Best Indie Games — page 39
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
- 7.3
Scores for this page’s rows
- 913Toree 3DToree 3D is roughly 40 minutes of tight, speed-obsessed platforming for a dollar, built around game feel most full-priced releases never find. A solid...7.3Good
- 914Freshly FrostedFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...7.3Good
- 915Snufkin: Melody of MoominvalleyA gorgeous, quietly pointed little adventure about vandalizing municipal infrastructure with a folk instrument — and one of the few "cozy" games with ...7.3Good
- 916The Age of DecadenceThe Age of Decadence is an unusually uncompromising choice-and-consequence RPG — a game where a silver tongue is a legitimate build and failure is par...7.3Good
- 917Arcade ParadiseNosebleed Interactive built 35 real arcade games and then had the nerve to make you earn them one bin bag at a time — a genuinely clever idea that wor...7.3Good
- 918Ex-ZodiacEx-Zodiac captures the feel of early-'90s rail shooting with unusual precision, but after years in Early Access with its headline fe...7.3Good
- 919Receiver 2Wolfire has built one of the most mechanically honest firearm simulations in games, then stapled it to procedural apartment blocks that don't deserve ...7.3Good
- 920HobHob's world-transformation mechanic — solving puzzles that physically rebuild the terrain underfoot — remains one of the most inventive ideas in level...7.3Good
- 921Tiny Terry's Turbo Tripsnekflat has built a confidently designed small open world — a dense, funny, endlessly climbable seaside town that rewards stray impulses. It ends soo...7.3Good
- 922Phantom BrigadePhantom Brigade's timeline-based combat is the most genuinely original idea the tactics genre has produced in a decade — a four-second window of predi...7.3Good
- 923Bahnsen KnightsLCB Game Studio's third Pixel Pulp is a strikingly written and beautifully illustrated cult thriller — a two-hour paperback pastiche with real confide...7.3Good
- 924StoneshardStoneshard is a demanding, consequence-driven RPG with real tactical depth, wrapped in one of the most punishing onboarding experiences on Steam. Push...7.3Good
- 925BanishedA decade on, Banished remains a defining take on the survival city-builder — a cold, elegant machine where every citizen is a resource and every winte...7.3Good
- 926Toki Tori 2+Toki Tori 2+ strips the puzzle-platformer down to two verbs — whistle and stomp — and builds one of the genre's most quietly radical designs on top of...7.3Good
- 927Wizard of LegendWizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is a genuinely well-built action loop, ...7.3Good
- 928Kingdoms and CastlesKingdoms and Castles is a charming, well-designed city-builder whose freeform castle construction and genuine external threats set it apart from its c...7.3Good
- 929SUMMERHOUSESUMMERHOUSE is a small, lovely building toy that asks nothing of you and gives back a fair amount for five dollars. It runs out of pieces before it ru...7.3Good
- 930Coral IslandCoral Island takes the Stardew Valley blueprint, drenches it in tropical sunlight, and adds a genuinely fresh underwater layer—but technical rough edg...7.3Good
- 931Nobody Saves the WorldDrinkbox Studios took the one mechanic every action RPG treats as a gimmick — shapeshifting — and made it the entire load-bearing wall. The result is ...7.3Good
- 932The Textorcist: The Story of Ray BibbiaMorbidware built a genre out of a pun and — improbably — made it work. The Textorcist is a filthy, funny, mechanically vicious bullet-hell that asks...7.3Good
- 933Vagrus - The Riven RealmsA dense, well-written dark fantasy caravan sim that treats your attention as a resource it has every right to demand. It will bore anyone looking for ...7.3Good
- 934Tin CanA merciless, tactile survival sim that turns spaceship maintenance into white-knuckle drama — as long as there's patience to survive its brutal first ...7.3Good
- 935A House of Many DoorsPixel Trickery's surreal RPG is one of the more inventive takes on the Sunless Sea formula — a 300,000-word fever dream stapled to a spider-legged tra...7.3Good
- 936BugsnaxA deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a surprisingly mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exter...7.3Good
