Indie 2021 for PC — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 7

Of Bird and Cage - a game in the Indie genre

Arcade, First-person view, Interactive movie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Action, Indie, Music game

Game released: PC → 20 May 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 43/100

Of Bird and Cage is an interactive adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the dark story of Gitta Barbot, a 25-year-old drug addict who is trying to...

Atomic Society

Strategy, Isometric, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Business / Management, In real time, Simulation, City Building

Early Access: PC → 15 October 2018; Game released: PC → 9 August 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 65/100

Atomic Society is a real-time management city-planning simulator with an isometric camera view. In the game you have to build your own city in a post-apocalyptic...

SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER

Arcade, Anime / Manga, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 September 2021

Steam: 92/100

SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER is an arcade runner with shooting elements in which a spy chicken is tasked by the president with saving the world from evil forces of the...

Steel Assault

Arcade, Platformer, Action, Side view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 28 September 2021

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Steel Assault is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the near future of post-apocalyptic America. You...

Operation DogFight

Free game, Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Flight Simulator, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 October 2021

Steam: 83/100

Operation DogFight is a free-to-play multiplayer action game for up to four players (in local mode), in which players must fly small airplanes and fight each other...

Let's Build a Zoo

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, City Building, Open world

Game released: PC → 5 November 2021

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A colorful, large-scale management strategy game about building your own zoo. The owner has dozens of animal species at their disposal: rare creatures can be...

Challenge Speedball

Free game, Online, Shooter, Third-person view, Sports game, Simulation, Indie, Action

Early Access: PC → 11 September 2020; Game released: PC → 13 January 2021

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 61/100

Challenge Speedball is a free-to-play sports shooter about paintball with a third-person view. The idea is quite simple: players are divided into teams and try to...

Puzzle Box Palace

Free game, Arcade, Puzzle, Adventure, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 January 2021

Steam: 86/100

Puzzle Box Palace is a free-to-play first-person puzzle adventure game. It is an escape room style game where you are placed in a certain room with puzzles. You can...

Buddy Simulator 1984

Indie, Horror, Role-playing game, Simulation, Adventure

Game released: PC → 18 February 2021

Steam: 94/100

Buddy Simulator 1984 is an interactive role-playing adventure with horror and test game elements. Have you ever felt lonely? Perhaps you wanted to talk to someone...

Rhythm Doctor

Role-playing game, Adventure, Music game, Indie, Side view, Action

Early Access: PC → 26 February 2021; Game released: PC → 6 December 2025

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 89/100

An unusual musical rhythm game in which every keystroke becomes the pulse of life. Here, medicine and music intertwine: synchronizing keystrokes at the right moment...

Evil Inside

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 March 2021

Players: 3.7/10

Steam: 63/100

Evil Inside is a psychological horror game with a first-person view and survival elements. The main character is a minor boy, Mark, who, after the death of his...

Say No! More

Indie, Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Simulation, Comedy, Casual game

Game released: PC → 9 April 2021

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Say No! More is an unusual explosive action game with a third-person view. In the game you will find yourself in a world where the word “No!” is forbidden. Your...

Exit From

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

Game released: PC → 17 April 2021

Steam: 83/100

Exit From is an indie horror adventure with action elements and a first-person view. In this game you have to get out of the old Soviet house, which changes every...

The Fermi Paradox

Strategy, Adventure, God Simulator, Futurism (Future), Indie, Text quest, Science fiction

Early Access: PC → 1 July 2021; Game in development: PC → 2026

Steam: 77/100

The Fermi Paradox is an indie strategy adventure in the god simulator genre. You'll lead alien civilizations that may thrive or simply survive for centuries...

Boomerang X

Action, Indie, Shooter, First-person view, Parkour

Game released: PC → 8 July 2021

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Boomerang X is a dynamic old-school shooter with a first-person view and a phantasmagoric atmosphere. You will set off to conquer a crazy and vibrant world filled...

No Longer Home

Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Visual novel, Arcade, Point & Click, Exploration

Game released: PC → 30 July 2021

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 73/100

No Longer Home is an exciting adventure game with visual novel elements. Bo and Ao are graduating from university and are about to leave the apartment they've lived...

The Island

Adventure, Action, First-person view, Simulation, Indie, Survival, Open world, Construction

Game released: PC → 10 August 2021

Steam: 45/100

The Island is an action-adventure game with survival elements and a first-person view. The game takes place on a large tropical island. As in other projects of this...

Anarchy: Wolf's law: Prologue

Free game, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Adventure, Role-playing game, Action, Zombies

Game released: PC → 26 August 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 76/100

Anarchy: Wolf's law: Prologue is a shareware prologue for an adventure shooter with a first-person view. The game is a single-player open-world RPG shooter, but it...

Mecha Knights: Nightmare

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

Game released: PC → 30 August 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 91/100

Mecha Knights: Nightmare is a dynamic action game about combat robots with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. In 2049, at the height of the Second Cold War, a...

