Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 5

Role-playing game, Action, Business / Management, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Construction, Crafting

Game in development: PC → октябрь 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a technological disaster has occurred. The player, either alone or in cooperative mode, explores the ruins of...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 June 2019

Players: 8.7/10

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...

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 30 October 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 85/100

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It adds over 100 hours of content, including the new...

Feed and Grow: Fish

Arcade, Action, Simulation, Third-person view, Indie

Early Access: PC → 8 January 2016; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7.4/10

Feed and Grow: Fish is a dynamic action game with a third-person view and elements of a survival simulator. In the game you have to go to conquer the endless water...

Conquest Dark

Action, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Top-down view, Fantasy, Indie

Early Access: PC → 30 April 2025

Players: 7.5/10

The black planet almost destroyed humanity, awakening ancient forces. 237 years later, survivors continue to fight armies of the undead. You need to upgrade your...

Paratopic

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

Game released: PC → 6 September 2018

Atmospheric first-person horror with a surreal story and intentionally low-polygon graphics. The plot connects the fates of three strangers, whose stories gradually...

[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 4 June 2021

A Japanese psychological horror game from the first-person perspective, where the ordinary job of a night courier gradually turns into a disturbing adventure. The...

Spine - This is Gun Fu

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Beat them all, Indie

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.6/10

Cyberpunk gun-fu action with parkour. The main action takes place in the near future, in which the Tensor corporation, with the help of artificial intelligence, has...

Back to the Dawn

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 18 July 2025; Early Access: PC → 3 November 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

An atmospheric adventure that takes you into the harsh reality of a maximum-security prison colony inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. Every day is a survival...

Neko Station

Simulation, Business / Management, Sandbox, Indie, Casual game, Comedy

Game released: PC → 13 July 2026

Cozy indie simulator where players manage a train designed for fluffy passengers. Each car can be decorated with various furniture to attract new passengers. Cats...

Rooted

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, Online, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.6/10

The game takes place in the year 2100, in which humanity has almost died out due to a bacterial disaster. The main character is one of the survivors who constantly...

Better Than Dead

Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Tactics

Early Access: PC → 12 May 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 10/10

Tactical shooter with a view from a body camera in the spirit of Unrecord and Bodycam. The game takes place in Hong Kong. The silent main character sets out on...

Helltaker

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 11 May 2020

Players: 9/10

Helltaker is a free-to-play adventure puzzle game. The game tells the story of a hero who suddenly opens a portal to hell, in which, oddly enough, a whole harem of...

Iron Lung

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 9 March 2022

Players: 7.5/10

The game takes place in a dystopian future where all inhabited planets have disappeared and the remnants of humanity begin to live on space stations. One day people...

T.D.Z. 4 Chapter 1 - Arrival

Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Old school

Game released: PC → 2 September 2025

Players: 8.3/10

A story-driven shooter set in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone. The main character is the stalker Yaroslav, who goes to Pripyat in search of his...

Geometry Dash

Arcade, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 22 December 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Geometry Dash is a fast-paced arcade platformer where you have to jump and dodge over various obstacles. The game has many levels that will bring many challenges...

Maneater

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

Game released: PC → 22 May 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Adventure action set in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The story centers around a shark that has survived a brutal encounter with a hunter and is driven by a...

Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!

First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Casual game, Comedy, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → 30 April 2026

Players: 10/10

An unusual simulator of cleaning and sorting books, set in a huge magical library, where complete chaos reigns after the antics of a mischievous fairy. The main...

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...

This Is the Police 2

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

Game released: PC → 31 July 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 62/100

This Is the Police 2 is a continuation of the adventure strategy with elements of a management game and an isometric camera view. The game takes place in the small...

Xenolocus

Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Science fiction

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A science fiction game for virtual reality glasses, in which you need to fight monsters. There is a large arsenal of weapons and skill upgrades. Among the opponents...

