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Indie, Strategy, In real time, Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Roguelike

Early Access: PC → 14 October 2021; Game released: PC → 29 September 2022

A futuristic post -apocalyptic strategy, where a group of survivors needs to get out of a gloomy labyrinth. The path is full of dangers, but the weapon and...

Broforce

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 October 2015; Early Access: PC → 6 April 2014

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Broforce is a brutal 2D platformer full of pure, unadulterated fun that requires the player to destroy everything that moves in order to defeat the Satanic...

Magicraft

Roguelike, Procedural generation, Top-down view, Adventure, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Crafting

Game released: PC → 2 November 2023

Players: 9.5/10

A dynamic action roguelike where the player becomes a hero trying to save the world. As players explore a magical fantasy world, they find a legendary staff and...

The Infected

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

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

Players: 7.3/10

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...

Constance

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

Game released: PC → 24 November 2025

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

A colorful metroidvania about a girl artist. The plot is based on the girl’s inner experiences about creativity, balance between life and work, personal motivation...

Brawlhalla

Arcade, Action, Fighting, MMO, Platformer, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 17 October 2017

Players: 7.8/10

Brawlhalla is a free-to-play side-scrolling multiplayer fighting platformer that supports up to 8 players. The game features a wide variety of heroes with unique...

Ori and the Blind Forest

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 March 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Ori and the Blind Forest is an arcade game with adventure, platformer and indie elements from the masters of Moon Studios. The game is published by Microsoft Game...

Tormented Souls

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Action, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 27 August 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Tormented Souls is a third-person psychological horror game inspired by classic horror films Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Alone in the Dark. The main character is...

Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics

Game released: PC → 10 February 2025; Early Access: PC → 4 November 2020

Players: 7.7/10

A top-down tactical real-time strategy game about special forces conducting operations against terrorists in the Middle East. The game offers full squad deployment...

Thronefall

Isometric, Strategy, Construction, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), In real time, Indie

Early Access: PC → 2 August 2023; Game released: PC → 11 October 2024

Players: 7.6/10

A game with minimalistic graphics, in which the gamer builds the defense of a settlement during the day and defends against enemy attacks at night. It is important...

We Happy Few

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

Game released: PC → 10 August 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 64/100

We Happy Few is an adventure action-horror game with a first-person perspective and survival elements. During World War II, Nazi Germany captured Great Britain, and...

Warpips

Strategy, In real time, Side view, Tanks, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Tactics, Indie

Early Access: PC → 29 April 2021; Game released: PC → 21 April 2022

Players: 8.6/10

Warpips is an exciting tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre and with a side view. In the game you have to create an indestructible army by combining...

Battle Brothers

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: PC → 24 March 2017; Early Access: PC → 27 April 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

Simulation, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Exploration, Fantasy, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 21 September 2021; Game released: PC → 13 December 2022

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 74/100

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Crime Simulator

Simulation, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Shooter, Indie, Stealth

Game released: PC → 18 June 2025

Players: 8.3/10

A co-op game in which the main character was pulled out of prison by some people. Now he must work off his debt by carrying out illegal assignments. You will have...

Katana Zero

Action, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 18 April 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Katana Zero is a hardcore side-view action game in cyberpunk style. Expect dynamic battles using futuristic technologies, fast movements of the main character and...

Rogue Legacy

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 June 2013

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Clicker Heroes

Arcade, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 13 May 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Clicker Heroes is a shareware arcade clicker with role-playing elements in a fantasy setting. Like many games of this type, there's a lot of pointing involved, or...

For the King

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 19 April 2018

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 78/100

For the King is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view and random level generation. You have to travel through an endless fantasy world. You can play...

Lost Soul Aside

Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 29 August 2025

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Role action in fantasy setting, inspired by Final Fantasy XV and Ninja Gaiden. The events of the game will tell about the former Templar of Kaiser, which made the...

Severed Steel

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 September 2021

Players: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Severed Steel is a dynamic first-person shooter in which the main character is a one-armed girl who destroys entire squads of soldiers using different types of...

Two Point Campus

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

Game released: PC → 9 August 2022

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...

