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

Gunfire Reborn - a game in the Indie genre

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

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

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...

Dysmantle

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

Game released: PC → 16 November 2021

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lawn Mowing Simulator

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

Game released: PC → 10 August 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Lawn Mowing Simulator is an unusual simulator with a first-person view in which you have to professionally mow UK lawns. In the game you will create your own lawn...

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...

Cyber Shadow

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 26 January 2021

Metacritic: 80/100

Cyber Shadow is a dynamic side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The world has been taken over by synthetic life forms. A desperate cry for help...

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...

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...

Breathedge

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

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...

Them and Us

Action, Indie, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC → 28 September 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Them and Us is an action-adventure game with a third-person view and horror elements. The events of the game take place in 1978, when after a bus accident, a young...

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...

INDUSTRIA

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Steampunk, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 September 2021

Players: 5.1/10

Metacritic: 66/100

INDUSTRIA is an atmospheric first-person shooter in a steampunk setting. The game will immerse you in the parallel reality of East Berlin shortly before the end of...

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

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

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...

Mighty Goose

Action, Shooter, Indie, Side view, Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 5 June 2021

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, only armed and...

Psychonauts 2

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

Game released: PC → 25 August 2021

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Psychonauts 2 is a fantastic sequel to the third-person action platformer that takes players back to the world of psychonauts. The dream of the protagonist of the...

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...

Lust from Beyond

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Adult game, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 March 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Lust from Beyond is a continuation of the first-person adventure horror Lust for Darkness. The main character is Victor Holloway, an antique dealer who begins to...

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

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

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...

Black Book

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

Game released: PC → 10 August 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Black Book is a mixture of an adventure game and a card RPG in the setting of Russian fairy tales. The game tells the story of a young peasant woman, Vasilisa: the...

They Always Run

Side view, Platformer, Action, Adventure, Science fiction, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 October 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 73/100

They Always Run is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The main character in the game is a character named Aiden. He is a mutant...

Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper

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

Game released: PC → 27 May 2021

Players: 9.7/10

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 set out to...

Super Meat Boy Forever

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Action, Runner

Game released: PC → 10 January 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Continuation of the hardcore arcade runner Super Meat Boy. The game has a full story, six new chapters and twice as many bosses. Meat Boy and Band-Aid Girl try to...

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...

Chorus

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Science fiction, Flight Simulator, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 December 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Chorus is an adventure space shooter with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. The main character is a girl named Nara, who was previously a member of a dark...

MADNESS: Project Nexus

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Slasher, Indie, Isometric

Game released: PC → 30 September 2021

Players: 8.1/10

MADNESS: Project Nexus is a whirlwind action slasher with an isometric camera view and horror elements. There are two modes available to you in the game: story...

Demeo

Virtual Reality (VR), Card game, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Indie, Turn-based, Cooperative (co-op), First-person view

Game released: PC → 15 December 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Demeo is a card role-playing game with turn-based combat from a first-person view in a fantasy setting for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve...

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...

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...

Cozy Grove

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Isometric

Game released: PC → 8 April 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Cozy Grove is an indie adventure simulator with an isometric view. Welcome to a life simulator about camping on an ever-changing haunted island. As a spiritual...

Tainted Grail: Conquest

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

Game released: PC → 27 May 2021

Players: 8/10

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 long gone, and...

Castle Flipper

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 May 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Castle Flipper is an exciting sandbox with a first-person view in a medieval setting. The game will give you a unique chance to become a royal master. You'll be...

Dreamscaper

Role-playing game, Roguelike, Isometric, Action, Indie, Slasher, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 5 August 2021

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Dreamscaper is an action-adventure RPG with roguelike elements and an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. At night, delve into your subconscious as you face...

Greak: Memories of Azur

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 17 August 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Greak: Memories of Azur is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. You will take on the role of three siblings: Grek, Adara and Rydel, who will guide them...

Road 96

Adventure, Interactive movie, First-person view, Indie, Action, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 16 August 2021

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Road 96 is a thrilling, interactive, first-person adventure that pays tribute to various road movies, as well as the work of cinema legends such as Quentin...

Praey for the Gods

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 December 2021

Players: 9/10

Praey for the Gods is an action-adventure game with a third-person view. The main character will have to survive on a snowy island full of dangers and huge titans...

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...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2021 for PC (Game released)