Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 9

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit - a game in the Indie genre

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Horror, Exploration, Old school

Game released: PC → 8 August 2024

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 87/100

The official spin-off to the Five Nights at Freddy's universe, made in 2D pixel style. Oswald is bored with his city and his life. But everything changes when he...

Model Builder

Simulation, Indie, Action, First-person view, Arcade, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 8 February 2022

Model Builder is a model building simulator with a first-person view, where you have to go through all the stages of working with models: selecting and purchasing...

MIO: Memories in Orbit

Platformer, Indie, Side view, Science fiction, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 20 January 2026

Players: 4.6/10

Metacritic: 82/100

An android named Mio awakens on a large spaceship that has fallen into disrepair. The main character explores overgrown locations filled with hostile machines to...

YAPYAP

First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Comedy, Exploration, Fantasy, Procedural generation, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 3 February 2026

Cooperative survival horror where you can test your magical abilities with friends. In the story, the player and their allies are wizards summoned by a powerful...

Mouthwashing

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

Game released: PC → 26 September 2024

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Space indie horror in the style of games from the PlayStation One era. The game tells the dark story of the crew of the Tulpar ship, drifting in outer space...

Bridge Constructor Stunts

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 February 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Bridge Constructor Stunts is an arcade puzzle game for mobile devices, where instead of bridges you will build ramps and trampolines. Even the slowest trucks will...

Mindustry

Strategy, Top-down view, In real time, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: PC → 26 September 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Mindustry is a fun real-time strategy game with elements of the tower defense genre and a top-down view. In the game, you have to create complex conveyor chains to...

Arboria

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action

Early Access: PC → 7 May 2020; Game released: PC → 9 September 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Arboria is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in a dark underground world in which a certain Chosen One...

Trash Sailors

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

Game released: PC → 16 December 2021

A cooperative action game in which players take on the roles of survivalists. The heroes managed to survive the garbage tsunami and ended up on a raft in the middle...

Doomsday Hunters

Action, Roguelike, Indie, Adventure, Isometric

Early Access: PC → 23 May 2020; Game released: PC → 20 July 2023

Players: 9.1/10

Action-roguelike in the spirit of The Binding of Isaac and Nuclear Throne, where the player saves the world from the evil Dracula. The focus is on endless...

Lifeless Planet

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

Game released: PC → 6 March 2014

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Lifeless Planet is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. The game tells the story of an astronaut who discovers an abandoned Soviet...

Them and Us

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

Early Access: PC → 7 September 2018; Game released: PC → 28 September 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Them and Us is an action-adventure game with a third-person view and horror elements. The events of the game take place in 1978, when after a bus accident, a young...

Dorfromantik

Strategy, Arcade, Indie, Isometric, Turn-based

Early Access: PC → 25 March 2021; Game released: PC → 28 April 2022

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Dorfromantik is a colorful city-building strategy with turn-based battles and an isometric camera view. You start the game with a stack of procedurally generated...

Gunsmith Simulator

Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Shooter, Educational game (Education), Business / Management

Early Access: PC → 19 July 2023; Game released: PC → 4 October 2024

Players: 8.2/10

A gunsmith simulator about assembling and disassembling different types of firearms. It can be repaired and sold to make a profit and grow your business. Over time...

Going Under

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 24 September 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Going Under is an arcade action-adventure game with an isometric camera view. You have to try on the role of an intern in a gloomy city called Neo-Cascadia. You are...

Moonlighter

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 29 May 2018

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Moonlighter is an action RPG with a procedurally generated world and a Japanese-style isometric camera view. Players will find dark and gloomy dungeons populated by...

The TakeOver

Action, Indie, Beat them all, Side view, Arcade, Fighting

Game released: PC → 10 November 2019

Players: 10/10

The TakeOver is a classic arcade action game with fighting game elements and a side view. In the game you have to choose one of four available characters and fight...

To the Moon

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 July 2012

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An indie adventure game created using the RPG Maker engine. The game tells the story of two young doctors, Eva and Neil, who give people another chance to live...

Thronefall

Isometric, Strategy, Construction, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), In real time, Indie

Early Access: PC → 2 August 2023; Game released: PC → 11 October 2024

Players: 7.6/10

A game with minimalistic graphics, in which the gamer builds the defense of a settlement during the day and defends against enemy attacks at night. It is important...

Demeo

Virtual Reality (VR), Card game, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Indie, Turn-based, Cooperative (co-op), First-person view

Game released: PC → 15 December 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Demeo is a card role-playing game with turn-based combat from a first-person view in a fantasy setting for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve...

