Best Indie Games — page 11
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 8.7
- Top score
- 8.7
Scores for this page’s rows
- 241Rain WorldRain World is an uncompromising, emergent ecological simulation that demands patience, adaptation, and a high tolerance for systemic cruelty — a clear...8.7Great
- 242SpiritfarerSpiritfarer wraps a competent resource-management game around a profound, unflinching narrative about death. It's a beautiful, poignant journey with r...8.7Great
- 243OMORIOMORI is not the charming indie RPG it pretends to be. It's a devastating, unflinching exploration of trauma, dressed in the deceptively comforting cl...8.7Great
- 244Risk of Rain 2Risk of Rain 2 is a strong, confident sequel that earns its reputation as one of the roguelite genre's best. Hopoo Games turned the simple act of surv...8.7Great
- 245Before Your EyesBefore Your Eyes is a genuinely innovative narrative game that turns blinking into its central mechanic, delivering a moving story about life, loss, a...8.7Great
- 246JourneyMore than a decade after its debut, Journey remains a quietly powerful, minimalist odyssey. It's less a game you play and more an experience that wash...8.7Great
- 247Kentucky Route ZeroKentucky Route Zero is a quietly remarkable work of interactive storytelling — a slow, poetic, deeply melancholic journey that is less a game to be wo...8.7Great
- 248Manifold GardenManifold Garden is a striking architectural puzzler that rewires your understanding of space. It's a rare fusion of art and logic, even if its core lo...8.7Great
- 249COCOONCOCOON is a cerebral, elegantly designed puzzle adventure that folds reality in on itself. It's short, and that restraint is part of what makes it so ...8.7Great
- 250TOEMTOEM trades high-octane action for a deliberately paced, charming photography adventure. It’s a masterclass in minimalist design and a potent antidote...8.7Great
- 251UnpackingUnpacking is a quietly brilliant piece of design, using the mundane act of organizing a home to tell a deeply human story of growth, change, and the t...8.7Great
- 252Katana ZEROKatana ZERO is a tightly-wound clockwork of death and discovery — a neo-noir action-puzzle hybrid whose only real flaw is that it ends too soon. We re...8.7Great
- 253Brothers - A Tale of Two SonsA moving, inventive fable whose dual-character control scheme isn't a gimmick but the very soul of its story about brotherhood, sacrifice, and loss. I...8.7Great
- 254The RoomA superb exercise in tactile design and atmospheric mystery, The Room remains a high-water mark for puzzle-box games more than a decade after its debu...8.7Great
- 255TransistorTransistor is a confident, mechanically inventive RPG from Supergiant Games, and an easy recommendation despite real reservations. Its strategic comba...8.7Great
- 256Assetto CorsaKunos Simulazioni built a driving model so good that a decade of neglected menus, a hollow career and threadbare multiplayer couldn't kill it — and a ...8.6Great
- 257Sunshine Heavy IndustriesRocket Rat Games built a spaceship-construction puzzler with no single correct answer, and that one design decision carries the whole thing. It's a sm...8.6Great
- 258Through the AgesCGE Digital's adaptation of Vlaada Chvátil's civilization epic is the rare port that improves on its source material — a dense, brutal, brilliant stra...8.6Great
- 259Duck GameA decade on, Duck Game is still the couch multiplayer game to beat — a physics-drunk, one-hit-kill arena brawler whose 50+ weapons turn every 15-secon...8.6Great
- 260Monster Train 2Shiny Shoe took a strong roguelike deckbuilder and made it deeper, denser, and more demanding without breaking what worked. Monster Train 2 is a s...8.6Great
- 261Prison ArchitectA chillingly precise simulation that turns the grim logistics of mass incarceration into a compulsively playable, systems-driven strategy game — clear...8.6Great
- 262BotaniculaBotanicula is a vibrant, wordless achievement in environmental storytelling that prioritizes the joy of discovery over the frustration of traditional ...8.6Great
- 263Arranger: A Role-Puzzling AdventureA sharp, elegant puzzle-adventure whose single sliding-grid mechanic carries the entire experience. It's clearly recommended, with real reservations a...8.6Great
- 264GloomwoodGloomwood resurrects the immersive sim with exacting stealth and genuine survival horror, delivering a neo-Victorian nightmare that's as challenging...8.6Great
