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Cybarian: The Time Travelling Warrior - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Science fiction, Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 9 November 2018

Steam: 56/100

A brave warrior takes up a legendary sword and embarks on a journey through time, exploring a futuristic cyberpunk world. The game features four...

IDLE BOSS RUSH

Strategy, Indie, Casual game, Fantasy, Construction, Clicker

Game released: PC → 29 September 2025

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 67/100

A clicker game with an emphasis on large-scale battles against colossal bosses. The journey begins modestly—a camp on the outskirts—but over time, it...

Farm to Table

Action, Business / Management, First-person view, Casual game, Open world, Construction, Crafting, Farm Simulator, Simulation, Indie

Early Access: PC → 9 May 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027

Steam: 91/100

A colorful simulator that combines farming and restaurant management. On a picturesque island, everything starts with a small plot and an idea...

NOIR BLOOM

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Cyberpunk, Indie, Side view, Old school

Game in development: PC → 2027

Hardcore action in the style of gun-fu (kung-fu with guns) focusing on fast-paced shootouts, hand-to-hand combat, and cinematic fight choreography in...

Pawsome Resort

Top-down view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Farm Simulator, Indie, Simulation, Role-playing game

Early Access: PC → 22 June 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027

Steam: 81/100

A cozy pixel simulator with farming elements and a cooperative, dedicated to managing your own resort for animals. In the small town of Pebble Town...

Neko Station

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

Game released: PC → 13 July 2026

Steam: 89/100

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

Step Lightly

Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: PC → 10 July 2026

Steam: 90/100

A short horror platformer where a nighttime awakening turns into an attempt to escape from your own home. Amidst the chaos and tight spaces lies a...

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Fantasy, Procedural generation

Game released: PC → 23 March 2022

Steam: 92/100

A classic turn-based roguelike where each run offers a new challenge. Randomly generated dungeons, enemies, items, and events make every expedition...

They Are Here: Alien Abduction Horror

Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Science fiction, Exploration, Detective, Walking Simulator

Game in development: PC → 2026

Cinematic first-person horror inspired by classic sci-fi thrillers about alien abductions. The plot centers around journalist Taylor Fox, who goes to...

Ministry of Truth: False Memory

Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 19 August 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

A narrative simulator about life in a totalitarian society, where information becomes the main tool of power. The main character works as an official...

SPACEPLAN

Indie, Casual game, Space

Game released: PC → 4 May 2017

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 85/100

SPACEPLAN is a casual sci-fi clicker with a story partly based on a deliberate misunderstanding of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. The...

1917 - The Alien Invasion DX

Action, Indie, Arcade

Game released: PC → 10 June 2016

Steam: 71/100

An arcade shooter set during the First World War, as humanity fights an alien invasion. The player takes the role of Dr. Brunhild Stahlmüller, a...

Rebirth:Mr Wang

Role-playing game, Visual novel, Indie, Anime / Manga, Exploration

Game released: PC → 3 October 2020

Steam: 64/100

This role-playing game combines a branching story with level-based puzzles and follows Mr. Wang, an apartment repairman who helps his female...

Space Architect

Indie, Business / Management, Top-down view

Game released: PC → 23 November 2024

Steam: 72/100

This business simulation focuses on building and developing a space station in a future where megacorporations control exploration of the universe...

Osmos

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 August 2009

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This physics-based arcade game blends strategy and puzzles in an abstract world of particles. The goal is to grow by absorbing other motes while...

Gunpoint

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Indie, Tactics, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 3 June 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game about a freelance spy who takes jobs infiltrating secure buildings to steal sensitive data. Across 20 missions, a...

Cradle

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 24 July 2015

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This first-person science-fiction quest is set in a robotized Mongolia in 2076. The protagonist wakes in a yurt in the middle of the steppe and meets...

The Unfinished Swan

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 10 September 2020

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The Unfinished Swan is an interactive adventure with a first-person view. In the game you control a boy who chased a swan and ended up in a strange...

Scar of the Doll

Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Visual novel, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 August 1999

Steam: 89/100

This horror-tinged adventure visual novel follows Asumi as she travels to Tokyo to search for her older sister, who has been out of contact for...

