess with a separate combat mode called Regicide. Players command...

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...

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 survive, the...

Black Bird (2018)

Replayability, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 31 October 2018

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 73/100

After dying at a street corner, a young girl is reborn as the ominous Black Bird. The kingdom regards the bird as one of the great calamities spoken of since...

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 nonlinear...

Fire Tonight

Casual game, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 August 2021

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Fire Tonight is a narrative puzzle game about two people trying to find each other in a city engulfed in flames. The story follows their effort to reunite against...

Master Lemon: The Quest for Iceland

Adventure, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 4 November 2025

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A pixel-art adventure about Lemon, a polyglot who dreams of learning Icelandic and sets out to save a distant land from a threat that devours memories and endangers...

LISA: Definitive Edition

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 May 2024

Metacritic: 83/100

After the mysterious White Flash wipes out all women, Brad journeys across the barren world of Olathe to save his daughter, the last girl alive. Along the way, he...

Time Clickers

Free game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 July 2015

Steam: 86/100

An incremental clicker game in which the player destroys cubes, fights enemies, and collects gold. Gold can be spent to upgrade weapons, including the Click Pistol...

Atlantic Fleet

Simulation, Strategy, Warships / Submarines, Indie, In real time, Isometric, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 25 February 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Atlantic Fleet is a real-time strategy game with warships and an isometric view. Atlantic Fleet puts you in command of the Allies, or Kriegsmarine (German Navy), in...

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