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Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Exploration, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 25 August 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

A psychological horror about a Japanese streamer whose life gradually becomes more and more unsettling. The realistic environment and believable...

Ghost Buster: Village

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

Game released: PC → 20 August 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Atmospheric horror inspired by Slavic mythology. The main character is an extreme blogger who goes to an abandoned village, where, according to...

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...

Out of Sight

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: PC → 22 May 2025

Steam: 94/100

An atmospheric horror game that combines first- and third-person perspectives with tense sound design. The main character is Sophie, a blind girl who...

Luck be a Landlord

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Roguelike, Casual game, Old school, Procedural generation, Casino

Game released: PC → 6 January 2023

Steam: 94/100

A strategic roguelike where a slot machine becomes your main way to earn rent money and challenge the capitalist system. The main character is in a...

High Strategy: Urukon

Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 22 May 2020

Steam: 89/100

A grand strategy game set on a dying alien world, where the player leads one of 32 factions with distinct starting conditions and goals. Inspired by...

大明王朝1789 | Ming dynasty 1789

Strategy, Role-playing game, Indie

Early Access: PC → 15 June 2020

Steam: 45/100

A plot-driven strategy game set in 1789, a century before the Great Revolution, during the Ming dynasty. The player makes decisions against the...

Awkward Girls

Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 2 June 2020

Steam: 77/100

A casual memory puzzle game about awkward girls in an anime-inspired setting, revisiting funny and heartwarming moments from their lives. Each...

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...

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Arcade, Logic, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 7 January 2009

Players: 6/10

Steam: 89/100

This 2D physics puzzle sandbox turns drawings into real objects governed by physics. Players solve puzzles by coming up with ways to use the objects...

Anna

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

Game released: PC → 11 July 2012

Players: 2/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Anna is a first-person horror adventure with puzzles, set in an abandoned sawmill in the Italian mountains. The protagonist explores its rooms and...

Castlestorm

Arcade, Action, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Side view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 29 July 2013

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Castlestorm is a fun side-view tower defense strategy game. Clouds are gathering in the sky... There is a war between knights and Vikings. The game...

Gazillionaire Deluxe

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 1996

Steam: 94/100

Gazillionaire Deluxe is a futuristic business simulation about starting a trading company and growing it into a business empire. The player buys...

Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb

Action, Shooter, DLC, Third-person view, Top-down view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 29 May 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 93/100

An expansion for The Binding of Isaac, Wrath of the Lamb follows Isaac as he battles mysterious creatures through randomly generated rooms...

Blackwell Legacy

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

Game released: PC → 23 December 2006

Steam: 89/100

A point-and-click adventure about Rosa Blackwell, a fledgling medium, and Joey Mallone, a ghost who becomes her spirit guide. After the death of her...

Crazy Chicken Kart 2

Racing, Third-person view, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 25 July 2007

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 63/100

This arcade kart racer features birds from the grouse family competing on daredevil courses. Players choose from seven drivers and race against...

Lone Survivor

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 23 April 2012

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This psychological survival horror follows a masked man trying to escape a city ravaged by disease as he questions whether what he sees is real...

Bit Brawlers

Arcade, Online, Action, Shooter, Fighting, Platformer, Indie

Game canceled: PC → 2016

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Bit Brawlers — A furious multiplayer action game with a side view, where you have to fight in various arenas in the form of funny...

Moon Tycoon

Simulation, Business / Management, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 September 2003

Steam: 46/100

This futuristic city-building simulation focuses on establishing a lunar colony and expanding into space. Its three connected campaigns must be...

SkySaga: Infinite Isles

Online, Simulation, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Free game

Frozen: PC → 26 December 2016

SkySaga: Infinite Isles is an online game with a mixture of simulation, fantasy game, indie game and free-to-play game from the studio Radiant...