Capsized

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 April 2011

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This 2D platformer with shooter elements follows a space traveler whose ship crash-lands on a mysterious planet. To survive, the protagonist explores...

DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 November 2010

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This action RPG follows DeathSpank on a comic adventure across war-torn battlefields, mountain ranges and dangerous seas. He hunts for the magical...

Edna & Harvey: The Breakout

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Comedy, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 October 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 64/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows young Edna as she tries to escape from a psychiatric asylum. She wakes in a padded cell with no...

Iron Storm

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

Game released: PC → 19 December 2002

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Iron Storm — a first-person shooter set in an alternate 60s. The First World War did not end, but grew into large-scale battles between the...

Keepsake

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 17 April 2018

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This puzzle adventure follows Lydia as she arrives for her first day at a magic academy, only to find its halls empty. Accompanied by a dragon afraid...

Steel Empire

Shooter, Beat them all, Steampunk, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 September 2018

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Steel Empire is an old-school side-scrolling shooter in steampunk style. You have to repel the attack of the powerful Motorhead empire, which has...

Zero-K

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Tanks, Combat robots, Free game, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 April 2018

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Zero-K is a free-to-play real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting, inspired by the famous Total Annihilation and...

Guncraft

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

Game released: PC → 10 August 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 50/100

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...

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...

OlliOlli

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Sports game, Indie, Skateboards

Game released: PC → 22 July 2014

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This skateboarding arcade game revolves around landing tricks and maintaining control through obstacle-filled levels. Players perform more than 120...

Trove

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game, Roguelike, Sandbox, Open world

Game released: PC → 9 July 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 76/100

Trove is a free-to-play multiplayer action game with a third-person view and survival elements. Together with your friends, you have the opportunity...

At the Gates

Strategy, God Simulator, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Tactics, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 January 2019

Steam: 39/100

Metacritic: 63/100

At the Gates is an engaging turn-based strategy game with an isometric camera view from the creator of Sid Meier's Civilization 5. You will take on...

Finding Teddy 2

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 2 April 2015

Finding Teddy 2 is a Point and Click adventure game with a mixture of puzzle and indie games from developers from Storybird Games. The main...

Sanctum 2: The Last Stand

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 12 December 2013

Steam: 93/100

An expansion for Sanctum 2 in which Core Guardians fend off increased Lume activity across four new maps, including a remake of the classic Arc map...

Steam Bandits: Outpost

Role-playing game, Adventure, Online, Indie, Steampunk

Early Access: PC → 15 January 2014

Players: 1/10

Steam Bandits: Outpost is an indie steampunk adventure RPG. You'll explore the skies of a steampunk world, discovering islands, taming beasts, and...

FRACT OSC

Simulation, Adventure, Music game, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 April 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This musical exploration adventure with puzzles unfolds in an abandoned world once built on sound. The player explores its open spaces, solves...

Home Free

Simulation, Third-person view, Indie

Game canceled: PC → 23 June 2022

Anticipation Rating: 2/10

Home Free is a stray dog simulator with a third-person view. Each city will be randomly generated, so there should be no duplicate locations. You...

Ascent: The Space Game

Role-playing game, Online, Simulation, Action, Strategy, Adventure, MMO, Business / Management, Indie, Free game, Space

Game released: PC → 11 April 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 68/100

This PvE space MMO centers on exploring the galaxy after the collapse of humanity’s empire and rebuilding knowledge of the universe and its past...

Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar

Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Indie, Historical

Game released: PC → 30 May 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 60/100

This real-time historical strategy game is set during the Gallic Wars of the first century BC, across lands stretching from the Mediterranean to the...

Dungeon Defenders Eternity

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 22 July 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 48/100

A fantasy action RPG with tower-defense elements, Dungeon Defenders Eternity follows a team of heroes defending Etheria from the army of the Old...

Diehard Dungeon

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 5 March 2014

Steam: 73/100

Diehard Dungeon is an action roguelike set in a fantasy dungeon, presented with a 16-bit-inspired look. Armed with a sword and a hand cannon, the...

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