DON'T STOP SMILING

Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 12 June 2026

A short psychological horror game from the first-person perspective, where a genuine smile becomes the main tool for survival. The game uses the PC camera to track...

Murder House

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

Game released: PC → 22 October 2020

Atmospheric survival horror in the style of VHS slashers from the 1980s. A local TV crew goes to the abandoned house of the executed serial killer Anthony Smith...

[Chilla's Art] Parasocial

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

Game released: PC → 25 August 2023

A psychological horror about a Japanese streamer whose life gradually becomes more and more unsettling. The realistic environment and believable atmosphere create a...

Pilgrims

Adventure, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 October 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Pilgrims — an atmospheric side-view adventure from the creators of Machinarium and Samorost 3. The game will delight you with the absence of a rigid script...

Tormentor

Action, Horror, Stealth, Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.4/10

Tormentor is a streamer-torturer simulator who torments his victims on camera and gets money for it from the creators of Agony. The main character, a...

Cheap Car Repair

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

Game released: PC → 28 May 2026

Players: 7.2/10

A car mechanic simulator set in Poland in the 1990s. A small workshop among typical multi-story buildings becomes a place for difficult decisions, where every...

Machine Party

Action, Horror, Logic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 30 July 2026

Cooperative game for 2–4 players, inspired by the tense atmosphere of Buckshot Roulette. Participants must go through a series of brutal mini-games, where any...

Railborn

Adventure, Simulation, Sandbox, Trains, Indie, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.8/10

An open-world survival simulator where players customize their own train and travel through different locations. Gamers start with nothing and gradually build a...

Len's Island

Adventure, Action, Isometric, Indie, Simulation

Early Access: PC → 26 November 2021; Game released: PC → 19 June 2025

Players: 6.2/10

A top-down action adventure game combining survival, construction and exploration. A new resident arrives on a picturesque island with a minimal set of tools and a...

Contact Protocol

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Science fiction, Space

Game in development: PC → 2027

In the simulator of service on a starship in a dark retro-futuristic world inspired by the cassette era, where you constantly have to choose: shoot or risk missing...

Broken Age

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 28 April 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Broken Age is an exciting point-and-click side-scrolling adventure from the author of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. The game will tell two parallel developing...

SCP: 5K

Action, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural

Early Access: PC → 22 February 2022; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7.7/10

A free-to-play tactical shooter with horror elements and a first-person view. The world organization for the study of occult sciences, after an accident at the...

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Tactics, Roguelike, Science fiction, Survival, Space

Game released: PC → 18 February 2026

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 74/100

The player explores space and pilots a legendary starship. They must survive and find a way home. They must plan a route, manage resources, and make difficult...

This War of Mine

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 November 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 82/100

This War of Mine is an atmospheric adventure with survival elements and a side view. The game allows you to plunge into the life of ordinary civilians trying to...

Ice World

Survival, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Crafting, Exploration, Indie

Early Access: PC → 30 September 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 5.6/10

A cooperative survival simulator in which players settle into a post-apocalyptic winter. The range includes building bases, taming animals, hunting and fishing...

Spiritfarer

Simulation, Business / Management, Side view, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 18 August 2020

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Spiritfarer is a fun management simulator with a side view that tells the story of death. You take on the role of a ferryman for the dead and build your own ship to...

Katanaut

Action, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC → 10 September 2025

Metacritic: 75/100

A dynamic pixel game set on a huge space station filled with monsters. You need to jump quickly and use a variety of weapons to survive. You can find memory...

The Last Caretaker

First-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Science fiction, Comedy, Open world, Crafting

Early Access: PC → 7 November 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7.9/10

The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic, languid world. The protagonist is a robot exploring a vast ocean world to save the future of humanity. To do this, they...

Go Ape Ship!

Third-person view, Indie, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Comedy, Space, Collectible card game (CCG)

Game released: PC → 18 February 2026

Players: 10/10

A multiplayer game where the team must complete tasks and respond to emergencies on a spaceship. You will need to adjust the engines, activate shields, prepare...

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