Indie 2015 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

Human Resource Machine - a game in the Indie genre

Game released: PC → 15 October 2015

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Human Resource Machine is an indie puzzle game from the developer World of Goo. We have to use office workers to solve the next puzzle and get promoted to the next...

Wasteland 2

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 September 2014

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Wasteland 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the post-apocalyptic role-playing game with turn-based combat that inspired the Fallout series. Just like in the original...

Undertale

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 September 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 92/100

An RPG with a unique combat system, where each battle can be completed without a single blow. Instead of the usual violence, there are conversations, mercy, and...

Broken Age

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 28 April 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Broken Age is an exciting point-and-click side-scrolling adventure from the author of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. The game will tell two parallel developing...

Broforce

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 October 2015; Early Access: PC → 6 April 2014

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Broforce is a brutal 2D platformer full of pure, unadulterated fun that requires the player to destroy everything that moves in order to defeat the Satanic...

Ori and the Blind Forest

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 March 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Ori and the Blind Forest is an arcade game with adventure, platformer and indie elements from the masters of Moon Studios. The game is published by Microsoft Game...

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 10 March 2015

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a continuation of the dynamic top-down action game. The main action takes place parallel to the events of the original Hotline...

Liftoff

Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Flight Simulator

Early Access: PC → 9 November 2015; Game released: PC → 13 September 2018

Players: 7.1/10

Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing is a quadcopter racing simulator that you can not only control, but also create from scratch. Players will be able to design their own...

Caves of Qud

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike

Early Access: PC → 15 July 2015; Game released: PC → 5 December 2024

Metacritic: 91/100

A turn-based RPG from the minds of Sproggiwood. The game world is generated anew each time, offering unique adventures with each visit. The environment can be...

Block Story

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

Game released: PC → 10 December 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Block Story is an action role-playing game with elements of adventure and fantasy with a first-person view. A world of vast landscapes awaits you, where you are in...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

First-person view, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Logic, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 8 October 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a co-op VR puzzle game about defusing a bomb. One of the participants has an explosive device with a timer on the screen, but...

Life is Feudal: Your Own

Role-playing game, Online, Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 November 2015; Early Access: PC → 19 September 2014

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Life is Feudal: Your Own is a medieval life simulator from the Moscow studio Bitbox S.L.. You have to live a medieval life on a 9 km² map along with other 63...

Battle Brothers

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

Game released: PC → 24 March 2017; Early Access: PC → 27 April 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Kerbal Space Program

Flight Simulator, Futurism (Future), Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 June 2011

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Kerbal Space Program is a sci-fi simulator with well-developed physical laws. You have to manage the space program of a certain planet. Everything needed to build a...

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 30 October 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 85/100

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It adds over 100 hours of content, including the new...

Out There

Science fiction, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, In real time, Side view, Top-down view, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 2 April 2015

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Out There is a fantasy adventure indie roguelike with elements of real-time strategy and a side view. In this game, you play as an astronaut who woke up from...

Dex

Role-playing game, Adventure, Stealth, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: PC → 7 May 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Dex is a 2D open-world cyberpunk RPG that focuses on exploration and non-linear...

Automation

Simulation, Racing, Business / Management, Sandbox, Indie

Early Access: PC → 12 March 2015

Players: 7/10

Automation is a sophisticated management simulator in which you become the head of a car company. You can start your own production from scratch and become a...

Her Story

Adventure, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, First-person view

Game released: PC → 24 June 2015

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Her Story is a mystical indie adventure with a first-person view. In this game, you sit in front of a mothballed desktop computer that is registered in a police...

Barony

Role-playing game, Roguelike, First-person view, Indie, Action, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 23 June 2015

Players: 7.4/10

Barony is a cooperative action-adventure game with a first-person view and roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. You have to explore dangerous dungeons full of...

TIS-100

Simulation, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 July 2015

TIS-100 is a limitless programming game from the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory. The game will offer you a number of exciting puzzles, to solve which you...

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 May 2015

Players: 10/10

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition is a complete edition of the arcade platformer with puzzle elements. As a bizarre creature, you have to fly through colorful...

Nuclear Throne

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 December 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Nuclear Throne is a dynamic arcade action game with roguelike elements and a top-down view. Having chosen one of 12 unique characters and armed with an arsenal of...

Shelter 2

Simulation, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 March 2015

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 58/100

Shelter 2 is a third-person simulator with adventure and indie game elements from developers from the Might and Delight studio. The game is published by Might and...

60 Seconds!

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 May 2015

Players: 7.8/10

60 Seconds! — an arcade survival simulator in times of post-apocalypse. Ted has only 60 seconds to take everything he needs and hide in the bunker before the...

Tachyon Project

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 15 July 2015

Metacritic: 73/100

Tachyon Project is an action game with shooter and indie game elements from the masters from the Eclipse Games studio. The game is published by Eclipse Games...

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Arcade, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 September 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is an arcade game with action and indie elements from developers from the Asteroid Base studio. The game is published by Asteroid...

Move or Die

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Early Access: PC → 16 December 2015; Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Move or Die is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer for a noisy group. The game is a collection of mini-games in which several people can participate. Among the...

12 is Better Than 6

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 November 2015

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 59/100

12 is Better Than 6 is a hardcore top-down action game from indie developers from the studio Ink Stains Games. The game will tell the story of a Mexican who lost...

Trove

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

Game released: PC → 9 July 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Trove is a free-to-play multiplayer action game with a third-person view and survival elements. Together with your friends, you have the opportunity to explore the...

Knights of Pen and Paper 2

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Tactics

Game released: PC → 20 October 2015

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Knights of Pen and Paper 2 is a continuation of the adventure role-playing game in a fantasy setting. As in the first part, you will become the head of a group of...

Hand of Fate

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

Game released: PC → 17 February 2015

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Hand of Fate is an indie role-playing adventure game with elements of action and strategy, with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. You have to play with a...

Cat Goes Fishing

Casual game, Indie, Side view, Hunting / Fishing

Game released: PC → 19 January 2015

Players: 7.9/10

The main character is a cute cat who is trying to catch himself a fish with the help of a fishing rod. He also has a multifunctional radar in his arsenal to help...

80 days

Adventure, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: PC → 29 September 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

80 days is an interactive text adventure from indie developers Inkle Studios. Traveling around the world takes place in map mode, on which cities of most countries...

Black & White Bushido

Action, Stealth, Slasher, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 2 October 2015

Black & White Bushido is a hardcore action platformer with stealth elements and a side view. A certain shadow samurai challenges the light clan, after which a war...

Running with Rifles

Arcade, Shooter, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics

Game released: PC → 2 April 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Running with Rifles is an isometric top-down tactical shooter set in an open world where you take on the role of a common soldier. Together with your squad, you...

Templar Battleforce

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 September 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Templar Battleforce is a top-down RPG with action, strategy and indie elements from the masters at Trese Brothers. The main publisher of the game is Trese...

Tallowmere

Arcade, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 March 2015

Players: 6/10

Tallowmere is an arcade game with a mixture of platformer and indie game from the developers of the Chris McFarland studio. The game is published by Chris...

Titan Souls

Action, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 14 April 2015

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Bloodbath Kavkaz

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 April 2015

Players: 8.4/10

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2015 for PC