Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 7

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

Game released: PC → 21 June 2023

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 79/100

A horror shooter with a view that is a spiritual successor to the F.E.A.R. series. The game has the ability to become invisible, slow down time and sneak up on...

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, City Building, Indie, Historical

Early Access: PC → 15 March 2019; Game released: PC → 20 June 2024

Players: 8.7/10

A city planning simulator, the main feature of which is the surroundings in the style of the Soviet Union. The main task is to create your own republic, where you...

Hydroneer

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

Game released: PC → 8 May 2020

Players: 7.5/10

Hydroneer is an exciting mining simulator with a first-person view, where you have to get gold and other necessary resources from the soil. As you progress, you...

Gunfire Reborn

Shooter, First-person view, Roguelike, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Procedural generation

Early Access: PC → 23 May 2020; Game released: PC → 18 November 2021

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Co-op shooter for up to four people. Players take on the role of heroes with unique abilities and go with friends to explore vast locations created at random. At...

Kingdoms Reborn

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: PC → 3 November 2020; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 8/10

Kingdoms Reborn is a city builder with an open, procedurally generated world in which you can cooperate or compete with other players. Here you can follow an...

SpaceBourne 2

Role-playing game, Action, Simulation, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie

Early Access: PC → 17 February 2023; Game released: PC → 18 November 2025

Players: 7.3/10

A continuation of the space game, which takes place in a fantastic open world filled with many solar systems and planets. The game offers tens of thousands of...

SCP: Secret Files

Indie, Exploration, Simulation, Horror, Puzzle, First-person view, Role-playing game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 13 September 2022

Players: 10/10

SCP: Secret Files is a collection of paranormal cases from the SCP Foundation. You take a job as a research assistant and go through an induction program that will...

Legend of Grimrock 2

Role-playing game, Hack and slash, In real time, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 October 2014

Players: 9.6/10

Legend of Grimrock 2 is a first-person role-playing game with a mix of hack-and-slash, fantasy and indie games from developers Almost Human Ltd. The main publisher...

Hero Siege

Action, Slasher, Hack and slash, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 January 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Moving Out

Simulation, Arcade, Action, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Isometric

Game released: PC → 28 April 2020

Players: 4.9/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Moving Out is a fun cooperative arcade game with an isometric camera view, where you have to learn how to move furniture correctly. Together with your friends, you...

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...

Backpack Battles

Strategy, Online, Indie, Fantasy

Early Access: PC → 8 March 2024; Game released: PC → 13 June 2025

Players: 9.2/10

As players progress, they acquire rare items and assemble powerful builds from them. After this, the character can be sent to fight with the heroes of other...

Leaf it Alone

Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 30 October 2025

Players: 7.2/10

The game turns ordinary cleaning into a meditative adventure, where a long-forgotten yard gradually comes to life under the sound of rakes and the gusts of a leaf...

Umfend

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 31 October 2018

An atmospheric psychological horror dedicated to themes of love, time, and loss. After a mysterious incident in 1996, when a shattered glass sphere opened a path to...

Out There

Science fiction, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, In real time, Side view, Top-down view, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 2 April 2015

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Out There is a fantasy adventure indie roguelike with elements of real-time strategy and a side view. In this game, you play as an astronaut who woke up from...

Automation

Simulation, Racing, Business / Management, Sandbox, Indie

Early Access: PC → 12 March 2015

Players: 7/10

Automation is a sophisticated management simulator in which you become the head of a car company. You can start your own production from scratch and become a...

Visage

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

Early Access: PC → 2 October 2018; Game released: PC → 29 October 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Visage is a first-person horror adventure inspired by the work of Hideo Kojima — P.T. The main actions of the game take place in the 80s of the last century...

Cyberprank 2069

Adventure, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 July 2019

Players: 8/10

Cyberprank 2069 is a “next-gen RPG” set in a future where AI has taken over humanity. The main character is a “cop from the past” who wants to become the richest...

Farmer's Life

Action, Third-person view, Business / Management, Indie, Sandbox, Comedy, Farm Simulator, Open world

Early Access: PC → 5 August 2021; Game released: PC → 20 October 2023

Players: 7.8/10

A harsh farmer simulator that shows the very “dark” side of life on a garden plot. The main character is an alcoholic who sleeps in a dilapidated house hugging a...

Crowsworn

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Puzzle, Indie, Exploration, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.9/10

The game takes place in the kingdom of Fearandal, which was once hit by a dark curse that destroyed most of the population and summoned terrible creatures into the...

Salt 2: Shores of Gold

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Survival, Procedural generation

Early Access: PC → 20 September 2022; Game released: PC → 12 November 2025

VGTimes: 5.8/10

Players: 8.6/10

The game transports you to an atmosphere of serene seas and endless adventures, where every wave hides a secret, and every island can become a home or a deadly...

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...

Below, Rusted Gods

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

Game released: PC → 29 July 2026

An atmospheric sci-fi thriller where you take on the role of an operator observing an expedition into a mysterious underground abyss. By monitoring the squad's...

Rogue Legacy

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

Game released: PC → 27 June 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Goat Simulator

Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 April 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 58/100

Goat Simulator is an unusual goat simulator with a third-person view. You have to control such extraordinary characters in the world of computer games as a goat...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

First-person view, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Logic, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 8 October 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a co-op VR puzzle game about defusing a bomb. One of the participants has an explosive device with a timer on the screen, but...

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...

Derail Valley

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Trains, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Early Access: PC → 25 January 2019

Players: 8.1/10

Derail Valley is a realistic train driver simulator with first-person view and support for virtual reality helmets. You will be able to control the rolling stock...

Help Will Come Tomorrow

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 21 April 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Help Will Come Tomorrow is an adventure management simulator with survival elements. In the uninhabited Siberian desert after the October Revolution, a group 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...

Liber

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

Game released: PC → 11 January 2022

Players: 10/10

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...

Sword of the Sea

Adventure, Third-person view, Sports game, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 August 2025

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Metacritic: 85/100

The game takes place in an abandoned kingdom, through which the main character travels on a Hoversword. The device looks like a cross between a snowboard...

Abyssus

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Indie, Steampunk, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 12 August 2025

Metacritic: 71/100

A cooperative shooter in which players take on the role of mercenaries and explore the underwater ruins of an ancient civilization filled with mutant guardians. The...

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...

Eastern Era

Strategy, Simulation, Sandbox, Indie, City Building, Open world, Medieval era, Construction

Game released: PC → 28 March 2026

Players: 9/10

A construction and management simulator in the style of a saga, where the story begins with the escape of a small group of students from a fading sect. In a harsh...

Kingdom Rush

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 6 January 2014

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Kingdom Rush is a real-time strategy game with fantasy elements and a top-down view. In this game you have to fight enemies with the help of your towers and protect...

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...

Twelve Minutes

Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 19 August 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Twelve Minutes is an interactive top-down thriller that follows the relationship of a married couple whose lives are dramatically changed by a police officer who...

Haydee 2

Action, Shooter, Indie, Platformer, Puzzle, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 24 November 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Haydee 2 is the sequel to the sexy action puzzle game with a third-person view. Once again you will play as a sexy heroine who is locked in a strange complex...

Silt

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 1 June 2022

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 71/100

The actions of the game take place in the depths of the sea, where various monsters live. With the help of soul transference, the main character can use the...

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