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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Murder House

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Old school, Survival horror

Game released: Xbox One → 14 October 2021

Atmospheric survival horror in the style of VHS slashers from the 1980s. A local TV crew goes to the abandoned house of the executed serial killer Anthony Smith...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Death Crown

Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Top-down view, In real time

Game released: Xbox One → 13 May 2021

Players: 10/10

Death Crown is a minimalist top-down real-time strategy game where you take on the role of the real Death. You will have to command legions of the undead to get...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Down in Bermuda

Adventure, Isometric, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game, Hidden Objects

Game released: Xbox One → 14 January 2021

The main character is a pilot named Milton, who gets caught in a storm and finds himself trapped in the famous Bermuda Triangle. He explores the islands and solves...

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...

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...

UNSIGHTED

Action, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Role-playing game, Indie, Isometric, Top-down view

Game released: Xbox One → 30 September 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 84/100

UNSIGHTED — top-down action adventure role-playing game in a sci-fi setting. Events take place in a fantasy world of the future — Arcadia. The game will...

Into the Pit

Roguelike, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Xbox One → 19 October 2021

Players: 2.2/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Into the Pit is an indie roguelike with first-person shooter elements. As members of a family of knowledge-hunting mystics, you and your cousin Luridia separately...

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...

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...

The Procession to Calvary

Adventure, Historical, Indie, Point & Click, Side view

Game released: Xbox One → 2 July 2021

Metacritic: 78/100

The Procession to Calvary is a side-scrolling adventure game with elements of historical black comedy. The game takes place during the Renaissance, where you have...

Crash Drive 3

Arcade, Racing, Online, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 8 July 2021

Metacritic: 68/100

Crash Drive 3 is an indie arcade racing game with a third-person view and online elements. You will experience incredible fun in this game. You will be able to...

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...

Fae Tactics

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

Game released: Xbox One → 18 November 2021

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Fae Tactics is a tactical role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of the young wizard Peony, who goes on an...

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...

Blazing Beaks

Indie, Roguelike, Action, Top-down view, Shooter, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox One → 7 May 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Blazing Beaks is a dynamic action game with bagel elements and a top-down view. In the game you have to go to an amazing and colorful world where warlike birds...

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...

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