Best Indie Games — page 27
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 7.8
- Top score
- 7.8
- Free
- 1
Scores for this page’s rows
- 625Monster Boy and the Cursed KingdomA fan project that outgrew its own fandom, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom understands its ancestor well enough to argue with it — a handsome, mech...7.8Good
- 626Rift RiffRift Riff strips almost every source of frustration out of tower defense without stripping out the strategy — and then, bafflingly, forgets to explain...7.8Good
- 627PrimordiaPrimordia is a melancholy, sharply written meditation on faith and memory wearing the clothes of a puzzle game — solid but unremarkable in its structu...7.8Good
- 628Lethal League BlazeTeam Reptile built a fighting game where nobody punches anybody, and its design produces more genuine panic per minute than almost anything else on th...7.8Good
- 629Squeakross: Home Squeak HomeAlblune took the most mechanically pure puzzle genre in games and bolted a dollhouse to it — and the dollhouse is what makes the puzzles matter. It's ...7.8Good
- 630Alina of the ArenaBy dragging Slay the Spire's card math onto a hex grid, PINIX built a deckbuilder where standing in the wrong tile kills you faster than a bad draw ...7.8Good
- 631Nightmare ReaperNightmare Reaper takes the most cynical mechanic in modern gaming — randomized loot drops — and welds it onto a 1994-era shotgun rampage, then hides t...7.8Good
- 632Feed the DeepLuke Muscat traded the candy-colored dopamine of Fruit Ninja for cold black water and came up with something different — a taut, near-solo roguelike...7.8Good
- 633Yes, Your GraceA brutally honest little kingdom sim that understands something most strategy games refuse to admit — governing is mostly deciding which of your peopl...7.8Good
- 634TimelieUrnique Studio built a stealth game where you don't react — you author. Timelie's scrubbable timeline is a genuinely new mechanic, understood by its...7.8Good
- 635MechabellumMechabellum strips the auto-battler down to its purest form — prediction, positioning, and punishment — and builds it back up into a cerebral competit...7.8Good
- 636Creeper World 4Creeper World 4's fluid-simulation enemy remains one of the most original ideas in the strategy genre, and the jump to 3D terrain makes the threat mor...7.8Good
- 637Absolute DriftAbsolute Drift is a study in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened hard, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. Its punishing onboardin...7.8Good
- 638VoidigoVoidigo takes the one part of the action roguelite everybody treats as a fixed set piece — the boss fight — and sets it loose to wander, flee, heal, a...7.8Good
- 639Warhammer 40,000: Rogue TraderOwlcat's Rogue Trader is an ambitious licensed CRPG — a long interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punishes your pat...7.8Good
- 640The Battle for WesnothTwo decades of continuous development have made The Battle for Wesnoth one of the deepest free strategy games on Steam — a hex-based tactics engine wi...7.8Good
- 641English Country TuneEnglish Country Tune is an inventive, genuinely three-dimensional puzzle game that discards each of its own ideas just as they're mastered. It demands...7.8Good
- 642MegabonkMegabonk takes Vampire Survivors' hypnotic loop, drags it into 3D, and layers on enough character unlocks, item synergies, and meme-brained chaos to m...7.8Good
- 643LingoLingo is a solid, quietly clever puzzle game — a wordless, word-obsessed labyrinth that trusts your intelligence and mostly earns that trust. If you l...7.8Good
- 644Hidden FolksA hand-drawn hidden-object game that ditches the exploitative freemium playbook for patience, craft, and a huge library of sound effects made with a h...7.8Good
- 645GRIMEGRIME is a visually audacious Soulslike that welds grotesque anatomical horror to a parry-and-devour combat loop built on a genuinely fresh idea. Cryp...7.8Good
- 646Golden Krone HotelA sharp roguelike that turns the vampire fantasy into a genuine tactical puzzle — where the sun is your deadliest tool and your own bloodlust is the c...7.8Good
- 647Betrayal At Club LowCosmo D Studios has bottled the improvisational chaos of a tabletop night into a few hours of dice-rolling, wrapped in a standout electronic soundtrac...7.8Good
- 648Train Valley 2Train Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...7.8Good
