Indie 2020 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

Game released: PC → 25 February 2020

Players need to help the postman Thomas collect lost letters. The hero suffers from severe allergies, and various allergens help him overcome obstacles. For...

Teardown

Action, Simulation, First-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Open world

Early Access: PC → 29 October 2020; Game released: PC → 21 April 2022

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

A heist simulator in which you can completely destroy the world around you using tools and weapons. Missions begin with exploration: the player can explore the area...

Five Dates

Interactive movie, First-person view, Adventure, Indie, Adult game

Game released: PC → 17 November 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Five Dates is a dating simulator with elements of an interactive adult adventure and a dash of romantic comedy. Unlike most similar projects, the game offers to...

The White Door

Adventure, Puzzle, Interactive movie, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 January 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Detective game from the creators of Cube Escape and Rusty Lake Paradise, which tells the story of Robert Hill, undergoing treatment in a clinic and suffering...

Rogue Legacy 2

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 19 August 2020; Game released: PC → 28 April 2022

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

One day, a brave knight gets to a mysterious place where some kind of devilry happened many years ago. Skeletons, ghosts and other evil spirits roam everywhere, and...

Dysmantle

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: PC → 16 November 2021; Early Access: PC → 6 November 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Dysmantle is an open world RPG that combines the best ideas from Zelda, Stardew Valley, Subnautica, SteamWorld Dig and Dark Souls. The action takes place on a...

Cardpocalypse

Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Card game, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 October 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Cardpocalypse is a fun turn-based combat RPG card game set in the 1990s. The game tells the story of ten-year-old Jess, who moves to a new school where all the...

Futa Fix Dick Dine and Dash

Adult game, Indie, Simulation, Arcade, Anime / Manga, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 21 December 2020

Players: 7.4/10

Futa Fix Dick Dine and Dash is an adult visual novel with Japanese-style dating sim elements. Emily has a problem. One day, a long, fleshy penis appeared between...

At Dead of Night

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Point & Click, Survival horror, Detective

Game released: PC → 19 November 2020

Players: 9.5/10

The main heroine Maya finds herself trapped in a remote hotel run by the psychopath Jimmy Hall. Her friends are tied up and inside the building, while Jimmy patrols...

Idle Slayer

Indie, Free game, Casual game, Fantasy, Old school, Medieval era, Clicker

Game released: PC → 21 December 2020

A dynamic clicker combining active and passive progress. The core gameplay involves jumping, collecting coins, and fighting enemies, which gradually unlock new...

Helltaker

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 11 May 2020

Players: 9/10

Helltaker is a free-to-play adventure puzzle game. The game tells the story of a hero who suddenly opens a portal to hell, in which, oddly enough, a whole harem of...

Maneater

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 May 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Adventure action set in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The story centers around a shark that has survived a brutal encounter with a hunter and is driven by a...

Murder House

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Old school, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 22 October 2020

Atmospheric survival horror in the style of VHS slashers from the 1980s. A local TV crew goes to the abandoned house of the executed serial killer Anthony Smith...

Spiritfarer

Simulation, Business / Management, Side view, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 18 August 2020

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Spiritfarer is a fun management simulator with a side view that tells the story of death. You take on the role of a ferryman for the dead and build your own ship to...

Journey

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 June 2020

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Journey is an atmospheric adventure with a third-person view. The main character is a nameless wanderer who must cross the desert and get to the mountain that is...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 26 August 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Townscaper is a vibrant casual strategy game in which the player builds a city on an island. The player selects colors and creates blocks of houses on a grid, and...

HARD BULLET

Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Comedy

Early Access: PC → 23 October 2020; Game in development: PC → 2026

Hurricane VR action, fully focused on spectacular shootouts and hand-to-hand combat using advanced physics. A variety of firearms and melee weapons are available in...

Ancient Cities

Strategy, Historical, Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, In real time

Early Access: PC → 17 December 2020; Game released: PC → 25 March 2023

Players: 6.7/10

Beginning in the Mesolithic era, players try to lead their people through generations, discovering and improving technology, managing resources and populations, and...

Travellers Rest

Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: PC → 28 July 2020; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 9.3/10

Travelers Rest is a fun top-down, co-op innkeeper simulator from a fantasy world. He runs a run-down establishment and must turn it into a magical place where a...

ScourgeBringer

Action, Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 21 October 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

ScourgeBringer is a dynamic action-platformer with a side view and roguelike elements from the creators of NeuroVoider. The events of the game unfold in a...

She Will Punish Them

Role-playing game, Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Indie, Adult game, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 29 April 2020

Players: 8.6/10

The protagonist is a succubus, exiled and chained, yet yearning to reclaim her power and dominion. Having traversed legions of monsters and ancient demons, she...

