Best Indie Games — page 31
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 7.6
- Top score
- 7.6
Scores for this page’s rows
- 721FoxholeFoxhole's weeks-long, fully player-run war has no real equivalent on Steam, but punishing onboarding and technical strain at exactly the moments that ...7.6Good
- 722The RiftbreakerEXOR Studios welded a twin-stick shooter to a logistics sim and a tower defense game, and against all odds the seams mostly hold. The Riftbreaker's ca...7.6Good
- 723Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1Cosmo D's surreal street-corner odyssey is short, strange, and singular — a jazz-soaked slice of interactive fiction that does more with one intersect...7.6Good
- 724Blazing ChromeJoyMasher didn't just imitate Contra III — it reverse-engineered why that game felt so good and rebuilt the machine with modern precision. The short r...7.6Good
- 725Wonder Boy: The Dragon's TrapLizardcube's hand-drawn resurrection of a 1989 cult classic is a model of how to remake a game — gorgeous, reverent, and honest enough to leave the or...7.6Good
- 726Ittle Dew 2Ludosity built a Zelda-like that treats sequence-breaking as a feature instead of a bug, and the dungeon design is sharp enough to mostly earn the arr...7.6Good
- 727Ready or NotA tense, procedure-minded SWAT sim that treats a doorknob with more dramatic weight than most shooters treat a boss fight, though uneven AI and a dema...7.6Good
- 728SKALD: Against the Black PriorySKALD: Against the Black Priory is a well-written, genuinely branching cosmic-horror RPG that understands the difference between remembering an era ...7.6Good
- 729Isle of ArrowsDaniel Lutz has welded tile-laying board game logic onto tower defense and produced a quietly clever strategy game worth a look — provided you can mak...7.6Good
- 730Toodee and TopdeeA solo-developed puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level — ...7.6Good
- 731Ring of PainRing of Pain takes one structural idea — the dungeon as a rotating ring of cards — and builds a tense, mechanically rigorous roguelike around it. RNG ...7.6Good
- 732CloverPitA grimy, debt-driven slot-machine roguelike that borrows Balatro's engine-building and wraps it in real dread. It's a smart $4.99 pick for players who...7.6Good
- 733CartoCarto turns cartography into its core verb, and the result is one of the more inventive puzzle ideas in recent memory—wrapped in a cozy, handsome pack...7.6Good
- 734The Gardens BetweenA wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...7.6Good
- 735Rift of the NecroDancerRift of the NecroDancer trades the roguelike dungeon for three vertical lanes, and the pivot mostly works: a rhythm game built on reading enemy patter...7.6Good
- 736One Step From EdenA merciless collision of Slay the Spire and Mega Man Battle Network that asks you to build a deck and dodge a bullet hell at the same time — and mostl...7.6Good
- 737Airships: Conquer the SkiesAirships: Conquer the Skies is a ship-design sandbox with genuinely deep, legible systems, built over years by one developer. The conquest campaign is...7.6Good
- 738ReventureReventure weaponizes failure. It takes the most punishing word in gaming — "you died" — and turns it into a punchline, a progress bar, and a reason to...7.6Good
- 739Tiny BookshopTiny Bookshop takes the most low-stakes premise imaginable—selling used paperbacks from a trailer—and turns it into a quietly compelling management ...7.6Good
- 740Lucah: Born of a DreamA brutal, striking action-RPG that fuses demanding combat depth with a hand-drawn nightmare about trauma and self-forgiveness. The difficulty and deli...7.6Good
- 741Stories UntoldA sharp, atmospheric horror anthology that turns dead technology into a haunted house, Stories Untold is inventive and quietly devastating—held ba...7.6Good
- 742Golf PeaksGolf Peaks strips golf down to a deck of cards and a grid, and the result is a calm, clever puzzler with a clear identity. It's short and occasionally...7.6Good
- 743Do Not Feed the MonkeysA sharp, uncomfortable little machine that turns players into the exact kind of person they'd cross the street to avoid. Its surveillance loop is comp...7.6Good
- 744HacknetHacknet strips away the neon 3D nonsense that Hollywood calls "hacking" and hands you a real terminal, a dead man's mystery, and a ticking clock. It's...7.6Good
