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

Graveyard Keeper - a game in the Indie genre

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...

The Forest

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...

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 management strategy game from the creators of This War of Mine. The game tells the story of people surviving in a snowy world and using steam...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dungeon Warfare 2

Strategy, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy, Old school

Game released: PC → 6 July 2018

Steam: 89/100

Continuation of the tower defense strategy genre about the dungeon master, who must defend his domain from greedy adventurers and heroes who have decided to fight...

Dark Deception

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

Game released: PC → 27 September 2018

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 88/100

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...

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...

Reigns: Game of Thrones

Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Visual novel, Logic, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 October 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Reigns: Game of Thrones is a unique card board game in the Game of Thrones universe. As in the original game, the heads of the kingdoms will have to solve problems...

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...

SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Roguelike, Indie, Action, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 16 March 2018

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 67/100

SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising is a hardcore top-down shooter with roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. You will go to conquer a world captured by machines. Using...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Past Cure

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

Game released: PC → 2 February 2018

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 24/100

Metacritic: 40/100

Past Cure is a futuristic action game with a third-person view and stealth elements. The action takes place between two worlds — reality and an abstract...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dead in Vinland

Role-playing game, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Survival, Strategy

Game released: PC → 12 April 2018

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Dead in Vinland is an adventure role-playing game with survival and management elements, which is a direct sequel to Dead In Bermuda. Finding himself exiled to a...

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...

Incredibox

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

Game released: PC → 12 May 2018

Players: 7.2/10

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...

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...

7 Billion Humans

Arcade, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 23 August 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 93/100

7 Billion Humans is the sequel to the fun indie puzzle game Human Resource Machine. This time you have to automate a swarm of employees so that they become part of...

Cineris Somnia

Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Walking Simulator, Horror

Game released: PC → 9 October 2018

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 91/100

Cineris Somnia is an adventure walking simulator with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in a strange and wonderful world, which is the...

Return of the Obra Dinn

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 October 2018

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Return of the Obra Dinn is an adventure detective from the creator papers, please, which will tell about the Dinn Disablast, which hides many secrets. You have to...

The Greater Good

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

Game released: PC → 23 October 2018

Steam: 96/100

The Greater Good is a side-scrolling adventure RPG. The game takes place in an amazing and hand-drawn world. Once upon a time it was ruled by magic, but gradually...

Orwell: Ignorance is Strength

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 February 2018

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Orwell: Ignorance is Strength is a sequel to the first-person puzzle adventure based on George Orwell's novel 1984. You assume the role of an observer of the...

Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 4 October 2018

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics is a turn-based strategy game with an isometric camera view and role-playing elements, combining Lovecraftian horror and the Third Reich...

Protocol

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

Game released: PC → 20 November 2018

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 73/100

Protocol is an exciting adventure shooter with a first-person view and support for virtual reality devices. The main character goes to the Arctic Circle, where he...

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Dungeons

Game released: PC → 1 March 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Heroes of Hammerwatch is an indie role-playing game with action elements in a medieval setting. Explore procedurally generated levels, destroying enemies and...

GRIP: Combat Racing

Action, Racing, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 6 November 2018

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 68/100

GRIP is a futuristic arcade racing game with action elements and a third-person view. You have to become the driver of unusually shaped cars and move along various...

Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival

Game released: PC → 3 May 2018

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 80/100

Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation is a survival simulator with real-time strategy elements and a top-down view. The game will tell you how to survive after...

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...

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