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

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

Game released: Xbox One → 6 April 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 71/100

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...

Hades

Action, Isometric, Roguelike, Dungeons, Fantasy, Slasher, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 13 August 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 93/100

Isometric action-roguelike from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. The main character is the god Zagreus (the son of the ancient Greek god...

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance

Arcade, DLC, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Action, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Xbox One → 4 November 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 82/100

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance — an expansion to the top-down arcade action game Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. The expansion includes the fan-made...

Undertale

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

Game released: Xbox One → 16 March 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

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...

Chernobylite

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

Game released: Xbox One → 28 September 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 83/100

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...

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Side view, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: Xbox One → 21 October 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Skul: The Hero Slayer is a side-scrolling pixel platformer. People have attacked the demon fortress and are trying to destroy their leader. Most of...

Black Book

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

Game released: Xbox One → 10 August 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 89/100

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...

Lake

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Simulation, Indie, Walking Simulator, Open world

Game released: Xbox One → 1 September 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Inspector Waffles

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Old school, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: Xbox One → 29 October 2021

Steam: 95/100

A detective adventure with pixel art. The main character is Inspector Waffles, an experienced police cat from Cat Town, who is assigned to...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation, Construction, Sandbox, Casual game, City Building

Game released: Xbox One → 30 November 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

The Ascent

Action, Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Top-down view, Isometric, Cyberpunk, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox One → 29 July 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 76/100

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...

art of rally

Arcade, Simulation, Racing, Isometric, Sports game, Indie, Top-down view

Game released: Xbox One → 12 August 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 93/100

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...

Murder Mystery Machine

Indie, Adventure, Strategy

Game released: Xbox One → 25 August 2021

Steam: 53/100

A modern noir detective adventure follows the investigation of a prominent politician’s murder by members of the District Crime Agency. Rookie...

Sable's Grimoire

Casual game, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Xbox One → 10 June 2021

Steam: 95/100

This visual novel follows Sable, an aspiring magic researcher who enrolls at Amadronia Magic Academy in pursuit of a career as a renowned scholar...

Praey for the Gods

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

Game released: Xbox One → 14 December 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 80/100

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...

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

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

Game released: Xbox One → 1 April 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 98/100

A fun tactical simulator in which historical battles turn into a chaotic and funny sandbox. Stupid, but charming units fighting under the control of...

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...

Q-YO Blaster

Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Xbox One → 16 July 2021

Steam: 93/100

A horizontal shoot ’em up about confronting a threat in a miniature world filled with unusual characters and strange enemies. Players progress...

Rise Eterna

Japanese role-playing game, Strategy, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 20 August 2021

Steam: 40/100

A tactical role-playing game set in a fantasy world and inspired by 16-bit-era Japanese strategy games. The story follows Lua and Natheal, two lost...

AntVentor

Adventure, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 23 April 2021

Steam: 81/100

AntVentor is a point-and-click adventure about Florantine, an inventor ant whose quiet life is disrupted when his mechanism breaks. The first short...

Psychonauts 2

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

Game released: Xbox One → 25 August 2021

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

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...

Zombo Buster Rising

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Free game, Side view, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Xbox One → 22 October 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

A 2D action game with tower-defense elements, in which the player fights off zombies by shooting at them from a terrace. Two AI-controlled characters...

Cyber Shadow

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Anime / Manga, Metroidvania

Game released: Xbox One → 26 January 2021

Steam: 83/100

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...

Apple Slash

Indie, Action, Adventure

Game released: Xbox One → 30 July 2021

Steam: 95/100

An action-adventure about a knight with a sword who searches a murky ancient marsh for a missing boy known as Cartboi. Along the way, the knight...

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...

Shadows of Kurgansk

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Survival, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 23 September 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Shadows of Kurgansk is an action shooter with a first-person view and horror elements in a post-apocalyptic world. You have to survive in a Zone...

Chorus

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

Game released: Xbox One → 7 December 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 81/100

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...

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...

Prison Architect - Going Green

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

Game released: Xbox One → 28 January 2021

Steam: 58/100

Prison Architect — Going Green — an expansion for the real-time management strategy game with a top-down view. The expansion brings farming, product...

Archvale

Arcade, Top-down view, Action, Adventure, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox One → 2 December 2021

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 91/100

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...

Before I Forget

Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Xbox One → 29 April 2021

Steam: 87/100

This first-person narrative exploration game follows Sunita, a woman living with early-onset dementia. Alone in her house, she tries to make sense of...

Nexomon

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Turn-based, Indie, Casual game, Exploration, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Xbox One → 17 September 2021

Steam: 88/100

An adventure RPG about collecting and raising unusual creatures that inhabit a vibrant fantasy world. The game features over 300 unique Nexomon to...

BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Music game, Roguelike, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 5 October 2021

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 77/100

BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE is a fast-paced first-person shooter in which the player hunts demons in dark dungeons. The player controls the powerful...

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...

Mighty Goose

Action, Shooter, Indie, Side view, Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Online, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox One → 5 June 2021

Steam: 86/100

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...

Before We Leave

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, City Building, Casual game, Construction

Game released: Xbox One → 23 November 2021

Players: 5/10

Steam: 78/100

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...

Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare

Arcade, Side view, DLC, Fighting, Action, Indie

Game released: Xbox One → 15 July 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Streets Of Rage 4 — Mr. X Nightmare — an expansion for the old-school side-scrolling beat 'em up Streets of Rage 4. After the events of the...

Tangle Tower

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Detective, Point & Click

Game released: Xbox One → 6 October 2021

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Tangle Tower is a detective point and click adventure where you have to solve the exciting murder mystery of Freya Fellow. You'll explore a strange...