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: 8.5/10

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mighty Goose

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

Game released: Xbox One → 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...

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...

Cozy Grove

Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Isometric

Game released: Xbox One → 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...

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...

Mutazione

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: Xbox One → 26 May 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Mutazione is an atmospheric side-scrolling adventure in a fantasy setting. More than 100 years ago, a meteorite fell on a tropical resort. Almost all the...

art of rally

Arcade, Simulation, Racing, Isometric, Sports game, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 12 August 2021

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Exciting rally arcade from the creators of Absolute Drift, where players can participate in the "Golden Era" rally. The game features a career mode with 72 tracks...

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...

Bonkies

Arcade, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Puzzle, Side view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Xbox One → 29 January 2021

Metacritic: 76/100

Bonkies is a fun side-scrolling co-op arcade puzzle game in a sci-fi setting, designed for up to 4 people to play together. Each player takes control of a highly...

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...

Islanders

Arcade, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 26 August 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Islanders is a minimalistic turn-based strategy game with an isometric camera view. Do you want to build beautiful cities without spending long hours on resource...

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...

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...

Disjunction

Role-playing game, Action, Stealth, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 28 January 2021

Metacritic: 69/100

Disjunction is an isometric action role-playing game inspired by cyberpunk style and old school games. The game takes place in 2048 in New York. You can decide for...

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...

Ring of Pain

Roguelike, Card game, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Xbox One → 14 October 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Ring of Pain is a tactical indie roguelike card game with fantasy elements. The cards you collect go into your item slots throughout the adventure, where you have...

Twelve Minutes

Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: Xbox One → 19 August 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Twelve Minutes is an interactive top-down thriller that follows the relationship of a married couple whose lives are dramatically changed by a police officer who...

Collapsed

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox One → 10 December 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Collapsed is a post-apocalyptic action platformer with Rogue-lite elements. In the game you will play the role of Hunters, forced to hunt down their enemies for...

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...

Train Station Renovation

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

Game released: Xbox One → 2 June 2021

Players: 8/10

Train Station Renovation is a first-person management simulator where you take on the role of the self-proclaimed guardian of historic train stations. You will go...

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...

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...

Embr

Arcade, Online, First-person view, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 23 September 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Embr is a first-person co-op action game where you become the best firefighter you can hire. Alone or together with your comrades, you will go to conquer burning...

Project Winter

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

Game released: Xbox One → 4 February 2021

Players: 7.3/10

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...

Backbone

Adventure, Stealth, Indie, Side view

Game released: Xbox One → 28 October 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Backbone is a noir detective role-playing game in the spirit of Wolf Among Us, where all the characters are anthropomorphic animals. The game tells the story of...

Transient

Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 8 December 2021

Metacritic: 65/100

Transient is an exciting first-person adventure that combines cyberpunk elements with the dark world of Lovecraft. The game will tell a story about a distant...

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...

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale

Adventure, Stealth, Isometric, Indie, Historical

Game released: Xbox One → 25 March 2021

Metacritic: 73/100

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale is an adventure with stealth elements and an isometric camera view in the spaghetti western genre. Events will send you to conquer the...

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Best Games in the Indie genre of 2021 for Xbox One