Best Indie Games — page 24
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 8.0
- Top score
- 8.1
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Scores for this page’s rows
- 553Sunless SeaSunless Sea is a superb work of interactive fiction and atmospheric horror, yoked to a serviceable but underwhelming combat system. It's a richly rewa...8.1Great
- 554DorfromantikDorfromantik is a quietly excellent piece of minimalist design, turning the simple act of placing a tile into a deeply satisfying, low-stakes obsessio...8.1Great
- 555Pacific DrivePacific Drive turns a beat-up station wagon into a survival game's most demanding companion, and mostly makes that gamble pay off. It's a recommended ...8.1Great
- 556WORLD OF HORRORWORLD OF HORROR is a striking piece of atmospheric dread, using its stark 1-bit aesthetic and roguelite structure to build a uniquely terrifying and h...8.1Great
- 557SableSable trades combat and conflict for a meditative, visually striking pilgrimage that stands apart from the open-world crowd, even if its technical per...8.1Great
- 558Door Kickers: Action SquadDoor Kickers: Action Squad is a sharply focused tactical arcade shooter with a brutally satisfying loop of run-and-gun violence. It's a demanding, wel...8.1Great
- 559Crying SunsCrying Suns refines the FTL formula with a compelling, mature narrative and sharp tactical combat, making it a roguelite we recommend with real reserv...8.1Great
- 560There Is No Game: Wrong DimensionDraw Me A Pixel's meta-adventure is short, occasionally frustrating, and utterly confident in its own cleverness — and it mostly earns that confidence...8.0Great
- 561Blue RevolverBlue Revolver is a danmaku shooter built by people who understand that punishing and unreadable are not synonyms — five stages of ferociously well-dra...8.0Great
- 562Great God GroveLimboLane's two-person adventure takes a mechanic that sounds like a one-note joke — a gun that steals speech bubbles — and builds an inventive, gorge...8.0Great
- 563The Last ClockwinderThe Last Clockwinder does something no flat-screen game can — it turns your own body into the source code — and it does so with grace, wit, and real e...8.0Great
- 564Endless SkyEndless Sky is a standout Escape Velocity successor, a decade-long volunteer project whose systems design rivals most commercial space sims — and it c...8.0Great
- 565Nuclear OptionNuclear Option threads a needle almost nobody has managed — the accessibility of Ace Combat welded to physics and sensor play with real teeth — at a m...8.0Great
- 566Touhou Luna NightsTeam Ladybug built a Metroidvania around a time-stop button and then had the discipline to design every room, hazard, and boss pattern to justify it. ...8.0Great
- 567Sorry We're Closedà la mode games built a survival horror hybrid that snaps between fixed-camera dread and first-person arcade shooting without either half feeling like...8.0Great
- 568AbsolumAbsolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of Streets of Rage 4 and welds it to Dead Cells-style roguelite structure — the result is a mechanically ...8.0Great
- 569PrunePrune is a rare thing — a mobile game with the soul of an art installation and the discipline to never overstay its welcome. Ten years on, it remain...8.0Great
- 570Ultimate Chicken HorseA rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a clever, well-built take on emergent chaos—great with friends...8.0Great
- 571WindblownWindblown is an Early Access roguelite that already plays like a finished product in its core loop—a blistering, combo-driven co-op action game that t...8.0Great
- 572WingspanMonster Couch's digital port of Wingspan is a faithful, gorgeous translation of one of the decade's best board games — calming, mechanically deep, and...8.0Great
- 573Demon's TiltDemon's Tilt is a chaotic, relentlessly fast virtual pinball game that subverts traditional table design with shoot-'em-up mechanics and a striking oc...8.0Great
- 574Platform 8A claustrophobic, high-tension refinement of the anomaly-hunting subgenre that proves the mundane can be more unsettling than the monstrous — recommen...8.0Great
- 575Space GiraffeSpace Giraffe is a demanding, synaesthetic achievement that hides a deep tactical puzzler inside a hostile neon shell. It remains one of the most misu...8.0Great
- 576VaganteVagante is a punishing, deeply systems-driven roguelike that trades Spelunky's slapstick chaos for a gritty, loot-heavy descent into darkness. It is a...8.0Great
