Indie 2021 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 3

Game released: PC → 5 February 2021

Steam: 63/100

This psychological horror adventure follows an investigation into the disappearance of a married couple of foresters who stopped communicating with...

Edge of Book

Strategy, Casual game, Indie

Early Access: PC → 18 March 2021

Steam: 50/100

Set in ancient Jiangnan, this management strategy game follows a young martial arts enthusiast who establishes a martial arts school while searching...

Sun Haven

Indie, Farm Simulator, Online, Adventure, Crafting, Exploration, Fantasy, Role-playing game

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

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

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

Prison Architect - Going Green

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

Game released: PC → 28 January 2021

Steam: 58/100

Prison Architect — Going Green — an expansion for the real-time management strategy game with a top-down view. The expansion brings farming, product...

From the darkness

Adventure, Indie, First-person view, Horror

Game released: PC → 30 March 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

From the darkness is an atmospheric first-person horror game that focuses on creating fear in the player. Moreover, the events take place in an...

Cookie Clicker

Arcade, Action, Indie, Clicker, Casual game, Horror

Game released: PC → 1 September 2021

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 96/100

An arcade clicker game where everything revolves around baking endless amounts of cookies. Every click brings a tasty reward, and the more cookies...

Archvale

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

Game released: PC → 2 December 2021

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Archvale is a fun top-down arcade shooter with roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. Once upon a time, the fairy lands were ruled by an evil king...

Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper

Simulation, Action, Top-down view, Adventure, Role-playing game, Cooperative (co-op), Business / Management, Indie, Open world, Survival, Crafting

Game released: PC → 27 May 2021

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 73/100

Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper is a continuation of the action-adventure sandbox with elements of a survival simulator and a top-down view. You will...

Tainted Grail: Conquest

Role-playing game, Indie, Turn-based, Fantasy / Medieval, Top-down view, Card game, Roguelike

Early Access: PC → 19 June 2020; Game released: PC → 27 May 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Tainted Grail: Conquest is a dark role-playing game with turn-based combat and a top-down view in a fantasy setting. Avalon is dying. King Arthur is...

Survival In Africa

Free game, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Simulation, Survival, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC → 23 January 2021

Steam: 52/100

Survival In Africa is a shareware survival simulator with role-playing elements and a third-person view, where you have to fight for your life in the...

Space Gladiators

Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 10 March 2021

Steam: 90/100

This hand-drawn 2D roguelite platformer follows captives forced to fight as gladiators on Tartarus, a planet prison. To move closer to freedom, the...

The Room 4: Old Sins

Logic, Puzzle, First-person view, Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 11 February 2021

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 98/100

The Room 4: Old Sins is the continuation of the first-person puzzle adventure in the "The Room" series. The story of the game begins with the...

The Mansion

Adventure, Casual game, Indie

Early Access: PC → 31 March 2021

Steam: 65/100

An adventure with casual elements about a doctor drawn into the nightmare of a boy in deep distress. At its center stands a grim mansion, perhaps...

Might is Right

Role-playing game, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 19 February 2021

Steam: 78/100

A turn-based tactical role-playing game about a squad travelling through a fantasy world, where exploration gives way to battles against enemy...

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

Steam: 89/100

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...

Horror Story: Hallowseed

Horror, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC → 28 October 2021

Steam: 63/100

This first-person psychological horror game unfolds in the fictional location of Hallowseed. After a mysterious event during a camping trip, the...

Bloodshore

Indie, Adventure, Action, Interactive movie, Point & Click, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 3 November 2021

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 68/100

Bloodshore is an interactive adventure movie in the point and click genre with action and indie elements. This game is about a televised battle...

The Last Hex

Role-playing game, Card game, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 December 2021

Steam: 77/100

This role-playing card game with roguelite elements follows a hero facing an undead army and seeking its leader before the kingdom falls. The deck...

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

Horror, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie, Text quest

Game released: PC → 16 December 2021

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 97/100

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk is a visual novel in the horror genre with point and click elements. A psychedelic narrative full of...

Minnano Gensokyo Single

Indie, Card game, Strategy

Early Access: PC → 31 December 2021

Steam: 87/100

A card-based strategy game with character progression, set in the world of Touhou Project. The player takes the role of a new assistant at the...

Cyber Manhunt

Simulation, Indie, Role-playing game, Puzzle, Cyberpunk, Horror

Game released: PC → 3 February 2021

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Cyber Manhunt is an adventure simulator with role-playing elements in a cyberpunk setting, in which you can try yourself as a hacker. You have to...