Severed Steel

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 September 2021

Players: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Severed Steel is a dynamic first-person shooter in which the main character is a one-armed girl who destroys entire squads of soldiers using different types of...

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound

Indie, Platformer, Side view, Old school

Game released: PC → 31 July 2025

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Pixel game from the Ninja Gaiden series. Ryu Hayabusa goes to America, where he must fulfill the will of his father. At this time, an army of demons penetrates the...

Wildermyth

Role-playing game, Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based, Board / Group Game, Fantasy

Early Access: PC → 13 November 2019; Game released: PC → 15 June 2021

Metacritic: 86/100

Tactical role-playing game with turn-based battles. The player leads a group of heroes who have left their farming duties to protect their home. Each character has...

Anvil Saga

Simulation, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval, Business / Management, Strategy, Historical, Side view

Early Access: PC → 21 June 2022; Game released: PC → 16 November 2023

Players: 8.5/10

Anvil Saga is an economic simulator of blacksmith shop management with RPG elements. The Hundred Years' War is in full swing, and the hero's goal in life is to...

Samorost 3

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 24 March 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Samorost 3 is a continuation of the fantastic adventure from the developers of Samorost 2, Machinarium and Botanicula. The main character is a gnome who seems to...

THERMOCLINE

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Turn-based, Indie, Free game, Dungeons, Old school

Game in development: PC → 2026

A grim psychological horror set on the frozen surface of a dead planet, where an icy storm is just one of many threats. As the sole survivor among abandoned...

Tinkertown

Adventure, Indie, Top-down view, Role-playing game, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Sandbox, Online, Open world, Procedural generation

Early Access: PC → 3 December 2020; Game released: PC → 22 June 2023

A cooperative sandbox with elements of crafting, survival and a top-down view. The events of the game take place in a magical land, where only imagination limits...

Buggos

Strategy, Indie, Top-down view, In real time, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 17 March 2022

Buggos is a top-down, auto-battler real-time strategy game set in a sci-fi setting where you create an invincible army of bugs. In the game, you control a young...

Sker Ritual

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies, Indie, Online, Survival horror

Early Access: PC → 6 October 2022; Game released: PC → 18 April 2024

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 55/100

Cooperative shooter inspired by the British horror Maid of Sker. Players will face hordes of familiar and new elite monsters with supernatural abilities...

Grime 2

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 31 March 2026

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Continuation of the metroidvania about a hero with a black hole instead of a head. The new part is dedicated to the Formless — a vile creature that can absorb...

Ferocious

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

Game released: PC → 4 December 2025

Players: 5.2/10

A tactical survival shooter set on a mysterious tropical island in the Pacific Ocean. It was from there that a distress signal came from journalists, whom the main...

Speed Brawl

Arcade, Action, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 18 September 2018

Players: 7.6/10

Speed Brawl is a dynamic side-scrolling action game in which you will have to hold a continuous chain of blows for as long as possible. In total, there are 6...

Five Nights at Freddy's World

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: PC → 12 February 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Five Nights at Freddy's World is an animatronic RPG where gamers won't have to fear the little characters. The gameplay is done in a turn-based mode, familiar to...

Ring of Pain

Roguelike, Card game, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 15 October 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Ring of Pain is a tactical indie roguelike card game with fantasy elements. The cards you collect go into your item slots throughout the adventure, where you have...

Kona 2: Brume

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

Game released: PC → 18 October 2023

Players: 8.6/10

The game takes place in Canada in 1970. A certain haze cut off a small mining village from the whole world. Private detective Karl Faber is trying to understand its...

Ooblets

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Indie

Early Access: PC → 15 July 2020; Game released: PC → 5 October 2023

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Ooblets is a cute RPG with simulation elements. It is inspired by two popular games: Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing. You can create your own character and your...

Organs Please

Simulation, Side view, Strategy, Business / Management, Role-playing game, Indie

Early Access: PC → 17 November 2022; Game released: PC → 5 April 2023

Organs Please is a management strategy where you take on the role of the director of an extraordinary processing plant. The Earth's resources are depleted, and the...

Strafe

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 May 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Strafe is a bloody retro shooter with a first-person view. The game is a tribute to classic shooters and a subtle play on nostalgia at the same time. You will find...

Train Valley

Business / Management, Top-down view, Trains, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 September 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Domina

Simulation, Action, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 April 2017

Players: 8.6/10

Domina is a strategy simulator that will give you the opportunity to become the owner of your own Ludus - a gladiator school. You will have to glorify your own name...

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