Best Indie Games — page 15
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 8.4
- Top score
- 8.5
- Free
- 2
Scores for this page’s rows
- 337Iron LungIron Lung weaponizes minimalism to create one of the most claustrophobic horror experiences in recent memory. It's a sharp, confident exercise in te...8.5Great
- 338Strange HorticultureStrange Horticulture pairs methodical puzzle gameplay with a quietly unnerving narrative, and the result is a distinctive, engrossing indie title that...8.5Great
- 339Keep Talking and Nobody ExplodesAn ingenious, high-tension party game that forgoes graphical horsepower to create one of the purest, most chaotic, and hilarious tests of communicatio...8.5Great
- 340SOMASOMA's scariest moments involve no monster at all. The stealth encounters are its weakest part, but its story about consciousness and copied minds rem...8.5Great
- 341Sky: Children of the LightA beautiful evolution of the ideas that made Journey so beloved, Sky: Children of the Light reframes multiplayer as a gentle, cooperative art form...8.5Great
- 342BlobunBlobun takes one rule — touch every tile — and squeezes hundreds of genuinely clever puzzles out of it. At $5.49, it's an easy recommendation for puzz...8.4Great
- 343Schrödinger's CallFew games ask so little of the hands and so much of the attention. Schrödinger's Call turns active listening into its core mechanic and earns nearly...8.4Great
- 344Lingo 2A bigger, stranger and far more confident sequel that throws out the original's rulebook and builds a new word-puzzle language inside a world that kee...8.4Great
- 345BeastieballBeastieball turns volleyball into a creature-collecting RPG's combat system, and the idea holds up. It's a confident, well-designed Pokémon-like with ...8.4Great
- 346FrogmonsterFrogmonster welds two genres together and makes the seam disappear—a cute Metroidvania shell wrapped around a punishing, sharply-tuned soulslike cor...8.4Great
- 347Door Kickers 2: Task Force NorthA superb real-time-with-pause tactics game and a sequel that fixes most of what its predecessor fumbled. Bring patience and a tolerance for restarts; ...8.4Great
- 348Lone SurvivorJasper Byrne's pixel-art nightmare does more with a flashlight, a cassette hiss, and a bag of rotten meat than most AAA horror does with a photogramme...8.4Great
- 349HuntdownHuntdown is a lesson in execution over invention — a cover-based arcade shooter built like a lost Contra sequel directed by John Carpenter. It's short...8.4Great
- 350The Zachtronics Solitaire CollectionEight genuinely distinct solitaire variants — not eight reskins of Klondike — assembled with the same obsessive rule-design that built Zachtronics' re...8.4Great
- 351Ctrl Alt EgoCtrl Alt Ego is one of the purest expressions of immersive-sim design philosophy since Prey (2017), built by essentially one person and wearing its sh...8.4Great
- 352Your Only Move Is HUSTLEIvy Sly stripped every millisecond of execution out of the fighting game and discovered that what's left — pure, naked prediction — is the heart of it...8.4Great
- 353Frog FractionsA free, roughly hour-long comedy game that weaponizes low expectations, Frog Fractions remains one of the sharpest pieces of structural comedy gam...8.4Great
- 354Leap YearLeap Year weaponizes fragility — a fall of more than a few pixels kills you — and turns that single rule into one of the smartest knowledge-based metr...8.4Great
- 355WindowkillWindowkill takes the oldest constraint in gaming — the edges of the screen — and turns it into a living, hostile enemy. It's a genuinely inventive twi...8.4Great
- 356Roots of PachaRoots of Pacha strips away the hyper-individualistic grind of traditional farming simulators, replacing it with a smart, cooperative prehistoric commu...8.4Great
- 357The Last DoorA striking exercise in psychological restraint that proves imagination is a far more terrifying rendering engine than any high-definition GPU. Strongl...8.4Great
- 358Rabi-RibiRabi-Ribi is a mechanically dense, expertly crafted Metroidvania that hides its brutal, high-skill bullet-hell combat behind a deceptively sweet aesth...8.4Great
- 359MutazioneMutazione trades traditional mechanical friction for a resonant, meditative exploration of community and the slow work of healing — clearly recommende...8.4Great
- 360Ion FuryIon Fury is a superb example of "boomer shooter" design that proves the 90s aesthetic was a philosophy of interactivity and momentum that modern shoot...8.4Great
