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Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Action, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Online

Game released: PC → 17 March 2025

Steam: 71/100

Cooperative culinary game in the spirit overcooook, where one must manage a bar alone or, together with three friends. As you pass, players meet...

Quantic River

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Cyberpunk, Indie, Side view, Runner, Exploration

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

The game takes place in a neon dystopian world where the main character fights against opponents. Battles focus on parries and counterattacks. Many...

Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall

Role-playing game, Business / Management, Medieval era, Strategy, Historical, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 8 May 2025

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 77/100

A continuation of the royal strategy, in which it is again necessary to manage the destinies of people, making difficult decisions in the face of...

Farever

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Adventure

Early Access: PC → 6 May 2026

Steam: 73/100

A cooperative action RPG set in the open fantasy world of Syagrita. It's easy to go off-track in the game: head to the top of a mountain in search of...

She's Leaving

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

Game released: PC → 2 December 2025

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 68/100

The main character is forensic analyst Charles Dalton, who must solve a series of disappearances in snowy Heywood. His research leads him to a Tudor...

KRYSYS 2D

Shooter, Educational game (Education), Indie, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 4 September 2025

A fan-made reimagining of the original Crysis series as a 2D pixel shooter. The game offers simple gameplay where you have to fight alien invaders in...

Dad's Monster House 2: MEDAL

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Exploration

Game released: PC → 19 September 2025

Steam: 79/100

A dark game in which the main character finds himself trapped in a creepy abandoned house. You will have to look for codes, collect puzzles and solve...

Mad King Redemption

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school, Arcade, Strategy

Early Access: PC → 14 May 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 1/10

Steam: 82/100

A pixelated co-op game where players destroy hordes of enemies to stop a mad king. There are four characters, each with their own fighting style...

Gamblers Table

Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game, Clicker, Casino

Game released: PC → 11 January 2026

Steam: 75/100

A minimalist clicker with pixel graphics and cute helpers. The gameplay revolves around tossing coins. If the coin falls as a dollar — you earn...

Beyond Astra

Strategy, In real time, Indie, Space, Grand strategy, Science fiction, City Building

Game in development: PC → 2027

A global real-time strategy that combines elements of city building on a planetary scale and tactical RTS battles. The development of the empire is...

Keyboard Warrior Stickman - Typing Beat Em Up

Action, Fighting, Educational game (Education), Beat them all, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Slasher, Anime / Manga

Game in development: PC → 2026

An unusual action game that combines fast-paced fighting and typing mechanics in the spirit of spectacular slashers like Devil May Cry. The game is...

Blood West: Scavengers

Action, Shooter, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 3 June 2026

Steam: 79/100

An additional mode within Blood West, turning the grim Wild West into an endless challenge. Here, familiar hunting grounds become an arena of...

Maseylia: Echoes of the Past

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Metroidvania, Exploration, Parkour

Game released: PC → 19 June 2026

Players: 1/10

Steam: 82/100

An adventurous action metroidvania built around exploration, freedom of movement, and the discovery of forgotten secrets in a vast interconnected...

Elemental War 2

Strategy, In real time, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy, Medieval era, Indie, Replayability

Game released: PC → 6 May 2022

Steam: 72/100

A strategy game in the "tower defense" genre, where classic tower defense combines with a system of collecting elements and creating new...

Antivirus Girl

Action, Strategy, Casual game, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Anime / Manga, Science fiction, Top-down view, Shooter, Arcade

Game released: PC → 1 July 2026

Steam: 89/100

The game combines elements of "tower defense" and dynamic shooting, allowing not only to build defenses but also to directly control the main...

Deliria

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting, Procedural generation

Game released: PC → 3 September 2026

Steam: 62/100

An adventure sandbox with a procedurally generated world, inspired by Terraria. Players will encounter a vast open world without the usual cubic...

60 Seconds! Reatomized

Simulation, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Point & Click, Survival, Comedy, Strategy, Exploration

Game released: PC → 25 July 2019

Steam: 95/100

An updated version of the black comedy 60 Seconds! with survival elements, where a few dozen seconds separate ordinary family life from a nuclear...

Experiment 82626

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

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Cooperative horror set in the Poppy Playtime universe with stealth elements. One of the key features of the project is the positional voice chat...

東方憑依華～ Antinomy of Common Flowers.

