Best Indie Games — page 40
The best independently developed games we have reviewed, ranked by score and given a verdict each.
- Reviewed
- 1,285
- Average score
- 7.2
- Top score
- 7.3
Scores for this page’s rows
- 937Subsurface CircularBithell Games turns the humble text adventure into a taut two-hour sci-fi noir that trusts its writing above all else — a small, sharp game that says ...7.3Good
- 938SolitairicaSolitairica welds the mindless comfort of card-clearing to the white-knuckle tension of a roguelike, and the seam barely shows. It's a small game with...7.3Good
- 939Gordian QuestGordian Quest is a genuinely ambitious hybrid of deckbuilding and tactical grid combat that occasionally buckles under the weight of its own mechanica...7.3Good
- 940AutonautsAutonauts turns complex systems engineering into a charming, stress-free sandbox built around visual programming. It's a solid, clever design, though ...7.3Good
- 941Troubleshooter: Abandoned ChildrenDandylion's Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children is a mathematically demanding tactical RPG that rewards immense patience, offering dedicated strategi...7.3Good
- 942UnderstandUnderstand is a demanding exercise in inductive reasoning that strips away every layer of comfort to expose raw logic. It is rewarding for the right a...7.3Good
- 943HyperbolicaHyperbolica is an ambitious technical achievement that turns non-Euclidean geometry into a tactile playground, though its thin gameplay loop rarely ke...7.3Good
- 944TchiaTchia is an open-world game with a real sense of place, built around a soul-jumping mechanic that turns every bird, fish and gas lantern into a wa...7.3Good
- 945Pathfinder: Wrath of the RighteousOwlcat Games' "Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous" is an ambitious isometric RPG with a sprawling narrative and deep character customization, held bac...7.3Good
- 946The LongingThe Longing is a fascinating, maddening experiment that weaponizes boredom to ask real questions about time, purpose, and loneliness. It's less a game...7.3Good
- 947KenshiKenshi is an uncompromising, brutally difficult sandbox RPG that offers rare freedom at the cost of polish and accessibility. A design triumph with re...7.3Good
- 948Heave HoHeave Ho turns two floppy arms and a bottomless pit into a genuinely funny, chaotic couch co-op design. It's short, punishing late on, and thin alone,...7.2Good
- 949Tormentor X PunisherTormentor X Punisher is a small, loud, mean twin-stick shooter built on one ruthless rule: everything dies in one hit, including you. It is thin on co...7.2Good
- 950RUINERRUINER's top-down combat is aggressive, fast and well-tuned, wrapped in a striking blood-red cyberpunk look. The fights carry the game; the story, the...7.2Good
- 951Monster PromMonster Prom is a funny, well-written party game whose competitive dating-sim premise works best with friends on a couch. Its thin strategy and weak s...7.2Good
- 952A Fold ApartA Fold Apart folds its geometry and its story into the same object, and few puzzle games make mechanic and meaning line up this cleanly. The puzzles s...7.2Good
- 953TeslagradRain Games built a puzzle-platformer that teaches physics through play and tells its whole story without a word, and its design still holds up more th...7.2Good
- 954TsioqueTSIOQUE is a fully hand-animated cartoon that happens to accept mouse input, and on that basis it's an easy game to admire. As a point-and-click adven...7.2Good
- 955InductionInduction takes one genuinely new idea, cooperating with a recording of yourself until the recording starts depending on you, and builds fifty-odd wor...7.2Good
- 956Killer FrequencyA horror game built around a microphone instead of a shotgun, Killer Frequency's gimmick — talking terrified strangers through a slasher's night while...7.2Good
- 957Mio: Memories in OrbitDouze Dixièmes has built a metroidvania map worth memorizing, then paired it with a sword that takes far too long to feel like a weapon. The explorati...7.2Good
- 958Mu CartographerTitouan Millet built an instrument, not a level, and asked players to learn it by ear — one of the more quietly radical interface designs of the 2016 ...7.2Good
- 959Mo:AstrayArchpray's blob-slinging puzzle-platformer has one of the freshest traversal ideas the genre has seen in years, wrapped in striking pixel art. It is a...7.2Good
- 960Boomerang XDANG!'s arena shooter fuses gun and grappling hook into a single spinning blade, and the result is one of the more original movement systems in first-...7.2Good