Visage

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

Early Access: PC → 2 October 2018; Game released: PC → 29 October 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Visage is a first-person horror adventure inspired by the work of Hideo Kojima — P.T. The main actions of the game take place in the 80s of the last century...

Moving Out

Simulation, Arcade, Action, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Isometric

Game released: PC → 28 April 2020

Players: 4.9/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Moving Out is a fun cooperative arcade game with an isometric camera view, where you have to learn how to move furniture correctly. Together with your friends, you...

Shieldwall

Action, Arcade, Indie, Strategy, Simulation, Third-person view, Historical

Early Access: PC → 23 March 2020; Game released: PC → 18 April 2023

Players: 7.9/10

Players take on the role of commander of the army of the Roman Empire. Features in the game include fun and dynamic battles, as well as a campaign based on the real...

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Stealth, Simulation, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: PC → 1 June 2020; Game released: PC → 25 April 2025

Players: 8.6/10

A grim survival simulator where every day becomes a struggle not only against hunger and cold, but also against other people. Ten years after the epidemic, the...

Cube Escape Collection

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 14 October 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Cube Escape Collection is an adventure puzzle game in the point and click genre. In this classic anthology of adventure games, you follow the path of Dale...

Noita

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC → 15 October 2020; Early Access: PC → 24 September 2019

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Noita is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will find procedural generation of levels, the irreversible death of the hero, as well...

Haydee 2

Action, Shooter, Indie, Platformer, Puzzle, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 24 November 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Haydee 2 is the sequel to the sexy action puzzle game with a third-person view. Once again you will play as a sexy heroine who is locked in a strange complex...

Outer Wilds

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 18 June 2020; Early Access: PC → 28 May 2019

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 84/100

The main character is a recruit of the research organization Outer Wilds Ventures, who goes on exploration into space, but ends up in a time loop. To get out of it...

Kingdoms Reborn

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: PC → 3 November 2020; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 8/10

Kingdoms Reborn is a city builder with an open, procedurally generated world in which you can cooperate or compete with other players. Here you can follow an...

Gunfire Reborn

Shooter, First-person view, Roguelike, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Procedural generation

Early Access: PC → 23 May 2020; Game released: PC → 18 November 2021

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Co-op shooter for up to four people. Players take on the role of heroes with unique abilities and go with friends to explore vast locations created at random. At...

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager

Role-playing game, Strategy, Horror, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Early Access: PC → 20 March 2020; Game released: PC → 29 April 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager is a dark role-playing roguelike with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. You have to build a...

Help Will Come Tomorrow

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 21 April 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Help Will Come Tomorrow is an adventure management simulator with survival elements. In the uninhabited Siberian desert after the October Revolution, a group of...

Chicken Police

Adventure, Indie, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 5 November 2020

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Chicken Police is a noir adventure of two feathered cops, Sonny Featherland and Marty MacChicken, in a black-and-white detective novel full of satire and cynical...

Quiplash 2 InterLASHional

Arcade, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Indie, Logic

Game released: PC → 8 April 2020

Players: 1/10

Quiplash 2 InterLASHional is a fun, say-whatever-style quiz for parties. The game features fun questions, over 100 different clues, and a nice, minimalistic visual...

The Battle of Polytopia

Strategy, Simulation, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 August 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 72/100

The Battle of Polytopia is a minimalist global strategy game with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. In the game you will go to conquer the Square...

Stormworks: Build and Rescue

Arcade, Indie, Third-person view, First-person view, Action, Shooter, Educational game (Education), Combat robots, Flight Simulator, Warships / Submarines

Game released: PC → 17 September 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Stormworks: Build and Rescue is a fun sandbox simulator where you take control of your own search and rescue team by modeling and creating vehicles. As you...

Ludus

First-person view, Action, Role-playing game, Indie, Adventure, Historical, Open world

Game released: PC → 20 February 2020

Players: 6.8/10

A simulator of the owner of a gladiator school, the events of which take place in Ancient Rome. The main task is to develop and expand our own school for arena...

Death and Taxes

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Puzzle, Visual novel, Side view

Game released: PC → 20 February 2020

Players: 10/10

Death and Taxes — an exciting adventure game in the spirit of Papers, Please, Reigns , and Beholder. In the game, you will take on the role of the Grim...

Симулятор Бухания Online

Simulation, Indie, First-person view, Horror

Game released: PC → 23 October 2020

Players: 6.2/10

Drunk Simulator Online is an unusual simulator for adults with a first-person view, where the main task is to drink alcohol. At the same time, you will find voice...

Indie

Best Games in the Indie genre of 2020 for PC