Best Indie Games — page 38
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 7.3
- Top score
- 7.4
- Free
- 1
Scores for this page’s rows
- 889Death and TaxesA biting, sharply rendered critique of corporate compliance that frames the afterlife as just another office job—and your choices as weightier than yo...7.4Good
- 890WartalesWartales is an ambitious open-world tactical RPG with a rewarding core loop, but its complexity and technical compromises—especially on Switch—keep it...7.4Good
- 891City of BeatsCity of Beats blends frantic twin-stick shooting with rhythmic precision, delivering a hypnotic, if occasionally punishing, cyberpunk rogue-lite that ...7.4Good
- 892We Were Here TogetherWe Were Here Together builds genuinely clever cooperative puzzle design around precise communication and shared problem-solving, though its ambition...7.4Good
- 893TerratechFew vehicle-building sandboxes make construction this approachable. TerraTech's salvage-driven economy gives every bolted-on part a job, and that desi...7.4Good
- 894The Unfinished SwanThe Unfinished Swan is a striking piece of interactive art built around one brilliant idea, but its brief length and underdeveloped later chapters kee...7.4Good
- 895Kingdom Two CrownsKingdom Two Crowns turns a simple premise into a solid, often absorbing strategic experience where every coin spent carries the weight of your kingdom...7.4Good
- 896Helix: Descent N AscentBadass Mongoose's wordless, ink-drawn puzzle-adventure pairs a clever five-ability combination system with a doppelgänger mystery its mechanics actual...7.3Good
- 897Rolling LineRolling Line trades simulation rigidity for the tactile appeal of a model railway you can shrink into and touch. It's occasionally rough, deliberately...7.3Good
- 898Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty!Just Add Water's remake of Abe's Oddysee keeps the satire of industrial greed landing as hard as it did in 1997, and quicksave finally makes the game ...7.3Good
- 899Here Comes Niko!Here Comes Niko! is a short, generous 3D collect-a-thon about being kind to strangers, and it doesn't punish you for being bad at jumping. We recommen...7.3Good
- 900StackingFor all its charm, Stacking is a solid but slight puzzle-adventure: one genuinely original nesting-doll mechanic, executed with wit, and held back by ...7.3Good
- 901Curious ExpeditionMaschinen-Mensch's roguelike expedition sim earns its genre mashup through brutal, meaningful resource management. It stumbles on repetition and luck,...7.3Good
- 902Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir AdventureTrust the player to name the wrong suspect and live with it — that single idea carries Lacuna, a taut, well-drawn sci-fi noir whose writing and conseq...7.3Good
- 903UnexploredUnexplored takes on procedural generation's oldest problem — random levels that feel like nobody made them — and largely solves it. The combat and art...7.3Good
- 904rymdkapselrymdkapsel strips real-time strategy down to planning alone and turns what's left into a tense, calm puzzle about space and greed. A slow start, short...7.3Good
- 905BEGLITCHEDBeglitched invents a genuinely new verb for a tired format — you don't clear the board, you interrogate it — and dresses that idea in one of the fun...7.3Good
- 906Black BookBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...7.3Good
- 907Tainted Grail: The Fall of AvalonQuestline's Arthurian RPG writes and fights above its budget, then trips over its own quest scripting on the way to the finish line. A solid buy for p...7.3Good
- 908Going UnderAggro Crab's satirical roguelite lands its jokes harder than its punches — a sharp, genuinely funny skewering of startup culture whose improvised comb...7.3Good
- 909Hand of Fate 2Hand of Fate 2 pairs a genuinely clever card-table structure and a superbly written Dealer with real-time combat that never earns the screen time it d...7.3Good
- 910Unrailed!Unrailed! takes the one-tool-per-job cruelty of Overcooked and welds it to a train that never stops. With three friends on a couch it's a sharp coop...7.3Good
- 911BloodrootsPaper Cult built a combat system where a carrot, a ladder, and a plasma rifle are all equally valid murder implements, and the design mostly works — r...7.3Good
- 912Kathy Rain: Director's CutClifftop Games took an already-sharp 2016 detective yarn and fixed nearly everything worth fixing — the ending, the pacing, the interface. What's left...7.3Good
