Best Indie Games — page 17
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 8.3
- Top score
- 8.4
Scores for this page’s rows
- 385GrunnGrunn subverts the cozy gardening sim with a slow-burn story of psychological unease, and it earns a clear recommendation — with real reservations abo...8.4Great
- 386ArcoArco is a genuinely inventive tactical RPG whose simultaneous-turn combat and culturally rooted narrative make it an easy recommendation, even if th...8.4Great
- 387ExapunksZachtronics delivers another sharp, demanding take on programming-as-gameplay: a deeply intelligent puzzle experience wrapped in a nostalgic, lo-fi cy...8.4Great
- 388Cult of The LambMassive Monster's "Cult of the Lamb" offers a wickedly compelling fusion of roguelike dungeon-crawling and cult-management simulation — a distinctive,...8.4Great
- 389The Painscreek KillingsThe Painscreek Killings is a demanding, uncompromising exercise in pure detective work, trading modern gaming comforts for a level of intellectual sat...8.4Great
- 390ThronefallThronefall is a sharp exercise in reductionism, stripping the strategy and tower defense genres down to their diamond-hard core. What remains is a hig...8.4Great
- 391In Other WatersIn Other Waters is a bold, intelligent piece of interactive speculative fiction that trades graphical fidelity for the power of the player's imagina...8.4Great
- 392TownscaperTownscaper is less a game and more a meditative instrument; a beautifully focused digital toy for creating picturesque island towns with zero pressure...8.4Great
- 393NoitaNoita is less a game and more a chaos simulator with objectives. It's a bold, singular achievement in procedural generation and physics-based gameplay...8.4Great
- 394Loop HeroLoop Hero is a cleverly subversive RPG that finds real strength in restraint, turning the genre on its head by making you the architect of the hero's ...8.4Great
- 395Cultist SimulatorCultist Simulator is a brilliantly infuriating puzzle box that stands apart from most narrative games. It rewards intellect and patience with rich sto...8.4Great
- 396Cookie ClickerFew games can claim to have founded a genre and still hold their place in it, but Cookie Clicker comes close. It's a lean, funny, surprisingly deep ec...8.3Great
- 397Fallen LondonFallen London remains a high-water mark for prose in games — a text-driven world whose writing is throttled, deliberately and profitably, by an energy...8.3Great
- 398Skullgirls 2nd EncoreFourteen hand-drawn fighters, a custom assist system nobody else has copied, and rollback netcode that arrived years before the genre caught up — Skul...8.3Great
- 399TowerFall AscensionTowerFall Ascension is one of the sharpest local multiplayer designs of the indie era — lean, readable, and built so that every loss makes sense. Its ...8.3Great
- 400Skate StorySkate Story takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater on the market, but it'...8.3Great
- 401PlateUp!PlateUp! takes the Overcooked formula, bolts on a roguelite spine and a genuinely deep automation sandbox, and ends up as one of the smartest co-op co...8.3Great
- 402RailboundRailbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of recent years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietly ruth...8.3Great
- 403Lair of the Clockwork GodSize Five Games' hybrid is both a very funny comedy and a sharp structural critique of modern game design. By forcing point-and-click adventure and ki...8.3Great
- 404Shadows Over LoathingA witty, mechanically inventive RPG that proves stick figures and deadpan humor can carry a sprawling, highly replayable cosmic horror mystery — recom...8.3Great
- 405RoboquestRyseUp Studios' Roboquest is a sharply designed roguelite shooter that marries the momentum of classic arena shooters with the loop of Dead Cells. It ...8.3Great
- 406Cosmic ExpressCosmic Express hides a brutally challenging, beautifully constructed logical puzzle under an adorable low-poly coat of paint. It is a sharp, uncomprom...8.3Great
- 407YngletNifflas strips away the floor and the frustration, leaving a frictionless, generative kinetic playground that plays less like a game and more like an ...8.3Great
- 408Guacamelee! 2Drinkbox Studios delivers a sharply designed action-platformer that marries complex combat with punishing precision platforming. It refines rather tha...8.3Great
