Indie for Xbox One — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 5

Game released: Xbox One → 4 May 2022

Steam: 82/100

This casual adventure combines logic puzzles with light RPG elements. Two young heroes set out to recover Pictoria’s legendary paintings and stop the...

Gas Station Simulator

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

Game released: Xbox One → 20 October 2022

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Ravenlok

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

Game released: Xbox One → 4 May 2023

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 65/100

An action role-playing game about a brave girl, Ravenlock, who goes on a dangerous journey to defeat the Caterpillar Queen and her minions. As you...

Forgotten Hill Disillusion

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Xbox One → 17 December 2021

Steam: 87/100

A first-person point-and-click horror adventure set in the grotesque world of Forgotten Hill. In Forgotten Hill Disillusion, the protagonist explores...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view, Puzzle

Game released: Xbox One → 23 August 2017

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Knock-knock is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. In the depths of a dense forest there is a wooden house. A man lives in...

Brawlhalla

Arcade, Action, Fighting, MMO, Platformer, Indie, Free game, Online

Game released: Xbox One → 17 October 2017

Players: 8/10

Steam: 77/100

Brawlhalla is a free-to-play side-scrolling multiplayer fighting platformer that supports up to 8 players. The game features a wide variety of heroes...

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Action, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Detective, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Xbox One → 19 January 2018

Players: 7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and horror elements. You take control of a detective searching for...

Nefarious

Indie, Adventure, Action

Game released: Xbox One → 14 September 2018

Steam: 84/100

Nefarious is a 2D action platformer about Crow, a villain who kidnaps princesses across five kingdoms to power his royalty-powered weapon. Its...

Operencia: The Stolen Sun

Role-playing game, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Dungeons

Game released: Xbox One → 29 March 2019

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Operencia: The Stolen Sun is a classic party role-playing game with a first-person view and turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. The game is based...

Drizzlepath: Deja Vu

Adventure, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 24 November 2021

Steam: 77/100

This adventure walking simulator follows a man climbing a mountain to discover the truth of his existence. Along the way, he reflects on life and...

Gone Home

Adventure, First-person view, Visual novel, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Xbox One → 12 February 2016

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Gone Home is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The game tells the story of Caitlin Greenbriar, who returned home from a trip to...

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

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

Game released: Xbox One → 10 May 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 85/100

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is an addition to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It adds over 100 hours of content...

Inside

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Logic, Indie, Side view

Game released: Xbox One → 29 June 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Inside is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer with survival elements from the creators of Limbo. The plot centers on a lonely boy who is...

Unrailed!

Arcade, Online, Action, MMO, Business / Management, Trains, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: Xbox One → 27 October 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Unrailed! is a crazy multiplayer action game in which you have to build a railway in an endless procedurally generated world. Together with your...

Starbound

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

Game released: Xbox One → 8 December 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 88/100

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...

Bloodshore

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

Game released: Xbox One → 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...

Battle Brothers

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Strategy

Game released: Xbox One → 13 January 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A turn-based tactical role-playing game about leading a mercenary company through a harsh, low-fantasy medieval world in a procedurally generated...

Circus Electrique

Tactics, Role-playing game, Steampunk, Turn-based, Side view, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Xbox One → 6 September 2022

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Circus Electrique is a turn-based tactical role-playing game in the steampunk genre. Ordinary Londoners have suddenly turned into evil killers, and...

Kingdom Rush

Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Tactics

Game released: Xbox One → 25 January 2023

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Kingdom Rush is a real-time strategy game with fantasy elements and a top-down view. In this game you have to fight enemies with the help of your...

No Umbrellas Allowed

Simulation, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Xbox One → 12 July 2024

Steam: 80/100

A second-hand shop simulation set in the futuristic city of Ajik in 2080. A stranger who has lost their memory becomes the manager of Darcy’s and is...

Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker

DLC, Adventure, Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Xbox One → 20 May 2025

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Heroes Valerie and Zale embark on a new adventure in a miniature, mechanical world called Horlodge, where a sinister carnival threatens the locals...

