Indie 2008 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

World of Goo - a game in the Indie genre

Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 4 February 2009

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 91/100

World of Goo is a construction puzzle game where you move living Goo balls and use them to build buildings, bridges, and airships to solve various problems as you...

Aquaria

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Metroidvania, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 7 December 2007

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Aquaria is a metroidvania set in a vast underwater world filled with living creatures and ancient secrets. Naija, a solitary ocean dweller, searches for her family...

DEFCON

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: PC → 4 December 2008

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 84/100

DEFCON is a real-time strategy game simulating global nuclear war during the Cold War. From an underground bunker, a general must destroy the enemy population while...

Iron Storm

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

Game released: PC → 19 December 2002

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Iron Storm — a first-person shooter set in an alternate 60s. The First World War did not end, but grew into large-scale battles between the Russian-Mongol...

Sam & Max: Season One

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 May 2008

Players: 10/10

Steam: 97/100

Sam & Max: Season One is a third-person adventure with puzzle elements from the masters at Telltale, Inc.. The game's main publisher is The Adventure Company...

Archibald's Adventures

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

Game released: PC → 10 June 2016

Steam: 95/100

Archibald's Adventures is an arcade puzzle game with platform elements. As Archibald, you'll skate through a variety of levels, overcoming obstacles and solving...

Edna & Harvey: The Breakout

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

Game released: PC → 25 October 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 64/100

This point-and-click adventure with puzzles follows young Edna as she tries to escape from a psychiatric asylum. She wakes in a padded cell with no memory of her...

Starscape

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 3 November 2008

Steam: 83/100

Starscape is an arcade space shooter about the last pilot aboard the research station Aegis, whose crew has gone missing and whose weapon systems are ruined. To...

The Void

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

Game released: PC → 17 April 2008

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 81/100

Turgor is a surreal adventure with a first-person view from the creators of Sea. Utopia. The nameless hero finds himself in the Between, a dark place reminiscent of...

Carmageddon TDR 2000

Arcade, Action, Racing, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 December 2000

Players: 10/10

Steam: 76/100

Carmageddon TDR 2000 is an explosive arcade action racer with a third-person view. In the game you can kill pedestrians in a variety of ways, as well as participate...

Graveyard

Simulation, Third-person view, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 March 2008

Steam: 62/100

This short walking simulator follows an elderly woman visiting a graveyard. The player explores the grounds, can sit on a bench and listen to a song. Graveyard is...

Bus Driver

Simulation, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 October 2008

Players: 5.3/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 61/100

A bus-driving simulator about transporting passengers along routes through a large city while keeping to a timetable and obeying traffic rules. Careful driving...

Spirits of Metropolis

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 22 December 2008

Steam: 66/100

Spirits of Metropolis is a strategy with puzzle and sandbox elements from developers from the studio Vertigo Games. The main publisher of the game is Vertigo...

Citizen Abel: Gravity Bone

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 28 September 2008

Steam: 93/100

Citizen Abel: Gravity Bone is a first-person action game with adventure and puzzle elements from the developers of Blendo Games. The game is published by Blendo...

Mr. Robot

Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Turn-based, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 10 January 2007

Steam: 81/100

This science-fiction action-puzzle adventure with role-playing elements follows Asimov, a service robot aboard the interstellar colony ship Eidolon. When the ship’s...

Overclocked: A History of Violence

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 May 2008

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Overclocked. Justified Cruelty is an adventure psychological thriller in which you will try on the role of psychiatrist David McNamara. The main character treats...

Hidden Expedition: Amazon

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

Game released: PC → 20 June 2008

Steam: 69/100

This hidden-object adventure puzzle takes place in the Amazon rainforest, where the Hidden Expedition team searches for a missing professor. Their only clue is a...

Rooms: The Main Building

Strategy, Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 August 2008

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This puzzle adventure takes place in a mysterious world of rooms, where an unexpected invitation leads the protagonist; finding a way home means reaching the exit...

Eufloria

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

Game released: PC → 4 November 2008

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Eufloria is a meditative real-time strategy game with a top-down view. You'll explore a beautifully realized universe, created in a unique and compelling style...

Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity

Action, First-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 24 December 2008

Steam: 87/100

Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity is a first-person game of spatial navigation and quick reflexes, set in surreal tubular passages. The player moves forward, dodges...

