Best Indie Games — page 36
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
- 7.4
Scores for this page’s rows
- 841The Farmer Was ReplacedA clever automation sandbox that teaches real Python thinking, then asks veterans to squeeze every last tick out of a drone. It runs out of content be...7.4Good
- 842Grey HackGrey Hack respects the craft it simulates — a persistent, player-populated network where you actually read man pages, actually write exploits, and act...7.4Good
- 843VectronomVectronom is a rhythm game that doesn't ask you to press buttons in time with music — it rebuilds the entire world around the metronome and dares you ...7.4Good
- 844Phantom AbyssTeam WIBY built a first-person movement system that embarrasses most AAA studios and wrapped it in a brilliant ghost-multiplayer hook. Then it ran out...7.4Good
- 845SuppliceSupplice is a solid retro shooter built out of 1990s parts, with an alt-fire arsenal smart enough to justify the whole exercise. Its maze-like maps an...7.4Good
- 846Game Dev StoryGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...7.4Good
- 847Broken Sword — Shadow of the Templars: ReforgedRevolution Software rebuilt its 1996 classic line by line, and the writing, voice work and puzzle design hold up better than almost anything else from...7.4Good
- 848Windjammers 2Windjammers 2 is a mechanically sharp two-player duel with the readable depth of a fighting game and little of the execution tax — but thin solo conte...7.4Good
- 849Cavern of DreamsCavern of Dreams is a $12.99 love letter to Banjo-Kazooie and Spyro that understands why those games worked, not just how they looked. A wobbly came...7.4Good
- 850WildfireWildfire takes the systemic pyromania of Far Cry 2, compresses it into two dimensions, and builds an entire stealth-platformer around it. It's occasio...7.4Good
- 851BaronyBarony is a gleefully hostile throwback that fuses Ultima Underworld's cryptic depth with couch co-op chaos — and a decade of free updates has made it...7.4Good
- 852Blade ChimeraA demon-sword that rebuilds what time destroyed gives this Metroidvania one of the genre's sharper ideas, wrapped in pixel art worth the asking price....7.4Good
- 853KandriaKandria is a movement game wearing an RPG's coat, and the movement is strong enough to carry the disguise. A short, sharp, hand-built underground worl...7.4Good
- 854American ArcadiaOut of the Blue's two-hander is a narrative puzzle game where the structure is the argument — a 1970s dystopia told in TV cuts between the man being...7.4Good
- 855Life EaterLife Eater weaponizes the language of video-editing software to make you feel like a stalker, and for about two hours it is the most morally queasy th...7.4Good
- 856Heaven Will Be MineA dense, politically serious visual novel that treats giant robots as a language for talking about desire and self-determination — and mostly gets awa...7.4Good
- 857Promise Mascot AgencyKaizen Game Works has built a strange, affecting crime drama about the emotional labor of running a small business, wrapped in a floaty open world tha...7.4Good
- 858Lovers in a Dangerous SpacetimeAsteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains a stando...7.4Good
- 859Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder LabyrinthA gorgeous, precision-built Metroidvania that trades sprawl for craft — a short run of near-flawless sprite work and a genuinely smart elemental comba...7.4Good
- 860Rivals of Aether IIA sharp competitive platform fighter with strong rollback netcode and a fair cosmetic-only model, held back by thin single-player content and a rough ...7.4Good
- 861Heroes of HammerwatchHeroes of Hammerwatch takes the arcade bones of Gauntlet and grafts on a rogue-lite meta-progression system designed to respect your time, producing a...7.4Good
- 862Love You to BitsA handsome, wordless point-and-click adventure with a real emotional idea behind it, held back by its brevity and a few puzzles that lean on guesswork...7.4Good
- 863Bury Me, My LoveA wrenching, formally ambitious text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that turns the phone's most familiar interface against complacency....7.4Good
- 864MystCyan's Unreal Engine remake of Myst is a solid, careful modernization of a foundational adventure game, with smart puzzle randomization as its one gen...7.4Good