Becastled

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Indie, Medieval era, City Building

Game released: Xbox One → 23 October 2025

Steam: 82/100

A strategy game about building and surviving in a harsh fantasy world. It all begins with the foundation of a castle, around which a city grows...

Creepy Tale: Snow Child

Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Casual game

Game released: Xbox One → 15 October 2026

Steam: 90/100

The game continues to develop the ideas of the Creepy Tale series, focusing on expanding the world, improving the visual component, and offering more...

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 20 December 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This side-scrolling fantasy platformer builds its heroine’s actions around belly dancing and hair-whipping. Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is an HD...

Kitty Powers' Matchmaker

Simulation, Business / Management, Puzzle, Side view, Adult game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 10 March 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Kitty Powers' Matchmaker is a fun dating simulator. The player runs his own dating agency under the leadership of Kitty Powers. You'll have to match...

Fantasy Blacksmith

Simulation, Medieval era, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 19 October 2022

Steam: 62/100

A blacksmith simulator set in a world of swords, magic, and war, where the protagonist begins as a poor, inexperienced smith and gradually builds up...

For the King

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Turn-based

Game released: Xbox One → 10 May 2019

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 78/100

For the King is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view and random level generation. You have to travel through an endless fantasy...

The Office Quest

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Xbox One → 22 January 2020

Steam: 93/100

This comedy point-and-click adventure follows an office worker trying to escape the daily routine after a strange, magical event. The office is a...

Help Will Come Tomorrow

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Business / Management, Survival

Game released: Xbox One → 21 April 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Help Will Come Tomorrow is an adventure management simulator with survival elements. In the uninhabited Siberian desert after the October Revolution...

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

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

Game released: Xbox One → 29 June 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Newfound Courage

Adventure, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Xbox One → 24 June 2022

Steam: 93/100

Newfound Courage is a narrative-driven action-adventure game with simulation and puzzle elements, about coming of age and romance in a fantasy world...

El Paso, Elsewhere

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

Game released: Xbox One → 26 September 2023

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Dynamic action game based on the mechanics of the original Max Payne 3, with graphics reminiscent of any PS2 game. A mysterious gunslinger finds...

SteamWorld Dig

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Steampunk

Game released: Xbox One → 5 June 2015

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 80/100

SteamWorld Dig is a charming side-scrolling arcade action-platformer about a robotic miner named Rusty, who arrives in a small town with the goal of...

Castle Crashers Remastered

Arcade, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie, Fighting, Adventure, Action

Game released: Xbox One → 9 September 2015

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Castle Crashers Remastered is an improved version of the furious side-scrolling co-op action game for up to 4 people. The game will delight you with...

Overcooked

Action, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Online, Indie, Arcade

Game released: Xbox One → 3 August 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Overcooked is an exciting action strategy where you and your friends will have to learn the basics of culinary art in various and unusual locations...

Lust for Darkness

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

Game released: Xbox One → 12 June 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 50/100

Lust for Darkness is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. Jonathan Moon receives a letter from his wife, who disappeared a year ago...

Super Volley Blast

Sports game, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 31 October 2018

Steam: 93/100

This casual sports game centers on beach volleyball matches at locations around the world. In story mode, one or two players face seven teams, while...

Ages of Mages: The last keeper

Role-playing game, Indie, Action

Game released: Xbox One → 6 February 2019

Steam: 78/100

This third-person fantasy action game combines beat ’em up combat with RPG and Rogue-Lite elements. Four mages set out to reclaim the kidnapped...

Return of the Obra Dinn

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: Xbox One → 18 October 2019

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Return of the Obra Dinn is an adventure detective from the creator papers, please, which will tell about the Dinn Disablast, which hides many...

My Friend Pedro

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Shooter

Game released: Xbox One → 5 December 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 80/100

My Friend Pedro is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer that will remind many of Max Payne. You will play as a heavily armed hero who kills...

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Best Games in the Indie genre for Xbox One