Serious Sam Double D XXL

Arcade, Beat them all, Platformer, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 August 2011

Steam: 82/100

Serious Sam Double D XXL is a 2D action platformer in which Sam battles the army of Mental. The fight spans 18 levels across three worlds, from the...

Ray's the Dead

Action, Strategy, Stealth, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 22 October 2020

Steam: 64/100

Ray's the Dead is a fun zombie action game with an isometric camera view, where you rise from your grave and lead hordes of zombies. The main task is...

Endless Space: Disharmony

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 June 2013

Endless Space: Disharmony is a strategy game with an indie twist from the developers at Amplitude Studios. The main publisher of the game is...

Nimble Quest

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 6 December 2013

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This arcade action game with role-playing elements centers on a party of heroes that moves constantly through stages while fighting enemy hordes. The...

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...

Defense Technica

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: PC → 24 October 2013

Steam: 42/100

Metacritic: 63/100

A futuristic tower defense strategy game about protecting a core from biomechanical attackers. The defense includes eight classes of towers with...

Robot Rescue Revolution

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 11 July 2014

Steam: 66/100

This arcade puzzle game follows robots trying to escape hazardous labyrinths. The player controls every robot on a level at once, so their...

Violett

Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 December 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This fantasy point-and-click adventure follows Violett, a rebellious teenager whose parents move her from the city to an old house in the...

Avernum: Escape from the Pit

Role-playing game, Isometric, Tactics, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 April 2012

Steam: 91/100

This fantasy role-playing game is set in Avernum, an underground nation where the Empire sends its outcasts. Banished to the volcanic depths by the...

CastleMiner Z

Action, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Survival, Zombies, Online

Game released: PC → 3 February 2014

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 85/100

This co-op survival horror game takes place in a block-based world where players explore changing environments and fend off zombies, dragons...

Fading Hearts

Role-playing game, Simulation, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Japanese role-playing game, Casual game

Game released: PC → 5 February 2014

Steam: 61/100

This role-playing story with simulation and visual novel elements follows Ryou, an ordinary high school student in the land of Sorayama. The player...

Universe Edge

Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Indie

Game canceled: PC → 22 May 2014

Universe Edge is a business simulator with sandbox and indie game elements from developers from the Albert Olivera studio. The game is published by...

Lords of the Black Sun

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

Game released: PC → 12 September 2014

Steam: 19/100

This turn-based 4X strategy game is set in deep space, where rival powers struggle for control of the galaxy. The player leads one of eight races...

Rush to Survive

Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Frozen: PC → 2017

Anticipation Rating: 5/10

Rush to Survive is a first-person shooter with survival elements from 17-year-old Colin Sawyer. Your main task is to survive in a huge location by...

EarthNight

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 3 December 2019

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 75/100

EarthNight is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer with roguelike elements. The game will tell about the dragon apocalypse, which forced...

Flyhunter Origins

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 10 December 2014

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 58/100

An adventure platformer about Zak, an alien janitor who dreams of becoming a flyhunter. When a cargo of exotic insects from the spaceship The Frog is...

Blood of the Werewolf

Arcade, Action, Horror, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 28 October 2013

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This horror action-platformer follows Selena, a werewolf who sets out to avenge her husband’s murder and rescue her kidnapped child from the monsters...

Heat Signature

Arcade, Stealth, Indie, Space

Game released: PC → 21 September 2017

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Heat Signature is a space stealth action game about breaking into ships and carrying out missions across a galaxy. The player selects a target, flies...

Trine: Enchanted Edition

Action, Adventure, Collection, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Platformer

Game released: PC → 24 July 2014

This fantasy adventure platformer tells the origin story of Amadeus the Wizard, Pontius the Knight, and Zoya the Thief, whose fates are bound by the...

Airships: Conquer the Skies

Strategy, In real time, Indie, Steampunk, Construction, Grand strategy

Game released: PC → 16 August 2018

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

This steampunk strategy game centers on designing airships and land vehicles for large-scale battles over control of the skies. Players assemble...

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