Best Indie Games — page 21
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 8.2
- Top score
- 8.2
- Free
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Scores for this page’s rows
- 481Lorn's LureA striking exercise in atmospheric verticality that respects the player's intelligence by refusing to hold their hand through its gargantuan, industri...8.2Great
- 482Drova - Forsaken KinDrova - Forsaken Kin is a grim, rewarding throwback whose "anti-handholding" design proves that friction can be the secret ingredient to immersion — c...8.2Great
- 483Severed SteelSevered Steel is a blistering, neon-soaked fever dream that strips the first-person shooter to its core kinetic essentials and leaves the reload butto...8.2Great
- 484CloudpunkCloudpunk is a breathtaking exercise in atmospheric world-building that swaps cybernetic combat for the meditative, rain-slicked life of a futuristic ...8.2Great
- 485JazzpunkA relentless, highly stylized machine for gag-delivery that trades mechanical depth for pure absurdist joy, making a strong case for interaction as a ...8.2Great
- 486Dandara: Trials of Fear EditionBy stripping away the most fundamental mechanic in gaming—the ability to walk—Dandara forces a total cognitive rewire, and the result is one of the mo...8.2Great
- 487Quadrilateral CowboyA sharply designed homage to analog computing that strips the "hacker" mythos of its Hollywood flash and replaces it with the cold, mechanical satisfa...8.2Great
- 488MouthwashingWrong Organ's space-horror debut is a brutal, non-linear descent into madness that trades cheap jump scares for a haunting, visceral examination of hu...8.2Great
- 489Blasphemous 2The Penitent One's latest pilgrimage is a strong, confident gothic Metroidvania, refining its predecessor's formula with smoother combat and striking ...8.2Great
- 490Sun HavenPixel Sprout Studios' Sun Haven ambitiously fuses the tranquil loop of farming simulations with the sprawling scope of a fantasy RPG, delivering a...8.2Great
- 491NevaNomada Studio's Neva is a beautifully crafted action-adventure that intertwines an emotional narrative with elegant puzzle-platforming, delivering...8.2Great
- 492Core KeeperPugstorm's Core Keeper delivers a compelling, almost hypnotic loop of underground exploration and creation, blending familiar sandbox mechanics into...8.2Great
- 493Q.U.B.E. 2Toxic Games' Q.U.B.E. 2 is a confident, well-crafted first-person puzzle game that trades combat for methodical spatial reasoning in a starkly beaut...8.2Great
- 494DuskersDuskers carves out a uniquely tense and cerebral niche in the survival genre, using a stark command-line interface to build an atmosphere of isolation...8.2Great
- 495Samorost 3Samorost 3 is a striking piece of interactive art, a point-and-click adventure whose gorgeous visuals and atmospheric sound design largely make up for...8.2Great
- 496Choice of Robots"Choice of Robots" is a rich, ambitious work of interactive fiction — a sprawling, text-based epic with real reservations around pacing and presentati...8.2Great
- 497ViewfinderViewfinder is a puzzle game built on a genuinely audacious idea, executed with impressive polish. Its thin narrative and brief runtime are real reserv...8.2Great
- 498Sea of StarsSea of Stars is a carefully built RPG that polishes the 16-bit formula to a fine shine. It doesn't reinvent the wheel, but its execution is strong eno...8.2Great
- 499art of rallyA strikingly stylized racer that balances accessible controls with a deep, rewarding driving model. It's an atmospheric celebration of rally's golden ...8.2Great
- 500VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender ActionVA-11 Hall-A swaps cyberpunk's usual high-octane action for a bar towel and a shaker, delivering a poignant, sharply written narrative experience. It'...8.2Great
- 501Monument Valley 2Monument Valley 2 builds on its predecessor by weaving a poignant, human story into its impossible architecture, creating an experience that is less a...8.2Great
- 502Desert GolfingDesert Golfing strips away nearly everything a modern mobile game piles on and leaves one shot, one hole and one stroke counter that can never be rese...8.1Great
- 503Pipe Push ParadiseFew recent puzzle games do as much with as little as Pipe Push Paradise. It builds a whole island of demanding puzzles from a few simple rules and nev...8.1Great
- 504Sheepy: A Short AdventureA music curator's debut game is remarkably polished. Sheepy delivers an atmospherically confident hour of platforming — free on Steam, with a Switch v...8.1Great