Rogue Spirit

Action, Roguelike, Stealth, Third-person view, Adventure, Indie

Early Access: PC → 1 September 2021; Game released: PC → 7 March 2023

Steam: 76/100

Rogue Spirit is an action-adventure roguelike with stealth elements and a third-person view. You will go to explore the fabulous kingdom of Midra, where reality and...

Despot's Game

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

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

Steam: 82/100

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...

Sands of Aura

Role-playing game, Isometric, Action, Indie, Adventure, Fantasy, Dungeons, Exploration

Game released: PC → 27 October 2023; Early Access: PC → 21 October 2021

Steam: 77/100

Action role-playing game in an open world buried under sand dunes after a cataclysm occurred there. Most of the local inhabitants have lost their minds and are...

Sand-Blox

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game canceled: PC → 13 November 2021

Anticipation Rating: 2.5/10

Sand-Blox is a sandbox adventure game with a first-person view and abundant opportunities for creating objects and buildings. In the game you can create your own...

Rob Riches

Adventure, Puzzle, Isometric, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 17 November 2021

Steam: 93/100

Rob Riches is an indie adventure puzzle game with an isometric view. In this game you will visit ancient and mysterious temples, each of which is located in a...

RavenWeald

Free game, Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based, Roguelike, Fantasy, Isometric, Procedural generation, Adventure

Early Access: PC → 13 January 2021; Game released: PC → 8 September 2022

Steam: 89/100

A free strategy game with turn-based combat and roguelike elements in a fantasy setting. The main action takes place in a magical forest filled with deadly...

Gamecraft

Simulation, Arcade, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Third-person view, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Construction, Open world

Early Access: PC → 25 October 2019; Game canceled: PC → 21 January 2021

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 74/100

Gamecraft — an engaging arcade online sandbox from the creators of Robocraft, where you and your friends can create not only levels but also games. You will be...

Metal Unit

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC → 27 January 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Metal Unit is an adventure role-playing action platformer with roguelike elements and a side view in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell the story of the survival...

HROT

Shooter, First-person view, Indie

Early Access: PC → 29 January 2021; Game released: PC → 16 May 2023

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

HROT is a dynamic old-school shooter with a first-person view, made in the style of games of the last century. The events in the game take place in Czechoslovakia...

Hellcraze

Free game, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Roguelike, Demons, Indie, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 10 February 2021

Steam: 96/100

Hellcraze is a free top-down arcade roguelike shooter. At each level, new enemies and more difficult challenges await you. A variety of weapons await you to defeat...

Blind Drive

Racing, Horror, Adventure, Action, Indie, Arcade

Game released: PC → 10 March 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

Blind Drive is an action-horror racing game with adventure elements. An arcade-style, sound-based black comedy action game. The entire game is experienced by your...

Trainslation

Free game, Adventure, Arcade, First-person view, Indie, Puzzle, Exploration

Game released: PC → 13 April 2021

Steam: 91/100

Trainslation is a free-to-play adventure arcade game with a first-person view. In the game you have to solve the mystery of a strange subway, where you know nothing...

Brisk Square

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

Early Access: PC → 4 June 2021; Game released: PC → 23 December 2022

Steam: 100/100

Brisk Square is a free, dynamic action game with a first-person view in a cyberpunk setting for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Valve Index...

My brother lives in a canyon

Adventure, Casual game, Exploration, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 23 July 2021

Steam: 92/100

My brother lives in a canyon is a casual adventure game with exploration elements and a first-person view. You play as Jake and start walking down the path to meet...

Omno

Arcade, Third-person view, Adventure, Exploration, Logic, Indie, Platformer, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 29 July 2021

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Omno is a third-person, open-world puzzle-platformer adventure game. In the game you will go to conquer the ancient world of wonders with many interesting riddles...

Bloons TD Battles 2

Online, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Free game, Top-down view, Tactics, In real time, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 November 2021

Steam: 83/100

Bloons TD Battles 2 is a continuation of the shareware arcade puzzle game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre. In the game, you will engage in a...

Hellcoming

Action, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival horror, Horror, Online

Game released: PC → 7 December 2021

Steam: 77/100

Cooperative game where 1 to 4 players must cleanse a building from corruption — it's important to act as a team and assist your comrades. To do this, you will need...

I Am Robot

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

Game released: PC → 15 January 2021

I Am Robot is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. In the game you will try on the role of an android named Nessa. He is a...

NUTS

First-person view, Adventure, Action, Simulation, Indie, Detective, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 4 February 2021

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 67/100

NUTS is an indie action adventure game with simulation elements and a first-person view. Your mission briefing will give you a starting point, but it will be up to...

Bloodroots

Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Top-down view, Slasher

Game released: PC → 12 March 2021

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Bloodroots is a fast-paced action adventure with an isometric camera view. You have to try on the role of Mr. Wolf, who was left for dead by his former fellow...

First Class Trouble

Online, Action, Indie, Arcade, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: PC → 2 November 2021; Early Access: PC → 8 April 2021

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 78/100

First Class Trouble is an asymmetrical multiplayer action game with survival elements and a third-person view. The game takes place on a luxury space cruise ship...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2021 for PC