Best Indie Games — page 19
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
- 8.3
- Free
- 1
Scores for this page’s rows
- 433SifuSloclap's Sifu is a demanding, sharply designed martial arts action game built around a clever aging mechanic that turns every defeat into a lesson....8.3Great
- 434The Procession to CalvaryJoe Richardson's "The Procession to Calvary" is a striking point-and-click adventure, an art-historical pastiche that fuses high culture with lowbrow,...8.3Great
- 435Pathologic 2Pathologic 2 is an audacious, uncompromising narrative-driven survival thriller that demands patient engagement and offers rare thematic depth, chal...8.3Great
- 436Lil GuardsmanLil Guardsman blends sharp wit with weighty decisions, delivering a narrative deduction puzzle that is genuinely funny and surprisingly profound. ...8.3Great
- 437The Vanishing of Ethan CarterA haunting, patient mystery that earns its atmosphere through observation and reconstruction, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is easy to recommend to ...8.3Great
- 438AntichamberFew puzzle games are as original as Antichamber, and fewer still hold up this well more than a decade later. Its non-Euclidean rooms break the sense o...8.3Great
- 439MinitMinit turns a 60-second lifespan into a sharp, focused gameplay loop that stands out in an industry of bloat. We recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone...8.3Great
- 440Library Of RuinaLibrary of Ruina is a fiercely intelligent and punishingly difficult strategy game, blending deck-building, turn-based tactics, and a visual novel int...8.3Great
- 441Cassette BeastsCassette Beasts pairs a brilliant monster-fusing mechanic with a mature narrative to deliver a creature-collecting RPG that respects the player's inte...8.3Great
- 442The PedestrianThe Pedestrian takes a simple, universal symbol and builds one of the more inventive puzzle-platformers in recent memory around it, challenging player...8.3Great
- 443ElizaEliza is a sharp, unsettling narrative that forces a hard look at the gig economy, mental healthcare, and complicity in a tech-driven world. It's less...8.3Great
- 444MachinariumMachinarium is a beautifully crafted point-and-click adventure whose hand-drawn world and wordless storytelling still hold up remarkably well. It earn...8.3Great
- 445GRISGRIS is less a game and more a moving, interactive watercolor painting. It trades mechanical challenge for a profound, wordless emotional journey, and...8.3Great
- 446Plague Inc.Plague Inc. remains a sharp, systems-heavy strategy game that rewards patience and cunning with a grim, compulsive puzzle. It earns a clear recommenda...8.3Great
- 447CrashlandsCrashlands streamlines the survival-crafting formula into an addictive, comedy-fueled RPG that values player fun and relentless progression over the g...8.3Great
- 448Human: Fall FlatA physics-puzzler that turns clumsy controls and open-ended levels into a reliable engine for emergent comedy, especially in co-op. It earns a clear r...8.3Great
- 449BrawlhallaBrawlhalla balances accessibility with competitive depth, making it a strong free-to-play platform fighter that holds its own in a genre dominated by ...8.3Great
- 450Stone Story RPGStone Story RPG turns ASCII art into some of the most expressive animation in indie gaming, and it hides a real programming language under its idle-RP...8.2Great
- 451DawncasterDawncaster is one of the more generous roguelike deckbuilders around — a sprawling card RPG that layers talents, gear and enchantments onto the Slay t...8.2Great
- 452Rusty Lake: RootsRusty Lake: Roots is the rare puzzle game that uses its puzzles as narrative grammar rather than filler, telling a generational horror story without a...8.2Great
- 453Ninja Gaiden: RageboundThe Game Kitchen has done something most retro revivals only pretend to do — it rebuilt an NES classic's feel instead of its frustrations. Ragebound...8.2Great
- 454Peaks of YoreA physics-driven climbing sim that turns two independently-controlled hands into one of the most demanding input schemes in years — punishing at first...8.2Great
- 455Salt and SanctuaryA two-person studio rebuilt Dark Souls on a 2D plane and, improbably, kept almost everything that mattered — the weight, the dread, the map that folds...8.2Great
- 456Slay the Spire 2Mega Crit has built a bigger, sharper, more generous version of the game that invented the modern deckbuilding roguelike — and then handed the keys to...8.2Great
