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

Stardew Valley - a game in the Indie genre

Role-playing game, Simulation, Online, Business / Management, Indie, Farm Simulator

Game released: PC → 26 February 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Stardew Valley is a farming simulator with role-playing elements, an open-world sandbox with an isometric camera and the visual style of 90s arcade games. After...

Hyper Light Drifter

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

Game released: PC → 31 March 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 93/100

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...

Enter the Gungeon

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Beat them all, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 April 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Enter the Gungeon is a top-down arcade shooter from the developers at Dodge Roll. The roguelike takes place in the ever-changing fortress of Gungeon, which is a...

Pankapu

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 21 September 2016

Steam: 74/100

Pankapu: The Gates of Omnia is an episodic side-scrolling action platformer. The events of the game develop in the fantasies of Jaarell, a child who once...

ENIGMA:

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 November 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

This adventure visual novel follows Chester, who is infected with a mysterious disease known as the Enigma and washes ashore on the lonely island of Carlyle. The...

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

Steam: 79/100

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...

Samorost 3

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Point & Click, Puzzle, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 24 March 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Starbound

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

Game released: PC → 22 July 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 88/100

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...

Shadows of Kurgansk

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Survival, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Shadows of Kurgansk is an action shooter with a first-person view and horror elements in a post-apocalyptic world. You have to survive in a Zone where zombies live...

This Is the Police

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 August 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This Is the Police is an adventure strategy game with management game elements and an isometric camera view. Scandals, intrigues, investigations are commonplace for...

Inside

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Logic, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 7 July 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Inside is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer with survival elements from the creators of Limbo. The plot centers on a lonely boy who is hiding from...

OneShot

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 8 December 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This surreal top-down puzzle adventure follows a child travelling through a mysterious world in an attempt to restore its long-dead sun. In OneShot, the world is...

Overcooked

Action, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Online, Indie, Arcade

Game released: PC → 3 August 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Overcooked is an exciting action strategy where you and your friends will have to learn the basics of culinary art in various and unusual locations. With your...

Plague Inc: Evolved

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

Game released: PC → 18 February 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

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...

This War of Mine: The Little Ones

Strategy, Adventure, DLC, Business / Management, Roguelike, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 June 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 80/100

This War of Mine: The Little Ones is an expansion to the side-scrolling management strategy adventure This War of Mine. The addition tells the story of young...

Galaxy Reavers

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Space, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 September 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 67/100

Space strategy in real time. Control of a fleet of seven types of ships with unique characteristics takes place against the backdrop of large-scale battles across...

Firewatch

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 9 February 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

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...

Oxenfree

Adventure, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 January 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Oxenfree is a mystical adventure with a side view about teenagers who decide to spend a weekend on a mysterious island. The main character, along with her friends...

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Walking Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 April 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture — A first-person adventure game from the creators of Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. The events of the game take...

Through the Woods

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 October 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Through the Woods is a third-person action-horror game based on Norse myths and legends. You have to get used to the role of a young mother who one day comes to a...

Subterrain

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Indie, Survival, Top-down view, Crafting

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 79/100

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...

Mad Bullets

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

Game released: PC → 10 June 2016

Steam: 92/100

This first-person arcade shooter is set in the Wild West, where players take on enemies at high speed and climb the leaderboards. The cast includes desperados...

Vintage Story

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

Game released: PC → 27 September 2016

Players: 10/10

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...

Cobalt

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 2 February 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Cobalt is a side-scrolling co-op action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. You will take on the role of robot agent Cobalt, who discovers the lost colonization...

NeuroVoider

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Action, Indie, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 31 August 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 85/100

NeuroVoider is a top-down cooperative arcade shooter with procedurally generated levels. Players will take on the role of preserved human brains, whose task is to...

Crashlands

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Open world, Survival

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Atlantic Fleet

Simulation, Strategy, Warships / Submarines, Indie, In real time, Isometric, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 25 February 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

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...

Turmoil

In real time, Business / Management, Indie, Side view, Strategy, Online

Game released: PC → 2 June 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 92/100

A side-view real-time management strategy game set in North America at the end of the 19th century. The beginning of the oil rush, a small town and the struggle for...

Ice Lakes

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Sports game, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 19 April 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Ice Lakes is an ice fishing sports simulator with first and third person views, supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices. You will have the...

Pony Island

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Demons

Game released: PC → 4 January 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Pony Island is a logic puzzle game from the developers of Daniel Mullins Games. The story is that the devil locks the player in an arcade, and in order to get out...

ABZU

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: PC → 2 August 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 80/100

ABZU is a fantastic adventure arcade game with a third-person view. As a scuba diver, you will go to conquer the depths of the seabed. There you can meet a variety...

The Bunker

Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 September 2016

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Bunker is an interactive psychological thriller with horror elements. The game is a reincarnation of video quests that were popular back in the 90s. You will play...

Six Sides of the World

Logic, Puzzle, Science fiction, Arcade, Casual game, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 20 January 2016

Steam: 84/100

Six Sides of the World is an atmospheric arcade puzzle game in a sci-fi setting, where you will explore various cubic planets that are filled with various traps. As...

Ori and The Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 14 June 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 93/100

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...

N++

Arcade, Indie, Side view, Action, Parkour

Game released: PC → 25 August 2016

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

N++ is a side-scrolling platformer set in a science-fiction world where success depends on controlling momentum. The player navigates obstacles, evades hostile...

X-17

Action, Indie, First-person view

Game released: PC → 1 March 2016

Steam: 53/100

This science-fiction action shooter, played from first- and third-person perspectives, follows an alien invasion of Earth and other planets. After his previous...

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 December 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This side-scrolling fantasy platformer builds its heroine’s actions around belly dancing and hair-whipping. Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is an HD adventure starring...

Banner Saga 2

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

Game released: PC → 19 April 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Banner Saga 2 is a turn-based role-playing game with tactical elements and an isometric view. You must lead your Viking clans through a hostile country on the verge...

Spacejacked

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Indie, Tactics, Side view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 26 February 2016

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 100/100

Spacejacked is an exciting arcade game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre with a side view. In the role of space engineer Dave Paprovsky, you have to...

Reigns

Board / Group Game, Card game, Logic, Medieval era, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 August 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Reigns is a card board game where you will become the ruler of a small kingdom and take part in important elections that will determine your reign and the fate of...

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