Indie 2021 for Xbox One — top best games in the Indie genre

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

Game released: Xbox One → 6 April 2021

Players: 8.7/10

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...

Psychonauts 2

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

Game released: Xbox One → 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...

Mutazione

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: Xbox One → 26 May 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

An atmospheric side-scrolling adventure in a fantastic setting. Over 100 years ago, a meteorite fell on a tropical resort. Almost all the inhabitants died, and the...

Genesis Noir

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

Game released: Xbox One → 26 March 2021

Metacritic: 80/100

Genesis Noir is a third-person noir adventure where you have to save humanity from destruction. The event itself will tell the secrets of the universal Big Bang and...

Undertale

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

Game released: Xbox One → 16 March 2021

Players: 8.5/10

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...

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...

Black Book

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

Game released: Xbox One → 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...

Lake

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Simulation, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 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...

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...

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance

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

Game released: Xbox One → 4 November 2021

Players: 8.8/10

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...

Chorus

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

Game released: Xbox One → 7 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...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Xbox One → 30 November 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Townscaper is a vibrant casual strategy game in which the player builds a city on an island. The player selects colors and creates blocks of houses on a grid, and...

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

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

Early Access: Xbox One → 20 December 2019; Game released: Xbox One → 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...

Super Meat Boy Forever

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

Game released: Xbox One → 16 April 2021

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...

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

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

Game released: Xbox One → 29 June 2021

Players: 8.6/10

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...

Last Oasis

Role-playing game, MMO, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 26 March 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Last Oasis is a multiplayer role-playing game with a third-person perspective and survival elements. The events of the game take place on Earth, which, after a...

Crashlands

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 29 January 2021

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Crashlands is an action role-playing game in which the main character, after an unsuccessful intergalactic flight, crashes on an unknown planet. Having meager...

Dicey Dungeons

Arcade, Indie, Strategy, Roguelike, Card game, Role-playing game

Game released: Xbox One → 11 November 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Dicey Dungeons — an exciting card-based turn-based game with RPG elements and a simplified roguelike from the creators of Super Hexagon and VVVVVV. In the...

Shakes on a Plane

Arcade, Business / Management, Board / Group Game, Top-down view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox One → 13 August 2021

Shakes on a Plane is a top-down co-op arcade game where you and your friends must serve food and drinks to passengers until your plane reaches its final...

Just Die Already

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Simulation, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox One → 20 May 2021

Players: 10/10

Just Die Already is an exciting third-person arcade sandbox from the creators of Goat Simulator. The game tells the story of retirees trying to secure a spot in a...

Project Winter

Online, Action, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox One → 4 February 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Project Winter is an isometric competitive action game with survival elements for up to 8 people. In the game, you will take on the roles of survivors who will have...

Despotism 3k

Side view, In real time, Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Indie, Simulation, Adventure

Game released: Xbox One → 19 November 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Despotism 3k is a side-scrolling real-time strategy game in a post-apocalyptic style. Humanity is enslaved by artificial intelligence and this is great because we...

Titan Chaser

Adventure, Walking Simulator, Open world, Exploration, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 15 September 2021

Players: 10/10

The main character drives a car around the territory where various scientific stations are located, and drives away titans (huge monsters) using a powerful...

Talisman: Digital Edition

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 3 June 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Talisman: Digital Edition is a board card game in a fantasy setting. You are about to go on an exciting adventure where you need to outrun your opponents and get...

Cyber Shadow

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

Game released: Xbox One → 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...

Lamentum

Adult game, Adventure, Action, Side view, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Xbox One → 31 August 2021

Players: 8/10

Lamentum is a dark side-scrolling action adventure game set in New England in the mid-19th century. The game tells the story of a young aristocrat named Victor. He...

Praey for the Gods

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

Game released: Xbox One → 14 December 2021

Players: 8.8/10

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...

Outer Wilds - Echoes of the Eye

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

Game released: Xbox One → 28 September 2021

Metacritic: 82/100

A massive addition to the exploration adventure Outer Wilds, which adds a new, hidden secret to the already familiar solar system. The story centers on a strange...

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

Indie, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: Xbox One → 9 June 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is a game about the adventures of a little girl who really loves nature. Alba, that’s our heroine’s name, goes to visit her grandparents...

Bloodshore

Indie, Adventure, Action, Interactive movie

Game released: Xbox One → 3 November 2021

Players: 7.9/10

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

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition

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

Game released: Xbox One → 19 May 2021

Players: 10/10

Adventure role-playing game, which is a direct sequel to Sunless Sea. The setting is not murky water-filled spaces like in Sunless Sea, but the sunlit sky. The...

Eldest Souls

Action, Indie, Top-down view, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Adventure

Game released: Xbox One → 29 July 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Eldest Souls is a dynamic top-down action game where you have to fight ruthless and treacherous gods. The game takes place in a gloomy world in which powerful gods...

A Short Hike

Adventure, Indie, Logic, Arcade

Game released: Xbox One → 16 November 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

A Short Hike is an adventure arcade game with a top-down view. The game will take you to the expanses of the colorful mountains of Hawk Peak Provincial Park. You...

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...

Crown Trick

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

Game released: Xbox One → 7 September 2021

Metacritic: 82/100

Crown Trick is a turn-based roguelike with fairly simple but nice fantasy-style animation. The plot revolves around a girl, Ellie, who finds herself in a kingdom of...

Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Card game, Board / Group Game, Mysticism / Supernatural, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 28 October 2021

Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition is an adaptation of the board game of the same name from developers who have similar experience with Talisman: Digital Edition...

Archvale

Arcade, Top-down view, Action, Adventure, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Xbox One → 2 December 2021

Players: 8.9/10

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 who destroyed...

Cris Tales

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 20 July 2021

Metacritic: 74/100

Cris Tales is an adventure role -playing play with step -by -step battles in the Japanese style. The main feature of the game was the unique mechanics of “Time...

Before We Leave

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

Game released: Xbox One → 23 November 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...

Signs of the Sojourner

Indie, Role-playing game, Arcade, Adventure, Card game

Game released: Xbox One → 19 March 2021

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Signs of the Sojourner is a fun card game adventure about relationships and the importance of communication. The deck is your character, accumulating life...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2021 for Xbox One