Best Indie Games — page 32
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
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Scores for this page’s rows
- 745FreewaysFreeways turns traffic engineering into freehand drawing, and its best ideas — legible failure, three-axis scoring, a long run of escalating levels ...7.6Good
- 746Rusty's RetirementRusty's Retirement isn't a game you play so much as one you tend — a clever, low-stakes idle farmer built to colonize the dead space at the edge of ...7.6Good
- 747DustforceA precision platformer of unusual purity, Dustforce turns janitorial labor into balletic art—but its punishing demand for perfection guards the do...7.6Good
- 748Buddy Simulator 1984Buddy Simulator 1984 is a clever, manipulative psychological horror experience that weaponizes retro nostalgia and a simulated operating system to bui...7.6Good
- 749DeadboltDeadbolt is a brutal, hyper-kinetic 2D stealth-action game that strips away any margin for error, turning every assassination into a high-stakes tacti...7.6Good
- 750FAR: Lone SailsFAR: Lone Sails is a beautifully paced, atmospheric journey that turns the potentially tedious chore of vehicle maintenance into something intimate an...7.6Good
- 751MelatoninA rhythm game that trades note highways for hand-drawn animation, Melatonin asks for timing rather than visual tracking, and it rewards players pati...7.6Good
- 752Little Kitty, Big CityA charming, tightly scoped cat simulator that swaps combat for the simple, kinetic joy of knocking flowerpots off ledges. Solid and likeable, but brie...7.6Good
- 753A Normal Lost PhoneA quietly affecting exercise in digital sleuthing whose intimate storytelling outweighs its brevity and thin replay value. Solid, but recommend it to ...7.6Good
- 754FilamentFilament is a cerebral, often punishing puzzle game built on pure, unadorned logic, with no hand-holding anywhere in sight. It is intellectually rewar...7.6Good
- 755Sludge LifeSludge Life is a confident, foul-mouthed middle finger to the polished conventions of the modern open-world genre. It's a short, sharp shock of aesthe...7.6Good
- 756MundaunMundaun trades cheap jump scares for a creeping, suffocating dread, rendered entirely in graphite pencil strokes. Its atmosphere is remarkable even ...7.6Good
- 757Tails of IronTails of Iron is a striking 2D RPG that proves there's more to the Souls-like genre than hollow clones; it pairs atmospheric storytelling with tactile...7.6Good
- 758Vengeful Guardian: MoonriderVengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a study in mechanical purity, trading modern bloat for the surgical precision and aesthetic grit of the 16-bit arcade ...7.6Good
- 759A Little to the LeftA Little to the Left is a polished, quietly inventive puzzle game that turns tidying household objects into a calm, meditative activity, though a few ...7.6Good
- 760Gato RobotoGato Roboto is a sharp, focused take on the Metroidvania that trims the genre to its essentials. It's a lean, monochrome adventure with real teeth, be...7.6Good
- 761The Artful EscapeThe Artful Escape is a visually arresting, aurally rich interactive fever dream that trades mechanical depth for pure aesthetic pleasure. It is less a...7.6Good
- 762The Excavation of Hob's BarrowA quietly effective piece of atmospheric folk horror that trades cheap jump scares for creeping dread, anchoring its point-and-click mechanics in a sl...7.6Good
- 763ProteusProteus is a quietly ambitious experiment that rejects nearly every modern gaming convention in pursuit of atmosphere. It isn't a game you play so muc...7.6Good
- 764PromenadePromenade is a smart, well-built attempt to distill the sprawling joy of 3D "collectathons" into a dense, mechanically rich 2D adventure. It's solid b...7.6Good
- 765Across the ObeliskA dense, ambitious take on the party-based deck-builder that turns a solitary genre into a long-form cooperative project. It is deep and rewarding, bu...7.6Good
- 766Space Station 14Space Station 14 is an ambitious, open-source reclamation of the most chaotic social experiment in gaming. It trades much of the archaic friction of i...7.6Good
- 767Children of the SunA hypnotic, sharp puzzle disguised as a massacre. Its one-bullet design is a striking exercise in mechanical minimalism, best recommended to players w...7.6Good
- 768Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milkA harrowing, twenty-minute descent into the static-filled mind of a girl buying groceries. Less a "game" than a stark simulation of psychological coll...7.6Good
