Best Indie Games — page 28
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 7.7
- Top score
- 7.8
- Free
- 2
Scores for this page’s rows
- 649Not For BroadcastAn original live-TV editing simulator built on a mountain of live-action footage, whose core loop is as exhausting as it is clever. Solid and worth a ...7.8Good
- 650Crystal ProjectA one-man love letter to Final Fantasy V that swaps hand-holding for a genuine open world, Crystal Project is an ambitious JRPG with real flaws—provid...7.8Good
- 651Infinitode 2Infinitode 2 is a mathematically dense, fanatically fair tower defense marathon that rewards obsessives and punishes the impatient. It's a solid, dist...7.8Good
- 652Monster SanctuaryMonster Sanctuary is a sharp, demanding RPG that trades mindless level-grinding for deep, tactical team synergy and Metroidvania exploration. Its puni...7.8Good
- 653The OperatorThe Operator is a sharp exercise in narrative skeuomorphism, turning the mundane reality of a workstation into a claustrophobic theater of forensic de...7.8Good
- 654Helen's Mysterious CastleHelen's Mysterious Castle carves out a distinctive niche with its unconventional progression and thoughtful combat, offering a gentle yet strategicall...7.8Good
- 655Zero SievertZero Sievert translates the high-stakes tension of hardcore extraction shooters into a compelling top-down format. It's a brutal, unforgiving experien...7.8Good
- 656Before I ForgetBefore I Forget is less a game and more a piece of interactive art. It's a tightly contained, emotionally affecting exploration of dementia that tra...7.8Good
- 657Endling - Extinction is ForeverEndling is a mechanically simple but emotionally punishing survival adventure that uses its stripped-down gameplay to deliver a bleak interactive fabl...7.8Good
- 658World of Goo 2Sixteen years after the original, World of Goo 2 returns with its physics-based charm intact, expanding the formula with clever new mechanics. It's a ...7.8Good
- 659Underground BlossomUnderground Blossom is a solid, approachable entry in Rusty Lake's catalog. Seven self-contained puzzle rooms linked by a haunted metro line make for ...7.7Good
- 660Renowned Explorers: International SocietyAbbey Games built a tactics game where flattery, mockery and fists are all equally valid weapons, and the idea holds up well beyond its novelty. Famil...7.7Good
- 661ScrabdackleA confident, hand-animated Zelda-like with fast, demanding wand combat and a world dense with lore — but only a third of it exists yet. Act 1 is a sol...7.7Good
- 662Leo's FortuneLeo's Fortune is a beautifully made physics platformer that holds up better than most of its 2014 mobile peers: tightly tuned, complete, and free of m...7.7Good
- 663Rusty Lake ParadiseSolid but flawed, Rusty Lake Paradise delivers ten tightly designed chapters, disturbing and beautiful art, and puzzles that reward patience. Its logi...7.7Good
- 664Lonely Mountains: Snow RidersMegagon Industries has turned its mountain-bike formula into a precise, good-looking skiing game about learning one slope until you know every shortcu...7.7Good
- 665Hellblade: Senua's SacrificeHellblade takes psychosis seriously and builds its sound, puzzles and story around it. The audio design and lead performance are the reasons to play; ...7.7Good
- 666HelltakerHelltaker is a tight, hand-built Sokoban puzzler wrapped in a filthy-minded visual novel joke, and both halves are sharper than they need to be. It's ...7.7Good
- 667Karateka ClassicKarateka Classic is a piece of playable history — a restored 1984 artifact whose brutal, single-blow combat is exactly as clunky and exactly as influe...7.7Good
- 668Nex MachinaNex Machina is a sharp, well-built twin-stick shooter with precise controls, huge voxel explosions and a scoring system deep enough to sustain years o...7.7Good
- 669Grand Mountain AdventureThree snowboarding brothers built a skiing game with an honest physics model and a top-down camera nobody else uses. That camera can hide the terrain ...7.7Good
- 670Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! is a demanding, content-heavy action game priced like an indie title — a hundred-hour typing test disguised as a restauran...7.7Good
- 671Trine 2: Complete StoryTrine 2: Complete Story remains one of the better-looking 2D games of its era, and its physics sandbox still rewards improvisation in a way most puzzl...7.7Good
- 672DrainusTeam Ladybug took the most punishing genre in gaming and rebuilt its incentive structure around greed instead of fear — and the result is one of the m...7.7Good
