Best Indie Games — page 37
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
- 865inbentoinbento is a charming, gently clever puzzle game with a genuinely affecting wordless story — but it ends too soon, and its mobile version is now locke...7.4Good
- 866PotionomicsPotionomics smuggles a genuinely sharp deck-builder inside a pastel shopkeeping fantasy, and the Masterwork Edition sands off the original's most puni...7.4Good
- 867Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)Kind Words barely qualifies as a game, and that's largely the point. It's a moderated, anonymous empathy exchange wrapped in lo-fi haze — small in sco...7.4Good
- 868Is This Seat Taken?A featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never raises its voice —...7.4Good
- 869MixtapeBeethoven & Dinosaur's follow-up to The Artful Escape is a gorgeous, needle-drop-driven ode to the end of adolescence—but it asks players to feel mo...7.4Good
- 870HerdlingOkomotive trades the sci-fi melancholy of FAR for windswept mountaintops and a herd of fuzzy companions, delivering a wordless, achingly pretty pilg...7.4Good
- 871Fear & Hunger 2: TerminaFear & Hunger 2: Termina is a punishing, uncompromising, and genuinely unsettling RPG built in RPG Maker — a dense, flawed work of dread that will e...7.4Good
- 872Wide Ocean Big JacketA sharp, well-observed 90-minute story about growing up that trades puzzles and combat for unusually believable dialogue. If "wandering and reading" c...7.4Good
- 873Skin DeepBlendo Games spent the better part of a decade building a tactile stealth sandbox in the Thief lineage, then wrapped it in a cat-obsessed slapstick ...7.4Good
- 874Blood WestBlood West is a weird-western immersive sim that trusts you to figure things out and punishes you when you don't — a confident, hostile, occasionally ...7.4Good
- 875Old Man's JourneyA wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that lands like a short story — affecting, if slight. The puzzles rarely push back, s...7.4Good
- 876IconoclastsJoakim Sandberg spent the better part of a decade building a Metroidvania that punches above its weight on nearly every front—combat, puzzles, art—and...7.4Good
- 877Lushfoil Photography SimA meditative, technically impressive ode to the craft of photography that trades objectives for atmosphere — and mostly wins the trade. Its DSLR simul...7.4Good
- 878RefunctRefunct is a short, well-crafted first-person platformer built around restoring a dead world one button press at a time. It's over before it overstays...7.4Good
- 879VangersA 1998 voxel fever-dream that treats player comprehension as optional and rewards obsession in ways few games attempt. Brutally opaque, mechanically f...7.4Good
- 880WEBFISHINGWEBFISHING resurrects the aimless, communal joy of a 2004 flash-game lobby and dresses it in fur, fins, and a playable guitar. It's less a fishing gam...7.4Good
- 881CoromonCoromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes several of them. A stamin...7.4Good
- 882Sally FacePortable Moose's five-episode occult mystery is an emotionally punishing story told through a game whose puzzle design works against it nearly as ofte...7.4Good
- 883Assemble with CareA gorgeous, tactile puzzle box wrapped around a genuinely moving story—just don't expect it to last longer than a good film. Comfort food that respect...7.4Good
- 884Impostor FactoryFreebird Games strips away every puzzle and minigame to deliver its most narratively daring entry yet — a kinetic novel that trusts its writing comple...7.4Good
- 885Lone FungusLone Fungus is an ambitious solo-developed Metroidvania with a genuinely deep movement kit and inventive combat, held back by baggy pacing and an unev...7.4Good
- 886Farthest FrontierFarthest Frontier is an often brutal simulation of medieval survival that rewards strategic patience. Its punishing mechanics and complex logistics ch...7.4Good
- 887Phoenotopia: AwakeningPhoenotopia: Awakening is a beautifully crafted, fiercely challenging retro adventure that rewards patience and punishes carelessness. For players wit...7.4Good
- 888Golden LightA grotesque, prop-hunt-infused fever dream that succeeds because it refuses to respect the boundaries of the genre or the player's sanity. Repulsive, ...7.4Good
