Best Indie Games — page 13
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 8.5
- Top score
- 8.6
Scores for this page’s rows
- 289BesiegeBesiege offers a rich sandbox for destructive engineering, a physics-driven playground that frustrates and rewards in equal measure with its creativ...8.6Great
- 290Geometry DashGeometry Dash is a superb exercise in minimalist design, pairing a brutally difficult, rhythm-based platformer with a powerful community engine that g...8.6Great
- 291GorogoaGorogoa is a brief but profound journey that uses perspective-shifting puzzles to tell a story of quiet wonder. Its originality alone earns a strong r...8.6Great
- 292Playdead's INSIDEPlaydead's INSIDE is a haunting, minimalist achievement in interactive fiction. It is an unnerving, unforgettable journey that stands among the strong...8.6Great
- 293ReignsReigns distills the complex, often absurd, art of governance into a single swipe. It's a clever, highly replayable loop of power, peril, and political...8.6Great
- 294Strange JigsawsFLEB takes the most rule-bound pastime on the coffee table and breaks it about fifty different ways, each one cleverer than the last. At $4.99 for two...8.5Great
- 295Derail ValleyFew train simulators take physics as seriously as Derail Valley. It refuses to hold your hand, which is both its biggest strength and its steepest cos...8.5Great
- 296Fight'N RageFight'N Rage is a sharply designed beat 'em up: a three-button brawler with the depth of a fighting game and more unlockables than most full-priced re...8.5Great
- 297Just Shapes & BeatsBerzerk Studio stripped a bullet hell down to a single verb — dodge — and discovered that removing the gun made the music louder. It's a short, punish...8.5Great
- 298No Case Should Remain UnsolvedSomi's two-to-three-hour testimony puzzle is one of the most honest detective games in years — it hands you 54 scrambled fragments of a cold case and ...8.5Great
- 299Crimzon Clover: World IgnitionYotsubane's danmaku standout is the rare shoot-'em-up that makes recklessness the correct strategy — a five-stage, 25-minute pressure cooker with more...8.5Great
- 300Rogue VoltageRogue Voltage is one of the most structurally original roguelikes since Slay the Spire codified the genre — it replaces card draws with a hand-wired...8.5Great
- 301Euro Truck Simulator 2More than a decade after launch, Euro Truck Simulator 2 remains a strong argument that "boring" is a design choice, not a flaw. It's a smart, patient ...8.5Great
- 302868-HACKMichael Brough packed remarkable strategic depth into a 6x6 grid, and 868-HACK still makes one of the sharpest cases that constraint — not content...8.5Great
- 303Consume MeConsume Me is the rare autobiographical game that makes its subject playable rather than merely narrated — a caustic, funny, quietly devastating sim...8.5Great
- 304Freedom Planet 2GalaxyTrail took a fan-game's DNA and forged one of the most satisfying momentum-platformers in recent memory — a generous, gorgeous, occasionally ove...8.5Great
- 305Overcooked! 2A ruthless, riotous co-op cooking sim that turns your living room into a shouting match — and that's high praise. Overcooked! 2 fixes nearly everythin...8.5Great
- 306Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward VectorA sharper, riskier, more ambitious sequel that trades the cozy fatalism of the original for white-knuckle survival — and mostly earns the trade. If yo...8.5Great
- 307Shadowrun: DragonfallDragonfall is the rare tactical RPG where the writing hits as hard as the shotguns. It remains one of the sharpest cyberpunk stories in the genre, hel...8.5Great
- 308UnavowedWadjet Eye Games has delivered one of the smartest point-and-click adventures in years—a party-based, choice-driven urban fantasy that treats you like...8.5Great
- 309RecursedRecursed is a rare puzzle game designed to leave players feeling genuinely sharper—a fiendish, elegant meditation on recursion that demands a notepad ...8.5Great
- 310Steve Jackson's Sorcery!inkle didn't just port a stack of dusty 1980s paperbacks to your phone—it rebuilt them into one of the smartest, most quietly ambitious pieces of inte...8.5Great
- 311IbKouri's remake of Ib takes a beloved 2012 RPG Maker cult classic and rebuilds it into something sharper, prettier, and quietly devastating—proof tha...8.5Great
- 312Fallen AcesFallen Aces is a striking commitment to aesthetic, pairing a hand-drawn 1930s comic-book style with visceral brawling and open-ended level design. It ...8.5Great
