Indie 2018 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world

Game released: PC → 30 April 2018

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The Forest is an adventure action-horror game with survival elements set in an open world and presented from a first-person perspective. The main character is the...

Graveyard Keeper

Action, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era, Crafting, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 15 August 2018

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Graveyard Keeper is a simulator of a true manager of a medieval cemetery. In the game world, heroes await death in coffins and entire tombs of your cemetery. Each...

Frostpunk

Strategy, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival, City Building

Game released: PC → 24 April 2018

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Frostpunk is a city-building strategy game from the creators of This War of Mine. It tells the story of people surviving in a snow-covered world and using...

Subnautica

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival, Open world, Horror

Game released: PC → 23 January 2018

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A single-player adventure in a vast open world, with a first-person view, survival elements, and sandbox features. Playing the game will evoke feelings associated...

Squad 44

Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Historical, Tactics, Indie, Open world, Cooperative (co-op), Simulation, Online, MMO

Game released: PC → 9 August 2018

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 79/100

A competitive WWII shooter featuring over 20 maps, over 150 weapons, controllable vehicles and multiple factions including the British Airborne Division, US...

Kenshi

Role-playing game, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Open world, Sandbox, Survival

Game released: PC → 6 December 2018

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Kenshi is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game with elements of management strategy and survival. You have to explore a large open world where you can trade, steal...

House Flipper

Simulation, First-person view, Arcade, Indie, Business / Management, Online, Construction

Game released: PC → 17 May 2018

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 62/100

House Flipper is a fun management simulator with a first-person view, where you become a one-man repair crew. In the game you will buy abandoned houses that are in...

Granny

Adventure, Stealth, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Survival horror, Horror, Online

Game released: PC → 20 November 2018

Steam: 94/100

A survival horror game in which the main character finds himself trapped in the home of a creepy old woman. Waking up in a dark room with a headache, he finds a...

Into the Breach

Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 February 2018

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Into the Breach is a tactical strategy game with turn-based battles about fighting off an alien invasion from the creators of FTL: Faster Than Light. You will...

Moonlighter

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Indie, Roguelike, Slasher, Dungeons

Game released: PC → 29 May 2018

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Moonlighter is an action RPG with a procedurally generated world and a Japanese-style isometric camera view. Players will find dark and gloomy dungeons populated by...

Liftoff

Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Flight Simulator, Racing

Game released: PC → 13 September 2018

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier

Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Interactive movie, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 August 2018

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier is an interactive adventure that connects the films "Revolution of the Planet of the Apes" and "War for the Planet of the Apes...

Dark Deception

Action, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Arcade, Free game, Online

Game released: PC → 27 September 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 87/100

Dark Deception is a shareware arcade horror runner with survival elements and a first-person view. Trapped in a dark world full of nightmarish labyrinths and...

Horizon Chase Turbo

Arcade, Racing, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 May 2018

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Horizon Chase Turbo is an exciting third-person racing arcade game from the creators of the original Horizon Chase. The game features 73 tracks in 32 different...

Celeste

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 25 January 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Celeste is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer from the creator of TowerFall. More than 250 levels await you, and the locations include abandoned cities...

For the King

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Turn-based

Game released: PC → 19 April 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 78/100

For the King is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view and random level generation. You have to travel through an endless fantasy world. You can play...

Thief Simulator

Simulation, Action, Stealth, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Indie

Game released: PC → 9 November 2018

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

Thief Simulator is a dynamic first-person stealth simulator where you will become the best thief in the world. Observe your target and gather information that will...

Chess of Blades

Indie, Casual game, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 5 January 2018

Steam: 92/100

This visual novel blends mystery and romance in the story of Rivian Varrison, a young nobleman sent by his father to a five-day birthday celebration for the king at...

We Happy Few

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Open world, Survival

Game released: PC → 10 August 2018

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 64/100

We Happy Few is an adventure action-horror game with a first-person perspective and survival elements. During World War II, Nazi Germany captured Great Britain, and...

Gris

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Platformer

Game released: PC → 13 December 2018

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 83/100

GRIS is an atmospheric adventure puzzle game with a side view. The game will tell the sad story of the main character named Gris. The girl is locked in her own...

Rusty Lake Paradise

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 January 2018

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 93/100

Rusty Lake Paradise is a point-and-click puzzle game with beautiful visuals and a dark atmosphere. The game takes place on a small island in the 18th century. After...

