Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 8

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 18 November 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Never Alone is an arcade side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. You play as the girl Nunu and her arctic fox companion. You have to solve the mystery of an...

Death's Gambit

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 August 2018

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Death's Gambit is an arcade side-scrolling action platformer with RPG elements. You have to act as an agent of death, whose goal is to rid the world of “immortals...

Turmoil

In real time, Business / Management, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 2 June 2016

Players: 8.4/10

A side-view real-time management strategy game set in North America at the end of the 19th century. The beginning of the oil rush, a small town and the struggle for...

Lust from Beyond

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Adult game, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 March 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Lust from Beyond is a continuation of the first-person adventure horror Lust for Darkness. The main character is Victor Holloway, an antique dealer who begins to...

Spark in the Dark

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 7 April 2026; Game in development: PC → 2029

Players: 7.6/10

A dark role-playing action game with an isometric camera, immersing players in the depths of a sinister dungeon full of mysteries and dangers. The atmosphere is...

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

Role-playing game, Indie, Simulation, Adventure

Game released: PC → 4 March 2021

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is a narrative role-playing game set in the pages of the protagonist's diary. You will find a story about a ruthless world...

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...

Narcosis

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 28 March 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Narcosis is a first-person horror adventure game that supports HTC Vive, OSVR and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices. The game takes place deep under the Pacific...

A Difficult Game About Climbing

Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 March 2024

Players: 7.7/10

Hardcore precision platformer in the spirit of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. The player controls the climber's hands to ascend a massive, treacherous...

Mist Survival

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

Early Access: PC → 15 August 2018; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7.3/10

Mist Survival is an action-adventure survival game with a first-person view and stealth elements. The game takes place in a world where a deadly virus has infected...

Void Bastards

Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics

Game released: PC → 28 May 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Void Bastards is a hybrid FPS and strategy game about a prison full of dangerous criminals drifting through space. You have to try on the role of captain of a space...

Souldiers

Arcade, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 June 2022

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Souldiers is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. Together with other fighters fighting for the glory of their kingdom, you...

63 Days

Strategy, Tactics, Isometric, Indie, In real time, Historical, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 26 September 2024

Players: 7.3/10

A tactical game in the spirit of Commandos, based on the real events of World War II. The player controls a group of Polish resistance fighters seeking to liberate...

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...

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...

Crying Suns

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 18 September 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Crying Suns is a tactical strategy game with turn-based combat and roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place in the distant future...

Beneath Oresa

Indie, Turn-based, Card game, Roguelike, Third-person view, Cyberpunk, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Procedural generation

Game released: PC → 27 September 2023

Players: 9.3/10

A turn-based strategy, the events of which unfold in the vast fantasy world of Oresa. The game has colorful graphics, colorful heroes, a variety of enemies...

Embr

Arcade, Online, First-person view, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: PC → 23 September 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Embr is a first-person co-op action game where you become the best firefighter you can hire. Alone or together with your comrades, you will go to conquer burning...

Blood West

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

Early Access: PC → 10 February 2022; Game released: PC → 5 December 2023

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 80/100

A mystical Western that tells the story of a traveling revolver who rises from the dead to lift a curse and free his soul. During his journey through the Wild West...

Nova Lands

Construction, Business / Management, Action, Top-down view, Crafting, Sandbox, Open world, Exploration, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 June 2023

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 79/100

The hero finds himself on a colorful planet full of secrets, amazing creatures, people and interesting activities. His task is to build a new house using automation...

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

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

Game released: PC → 27 April 2022

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an improved version of the office adventure with a first-person view. You will play the role of office plankton Stanley, who...

Gylt

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Action, Exploration, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC → 6 July 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 70/100

The main character is a little girl, Sally, who one day, fleeing from a group of bullies, finds herself in a distorted version of her city, where her fears and...

Nuclear Throne

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 December 2015

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Nuclear Throne is a dynamic arcade action game with roguelike elements and a top-down view. Having chosen one of 12 unique characters and armed with an arsenal of...

Black Book

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Strategy

Game released: PC → 10 August 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Black Book is a mixture of an adventure game and a card RPG in the setting of Russian fairy tales. The game tells the story of a young peasant woman, Vasilisa: the...

Little Orpheus

Action, Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Platformer, Science fiction, Side view, Old school

Game released: PC → 13 September 2022

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Little Orpheus is an adventure platformer with puzzle and action elements in the science fiction genre. 1962 NASA is trying to land a man on the moon. Meanwhile, in...

Mutazione

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 19 September 2019

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Mutazione is an atmospheric side-scrolling adventure in a fantasy setting. More than 100 years ago, a meteorite fell on a tropical resort. Almost all the...

Die After Sunset

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

Early Access: PC → 11 February 2022; Game released: PC → 17 August 2023

Players: 7.7/10

Die After Sunset is a third-person shooter with RPG elements in which you must uncover the secrets of an invading alien civilization and stop it. The enemy's main...

Fly Corp

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Logic, Indie

Early Access: PC → 28 May 2021; Game released: PC → 18 May 2023

Players: 6.9/10

A minimalist strategy game for managing an air network. The main objective is to develop air routes between real cities with populations corresponding to real data...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 26 August 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Townscaper is a vibrant casual strategy game in which the player builds a city on an island. The player selects colors and creates blocks of houses on a grid, and...

Deathly Stillness

Free game, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 September 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Deathly Stillness is a free-to-play post-apocalyptic shooter with a third-person view. The main opponents in the game are zombies. The main task is to clear all...

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...

The Survivalists

Action, Roguelike, Isometric, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 October 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

The Survivalists is a sandbox adventure game with roguelike elements and an isometric camera view set in the Escapists universe. In the game you will go to conquer...

Fez

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 September 2013

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Fez is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. The action takes place in a 3D world, allowing the player to explore and traverse colorful worlds by rotating...

Rollerdrome

Action, Sports game, Indie, Third-person view, Shooter, Stunts

Game released: PC → 16 August 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Rollerdrome is an indie sports action game with a third-person view and shooter elements. It's 2030. The world is ruled by corporations, the boundary between...

Cozy Grove

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Isometric

Game released: PC → 8 April 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Cozy Grove is an indie adventure simulator with an isometric view. Welcome to a life simulator about camping on an ever-changing haunted island. As a spiritual...

Halls of Torment

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Indie, Roguelike, Fantasy, Old school

Early Access: PC → 24 May 2023; Game released: PC → 24 September 2024

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 88/100

The main action takes place in a dark fantasy world with monsters, demons and magic. The brave hero sets out to explore various underground spaces to find new...

One Hand Clapping

Adventure, Platformer, Music game, Indie, Side view

Early Access: PC → 10 June 2021; Game released: PC → 14 December 2021

Players: 10/10

One Hand Clapping is a side-scrolling indie musical platformer that challenges you to sing into your microphone to solve puzzles and unlock the power of your voice...

TURBOZOD

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Free game, Side view, Casual game, Clicker

Game released: PC → 22 May 2026

A dynamic sci-fi RPG with loot and fast-paced battles, where the main character is an ideal biological weapon that has escaped from a secret laboratory. Having lost...

Vagante

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC → 22 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Vagante is a side-scrolling action RPG platformer that features permadeath and procedurally generated levels. A dangerous adventure awaits you in a dark fantasy...

WINGSPAN

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Turn-based, Card game, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 17 September 2020

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 78/100

WINGSPAN is a fun collectible card game with turn-based combat for 1-5 players. You will act as ornithologists, collectors, connoisseurs and observers who want to...

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Best Games in the Indie genre for PC