Indie 2013 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

Project Zomboid - a game in the Indie genre

Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Zombies

Early Access: PC → 8 November 2013; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 93/100

A zombie apocalypse is about to occur in the world of Project Zomboid. So far, humanity has not understood what happened, but the houses still have water and...

Star Citizen

Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, Online, MMO, First-person view, Indie

Game in development: PC → 2027; Beta testing: PC → 29 August 2013

Anticipation Rating: 4.6/10

Star Citizen is the most sophisticated space simulator with a first-person view, where elements of MMO, space opera, fantasy shooter and economic strategy are...

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

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

Game released: PC → 3 September 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a unique action-adventure game with many interesting puzzles. The story revolves around two brothers who must overcome obstacles and...

Outlast

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 4 September 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Outlast is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place in the Mount Massive Asylum, which for a long time served as a home...

Papers, Please

Arcade, Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 8 August 2013

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Papers, Please is an unusual simulator of an immigration officer. You will have to sit in a small booth and check the documents of visiting residents, identify...

Don't Starve

Adventure, Horror, Simulation, Isometric, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: PC → 23 April 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Don't Starve is an adventure game about survival in a randomly generated world. In it you have to collect resources, stock up on food, grow berries and vegetables...

Anomaly 2

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Action, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Science fiction, Isometric, Online, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 15 May 2013

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Anomaly 2 is a fantastic arcade action game with elements of tower defense and real-time strategy. Years after the 2018 invasion of Earth, the planet is overrun by...

Midnight

Arcade, Indie, Mini-game / browser-based

Game released: PC → 25 July 2013

Steam: 75/100

Midnight is a unique interactive arcade game that allows you to control a colorful laser show on your monitor screen with your fingertips. The game is designed for...

Godus

Strategy, God Simulator, Indie, Isometric, In real time, Simulation

Early Access: PC → 13 September 2013

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 60/100

Godus is a real-time strategy god simulator with an isometric view. In this game, you can sculpt every inch of the beautiful world you look down upon, where your...

Rogue Legacy

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 27 June 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Rogue Legacy is a fantasy platforming roguelite in which a hero explores procedurally generated castles and battles enemies. When a character dies, an heir takes...

Teslagrad

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: PC → 13 December 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Teslagrad is an arcade quest with platformer elements and futurism style. In this game, you use the power of electromagnetism to solve puzzles and battle horrors as...

Risk of Rain

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 8 November 2013

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Risk of Rain is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view and roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game will take you to a distant...

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Indie, Online

Game released: PC → 22 August 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is an expanded version of a dynamic arcade fighting game with a side view in an anime style. The game features many interesting female...

Spelunky

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 August 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Spelunky is a fun adventure that takes you to explore dangerous but rich mines. You will control a rather big-nosed but cute gold digger who came to the mines for...

SteamWorld Dig

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Steampunk

Game released: PC → 5 December 2013

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 80/100

SteamWorld Dig is a charming side-scrolling arcade action-platformer about a robotic miner named Rusty, who arrives in a small town with the goal of finding...

Cry of Fear

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Online

Game released: PC → 24 April 2013

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 87/100

This first-person psychological horror game unfolds in an abandoned town during a cold Scandinavian night. A young man searches for answers as he makes his way...

Contrast

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 November 2013

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Contrast is a puzzle platformer that combines a three-dimensional fantasy world with a mysterious two-dimensional shadowscape. Its central mechanic is shifting...

Gone Home

Adventure, First-person view, Visual novel, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC → 15 August 2013

Players: 5.6/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Gone Home is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the story of Caitlin Greenbriar, who returned home from a trip to Europe. She soon...

Zeno Clash 2

Role-playing game, Action, Beat them all, First-person view, Indie, Fighting

Game released: PC → 30 April 2013

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This surreal first-person brawler continues Ghat’s story in the world of Zenozoik, where he joins forces with his former foe Rimat against the angry inhabitants of...

Unepic

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie, Metroidvania

Early Access: PC → 2 October 2011; Game released: PC → 25 July 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Unepic is a side-scrolling action-platformer RPG in a fantasy setting. You will play as Daniel, who, due to strange circumstances, finds himself in the ancient and...

Slender: The Arrival

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

Game released: PC → 28 October 2013; Early Access: PC → 26 March 2013

Players: 8/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Continuation of the atmospheric horror with a first-person view Slender. The story tells of Slenderman, a paranormal figure who haunts inquiring minds around the...

Reus

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Business / Management, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 16 May 2013

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Reus is a side-scrolling real-time management strategy game set in a fantasy setting. You have to take control of the universe as mighty titans, possessing all...

The Swapper

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 30 May 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in a sci-fi setting. In this game, a lone astronaut will explore a cave created by aliens. In order to get to its secrets...

Mercenary Kings

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 22 July 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Mercenary Kings is a side-scrolling run-and-gun platformer similar to games like SNK's Metal Slug series. Players can jump, crouch, roll, shoot in four directions...

The Night of the Rabbit

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 28 May 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Night of the Rabbit is an atmospheric point and click adventure in which you will travel to the amazing country of Mousewood. One fine day, the boy Jerry...

The Stanley Parable

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Comedy, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 17 October 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 88/100

The Stanley Parable is an indie project with a first-person view. The player plays the role of office plankton Stanley, who has spent his whole life pressing keys...

Ravensword: Shadowlands

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

Game released: PC → 6 December 2013

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Ravensword: Shadowlands is an action role-playing game with a first-person view in the fantasy style. After the fall of Ravengard, the world plunged into chaos. The...

Kentucky Route Zero

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 22 February 2013

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 86/100

A mystical adventure with a side view and a unique graphic design. The main character Conway travels to Kentucky to deliver a package. Upon arrival, it is...

NEO Scavenger

Role-playing game, Strategy, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 6 December 2013

Players: 8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

NEO Scavenger is a turn-based strategy with role-playing elements and turn-based combat. In the game, you will need to survive in post-apocalyptic Michigan, travel...

Fez

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 September 2013

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Fez is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. The action takes place in a 3D world, allowing the player to explore and traverse colorful worlds by rotating...

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...

Alien Spidy

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 20 March 2013

Players: 4.6/10

Steam: 51/100

Metacritic: 55/100

This arcade platformer follows Spidy, an alien who travels to Earth to find his missing explorer friend, Virgi. After his spacecraft breaks apart in the planet’s...

Эадор. Владыки миров

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: PC → 19 April 2013

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Eador. Lords of the Worlds is the latest chapter in the Eador series, known for its combination of grand strategy, role-playing elements and turn-based tactics...

The Bridge

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: PC → 22 February 2013

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Bridge is a two-dimensional logic game that will allow you to look at physics and perspective from a different angle. You have to walk on the ceiling, explore...

Inquisitor

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 September 2013

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 70/100

This isometric role-playing game is set in a dark fantasy land where, after famine, plague, and a rain of fire, the protagonist becomes an inquisitor tasked with...

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 different weapons...

Gomo

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Logic, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 December 2013

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 50/100

Gomo is a point-and-click adventure about a character who sets out on a surreal journey to rescue his dog, Dingo. Aliens demand a rare crystal in exchange for the...

Joe Danger 2: The Movie

Arcade, Racing, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 24 June 2013

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This arcade stunt game follows Joe Danger as he performs daredevil feats on the set of a blockbuster movie. Across 100 levels, he pursues crooks on a police bike...

Sir, You Are Being Hunted

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Survival

Game released: PC → 19 August 2013

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Sir, You Are Being Hunted is an indie shooter with stealth elements and a first-person view in a fantasy setting. You find yourself in a dimension similar to...

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...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2013 for PC