Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 96

Game canceled: PC → 26 March 2015

Adopted is a first-person adventure with indie game elements from the developers at Clockwork Demon. The game is published by Clockwork...

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 and firepower...

Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm

Arcade, Fighting, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → February 2014

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This traditional-style 2D fighting game is set in Japan in 1925, where, following a coup, the old government orders a secret organization to begin a program...

Broken Sword: The Angel of Death

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Point & Click, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 November 2006

Players: 10/10

Steam: 43/100

Broken Sword: The Angel of Death — continuation of the exciting "point and click" adventure in the Broken Sword series. After incredible adventures, George...

Hack 'n' Slash

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Indie, Slasher

Game released: PC → 9 September 2014

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Hack 'n' Slash is a fantasy puzzle adventure about a hero who defies a wizard’s restrictions and sets out to discover why the kingdom has fallen into disarray...

Volgarr the Viking

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 September 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Volgarr the Viking is a hardcore arcade platformer in which the Viking hero fights enemies and navigates deadly traps across a series of dangerous worlds. The game...

Ballpoint Universe Infinite

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 17 December 2013

Steam: 87/100

Ballpoint Universe Infinite is an arcade platformer and indie game from Arachnid Games. The main publishers of the game are Troo Gaming and Arachnid...

Catapult for Hire

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

Game canceled: PC → 2015

Catapult for Hire is an adventure role-playing game with medieval elements and a third-person perspective. The story is a satirical look at modern issues in a...

StarDrive 2

Action, Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Space

Game released: PC → 9 April 2015

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 55/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A turn-based space 4X strategy with real-time tactical space battles and turn-based ground combat. In StarDrive 2, the player rules a race and builds an empire in a...

Quell

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 14 May 2015

Steam: 97/100

Quell is a logic puzzle in which the player slides a droplet of water across a window pane. Each level involves avoiding spikes and collecting pearls while planning...

Defense Grid 2

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Action

Game released: PC → 24 September 2014

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Defense Grid 2 is a continuation of the exciting tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre with an isometric camera view. In the sequel, you will find an...

Black the Fall

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 11 July 2017

Players: 5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Black the Fall is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer whose main goal is to tell the story of a hero escaping the communist system. Solve puzzles to avoid...

Explosive Dinosaurs

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 December 2018

Steam: 100/100

A multiplayer arcade game about dinosaurs and explosions, built around more than 40 minigames that test players’ skill. Up to four people can compete, and solo play...

Subject 13

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 28 May 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 59/100

This adventure puzzle game follows Franklin Fargo, a physics professor who wakes up in an abandoned scientific facility. His only link to the outside world is a...

Anna's Quest

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 July 2015

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Anna's Quest is an exciting point and click adventure in a fantasy setting. Anna spent her entire childhood on a distant, quiet farm, knowing nothing about the rest...

Toren

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 11 May 2015

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Toren is an action-adventure platformer with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game will allow you to experience life in a mysterious world that does...

//N.P.P.D. RUSH//- The milk of Ultraviolet

Arcade, Action, Indie, Steampunk, Shooter

Game released: PC → 13 February 2014

Steam: 40/100

This arcade shooter with light RPG elements takes place in an open world and arena battles, where the player rides a police superbike into the heart of skirmishes...

iBomber Attack

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 1 November 2012

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This top-down arcade action game sends the player across Europe in a tank to complete combat missions and destroy enemy installations. Targets include naval...

Farmburgh

Indie, Free game, Casual game, Farm Simulator, Simulation

Game released: PC → 2 May 2023

Steam: 71/100

A free classic farming simulator inspired by old browser games. Gamers will have to develop their farm by plowing fields, planting crops and raising...

Meltdown (2014)

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 June 2014

Steam: 87/100

This tactical arcade shooter is set in a sci-fi world and follows Zed as he tries to escape a remote space station after a system malfunction. Enemies have distinct...

Hidden Tomatoes 3

Free game, Indie, Hidden Objects, Casual game, Point & Click, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 8 February 2025

Steam: 91/100

The game takes place in a small cozy town. Gamer explores the streets and farm to find 100 hidden tomatoes. There are no time restrictions in the game and there is...

