Indie for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 97

Astro Tripper - a game in the Indie genre

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

Game released: PC → 15 September 2011

Steam: 79/100

Astro Tripper is an arcade shoot ’em up set in a science-fiction world, where a piloted craft battles waves of enemies across large, horizontally scrolling...

City Builder

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 27 May 2018

Steam: 75/100

A city-building puzzle game in which pipes, roads and power lines are stacked to expand a city. As the player progresses, they move from one city to the next across...

Galactic Empire (1990)

Simulation, Action, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 9 March 2023

A turn-based space strategy game about building an empire and competing for influence across the galaxy. At the start of a game, the player chooses a planet type...

Geneforge 3

Role-playing game, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 1 April 2005

Steam: 87/100

Geneforge 3 is a fantasy role-playing adventure and the third chapter of the Geneforge Saga, set in unfamiliar, hostile lands. The player explores the world...

Domino Arena

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 November 2013

Domino Arena is an arcade game with puzzle elements and indie games from the masters from the Gamieon studio. The game is published by...

Puzzle Bots

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

Game released: PC → 7 May 2010

Steam: 87/100

Puzzle Bots is a third-person adventure with puzzle elements from developers from Ivy Games. The game is published by Wadjet Eye...

Serious Sam: The Random Encounter

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Top-down view, Turn-based, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 October 2011

Steam: 49/100

Metacritic: 64/100

A turn-based role-playing game set in the pixel-art world of Serious Sam, where Sam and a band of mercenaries battle hordes of Mental’s creatures. Fights span three...

Super Puzzle Platformer

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 18 June 2011

Steam: 91/100

This arcade platformer combines falling-block puzzle elements with old-school action: rather than matching colored blocks, the player shoots them and tries to...

TRAUMA (2011)

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 8 August 2011

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This adventure puzzle game follows a young woman who survives a car accident. While recovering in the hospital, she dreams about different aspects of her identity...

Tiny Brains

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 11 December 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Tiny Brains is a cooperative action puzzler about four super-powered laboratory animals trying to escape a mad scientist’s experiments. Players work together to...

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 Amplitude Studios...

Planck

Shooter, Music game, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game canceled: PC → 2016

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Planck is a shooter with a mixture of music game and indie game from developers from the ShadeGrownGames studio. The main publisher of the game is...

Foul Play

Arcade, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 18 September 2013

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This side-scrolling co-op action game unfolds entirely on a theatre stage, where daemon-hunter Baron Dashforth reenacts episodes from his life, from the deserts of...

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...

Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior

Role-playing game, Action, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Online

Game released: PC → 14 November 2013

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 58/100

An expansion for Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, adding online combat between warriors from different eras to the medieval action game. It introduces classes such as...

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...

Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians

Arcade, Music game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 6 August 2013

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This musical adventure with arcade elements follows Beatbuddy, an ethereal creature who awakens and sets out to save his companions and his own immortality. Along...

Combat Monsters

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Tactics, Strategy, Turn-based, Free game, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 October 2013

Steam: 70/100

Combat Monsters — action role-playing game in fantasy style with an isometric view. You'll collect thousands of cards, create exciting decks, and then battle...

#IDARB

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 February 2016

Metacritic: 77/100

#IDARB is an arcade action-platformer that began as an image of a red box. It evolved into a minimalist sketchbook of game mechanics shaped by community...

Upside-Down Dimensions

Role-playing game, Action, Stealth, Hack and slash, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Adventure

Early Access: PC → 9 August 2017

Set in a paper kingdom threatened by an army led by the Dark Shogun, this action-adventure combines role-playing, platforming, stealth and hack-and-slash combat...

The Great Emoticon

Action, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Frozen: PC → 2016

Great Emoticon is a top-down action-adventure game set in a charming post-apocalyptic future. Everything around is controlled by three main emotional energies...

Orc Attack: Flatulent Rebellion

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

Game released: PC → 15 May 2014

Steam: 42/100

An expansion for Orc Attack, this fantasy hack-and-slash action game follows orcs fighting humans who are polluting the environment. Players battle as orcs with...

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...

Masterspace

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Hack and slash, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 15 June 2015

Steam: 27/100

This futuristic simulation game with action and role-playing elements centers on mining, building, and exploring planets. Players begin by mining stone and chopping...

Pixel Puzzles: UndeadZ

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 6 June 2014

Steam: 73/100

Pixel Puzzles: UndeadZ is a classic puzzle game with shooter elements and a top-down zombie apocalypse theme. You have to collect the pictures piece by piece. But...

Warhammer 40,000: Regicide

Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Chess game, Tactics, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 May 2015

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, combining traditional chess with a separate combat mode called Regicide. Players command...

NEON STRUCT

Indie, Stealth, Cyberpunk

Game released: PC → 20 May 2015

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This story follows former spy Jillian Cleary, framed for treason and hunted by her former agency. She must stay hidden, survive off the grid, and find a way to...

Wild Season

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Farm Simulator, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 8 December 2015

Steam: 24/100

This farming-life simulation with visual novel and RPG elements follows a character who leaves the big city to start a farm in the south. After a storm, the...

The Flower Collectors

Indie, Adventure, Detective

Game released: PC → 21 April 2020

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Set in Barcelona in 1977, this detective game follows a former police officer in a wheelchair who witnesses a murder and joins forces with a young, ambitious...

Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Board / Group Game, Indie, Card game

Game released: PC → 17 February 2015

Steam: 65/100

A card-based adventure with role-playing and strategy elements, Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night continues the board game and sends its hero into a jungle where...

Pixel Galaxy

Arcade, Beat them all, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Replayability

Game released: PC → 2 October 2015

Steam: 86/100

This non-shooting shoot ’em up follows a white pixel that absorbs the bodies, abilities, and weapons of enemy pixels to grow and survive waves of foes. Each...

Ruzh Delta Z

Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 8 May 2015

Steam: 62/100

This arcade shoot ’em up draws on classics such as Gradius, DoDonPachi, and R-Type. The player battles through perilous stages, destroying rogue vessels in pursuit...

Devious Dungeon 2

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Side view, Slasher, Dungeons

Game released: PC → 21 October 2020

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 73/100

This medieval action platformer takes place in a dark castle whose ever-shifting halls conceal monsters, traps, and treasure. The castle is the domain of the...

Trip to Vinelands

Indie, Action, Arcade

Game released: PC → 21 October 2016

Steam: 85/100

A retro-style arcade game about exploring mazes. Trip to Vinelands is a small indie experience featuring original audio and...

旧手表 - Old Watch

Indie, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 20 December 2017

Steam: 83/100

This visual novel follows TaiLin, who discovers that a watch he found can take him through time. A strange woman calls and reveals the purpose of the watch, which...

welcome to heaven

Free game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 22 June 2017

Steam: 74/100

An adventure game about disillusionment with religion, presenting heaven as a monument to its emerging problems. The player judges sinners and decides who is worthy...

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...

The Endless Cylinder

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 September 2021

The Endless Cylinder is a surreal adventure in which you play as a small, newly born alien creature. Born in a dangerous environment, the wonderful little hero...

Gryphon Knight Epic

Action, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 20 August 2015

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Gryphon Knight Epic is a 2D medieval shoot ’em up that combines exploration with boss duels. Knight Sir Oliver and his loyal gryphon Aquila return to adventure...

Rubek

Casual game, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 14 October 2016

Steam: 77/100

Rubek is a minimalist puzzle game built around a cube and colored tiles. To reach each level’s endpoint, the player rolls the cube to pick up colors from the floor...

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