Best Indie Games — page 35
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 7.4
- Top score
- 7.5
Scores for this page’s rows
- 817Else Heart.Break()A genuinely strange experiment that turns hacking into real play, set in a rain-soaked city worth getting lost in — provided you can survive a first a...7.5Good
- 818Slayaway CampA Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, Slayaway Camp smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...7.5Good
- 819The Sexy BrutaleA murder mystery you solve by watching, not fighting, with striking art direction and a standout jazz soundtrack. It's short, occasionally cryptic, an...7.5Good
- 820AnodyneAnodyne is a haunting, 16-bit psychological odyssey that suggests the most unsettling dungeons aren't filled with dragons, but with the mundane debris...7.5Good
- 821Signs of the SojournerSigns of the Sojourner uses the rigid logic of deck-building to expose the messy, fragile nature of human connection. It is less a game about winning ...7.5Good
- 822Viscera Cleanup DetailA clever, blood-soaked subversion of the power fantasy that turns the mundane drudgery of janitorial work into a meditative—and occasionally hilarious...7.5Good
- 823BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTEBPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE is a brutal, syncopated descent into a heavy metal bullet hell that demands rhythmic perfection or grants a swift death. It's ...7.5Good
- 824SynergySynergy is a visually arresting city-builder that swaps the tired "extract and expand" loop for a more thoughtful, demanding dialogue with a hostile e...7.5Good
- 825Laysara: Summit KingdomLaysara: Summit Kingdom abandons the flat-earth comfort of traditional city builders for a grueling, beautiful, and mechanically dense vertical climb....7.5Good
- 826DemonCrawlDemonCrawl is a clever and often devious evolution of a dormant classic, grafting complex RPG systems onto Minesweeper's skeleton — though its RNG-hea...7.5Good
- 827Pony IslandA short con of a game: a deliberately bad arcade runner wrapped around a clever code-rewiring puzzler, run by a Lucifer who is funnier and pettier tha...7.5Good
- 828Escape From Ever AfterEscape From Ever After takes the Paper Mario blueprint and staples it to a sharp corporate satire, and the writing mostly earns the pairing. Fussy par...7.4Good
- 829Future? No Thanks!Molleindustria finally built the utopia, then handed the controller to the one man who hates it. The result is a short, sharp, funny political adventu...7.4Good
- 830Sludge Life 2Bigger, taller and stranger than its predecessor, Sludge Life 2 adds traversal tools that turn simply getting around into the main attraction, and i...7.4Good
- 831Strange AntiquitiesBad Viking's occult shopkeeping sequel turns the act of looking closely into the entire game, and it is richer and more demanding than Strange Horticu...7.4Good
- 832Pine HeartsA short, gentle, carefully judged hike through grief. The puzzles won't challenge anyone and the structure is familiar, but the warmth and restraint i...7.4Good
- 833INMOSTFor all its polish, INMOST is a solid but uneven package: a three-to-five hour pixel-art story with real emotional weight, held back by stiff combat a...7.4Good
- 834SIMULACRASIMULACRA weaponizes the most intimate object you own, turning a stranger's lock screen into an unnerving detective story — and it stumbles when it re...7.4Good
- 835Penko ParkGhostbutter's on-rails photo safari is a small, strange, solid little thing — a few hours spent in a haunted wildlife park where poking the scenery is...7.4Good
- 836Lumino CityState of Play spent three years building a ten-foot city out of paper, card and miniature motors, then filmed it — and the result is a game whose art ...7.4Good
- 837DungeonmansA decade-old, Windows-only, deliberately ugly traditional roguelike that solved meta-progression years before the genre's breakout hits made it fashio...7.4Good
- 838The Mortuary AssistantMake the player do a real job, then let something climb into it — that's the trick, and it works more often than not. The Mortuary Assistant is an...7.4Good
- 839Nirvana NoirFeral Cat Den has taken the one fair criticism leveled at Genesis Noir — that it was gorgeous and unreadable — and built a structural answer to it. ...7.4Good
- 840RatopiaRatopia is the rare colony sim where the economy isn't flavor text — it's the actual boss fight, and it will beat you. A genuinely novel simulation he...7.4Good