Secret of the Magic Crystals

Arcade, Simulation, Sports game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Point & Click, Business / Management, Crafting, Farm Simulator

Game released: PC → 14 January 2010

Steam: 79/100

Magic Ranch. Legend of the Crystals is an indie arcade game in the point and click style. In this game you will become the owner of a ranch with magical horses. You...

Signs of Life

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Sandbox, Survival

Game released: PC → 27 January 2014

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 80/100

This science-fiction survival sandbox platformer follows a survivor of a colony ship’s destruction. Escaping in a small pod, the protagonist is left with no...

Elliot Quest

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

Game released: PC → 10 November 2014

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 76/100

An adventure platformer with role-playing elements follows Elliot, who has been cursed with immortality and is slowly turning into a demon. After his wife...

Last Federation

Simulation, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Space

Game released: PC → 18 April 2014

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Last Federation is a fascinating global strategy game with turn-based combat in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place in the distant future in the...

Volt

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 14 April 2014

Steam: 70/100

This puzzle platformer follows a battery that escapes while being taken for recycling and tries to get out of an industrial facility. Without legs, the heroine...

Black Bird (2018)

Replayability, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 31 October 2018

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 73/100

After dying at a street corner, a young girl is reborn as the ominous Black Bird. The kingdom regards the bird as one of the great calamities spoken of since...

Ageless

Adventure, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 28 July 2020

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Ageless is a story-driven puzzle platformer in which the young Kiara explores a mysterious world, seeking to uncover its secrets and understand herself. As she...

Shuffle Tactics

Roguelike, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 June 2025

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Shuffle Tactics is a tactical RPG with deckbuilding and roguelike elements, centered on defending the Kingdom of Asteria from the Glimmer Curse. The hero sets out...

Tails Noir

Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 June 2021

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This post-noir detective adventure with role-playing elements takes place in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals. The player takes the role of Howard Lotor...

Hektor

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

Game released: PC → 13 March 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 61/100

Hektor is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The game takes place in a mysterious research base in northern Greenland. The main character wakes up...

Pink Heaven

Free game, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 4 November 2015

Steam: 89/100

A 2D action game starring the pink office worker from Kero Blaster, who must rescue a young shopkeeper from UFOs. The protagonist fights enemies and jumps to evade...

SwapQuest

Role-playing game, Action, Puzzle, Logic, Roguelike, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 August 2017

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 64/100

This role-playing game blends action, puzzle-solving, and roguelike elements in a story about the kingdom of Aventana, attacked by a cloud of demons known as the...

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Going East!

Simulation, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Open world

Game released: PC → 19 September 2013

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 83/100

Euro Truck Simulator 2 — Going East! — an add-on for a truck driver simulator with first- and third-person views. The expansion introduces new roads and...

Ironclad Tactics

Strategy, Indie, Card game

Game released: PC → 18 September 2013

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Ironclad Tactics is a card-based tactics game set in an alternate version of the American Civil War, where steam-powered military robots take part in the fighting...

True or False

Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 September 2016

Steam: 66/100

This quiz tests intuition and knowledge by asking players to decide whether each statement is true or false. Some claims sound implausible but are accurate, while...

Fingered

Simulation, Indie, Casual game, Detective

Game released: PC → 18 August 2015

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 74/100

This police simulation casts the player as a detective tasked with identifying suspects from witness descriptions and cleaning up a crime-ridden city. Descriptions...

Journal

Indie, Adventure, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 17 February 2014

Steam: 78/100

This narrative adventure unfolds in a hand-painted world and follows a young girl as she faces the choices and responsibilities of growing up. The story explores...

Uncraft World

Anime / Manga, Action, Indie

Early Access: PC → 25 September 2015

Steam: 83/100

An action game about saving the galaxy and its goddesses from being turned into cubes forever. It features more than 50 levels, online play, 27 hero skins, a level...

Korwin The Game

Action, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 19 September 2015

Steam: 79/100

An old-school 2D platformer in which a warrior for freedom fights hordes of socialists. The game features three modes: Platformer, Defender, and Endless...

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