Ninja Reflex

Action, Fighting, First-person view, Board / Group Game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 21 March 2008

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 52/100

This collection of martial arts challenges tests the player’s reaction speed and hand-eye coordination. In Ninja Reflex, tasks involve using shuriken, katanas...

Iron Grip: Warlord

Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Top-down view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 5 November 2008

Steam: 87/100

This first-person shooter with tower defense elements is set in an alternate universe where the player takes the role of an Atelian warlord defending a stronghold...

Audiosurf

Music game, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 24 October 2008

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Audiosurf is a music-driven puzzle racer that turns a selected song into a track whose shape and speed are determined by the music. Each ride changes with the song...

Planet Busters

Action, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 30 June 2008

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 33/100

This futuristic puzzle-action game follows humanity’s fight against the mysterious Scourge, a force that has destroyed Earth. Most of the fleet was lost in the...

Penumbra: Requiem

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

Game released: PC → 27 August 2008

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 67/100

An expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague, in which Philip faces puzzles and encounters characters from his past. The story follows the previous installments and...

Avernum 5

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

Game released: PC → 17 February 2008

Steam: 89/100

Avernum 5 is a fantasy role-playing game set in a vast underground nation, where rogues, outcasts, and brigands struggle to survive and prosper among monsters. It...

Geneforge 5: Overthrow

Role-playing game, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 1 November 2008

Steam: 95/100

This fantasy role-playing game concludes the Geneforge saga in a war-torn world of the Shapers. In Geneforge 5: Overthrow, players can choose from nine character...

Space Giraffe

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

Game released: PC → 15 December 2008

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 68/100

An abstract arcade shooter set across successive levels with procedurally generated visuals. Though it presents itself as a shoot-’em-up, Space Giraffe rewards...

The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure

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

Game released: PC → 20 August 2008

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This adventure horror game follows paranormal investigators in a seaside town on England’s east coast. Ghost-hunters Nigel Danvers and Lucy Reubans search for an...

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

World of Subways Vol. 1: New York Underground "The Path" is a first-person simulator with elements of a railway simulator from TML-Studios. The game is...

Gumboy Tournament

Action, Racing, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 19 May 2008

Steam: 72/100

Gumboy Tournament is a fun side-scrolling competitive arcade game. In the game, you can take part in a furious capture the flag mode, compete for control of...

Obulis

Arcade, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 March 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 81/100

Obulis is a fun arcade puzzle game with a side view, where you have to guide colorful balls to the corresponding jugs. To do this, you will use a developed system...

Wonderful End of the World

Action, Third-person view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 25 January 2008

Steam: 79/100

This third-person casual action game follows a puppet trying to save as much of Earth’s treasure as possible from a mythological demon with a fish’s head. At first...

SunAge

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

Game released: PC → 15 December 2014

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 44/100

SunAge is a science-fiction real-time strategy game about a conflict between three races: humans, the Raak-Zun, and the Sentinels. Each faction has its own units...

Noitu Love 2: Devolution

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 April 2008

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This arcade action platformer follows Xoda Rap, a new hero of the Peacekeepers, as she defends a city from the re-emerging armies of the Darns. A century after the...

Night of the Cephalopods

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

Game released: PC → November 2008

Night of the Cephalopods is a top-down arcade game with elements of action, adventure, horror and indie game from developers from the studios Miguel Sternberg...

Harvest: Massive Encounter

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 5 March 2008

Steam: 78/100

Harvest: Massive Encounter is a strategy game with an isometric view from developers from Oxeye Game Studio. The main publisher of the game is Oxeye Game...

Project Aftermath

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 23 September 2009

Steam: 52/100

Project Aftermath is a fun real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting. Equip your squads according to your playstyle, explore...

Depths of Peril

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 November 2008

Steam: 88/100

This single-player action RPG with strategy elements is set in a fantasy world where leaders of barbarian factions vie for control of the city of Jorvik. The player...

RoboBlitz

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

Game released: PC → 1 February 2008

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This physics-based action game with puzzles follows Blitz, a robot tasked with activating an aging Space Cannon to protect his world from space...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2008 for PC (Game released)