BARRICADEZ

Strategy, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 29 September 2021

Steam: 78/100

A post-apocalyptic tower-defense and survival strategy game about a care robot tasked with protecting a human child from hordes of zombie-like...

Mighty Goose

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

Game released: PC → 5 June 2021

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Mighty Goose is an old-school arcade action game. In this 2D shooter, you take on the role of a bounty hunter named Goose. And it's actually a goose...

Bullet Age

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 15 July 2021

Bullet Age is a side-scrolling adventure role-playing action platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The game takes place in the desert world of...

Silent Sector

Indie, Role-playing game, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 17 February 2021

Steam: 82/100

This open-world sci-fi RPG takes place in a remote sector of the galaxy, where factions compete for Eldorite, a valuable mineral. After losing their...

Shattered: Tale of the Forgotten King

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, First-person view, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Early Access: PC → 4 June 2019; Game released: PC → 17 February 2021

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Shattered: Tale of the Forgotten King is a side-scrolling action RPG platformer. Powerful creatures called Demiurges began to rule the world of...

Crimson Colosseum

Role-playing game, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 31 July 2021

Steam: 73/100

This Japanese role-playing game follows Sachi, a swordswoman captured on her way home and taken to a mysterious arena. Cursed and forced to fight...

Before We Leave

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, City Building, Casual game, Construction

Game released: PC → 13 May 2021

Players: 5/10

Steam: 78/100

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...

CryptoClickers: Crypto Idle Game

Free game, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 19 June 2021

Steam: 64/100

An incremental clicker game about cryptocurrency-themed systems, where progress comes from clicking and accumulating resources. CryptoClickers does...

Far Away

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

Game released: PC → 17 August 2021

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 94/100

The game is set in a fictional world that reflects the late 19th century, but contains many references to modern phenomena, including idols, fan...

Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives

Role-playing game, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 28 October 2021

Steam: 94/100

This text-based interactive horror role-playing story takes place in Ottawa, where the vampire Prince has vanished. His second-in-command, Eden...

Christmas Massacre

Action, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view, Indie, Comedy, Old school

Game released: PC → 17 December 2021

Steam: 91/100

A bloody slasher in the style of 1980s horror films, with low-poly graphics reminiscent of games for the original PlayStation. At the center of the...

Explorers of the Abyss

Role-playing game, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 5 June 2021

Steam: 60/100

A fantasy role-playing game about Princess Ovelia, who sets out to explore the mysterious Abyss after her father, the king of Lescardia, falls ill...

Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare

Arcade, Side view, DLC, Fighting, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 July 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Streets Of Rage 4 — Mr. X Nightmare — an expansion for the old-school side-scrolling beat 'em up Streets of Rage 4. After the events of the...

Hidden Lands - Spot the differences

Indie, Logic, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Hidden Objects, Exploration

Game released: PC → 29 January 2021

Players: 6/10

Steam: 93/100

Hidden Lands — Spot the differences is a side-view indie logic puzzle game. You will explore ancient floating worlds to find pieces of lost...

Trashed

Action, Indie, Adventure

Early Access: PC → 17 February 2021

Steam: 41/100

A garbage-management action adventure about restoring a waste facility and the health of a distant planet. After a falling-out with the company’s...

Garlic

Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 16 June 2021

Steam: 88/100

A hardcore platformer about Garlic, an onion-headed boy climbing the Sacred Tower to meet the Cyber Goddess and ask her to grant a wish. His ascent...

Nearly Dead

Indie, Role-playing game, Strategy, Online, Slasher, Top-down view

Early Access: PC → 10 September 2021

Steam: 43/100

A 2D open-world survival RPG with strategy elements, set in an apocalypse where demons from another dimension have turned most of humanity into...

Negative Nancy

Visual novel, Comedy, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 October 2021

Steam: 93/100

This comedy visual novel is an interactive sitcom about Nancy, a retail clerk at Megamart who can only answer “no” or say nothing. At work, she deals...

Goose Goose Duck

Futurism (Future), Action, Arcade, Logic, Top-down view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Free game, Indie

Early Access: PC → 29 April 2021; Game released: PC → 3 October 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 90/100

Goose Goose Duck is a free arcade multiplayer online social deduction game that clearly resembles Among Us, but with ducks and geese. Some control...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2021 for PC