Indie 2016 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

Stardew Valley - a game in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Simulation, Business / Management, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 February 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Stardew Valley is a farmer simulator with role-playing elements, a sandbox in an open world with an isometric camera and a visual style reminiscent of 90s arcade...

ENIGMA:

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 November 2016

Players: 10/10

ENIGMA: is an adventure game with a mixture of anime/manga game, visual novel and indie game from the developers of Uzumeya studio. The main publisher of the game...

Firewatch

Adventure, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 February 2016

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Firewatch is an indie adventure with a first-person view, developed by former developers of The Walking Dead and BioShock 2. The action takes place in the forests...

Starbound

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival

Game released: PC → 22 July 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship. Fleeing from...

Marooners

Arcade, Action, Online, Board / Group Game, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 September 2016

Marooners is an arcade, cooperative action game from independent developers from the M2H studio. The game is designed for a fun group of friends, where you will...

Five Nights at Freddy's World

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: PC → 12 February 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Five Nights at Freddy's World is an animatronic RPG where gamers won't have to fear the little characters. The gameplay is done in a turn-based mode, familiar to...

Samorost 3

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 24 March 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Samorost 3 is a continuation of the fantastic adventure from the developers of Samorost 2, Machinarium and Botanicula. The main character is a gnome who seems to...

Hyper Light Drifter

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

Game released: PC → 31 March 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Hyper Light Drifter is a top-down action-adventure RPG. The main character of the game suffers from a strange disease and goes to amazing countries to find a...

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 7 October 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Five Nights at Freddy's 5: Sister Location is a continuation of the popular series of horror stories with a first-person view. The next part delves even deeper into...

Crashlands

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Crashlands is an action role-playing game in which the main character, after an unsuccessful intergalactic flight, crashes on an unknown planet. Having meager...

Rusty Lake Hotel

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Side view, Horror

Game released: PC → 29 January 2016

Players: 10/10

Rusty Lake Hotel is a side-scrolling arcade adventure game with horror elements inspired by the cult TV series Twin Peaks by David Lynch. The plot centers on...

Flame in the Flood

Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 February 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Flame in the Flood is a survival adventure game in which the player will wander through procedurally generated levels, exploring the slums of the United States...

SUPERHOT

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 25 February 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 83/100

SUPERHOT is a first-person shooter-puzzle game from the Polish studio SUPERHOT Team. The main feature of the game mechanics is the passage of time — only...

Planet Explorers

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 8 November 2016

Players: 5.2/10

Planet Explorers is a free-to-play action role-playing game with a third-person view and survival elements in a sci-fi setting. The plot tells about the distant...

Ascent: The Space Game

Role-playing game, Online, Simulation, Action, Strategy, Adventure, MMO, Business / Management, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 11 April 2016

Ascent: The Space Game is a role-playing game with elements of online gaming, simulation, action, strategy, adventure, massively multiplayer, business simulation...

Clustertruck

Arcade, Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 September 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Clustertruck is an arcade action platformer with a first-person view, in which the player has to stay on top of speeding long-range trucks. Jumping from one car to...

Octave

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Point & Click, Side view

Game released: PC → 19 October 2016

Octave is an atmospheric adventure horror game about occultism with a side view. You will take on the role of a person who has been brought to a cemetery to be...

Slain: Back from Hell

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Slasher

Game released: PC → 24 March 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Slain: Back from Hell is an action-adventure platformer in a gothic setting. The story follows the doomed hero Bathoryn as he travels through a Gothic world and...

Defense Zone 3

Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Strategy, Action, In real time, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 December 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Defense Zone 3 Ultra HD is an indie tower defense strategy game with a top-down view in real time. This is a sequel to the famous Defense Zone strategy, only now...

Subterrain

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 9.7/10

Subterrain is an action-horror adventure with RPG elements and a top-down view. In the game you will play as one Doctor West, apparently the only survivor of an...

Bear Simulator

Role-playing game, Simulation, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 February 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Vintage Story

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 27 September 2016

A hardcore sandbox survival game inspired by the ideas of classic voxel games in the spirit of Minecraft, but reimagined through the lens of realism and...

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in the style of Super Meat Boy. You have to create levels with a huge number of traps and other...

Neon Chrome

Shooter, Top-down view, Cyberpunk, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 28 April 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Neon Chrome is a top-down cyberpunk roguelike shooter where you have to conquer the Neon Chrome Corporation by hacking your brain. Sleeping bodies have different...

There's Poop In My Soup

Arcade, Action, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 14 March 2016

Players: 7.3/10

There's Poop In My Soup is an arcade side-scrolling indie action game. You have to play as a character who throws feces at people. There are three cities to choose...

The Revenge of Johnny Bonasera: Episode 1

Indie, Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 1 October 2016

Players: 10/10

The Revenge of Johnny Bonasera: Episode 1 is an indie adventure quest in the point and click genre with puzzle elements. This is the story of Johnny Bonasera, a...

Ori and The Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 June 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition is an expanded edition of the indie adventure platformer. The game tells the story of a little guardian spirit named...

Leap of Fate

Action, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 30 March 2016

Metacritic: 80/100

N++

Arcade, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 25 August 2016

Metacritic: 85/100

N++ is an arcade side view with elements of an indie game from developers from the Metanet Software, Inc. studio. The game is published by Metanet Software, Inc...

Pan-Pan

Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 August 2016

Pan-Pan is an adventure puzzle game with an isometric camera view. A large open world awaits you with many riddles, the solution of which will open up new...

Fortified

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 3 February 2016

Players: 1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Fortified is a cooperative third-person shooter and tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre. The game takes place in the 1950s, where everything is done...

Plague Inc: Evolved

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

Game released: PC → 18 February 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Plague Inc: Evolved is an updated version of an unusual simulator with elements of management strategy for modern platforms. The game will give you the opportunity...

Atlantic Fleet

Simulation, Strategy, Warships / Submarines, Indie, In real time, Isometric

Game released: PC → 25 February 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Atlantic Fleet is a real-time strategy game with warships and an isometric view. Atlantic Fleet puts you in command of the Allies, or Kriegsmarine (German Navy), in...

Soul Axiom

Adventure, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 29 February 2016

Metacritic: 51/100

Soul Axiom is a first-person adventure with indie game elements from developers from Wales Interactive. The game is published by Wales Interactive. It seems that...

To Ash

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

Game released: PC → 29 March 2016

Players: 1/10

To Ash is an old-school RPG where, instead of getting stronger, the characters get weaker as you progress. To Ash was created by just one person. In the game...

The Deed: Dynasty

Adventure, Top-down view, Visual novel, Indie, Detective

Game released: PC → 10 May 2016

A standalone story expansion for the game The Deed, developing its main concept. The player will still have to commit a murder, carefully plan their actions, plant...

The Mims Beginning

Arcade, Strategy, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 May 2016

The Mims Beginning is a vibrant god simulator where you control your own race of alien creatures. The plot takes place in an unknown space and time. In this galaxy...

Crush Your Enemies

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 July 2016

Metacritic: 63/100

Crush Your Enemies is a top-down real-time strategy arcade game. You can expect a lot of humor, tactical depth, like in the classic strategies of Starcraft, Age of...

The Final Station

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 30 August 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Action platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The player will have the opportunity to become a train driver in a desert world, carrying his passengers from...

Santa Rockstar

Arcade, Indie, Music game

Game released: PC → 13 December 2016

Santa Rockstar is a fun musical rhythm game similar to the Guitar Hero series. The game will tell you about a cool Santa who is ready not only to deliver gifts to...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2016 for PC (Game released)