Indie for Xbox One — top best games in the Indie genre

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

Early Access: Xbox One → 16 September 2022

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...

Sifu

Action, Third-person view, Indie, Beat them all, Roguelike, Adventure

Game released: Xbox One → 28 March 2023

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Hurricane hand-to-hand combat with a multitude of enemies from the creators of Absolver. A young kung fu student embarks on a path of revenge. Chasing shadows...

Minecraft

Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting

Game released: Xbox One → 18 November 2014

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An exciting sandbox game focused on freedom of action and exploration of a virtually endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...

Stray

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 10 August 2023

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk of a distant future. A suffocating city with a stale atmosphere, inhabited by robots. A lost lonely cat that wants to return home. The...

Stardew Valley

Role-playing game, Simulation, Business / Management, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 14 December 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Stardew Valley is a farmer simulator with elements of a role-playing system, a sandbox in an open world with an isometric camera and a visual style reminiscent of...

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Xbox One → 4 September 2025

VGTimes: 8.2/10

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 91/100

A sequel to the hardcore action platformer Hollow Knight. The game takes you to a new world — the fallen kingdom of Pharlum, where silk and song rule. Here, Hornet...

Subnautica

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival, Open world

Game released: Xbox One → 4 December 2018; Early Access: Xbox One → 17 May 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 83/100

A single-player adventure in a vast open world, with a first-person view, survival elements, and sandbox features. Playing the game will evoke feelings that arise...

Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox One → 23 July 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a top-down indie RPG. You will play as the boy Isaac, hiding in the basement from his mother, whom God ordered to sacrifice him. To...

Hollow Knight

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Xbox One → 25 September 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

An atmospheric action-platformer about a journey through the dying underground kingdom of Hallownest, inhabited by mysterious insects and strange creatures. A dark...

Vampire Survivors

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

Game released: Xbox One → 10 November 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: Xbox One → 19 January 2022

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...

Undertale

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 16 March 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 92/100

An RPG with a unique combat system, where each battle can be completed without a single blow. Instead of the usual violence, there are conversations, mercy, and...

Core Keeper

Adventure, Online, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Exploration, Crafting, Farm Simulator

Game released: Xbox One → 27 August 2024

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

An arcade sandbox that you can play with friends in co-op for up to eight people. The main character is an explorer who wakes up in an ancient dungeon filled with...

Starbound

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival

Game released: Xbox One → 8 December 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship. Fleeing from...

The Ascent

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

Game released: Xbox One → 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...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 18 June 2019

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of an 18-year-old girl...

Graveyard Keeper

Simulation, Action, Business / Management, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 15 August 2018

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Graveyard Keeper is a simulator of a true medieval cemetery manager. In the game world, heroes await death in coffins and entire tombs of your cemetery. Each new...

Gunfire Reborn

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

Game released: Xbox One → 27 October 2022

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...

Frostpunk

Strategy, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Survival

Game released: Xbox One → 11 October 2019

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Frostpunk is a management strategy game from the creators of This War of Mine. The game tells the story of people surviving in a snowy world and using steam...

Outlast

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

Game released: Xbox One → 19 June 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Outlast is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place in the Mount Massive Asylum, which for a long time served as a home...

Chernobylite

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

Game released: Xbox One → 28 September 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

Game released: Xbox One → 15 July 2024

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...

Outlast 2

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 25 April 2017

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Outlast 2 is a continuation of the popular horror adventure with stealth elements from the developers from the Red Barrels studio. The events of the game are...

Brotato

Action, Indie, Top-down view, Roguelike, Shooter, Casual game, Procedural generation, Comedy

Game released: Xbox One → 30 January 2024

Players: 8.9/10

Arena shooter about a combat potato in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. The game tells the story of Spud from the planet Potato, who crashes on an alien planet...

Rogue Legacy 2

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

Game released: Xbox One → 28 April 2022

Players: 9.7/10

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...

Maneater

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

Game released: Xbox One → 22 May 2020

Players: 8.2/10

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...

Gas Station Simulator

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

Game released: Xbox One → 20 October 2022

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...

Spirit of the Island

Simulation, Adventure, Business / Management, Isometric, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 19 October 2023

Colorful farm simulator. In the homeland of the protagonist, there is an ancient tradition: in order to go through the ritual of growing up, everyone must make a...

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Third-person view, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era

Game released: Xbox One → 11 April 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

The game takes you on a dark and ruthless journey into the depths of the mind, where the lines between reality and madness blur. The story follows a warrior named...

Celeste

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Xbox One → 26 January 2018

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 91/100

Celeste is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer from the creator of TowerFall. More than 250 levels await you, and the locations include abandoned cities...

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

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

Game released: Xbox One → 13 December 2022

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 74/100

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Ravenswatch

Role-playing game, Action, Online, Slasher, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy

Game released: Xbox One → 28 November 2024

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 78/100

A game from the creators of Curse of the Dead Gods featuring characters from folk tales. Each hero has their own abilities: Beowulf relies on fierce attacks and...

Outer Wilds

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

Game released: Xbox One → 29 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...

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance

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

Game released: Xbox One → 4 November 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: Xbox One → 15 December 2022

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: Xbox One → 10 February 2022

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...

Guns, Gore & Cannoli

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 25 September 2015

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Warpips

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

Game released: Xbox One → 12 October 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: Xbox One → 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...

House Flipper

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

Game released: Xbox One → 26 February 2020

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 62/100

House Flipper is a fun management simulator with a first-person view, where you become a one-man repair crew. In the game you will buy abandoned houses that are in...

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Best Games in the Indie genre for Xbox One