Shootout on Cash Island

Indie, Action, Platformer

Game released: PC → 18 January 2018

Steam: 86/100

This action platformer follows Bobby of Team HOT GUNS on an island quest to find the legendary Money Tree. He is not the only one searching for it, and must use...

Banner Saga 3

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

Game released: PC → 24 July 2018

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Banner Saga 3 is the third and final installment in a series of tactical turn-based role-playing games in which your decisions, sometimes very difficult, have very...

Infinite Adventures

Dungeons, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 October 2018

Steam: 89/100

Infinite Adventures is a first-person, turn-based RPG in which a party explores an endless dungeon labyrinth while uncovering the hero’s past and the origins of the...

Death's Gambit

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 13 August 2018

Players: 9/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Death's Gambit is an arcade side-scrolling action platformer with RPG elements. You have to act as an agent of death, whose goal is to rid the world of “immortals...

Blackbeard's Cove

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 April 2018

Players: 4.9/10

Steam: 50/100

Blackbeard's Cove is an open-world action-adventure game in the spirit of the Grand Theft Auto series, in which gamers will have to find Blackbeard's lost pirate...

Puzzle With Your Friends

Casual game, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 April 2018

Steam: 85/100

This casual puzzle game challenges players to assemble jigsaws featuring artwork from indie games and various artists. It offers a single-player mode as well as...

This Is the Police 2

Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Indie, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 31 July 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This Is the Police 2 is a continuation of the adventure strategy with elements of a management game and an isometric camera view. The game takes place in the small...

Bad North

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 16 November 2018

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Bad North is a minimalist real-time strategy game with tower defense elements and an isometric camera view. You have to defend your island against the impending...

The Red Strings Club

Adventure, Cyberpunk, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 January 2018

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The Red Strings Club — a "point and click" adventure with a side view in a cyberpunk style. The game's plot centers around a bartender and his hacker friend, who...

Incredibox

Music game, Sandbox, Educational game (Education), Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 May 2018

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Incredibox is a music educational editor. This is an app that allows you to create your own music with the help of a fun team of beatboxers. You get to choose your...

Lust for Darkness

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Adult game, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 June 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 50/100

Lust for Darkness is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. Jonathan Moon receives a letter from his wife, who disappeared a year ago. Following the...

Mark of the Ninja Remastered

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 October 2018

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Mark of the Ninja Remastered is a special version of the side-scrolling arcade action platformer with stealth elements for Nintendo Switch. The events of the game...

One Wish

Adventure, Indie, Horror

Game released: PC → 7 June 2018

Steam: 57/100

An indie horror game about a man trapped between life and death after waking up in an empty hospital. The elevator is out of order, the only exit is locked, and...

Door Kickers: Action Squad

Arcade, Action, Indie, Tactics, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Shooter, Simulation

Game released: PC → 10 September 2018

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Door Kickers: Action Squad is a side-view pixel arcade action game from the creators of the Door Kickers series. In the game you have to become a SWAT operative and...

Parkitect

Business / Management, Simulation, Indie, Isometric, Strategy, Construction

Game released: PC → 29 November 2018

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Parkitect is a management strategy game with an isometric camera view where you build and manage theme parks. You will have at your disposal an extensive arsenal...

TerraTech

Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Construction, Sandbox, Open world

Game released: PC → 10 August 2018

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 92/100

TerraTech is an exciting sandbox where you can manage a fleet of unique cars and fight enemies for valuable resources. Particular emphasis is placed on...

I'm on Observation Duty

Horror, Puzzle, Indie, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → 14 December 2018

Steam: 95/100

Atmospheric horror built around the search for anomalies on surveillance cameras. Several screens show empty rooms where small changes gradually appear: paintings...

Mechanism

Adventure, Indie, Combat robots

Game released: PC → 19 July 2018

Steam: 65/100

An adventure set in a steampunk world where a lone robot awakens to the aftermath of a mysterious disease. Black growths have spread across the land and killed many...

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Business / Management, Strategy

Game released: PC → 24 October 2018

Players: 8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Do Not Feed the Monkeys is a unique first-person puzzle adventure game with pixel graphics. The game will give you the opportunity to invade the privacy of...

Indie

Best Games in the Indie genre of 2018 for PC (Game released)