Indie 2021 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting

Early Access: PC → 2 February 2021; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 8.5/10

A fantasy sandbox with survival elements. You can play alone or with others, exploring the world and gathering resources, finding and raiding tombs, building bases...

Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts

Strategy, Simulation, Tactics, Warships / Submarines, Indie, Isometric

Early Access: PC → 10 December 2021; Game released: PC → 25 January 2023

Players: 7.9/10

A tactical simulator dedicated to naval battles. The game offers the unique opportunity to design and build countless variations of realistic-looking warships...

Vampire Survivors

Action, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Casual game, Fantasy, Gothic

Early Access: PC → 17 December 2021; Game released: PC → 20 October 2022

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 87/100

A gothic action roguelike about vampires where players fight off hordes of monsters. All that is required of the player is to move around the arena and collect...

Dysmantle

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

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

Players: 8.8/10

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...

Age of Darkness: Final Stand

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Isometric, Indie, Tactics, Fantasy

Early Access: PC → 7 October 2021; Game released: PC → 15 January 2025

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 74/100

A real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy setting, where darkness becomes the main enemy of humanity. No one knows for sure what it is - the embodiment of...

The Ascent

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

Game released: PC → 29 July 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

The Ascent is a dynamic action role-playing game with an isometric camera view in a cyberpunk setting. The game takes place in a future world in which the main...

The Red Solstice 2: Survivors

Arcade, Online, Action, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Tactics

Game released: PC → 17 June 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 65/100

The Red Solstice 2: Survivors is a continuation of the cooperative dynamic action game with strategy elements in a sci-fi setting. You will lead the secret special...

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...

Chernobylite

Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting

Early Access: PC → 16 October 2019; Game released: PC → 28 July 2021

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 78/100

A first-person shooter with exploration elements and horror. While exploring locations, the player collects resources to build a base and craft useful items, while...

Darkest Dungeon 2

Role-playing game, Turn-based, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy, Medieval era, Dungeons, Gothic, Indie

Early Access: PC → 26 October 2021; Game released: PC → 8 May 2023

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 79/100

A continuation of a unique party RPG, where the heroes’ skills are tied not to abstract indicators of strength, dexterity, intelligence, but to a very real mental...

Sun Haven

Indie, Farm Simulator, Online, Adventure, Crafting, Exploration, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 11 March 2023; Early Access: PC → 26 June 2021

Players: 8.9/10

A fantasy farm simulator with dragons, magic, an interesting story and a final boss. The game offers a huge world full of opportunities for development and...

Dyson Sphere Program

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Indie, Science fiction

Early Access: PC → 21 January 2021; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 9/10

Dyson Sphere Program is a sci-fi space simulator in which you build your galactic empire by exploring uncharted areas of extraterrestrial space. In the distant...

Gas Station Simulator

Simulation, Indie, First-person view, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 15 September 2021

Players: 8.2/10

Gas Station Simulator is a gas station management simulator with a first-person view. You have to serve customers, refuel cars and develop your gas station. The...

Len's Island

Adventure, Action, Isometric, Indie, Simulation

Early Access: PC → 26 November 2021; Game released: PC → 19 June 2025

Players: 6.2/10

A top-down action adventure game combining survival, construction and exploration. A new resident arrives on a picturesque island with a minimal set of tools and a...

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

Simulation, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Exploration, Fantasy, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 21 September 2021; Game released: PC → 13 December 2022

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 74/100

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The Binding of Isaac: Repentance

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 31 March 2021

Players: 8.9/10

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance — an expansion to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. The expansion includes the fan-made modification...

Grime

Role-playing game, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 August 2021

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Grime is an action-adventure platformer with role-playing elements and a side view in a fantasy setting. Grime takes place in a crazy world with a surreal...

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

Role-playing game, Indie, Simulation, Adventure

Game released: PC → 4 March 2021

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is a narrative role-playing game set in the pages of the protagonist's diary. You will find a story about a ruthless world...

The Tenants

Simulation, Indie, Business / Management, Isometric, Third-person view, Arcade

Early Access: PC → 25 March 2021; Game released: PC → 20 October 2022

The Tenants is a fun simulation game with management strategy elements and an isometric camera view. In the game, you will try on the role of a venerable landlord...

Warpips

Strategy, In real time, Side view, Tanks, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Tactics, Indie

Early Access: PC → 29 April 2021; Game released: PC → 21 April 2022

Players: 8.6/10

Warpips is an exciting tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre and with a side view. In the game you have to create an indestructible army by combining...