Fighting, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 5 January 2018

Steam: 91/100

This fighting game set in the Touhou Project series centers on “Perfect Possession,” a mysterious phenomenon in which one person takes control of...

Christmas Adventure: Candy Storm

Casual game, Indie, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → 1 April 2016

Steam: 90/100

This Christmas hidden-object game follows Lisa, whose grandfather Santa Claus asks her to deliver presents to a remote town. While taking a shortcut...

Lighthouse of Madness

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 October 2026

Steam: 96/100

A game inspired by the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, where the exploration of a mysterious island intertwines with puzzles and psychological...

Vessels

Exploration, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 December 2020

Steam: 95/100

This narrative adventure follows a mysterious being trapped in a spaceship airlock with no memories and no way out. The crew suspects something is...

The Book of Bondmaids

Visual novel, Medieval era, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 September 2021

Steam: 80/100

This story-driven visual novel and sequel to Three Kingdoms Story: Conussia takes place after the kingdom’s ruling dynasty is overthrown and an...

Rochard

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 November 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Rochard is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting, filled to the brim with physics-based puzzles. You will play as...

Xenonauts

Strategy, Indie, Grand strategy, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 31 May 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A turn-based strategy game about an international military organisation defending Cold War-era Earth from an alien invasion. Persistent soldiers...

Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 18 February 2011

Steam: 81/100

This first-person horror adventure follows an investigation into the abandoned Utopia, a city under one roof built by the eccentric architect Baron...

Blackwell Deception

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

Game released: PC → 13 January 2012

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This point-and-click adventure follows Rosa, a genuine psychic, and Joey, her wayward spirit guide, as they investigate the deaths of clients...

Choice of Broadsides

Role-playing game, Adventure, Warships / Submarines, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 October 2017

Steam: 58/100

A text-based interactive novel about naval adventures in the age of sail, blending elements of the Horatio Hornblower and Aubrey–Maturin stories with...

Hydrophobia: Prophecy

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

Game released: PC → 9 May 2011

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Hydrophobia: Prophecy is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the future, in the middle of...

Jolly Rover

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

Game released: PC → 7 June 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This comedic point-and-click adventure follows Gaius James Rover, a dog who sets out for tropical islands in the pirate-filled Caribbean. The son of...

Samorost

Adventure, Free game, Side view, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 20 May 2021

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 96/100

Samorost is an unusual side-scrolling indie adventure game that follows the exciting journey of a dwarf in...

Ultratron

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 18 March 2013

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 73/100

In a retro-futuristic world, the last human has been killed by evil robots, and a battle droid sets out to avenge the human race. Players fight...

World of Subways Vol. 1: New York Underground "The Path"

Simulation, First-person view, Trains, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 September 2008

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 62/100

A train-driving simulator focused on the PATH route between New York and Newark, running through tunnels beneath the Hudson River as well as above...

Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4

Arcade, Role-playing game, Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 June 2013

Steam: 80/100

An old-school role-playing game with modern design concludes the story of Tycho Brahe, Scion of the Long Project, and his partner Jonathan Gabriel...

Tiny Thief

Arcade, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 16 December 2013

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 25/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Tiny Thief — the gameplay is both simple and exciting. You will be able to touch various objects on the screen to interact with them. For...

Pocket League Story

Simulation, Football, Isometric, Sports game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 August 2022

Steam: 88/100

This soccer simulation focuses on managing a team and guiding it through the leagues. The player selects and trains footballers, then leads the team...

Beat Hazard Ultra

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Beat them all, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 16 June 2011

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 63/100

An expansion for Beat Hazard, Beat Hazard Ultra adds modes, enemies and customization options to the music-driven arcade shooter. Combat intensity...

Lords of Xulima

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

Game released: PC → 14 November 2014; Early Access: PC → 8 August 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Lords of Xulima is a turn-based role-playing game with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. You live in a world where gods and people walk...

Eleusis

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, First-person view

Game released: PC → 22 February 2013

Steam: 61/100

This first-person adventure horror game takes place in a seemingly abandoned Greek village, where a character seeking refuge becomes caught up in...

Wayward Manor

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 15 July 2014

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 41/100

Wayward Manor — adventure horror with a first-person view in the style of science fiction. This game invites you into the afterlife of an angry...

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