Secrets of Grindea

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Online, Indie, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: PC → 29 February 2024

Players: 10/10

An old-school role-playing action game, the events of which unfold in a fairy-tale world that exists according to different laws. Here people are able to comprehend...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 June 2019

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of an 18-year-old girl...

Papers, Please

Arcade, Adventure, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 August 2013

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Papers, Please is an unusual simulator of an immigration officer. You will have to sit in a small booth and check the documents of visiting residents, identify...

SUPERHOT

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 25 February 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 83/100

SUPERHOT is a first-person shooter-puzzle game from the Polish studio SUPERHOT Team. The main feature of the game mechanics is the passage of time — only...

Banished

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 February 2014

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Banished is an indie strategy game with real-time simulation elements. Residents are your main resource. They are born, grow, do work, have offspring, and sooner or...

Dark Light

Indie, Action, Adventure, Side view, Cyberpunk, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game

Early Access: PC → 8 May 2020; Game released: PC → 29 September 2022

Players: 8.4/10

A sci-fi metroidvania in a cyberpunk setting, where the world is experiencing an apocalypse after an invasion of supernatural creatures. The player must make his...

ZERO Sievert

Shooter, Adventure, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival, Open world, Construction

Game released: PC → 23 October 2024; Early Access: PC → 15 November 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 81/100

A dynamic pixel game in which the main character explores a post-apocalyptic procedurally generated wasteland, where he fights enemies and collects equipment. There...

KEPLERTH

Isometric, Adventure, Science fiction, Indie, Simulation, Action, Role-playing game, Online

Game released: PC → 23 May 2022

Players: 8/10

KEPLERTH is an isometric fantasy action-adventure game. In this game you have to survive on a hostile alien planet where you can live alone, fight alongside friends...

Lumencraft

Tactics, Roguelike, Top-down view, Shooter, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Early Access: PC → 13 April 2022; Game released: PC → 28 February 2023

Players: 6.4/10

The events of the game take place back in 2221. More than two centuries ago, the surface of the planet became uninhabitable. The remnants of humanity are struggling...

Clanfolk

Simulation, Strategy, Indie, Top-down view, Business / Management, Sandbox, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game

Game released: PC → 14 July 2022

Players: 8.6/10

Clanfolk is a captivating top-down life simulator set in the highlands of medieval Scotland. As you progress, you will have to survive and develop the settlement of...

Car For Sale Simulator 2023

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

Game released: PC → 1 November 2024

Players: 7/10

The player develops his car business by buying and selling cars. You can buy an almost completely destroyed car in order to repair it and resell it more profitably...

Lawn Mowing Simulator

Simulation, Action, Indie, First-person view, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 10 August 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Lawn Mowing Simulator is an unusual simulator with a first-person view in which you have to professionally mow UK lawns. In the game you will create your own lawn...

Tunche

Arcade, Side view, Action, Adventure, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Role-playing game, Slasher

Game released: PC → 2 November 2021

Metacritic: 68/100

Tunche is a side-scrolling action-RPG slasher game with co-op for up to four people. The game is based on an ancient legend of Peruvian folklore and will delight...

Before We Leave

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 May 2021

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Before We Leave is a top-down real-time management strategy game. After a long period of imprisonment in the bowels of the earth, your people emerge to the surface...

Barony

Role-playing game, Roguelike, First-person view, Indie, Action, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 23 June 2015

Players: 7.4/10

Barony is a cooperative action-adventure game with a first-person view and roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. You have to explore dangerous dungeons full of...

She Will Punish Them

Role-playing game, Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Indie, Adult game, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 29 April 2020

Players: 8.6/10

The protagonist is a succubus, exiled and chained, yet yearning to reclaim her power and dominion. Having traversed legions of monsters and ancient demons, she...

Tunic

Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 March 2022

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Tunic is an action-adventure game with an isometric camera view. The main character is a cute red fox who must go through a lot of tests, defeat a large number of...

Hob

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 September 2017

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Hob is a third-person adventure game from the creators of Torchlight. The protagonist of the adventure game wakes up on a mysterious planet. You have to find out...

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