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story

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

Game released: PC → 16 November 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is a role-playing adventure set in the League of Legends universe with a turn-based combat system from the creators of...

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

Action, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Role-playing game

Early Access: PC → 21 January 2021; Game released: PC → 22 June 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a dark fantasy setting. The setting is the fallen kingdom of Outland...

Breathedge

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Survival, Comedy, Space

Early Access: PC → 13 September 2018; Game released: PC → 25 February 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Breathedge is a science fiction adventure action game with a first-person view and survival elements. The game tells the story of an ordinary guy and his pet who...

Despot's Game

Indie, Strategy, In real time, Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Roguelike

Early Access: PC → 14 October 2021; Game released: PC → 29 September 2022

A futuristic post -apocalyptic strategy, where a group of survivors needs to get out of a gloomy labyrinth. The path is full of dangers, but the weapon and...

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

Simulation, Action, Fighting, Business / Management, Indie, Medieval era, Sandbox, Comedy

Early Access: PC → 1 April 2019; Game released: PC → 1 April 2021

Players: 7.7/10

A fun tactical simulator in which historical battles turn into a chaotic and funny sandbox. Stupid, but charming units fighting under the control of funny physics...

Severed Steel

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 September 2021

Players: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Severed Steel is a dynamic first-person shooter in which the main character is a one-armed girl who destroys entire squads of soldiers using different types of...

Noble Fates

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Early Access: PC → 14 December 2021; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Noble Fates is a management strategy with elements of a colony simulator with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. In a land far, far away, mortals vie...

Tavern Master

Strategy, Business / Management, Simulation, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Isometric, In real time

Game released: PC → 16 November 2021

Players: 10/10

Tavern Master is a fun real-time management strategy game with an isometric camera view. In the game you will try on the role of a tavern owner who starts his...

Farmer's Life

Action, Third-person view, Business / Management, Indie, Sandbox, Comedy, Farm Simulator, Open world

Early Access: PC → 5 August 2021; Game released: PC → 20 October 2023

Players: 7.8/10

A harsh farmer simulator that shows the very “dark” side of life on a garden plot. The main character is an alcoholic who sleeps in a dilapidated house hugging a...

Lake

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 September 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Lake is a story-driven postman simulator about a woman named Meredith Weiss. The heroine is forty years old, she returned home from the big city to help her father...

Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Tactics

Early Access: PC → 4 March 2020; Game released: PC → 7 April 2021

Players: 9/10

Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail — a tactical war game from the creators of the Ultimate General: Civil War series, which will offer to join epic naval campaigns...

Tormented Souls

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

Game released: PC → 27 August 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Tormented Souls is a third-person psychological horror game inspired by classic horror films Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Alone in the Dark. The main character is...

Tiny Bunny

Adventure, Horror, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie

Early Access: PC → 16 April 2021; Game released: PC → 5 December 2025

VGTimes: 7.8/10

Players: 8.9/10

An adventurous visual novel with horror elements. Looking out of the window of an old house, the boy Anton sees a fading village, huge snowdrifts, and a frozen...

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...

Gladiator Guild Manager

Strategy, Indie, Simulation, Turn-based, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Business / Management, Role-playing game

Early Access: PC → 14 October 2021; Game released: PC → 22 June 2024

Players: 8.2/10

A managerial simulator with elements of tactics in which the player needs to develop his own guild of fighters and lead them to glory. Recruiting warriors...

WorldBox - God Simulator

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Isometric, Indie

Early Access: PC → 2 December 2021; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 8.4/10

WorldBox — God Simulator is a real-time god simulator with indie strategy elements and an isometric view. You can create sheep, wolves, orcs, elves, gnomes...

Deathly Stillness

Free game, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: PC → 4 September 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Deathly Stillness is a free-to-play post-apocalyptic shooter with a third-person view. The main opponents in the game are zombies. The main task is to clear all...

Before We Leave

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 May 2021

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Before We Leave is a top-down real-time management strategy game. After a long period of imprisonment in the bowels of the earth, your people emerge to the surface...

Tunche

Arcade, Side view, Action, Adventure, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Role-playing game, Slasher

Game released: PC → 2 November 2021

Metacritic: 68/100

Tunche is a side-scrolling action-RPG slasher game with co-op for up to four people. The game is based on an ancient legend of Peruvian folklore and will delight...

Insurmountable

Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Top-down view, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: PC → 29 April 2021

Metacritic: 74/100

Adventure tactical roguelike with turn-based combat. The main character alone challenges mountain landscapes and tries to withstand the endless hardships of...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2021 for PC